| Hello, You Little People | |
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| This one had a pretty cool perspective effect to it. | |||
| Full Body, Full Life | |
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| This was shortly after moving in. I found the full-length mirror in my closet and decided to use it for its intended purpose: full-body digicam pictures! | |||
| Tilting, Tilting | |
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| So I continued to snap pictures for a while, giving the illusion that the world was tilting! Oh no! | |||
| Antimatter | |
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| This came out fucking awesome. Sure, you can't really see me, but who cares? It's artsy! | |||
| Brightly Sad | |
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| For such a bright shirt, I seem awfully sad. I wonder what's wrong. | |||
| Now He's Pouting | |
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| I should get over it already. Sheesh. | |||
| Glancing Down | |
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| You can really tell that I've just moved in: there's absolutely nothing on the walls yet! | |||
| Smirk | |
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| I know what you're up to. And I like it. | |||
| *Cough* | |
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| I'm either shouting a protest, hacking up a hairball, or fake-laughing. I'm not sure which. | |||
| Happy | |
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| Wow, a picture of me smiling that actually turned out relatively good. ("Turned out" is a linking verb with particle, so "good" is the predicate adjective. Duh.)Amazing. | |||
| Let's Pretend | |
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| Yes, it's my crotch. No, it actually wasn't taken with the rest of the series. But they were a day or two apart at most, and this one was all by itself. I had to group it with something! | |||
| Secret Stuff | |
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| I'm showing off my new (and first ever purple!) shirt, which I got from Urban Outfitters pretty cheap. It reads, "SECRET STUFF: lest you forget," with a giant Beatles-style hand on the front. | |||
| Obnoxious | |
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| Camera, you're really beginning to annoy me with your blurring and jiggliness. Behave! | |||
| Gem Say Hi | |
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| I never actually got a photograph of the awesome screenprinting on this t-shirt. Instead, I just zoomed in closer and closer. | |||
| Demonesque | |
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| Personally, I don't feel that this picture is that flattering, but something happened with the colors and shutter speed that resulted in an awesome effect. | |||
| Spirited Away | |
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| This picture is at an even worse angle, but unlike my slightly demonic expression in the first photograph, I appear to be ephemeral. That's because I am. | |||
| Acherain | |
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| Taking a picture in a dirty mirror with the flash on results in neato rain splatterings. | |||
| Amateur | |
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| But turning off the flash results in horrible blurring! I'm such an amateur! | |||
| Torso | |
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| Another fun fact: lowering the camera angle will not prevent blurring. Remember. | |||
| Dim Dungeon | |
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| I flipped the camera into fast-shutter mode, so it came out kind of dim. But I'm dim with cameras. So it all fits. | |||
| Would You Look At That | |
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| I'm glancing down here... probably at the camera's viewscreen to make sure that this picture would turn out okay. | |||
| We Are The Future | |
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| Well, I don't know, but I look pretty damn prepared for something. | |||
| Humble Rocks | |
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| Why, it's almost as if somebody else took this photo! Damn, I rock! But humbly, according to this picture. | |||
| A Good Picture Too | |
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| Okay, I look pretty similar to the previous picture in this one. Why did I keep it? Well, it's a good picture too. | |||
| Mess | |
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| I was attempting to use the timer to get a good shot of myself crouching. However, I angled the camera too high, and it wound up getting a lot of my unmade bed. This was still towards the beginning of the year, before I'd had time to set up my "clean zone," as I call it. But at least I'd begun decorating. | |||
| Sneakering | |
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| This time, I angled the camera too low. | |||
| Successful Crouch | |
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| I finally got the shot I was trying to get this whole time! Well, at least for the three last pictures in this series, anyway. Maybe I didn't get the best facial expression of all time or the best skin condition ever, but at least I managed to get myself in the timed picture. | |||
| I'm Flashing You | |
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| Again we see the problems that arise when using flash to take a picture in a mirror when the mirror has not been recently Windexed or off-brand-Windex-substituted. | |||
| Where's Gemini6Ice? | |
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| This sequence of picture-taking seems pretty standard, doesn't it? First the over-flashed picture, and then the one where no flash results in a slower shutter and thusly blur. Can you find me in this picture? | |||
| Clearing Up | |
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| This photo is a little clearer, but it's still rather blurry. But then again, I'm only wearing a towel and trying to take a picture in a mirror without the flash on. It's difficult! | |||
| Crotch Shot | |
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| Apparently, my crotch makes my camera happy. Well, that's my explanation to why lowering the camera to crotch level further increased the clarity of my flashless picture-taking. | |||
| No Nipples Here | |
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| I've strategically blocking my nipples from view, much like a scene in a cliche comedy movie or sitcom television show where the characters happen to block their nether regions the camer'as view, with conveniently-shaped props. | |||
| A Projective Perspective | |
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| I got myself at a strange angle here. | |||
| Damn Bright | |
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| Perhaps the clouds blew away? Because it sure got damn bright all of a sudden. | |||
| Not Everybody Is Special | |
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| There's nothing special about this one. I may have a weird expression on my face, but there are plenty of other pictures that meet the same qualification. | |||
| Decent | |
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| Hey... my stomach actually looks decent in this one! | |||
| Good! | |
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| It's not too blurry, my skin tone looks okay, my form and posture is all right. This picture wins the shoot! | |||
| Foot It In Your Trunk | |
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| Finally, I got a picture that's completely clear, but I just look way dark and creepy. And my trunk (of my body) is distorted a little. I guess I was twisting to get the shot. | |||
| Tanlines | |
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| I freely admit it. I tan. I'm half-Mediterranean; I should be darker than I am! But I tend to stay indoors or sleep when the sun is out, so I have to get my ultra-violet radiation somewhere. | |||
| No, I Di'in't. Yes, I Di-id. | |
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| One hand is on my hip. The other is holding a camera. How the hell am I supposed to snap three times in a Z-formationଥ | |||
| Leaning Me | |
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| It looks like I'm leaning on something, but I'm actually just holding the camera beyond the range of the mirror's reflection. | |||
| 5 points | |
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| I finally got tired of photographing myself only in a towel, so I took it off. And put on boxers. 5 points if you know their name. | |||
| Stretch | |
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| Back to the blurriness, it seems. | |||
| Big Cups | |
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| This picture makes my man-boobies look big. I don't like it that much. The rest of the photo is okay, though. | |||
| Straight Ahead | |
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| I'm pretending not to be looking at the camera's LCD, but we all know that I really am. | |||
| Head and Shoulders | |
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| Head and shoulders. Knees and toes. Knees and toes. Eyes and ears, and mouth and nose. Head and shoulders. Knees and toes. Knees and toes. | |||
| Urga Urga | |
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| Caveman take picture. Smash camera. Look stupid. | |||
| Hey, Kid, I'm a Computer | |
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| We had a house Halloween party, and I constructed a last-minute costume of abstracted technology and computers (from a technophobe vantage point, mayhaps). And Reza took a picture when I crossed my eyes. Because, you know, computers cross their eyes at their users' idiocy all the time. it's true. You just don't see it, because their eyes are internal (and on the bottom of the mouse). | |||
| Hail Me! | |
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| I met up with Adam between the two halves of the Putnam Exam at the beginning of December. After our lunch at some combination Asian restaurant downtown (and after we realized that I was going to be late for the second half), he asked to take a picture of me for a class project he was working on, a site called Hail Me. | |||
| This Feels Funny! | |
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| This was the first of the three final pictures to come out of the shoot Adam insisted of doing of me. Probably due to the fresh haircut and big ears, I look very childlike in this one, which is a pretty refreshing characteristic. I find that I usually look old and haggard. | |||
| Living With Secrets | |
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| This picture definitely looks a little like a screen-capture from a weekday-night WB drama. I can actually hear myself TV-thinking the following from Case Yorke's "Living With Midget": "What was she thinking? Doesn't she remembering my loathing fear of midgets, ever since my parents were killed by a pack of marauding dwarves when I was ten? Oh, the scars! The scars!" | |||
| That's an Amazing Good Night! | |
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| Am I tired and sleepy or amazed and awestruck? If you can't tell, why should I? | |||