a recent (halloween) visit to monroe to see stephanie netted more dog cuteness. its hard to take a photo of sadie and it not be cute and i dont like dogs, really. animals i guess is better. i have a list of them that are awesome and i'll hang out with (similar to my kid-list. its VERY short)...suffice to say sadie is on the list.
yes, its a picture of dog (being adorable). no, im not looking to start up Pets-n-Portraits™.
cute...activate!
thats a pig. in a poke. in albania.
Okay so competition was fierce. There were blog guesses and facebook guesses.
THE RESULTS ARE IN:
the winner is the lovely TAMMY HARPER! I hereby award this part-inkling person the arbitrarily numbered bonus points!
her answer:
ah! i finally found it.
there is totally a dude squatting down in front of the stairs taking a picture of the dude with his hands in the air.
Now! That said, the multi-talented ANNA CARRIGAN answered here on poptpop TWO minutes faster than Tammy, howEVER she seemed to throw in the towel. She got the man on the stairs with his hands up but didn't find the photographer and reinforced this by ending with "i have no idea". SO CLOSE!
As a consolation prize, and because she was wonderful enough to SEND IN HER OWN POPTPOP (thank you), she gets today's post!
Background story from Anna:
in Edinburgh, Calton Hill, Lindsay Blount taking a picture of Alison in front of the National Monument aka the Parthenon aka Edinburgh's Folly because it never got finished.
The Photo:
©Lindsay Blount [or Anna Carrigan]
other notes:
since those were basically two winners, the "official" runner up is Meg "is that meg posing by the pool on portico?" Rymer McClung!
and i think we all agree the women are American. They are dirty, rotten, and from Florida or from the Midwest. It is clear they say things like "warsh" as well. You can tell by the pants.
More poptpop to come!
I think I smell another Mr Brandon on the way.
ps, my favorite part of anna's poptpop is the couple of people perched on monoment.
random out take from mental_floss stuff recently. can't wait to be able to post those shots
ps he is wearing this shirt.
pps this was posted today and it makes me pretty happy (via ukeamillion.tumblr.com)
(note from her: "Em to Fmaj7 is not the easiest thing and i mess it up throughout this video but oh well")
sock hop ukulele from Stephanie on Vimeo.
So we've been on such a roll lately with submissions and interactions and what have yous I thought I'd throw in an odd ball.
this is me taking a picture of me (or Cary; portrait of a grey beard hair) but its Also john shooting Boris and Trevor (Boris is hidden behind my melon).
this was at the end of our euro trip in vienna, were we were having a relaxing time at the park watching people.
picture of me taking a picture of me taking a picture of john taking a picture of trevor and boris
pomtapomtapojtapotab
some kids warming up for a soccer match in albania.
[i had better tags but blogger limited my characters to 200. asshat blogger. click the image for the flickr tags if youre bored]
so i can't give them too much crap because they really sort of just got out of a huge, long communist reign....but i love seeing stuff like this. i have another frame thats literally and entire table ONLY celling television remotes.
just amazed at the kinds of things remain marketable. do you need a remote from a 1992 off brand tv? we've got it right here. not happy with your cell phone face plate? we've got a few of those. need a rock? sure, but can you come back when we're closing.
reminds of the kinds of things for sale in iraq
MISTER BRANDON. THIS IS FOR YOU! (mister brandon has a blog called "Sign here, here, and here" that is all about photos of signs. its pretty brilliant.
this is a handmade sign in the yard of my friend winslow's neighbor who apparently had some stuff stolen out of their [truly strange] yard. i will write it out, just in case. make sure to notice the creepy mannequins all over the place.
to view it larger, please see this URL:
www.theordinary.org/photos/tothebadseed_large.jpg
it reads:
To the BAD SEED
Who has Stolen from Me
With the Power of the Sun And
Aided by the mysteries of the MOON
And Through the Spirit of all Hallows eve
May you and the ground you walk on
BE CURSED
May your Dreams All Be nightmares
May a Plague of warts, Boils
and carbunkles cover you Body
WE NOT Say
LET it Be Done
So here is another contributor photo that is LOVELY (and how!). Thanks to reader Brandon Ballard for sending this one in! (I took some liberties with the post..I hope thats okay)
what a great Picture of a person taking a picture of a group of people at the st louis arch (poaptapoagopatsla)
thanks mister brandon!
©Brandon Ballard
SEND IN YOURS!
(soon there will be a more elegant way to submit, but for now, email me them!)
Hey!
So here is another one from a recent trip to Croatia. This gem is technically a double poptpop. 19.7 bonus points to the first person to point it out!
extra bonus points for attempting to guess where these ladies are from. guess guess guess. i dont know, i just want to read your funny guesses.
ALSO! I just now realized that I didn't have blogger sending me emails when people comment so I have not as yet replied to you all! I WILL! KEEP COMMENTING! YOUR COMMENTS FEED STARVING CHILDREN (im told)! YOUR POPTPOP™ COMMENTS CAN SAVE THE WORLD (apparently)!
So here are the ladies at some place in the old fortress in Dubrovnik.
Holla, Ladies!
girls in albania during a football match. this was during the mauling/worship of john by everyone. the awkward boy there on the right is no doubt ogling mister yam
this is this lady's for real hair. it was dyed red. truly amazing.
the city center wall in Dubrovnik is a bit attraction (costs like 10 bucks just to walk around. whatever to that). these people (blurry) were waving.
this is one of the first people we encountered in the small town of Rubik, Albania.
its official. the blue cut robbery kick ass. best described by josh as "the bastard children of led zeppelin and rage against the machine".
SO I PRESENT TO YOU!
The original shot from many years ago taken by my good friend John Yam (seen many times on electric lion, and maybe once so far on here..more to come..don't fret).
This shot, to me, is just so epic. The man taking the shot's posture is one of the best things I've ever seen.
John was in Washington DC across from the National Gallery (I think) and saw this nonsense.
©John Yam
This image stuck with me for years and it was only this year that I realized that I have been taking shots of the same kind of subject ever since then (and decided to make a blog about it).
Who out there has a POPTPOP to share? Have a Double? A triple? THE ILLUSIVE QUADRUPLE?
Send it my way!
Send in your PopTpoP's with a little background info and it may well end up here!
GET INVOLVED! SEND THEM IN!
john in prague
here is bryan from a couple of days ago.
random aside: i sometimes get paranoid that im going to type "electric lion" as "electric loin" which REALLY has a different meaning.
i'm trying to think of great ways to finish off the first year of electric lion in a way that seems fitting. a book perhaps. a gallery event, if modest. print sale perhaps where you (all 9 of you) can order your favorites from the year. that one seems a bit narcissistic. im paranoid about narcissism.
any ideas from you all?
i'd really love feedback.
thanks
in honor of garrett finishing his master cleanse...cleanse...i thought i'd post a shot of Master Cleanse striking a pose with his posse.
