Don’t want to change the goddamned fish tanks, either. Perfect time for a little critique of Flickr Explore! 🙂 Yeah, I “liberated” all of these images, but nobody who gives a shit will ever see my bitch blog anyway.
WTF any of these are doing in “interestingness”, I will never know.
#1
What the hell is this? A cull from a Sears catalogue shoot? About the outfit itself I’m mostly indifferent, but why do people love themselves so much that they have to photograph and post every goddamn thing they drag out of the closet and put on? Bad enough when attractive people do it, but…. Where is she going with that gigantic ugly purse? Shoplifting? The “All you can eat for $7.99” Chinese buffet? Anyway, bleh, and no, not interesting.
#2
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. BS, MS and PhD. The 80s made a comeback…but nobody cared.
#3
I think this young man has somehow managed to confuse the words “interesting” and “advertising”. Your music is probably shit, and no one is interested in your scrobble, much less in your performance as a human Last.fm billboard. The iPod is okay, but you paid for it…why is it displaying ads? P.S. Turning the camera so the shot is crooked does not make it “artistic.”.
#4
What the hell is this supposed to be? It looks like someone was trying to make amateur porn with a webcam. Girlie, swipe some of that lip gloss off, get rid of your double chin, and get a real camera before you try for “erotic.” This is just ugly; like the top-listed “don’t” in a photography book.
In the interest of fairness and to prove that I’m not just picking on images of things that I don’t like, I deliberately found four pictures I liked that had made “interestingness”, but were of subjects that I do not like.
#1
I can’t stand kids and frankly, sunset pictures are so boring that my eyes immediately glaze over, but I have to admit this is a good shot.
#2
Ditto pictures of buildings. They’re generally rectangular and people generally live or work inside them. Snore. Still, I have to give this shot of cottages in the Cotswolds credit.
#3
Don’t like sepias or “toned down” colour images, and don’t like portraits. Still, this has character.
#4
I abso-fucking-lutely hate primates of all varieties, but even I must admit that this is a damned good picture.
Apparently, the concept of “interestingness” has been lost upon me. 😉
P.S. Fuckin’ WP. No matter what I do, it won’t let me put the Last.fm picture in the post! EDIT: Hm….all I had to do was change the file name, and it didn’t even have any special characters. Hm.
