{"id":3691,"date":"2010-01-12T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T23:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:50:24","slug":"tuesday-various-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyserved.com\/Gallery\/Strange-Worlds\/366923\">landscapes made with small materials<\/a> &#8212; steel-wool tornado, paprika Mars, etc. &#8212; are really impressive. But, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3242\">as with earlier tilt-shift photographs<\/a>, I am left in the very weird position of thinking, if these were <em>real<\/em>, I think they would be <em>less<\/em> impressive. It&#8217;s the work that goes into these, into tricking the eye, that I find much more intriguing than the shots themselves. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-18971-LOST-Examiner~y2009m12d31-LOST-characters-explain-how-to-make-a-sandwich\"><em>Lost<\/em> characters explain how to make a sandwich<\/a>. Funny and only somewhat spoilerish. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NoelMu\" title=\"Noel Murray\">via<\/a>] <\/font><\/li>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Some people might say a monkey could do this job. I don&#8217;t need <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8139322.stm\">scientists proving them right<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Christa Faust on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/featuredarticle.aspx?id=21959\">how crime fiction treats women<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Female characters in classic noir fiction tend to fall into one of three categories: the murderous femme fatale; the long-suffering wife who keeps asking the hero, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you just let this case go?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; and, of course, the beautiful victim. <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">]<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\"><\/a><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, now I kind of wish I&#8217;d been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/conan-obrien-quits-declares-tonight-show-time\/story?id=9539812\">Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s <em>Tonight Show<\/em><\/a>. Frankly, I believe him about the hair.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These landscapes made with small materials &#8212; steel-wool tornado, paprika Mars, etc. &#8212; are really impressive. But, as with earlier tilt-shift photographs, I am left in the very weird position of thinking, if these were real, I think they would be less impressive. It&#8217;s the work that goes into these, into tricking the eye, that &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3691\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,99,30,38,101,17,10,12],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-monkeys","tag-photos","tag-science","tag-sex","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}