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- mort_17
@palimpsest Is haasie.com your creation?
I love that I copied a URL with a .pnj (not .png) extension into it and it auto-converted it to a .jpg without even prompting or mentioning it.
- No, that's our boy skinny_puppy doing the Lord's work.
<3palimpsest - Ah nice. Well skinny_puppy consider me a delighted user :)mort_
- haasie is the best thing that's happened to QBN in forever.
pups is a legend! <3Continuity - Dude will probably get rich with it one day if some tech company decides to buy it from him :) until then and until there are no ads I will enjoy and thank himNBQ00
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- https://haasie.com/s…palimpsest
- Thanks all, appreciate the love. @mort just to clarify, Haasie looks at what the actual file type is and uses that. Technically no conversion is happening. Yet.skinny_puppy
- @NBQ00 No ads. No tracking. Privacy matters. I will add login at some point, and then there will have to be a cookie for that.skinny_puppy
- i use it now all the time. great work! and i support your "privacy matters" principle very much. thank you man!renderedred
- Yes I use it too, great fuckin work skinny!YakuZoku
- excellent work and thank you!Gardener
- <3skinny_puppy
- Just adding my love here too. It’s works a treat here in the UK. Thanks for the effort and timeIanbolton
- No, that's our boy skinny_puppy doing the Lord's work.
- Gardener3
The first cracks are appearing in the eggs, I may have chicks by tomorrow!
- Gardener8
one born, another on the way!
- Gardener7
two!
- Gardener4
three!
- Horp8
It's going to be an unpopular hot take but...
I don't much like Martin Parr's photography; at least not consistently or fully enough for me to think of him as a great photographer.
He has taken some shots that really wowed me back in my art college days, but even then there were plenty of others who had taken equal and even greater candid street shots.
I've always found him to be, on the whole, a bit sneering and critical of other people's lives. He points his camera to say "look how crude, how basic, how easily satiated these poor people are".
Then there are the minor scandals across the decades that seemed to get brushed under the carpet.
The first was when subjects of his pictures allegedly came forward to say he had carefully contrived the scenes he'd shot... he asked them to volunteer and told them what to do, how to stand, how to behave. Yet the images were then passed off as spontaneous candid moments, caught by a photographer with a keen instinct for the decisive moment.
There were the smattering of alleged accusations of racist intent which came a little later, but then seemed to be scrubbed, possibly by PR and injunction to protect the value of his archive... I don't know.
But also, and this isn't his fault I know... he inspired a plague of Parr-esque aspiring street photographers, who assembled in such monumental numbers to take very shit photographs of fat people with ice creams that it became a permanent mutation of what street photography can be. It curdled a once full spectrum thing into being either Parr-like, or not Parr-like, with the democratics of opinion leaning towards the notion that if it isn't Parr-like then it isn't street photography and is therefore shit...
"This picture is a bit boring... where are the varicose veins and the little dog pissing up the NO DOGS sign?"
He did take some really great shots, but he also took an ocean of mediocre ones, and for me there's just enough of a whiff of contempt and mischevious cruelty that I don't feel that I will mourn the passing of a great creative genius today.
*takes a cheeky shit on his compendium*
- who?NBQ00
- NBQpango
- Nothing I would disagree with there.mort_
- popular take so far :)Gnash
- All art is staged.hellrod
- Some disagreement here. Never felt any sneer or judgement in his work, always a celebration. Home for me was seaside Yorkshire, so it was relatable.MrT
- https://www.theguard…
Martin Parr obituaryMorning_star - Find it hard to believe some of his photos were not staged, especially with larger amounts of people.letterhead
- it's hard enough to art direct 5+ people in a specific scene and get a single shot that doesn't need retouching. In my experience.letterhead
- Don't get me wrong, I don't hate his work, I just don't think it's as consistently remarkable as other people do.Horp
- Interesting obituary. Seems he had love for the north of England rather than a critical eye.mort_
- The documentary's worth a watch too - only released in the last year.MrT
- 1. Wait he died?
2. The sneer was kind of the point. Gross colors, gross food / subjects. His photography always came across as staged like a LaChapelle..garbage - ..about poor folks.garbage
- 3. Do people really consider him a street photographer? It's such a dumb designation, but photographers are morons so maybe they do.garbage
- DaveO1
Horp - thats a great take! I think its right to not accept 'National Treasures' if you don't agree. You can't argue with the fact that its an amazing body of work and there likely will never be a better creative expression of Britishness committed to the page.
With regard to anything he curated himself, i doubt that all the work was falsified (simply because there's so much of it in the Magnum archives – too much to be fully constructed) and I don't think his work should be judged by how 'authentic' it was. To me it was lovingly poking fun at the pockets of absurdity of life in Britain and all the weird and wonderful people that contribute to it.
I'm sure there was a formula that he worked out and knew what to do to create 'his' pictures.
Jamie Hawkesworth did a lovely book called The British Isles that to me is a more soulful and poetic tribute to our sceptred isles, and worth a look if this is up your street. The subjects are beautiful and dignified rather than cartoonish and caricatured, so offers a nice counterpoint.
- Gardener2
Four! I think that may be it though.
- PonyBoy0
Got the new laptop... right out of the box this 'Tahoe' crap has my already grumpy brain really irritated... round corners on every last thing w/bevels and transparencies that just make for a complicated visual mess.
Oh yeah — the laptop screams / is a dream for heavy file sizes / work loads... but Tahoe... feels like a step backward :(
- Can't stand when brands integrate crap ideas that users never asked for. Ex: Jeep, they used to be fun, affordable 4x4s, now they're practically luxury, ffscanoe
- Gardener10
The fantastic five born yesterday have moved into the old lizard tank.
and lo it came to pass that a sixth was born this morning, praise be!
- You should name the sixth one CotD.palimpsest
- It's a shame the lizard isn't there anymore, it would have been nice ;)OBBTKN
- j/k. Congrats, chick-mamaOBBTKN
- Congrats on your baby dinosaurs!_niko
- lol palimort_
- God dammit Pali, read it half asleep this morning and went completely over my head lol_niko
- flol cotdgarbage
- NBQ00-7
I think pango is obsessed with me.
We should start an agency?
Pango & Walsh
- Nobody is as obsessed with you as you are.palimpsest
- I'm obsessed with you, paliNBQ00
- Isn't everyone?palimpsest
- especially grafNBQ00
- Actually trying to help you out.
This is why people think you're a creep. We don't just say it cuz we don't like your opinion. It's more than that.pango - https://www.youtube.…pango
- if you're creeping us out, bunch of 40 yrs old dudes communicating in short text. Imagine what you're doing to people in real life.
Best of luck.pango - lolNBQ00
- :|pango
- Hope you see this as an opportunity for growth instead of me attacking you. I don't like the current you much but looking forward to see the better you.pango
- OBBTKN2
Where is Benn? I miss his Yaris ;)
- PonyBoy31
My wife just received and amazing raise that involves zero change in her job (just a title adjustment w/a lovely pay increase).
We live in the middle nowhere... she drives 35 mins to work (each way) and works mandatory 12hr shifts minimum 4 days a week — she's a machine (and this is what she wants to do).
Proud Pony is proud!!!! <3
- Fantastic news! Great poststoplying
- Hoes > Bros!!!ideaist
- Huzzahtimeless
- Way to go! Go go go, machine!Krassy
- Good to hear good things too.Longcopylover
- and u are now going to be a stay at home dad?milfhunter
- Congrats Kev, hugs to pony-wife. <3OBBTKN
- That's awesome. My wife works in the medical field, and she's a machine also. It's impressive, isn't it?canoe
- OBBTKN3
It couldn't be any different. Like every year around this time (as soon as Christmas approaches and I can finally rest a bit and be with my family), I've been feeling awful for a couple of days, with terrible lung function and pain in my side.
The flu or the typical three-day virus :/
I can't stop, I have deadlines before the end of the year... but honestly, the best place to be like this is in bed.
Thank goodness I quit smoking, otherwise it would be hell.
I didn't miss it at all!
- bainbridge0
It's crazy how many tattoo shops have opened up in my area.
There's as many as there are hair salons/barber shops.
