22 Feb 2010

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2010 Olympics - Ice Dancing Portraits

You would think with the millions of dollars spent on preparing for the Vancouver Olympics, someone would have taken the time to gather REAL athlete portraits for the website.

Unfortunately, nearly every picture was a crapola blurry mugshot in front of a white cinder block wall. My iPhone takes better pics than these!

Here are the pics of ice dancers from the NBCOlympics.com site:

I mean HOLY COW! These are the WORST pictures I have ever seen! No wonder most of you all don’t win gold medals! You all look like you hate your lives!

There are a FEW who happened to upgrade to a smile:

The Canadians -

and of COURSE

The USA -


Yeah. Much better.

No wonder everyone thinks ice dancing is lame.

No wonder the USA just plain rocks.

18 Feb 2010

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20 Then and Now Photos: Looking into the Past from the Present

Sometimes the contrast between past and present is stark…sometimes subliminal. Photography captures such abstract entropy and evolution.

I came across a variety of pictures that featured a vintage photograph held over a modern landscape. I’m not sure what genre of photography they call this, but I think it’s a really cool idea: