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Aliens, Kimbo Slice, Nintendo Wii, Suze Orman, White People Dunking on Very Short Hoops
07 06/07/08 @ 12:55 pm PST
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"There is no place on earth like this place, and it's being destroyed"
13 09/13/07 @ 10:14 pm PST
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, sometimes, dollars.11 Posted 04/11/07 @ 6:50 pm PST  For the last couple of months, I've been subscribing to the Wild, Wonderful West Virginia Photo Pool on flickr. As a result, each morning, in addition to my news headlines, I typically have a few random photographs of my home state waiting for me - photos taken from places I recognize, and yet taken by people who I'll likely never meet. Pretty cool. In the next month or so, I'm going to have to go under the lens myself - like everyone in Hollywood , I'm required to have a stash of semi-recent, semi-ridiculous headshots. In preparation for the inevitable, I just now took a look at the website of the place I went a couple of years ago only to see that they have raised their prices to $985. NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARS. FOR A PICTURE OF YOURSELF. Actually, that's not even true - you're paying to have someone TAKE a picture. If you actually want to hold/own this picture, it's 12 bucks an 8x10, and then well over a hundred for reproductions. By contrast, here's an ad for the walmart portrait studio - for $5.88, you get your picture taken + a shitload of actual PICTURES.  Really, if it's good enough for this guy...  I think it's good enough for me. |
