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Consumerist Friday Flickr Pool Finds

2009-02-06T18:53:15Z

Here are five wonderful photos readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. Check 'em out, vote for your fave!

Title: "#342/366 Jaymi - A Favourite Meal"
Caption: "This is one of Jaymi's favourite meals. We had it tonight for dinner, because my husband had to be at work late and we wanted an easy dinner. So, here is my 10th photo for 30 Days of Rants & Raves. A rave for Annie's pasta. :)"
By: CrzysChick

]]> Title: "save-2"
By: smcgee

Title: "Consumerism: America's Religion"
By: darren bryden

Title: "Liquid Courage"
Caption: "The Subway Inn, NYC. Killing time before a client shoot."
By: shatterkiss

Title: "IMG_5789"
By: walkerspace

Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click "Join Group?" up on the top right, and start hitting "send to group" on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.

Add your shots to The Consumerist Flickr pool, and perhaps they'll get featured in a future story, or even highlighted in a Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds post. See previous winners of the Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool finds here.

Comment from Triterion on 2009-02-07

2009-02-07T06:01:35Z

@StealthySwede_GitEmSteveDave: LOL "It takes him a second to get on the stool because he's under 5 feet tall" No shit

Comment from formatc on 2009-02-06

2009-02-07T02:34:45Z

@Samantha Gattsek: Don't get me wrong, my preferred breakfast cereal is Cascadian Farm's Raisin Bran or Mother's Cinnamon Oat Crunch. My parents never bought me the sweet stuff as a kid either. I use the Fruity Bunnies as a dessert.

Comment from uncooperative on 2009-02-06

2009-02-07T01:19:22Z

@Fresh-Fest-1986: Sounds to me like you're hitting on Ms. McGee.

Comment from Samantha Gattsek on 2009-02-06

2009-02-07T00:42:14Z

@formatc:
My parents never bought me Fruity Pebbles or Fruit Loops as a kid, so for some reason the idea of fruit flavored cereal is kind of weird. I'll just go back to eating my Kashi cereal with real fruit added in :p

Comment from formatc on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T23:37:57Z

@Samantha Gattsek: Fruity Bunnies are good. Haven't tried Honey Bunny Oats, but the Cocoa/Vanilla Bunnies are disappointing.

Comment from Murph1908 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T23:29:49Z

@RogueSophist:
And entirely annoying.

Comment from Murph1908 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T23:29:00Z

@wastedlife:
Whatever the technique, it gives me a headache. I can't even look at that picture.

Comment from Wubbytoes on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T22:56:15Z

That first picture reminds me that I have some of that Annie's mac and cheese in the cupboard.

Comment from RogueSophist on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T22:15:08Z

@weakdome: Yes, that's tilt-shift, and entirely intentional.

Comment from Trai_Dep on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T22:00:52Z

Show us your tits! Oh. Cough. Sorry.

I'd title the USPS one, Blond Elvis Has Left the Building, so minus points for naming it the Wall-E-esque IMG_57987.

Garnishes should never overwhelm your cocktail so...

As tempted as I am to go for the adorable kid (and she's freaken adorable), I'm going for the Bauhaus influenced, industrial, America's Religion. Only because the containers are empty and there's rust collecting on them. Although (cough) I'd desaturate them a bit and probably radial blur the edges just a nudge. It has fearful symmetry.

Good mix, though!

Comment from Fresh-Fest-1986 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T21:36:22Z

@Sarah McGee: Don't apologize to these troglodytes. The picture is awesome.

Comment from Fresh-Fest-1986 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T21:32:08Z

@Underpants Gnome: Seriously, enough work. I need a bar, stat!

Comment from Sarah McGee on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T21:04:40Z

@wastedlife: It's my photo and it is a tilt-shift with an 85mm PC Nikkor. Sorry I wasn't more creative with the title, I took two, so there was save-1 and save-2.

smcgee

Comment from Belabras ate my dingo! on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:57:25Z

No norks this week? Awww.

Comment from battra92 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:50:15Z

@shoelace414: 10 will get you 15-20.

Comment from wastedlife on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:41:43Z

@weakdome: Pretty sure that is tilt-focus photography. Check the link in my earlier comment for some better examples.

[consumerist.com]

Comment from wastedlife on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:11:31Z

@mac-phisto: I think they used something called tilt-shift photography. IIRC, it slightly moves the lens while still holding focus in the center. The edges are blurred and the focus gets a sort of exaggerated look. It almost looks like the objects are miniatures or models instead of the real thing. This link has a bunch of cool examples of tilt-shift:

[www.smashingmagazine.com]

Comment from Samantha Gattsek on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:06:27Z

@formatc:

That's what I thought too, until I tried their cereals. Good lord they are bad. I got the "Honey Bunny Oats" and it looks like cat treats and smells like wet cardboard.

Comment from weakdome on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:03:59Z

@weakdome: haha maybe that's why the original was titled Save2... Song2... Save2...by Blur... hmm.

Comment from weakdome on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:03:38Z

@weakdome: Or perhaps "Song#2"

Comment from weakdome on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:03:13Z

Vote for renaming "Save" to "A study in learning how to focus my camera correctly", or perhaps "Blur, fuzz, and bad focus, with a side of blur."

Comment from wastedlife on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T20:01:27Z

@Underpants Gnome: You read my mind!

Comment from mac-phisto on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:32:21Z

the "save" pic makes my eyes go all wacky b/c of the blur - they keep trying to focus the picture. kind of a cool effect.

Comment from StealthySwede_GitEmSteveDave on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:30:31Z

@shoelace414:
"Hi, I'm Chris Hansen. Why don't you have a seat over there please."

Comment from formatc on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:27:32Z

Voted for Save-2 but I need to give props to the kid for good taste - Annie's products are amazing.

Comment from Ash78 ain't got time to bleed on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:18:53Z

@shoelace414: Are you saying you're locking in an investment with a 15-year time horizon? :D

Comment from shoelace414 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:08:26Z

@shoelace414: eep! I don't think that came out like I meant it.

Comment from shoelace414 on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:07:57Z

No boobs.. I'll go for the kid instead

Comment from startertan on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:03:31Z

That consumerism pic makes me think of Tetris and the music. I would've voted for Save-2 but Tetris music won out.

Comment from Underpants Gnome on 2009-02-06

2009-02-06T19:03:10Z

Mmmmm, Gin & Tonic sounds good right now.