02-01-12 – Go Out and Get Some Strange

Yugoboy’s Artist, U-man’s Dad & Daughter, and Kestrana’s Sunset Viewer are my favorites and far, far superior photos…

Thanx mucho!

When I approached her asking if I could take a picture, she thought I meant of her work. She was much less reluctant when it finally sank in I meant her! Her look is one of bemusement for that reason. 😀

I guess vote-whoring is easier over at the photoshop contests… I genuinely figured the Italian hottie would do better. No foolin’ the voters!
(Not that it was a great photo… as much as I tried to burn in the background, the contrast was far too bright…)

Yoyo–I don’t mean to be mean-spirited, demented, immature, or malicious, but it has to be said (or I think so). If there were ever a reason for a ‘funny’ vote, it’s the recruiter shot from Arcelor Mittal. I’m sure she’s a very pretty girl–I can see that–but that makeup has. got. to. end. The penciled brows are not only uneven, but they’re a bit evil looking. The top lashes look like she’s on the Las Vegas Strip (and I don’t mean the burlesque), and this combines with a smile that says, “Yes, I hear you, but I’m ignoring you, you want me to hire you where?”

It got both the votes from me.

Rav, your comment had me laughing out loud. Since the Farkistanis seems to have a morbid fascination with “kill it with fire” photos (often via The Smoking Gun mugshot line-up), I decided to go with her instead of some more photogenic recruiters (a la pharmaceutical sales reps). This portrait captures the theme “strange” on so many levels.

Arcelor Mittal is a global mining and metal company. They have a steel mill outside El Paso Texas where they make rebar.

Regarding this young lady’s style of make-up, I can only describe that as “south-western Chicana chic”. At least she doesn’t use a black Sharpie for her “eyebrows” and doesn’t have tattooed eye-liner (yet). I can’t say I noticed her lashes myself, as the lazy-eye over powered those. On the full size images, there’s something going on with her upper lip as well. Philtrum. Slight case of macrodontia. She may be the kind of woman that perhaps only a steel mill worker would consider pretty, hence my title.

Regarding her expression, it seemed like her counterpart recruiter was leading the show (or at least recruiting for engineers like me), and I did speak with the counterpart at length. While I was taking this photo, there was another employment seeker talking with the second woman. One or the other of them asked about my camera, and since there was someone waiting to speak with the other rep, I asked her if I could take her picture. This is my second shot from a low angle, because I didn’t like my first shot ‘s perspective where I was standing and she was seated.

Thanks for the back-story, Yoyo! Glad you got my style of humor (some don’t, ya’know!)

That magic place-showing button you coded and I linked in my shortcut bar brokem too :{

Yeah, I was gonna ask if anyone still used that. The problem is that the voting “bars” used to be uniquely identified so the script could find them all easily. After the change, that’s no longer the case. I’m not a jQuery expert (which is what that script relied on), so it’s not just a simple fix. I’ll see what I can do…

Ha! You didn’t really think I’d let it get the best of me, did you?

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For those who don’t know what that is, here’s a link to my original post about it (keep in mind this is all pre-Bibliostats).

Be sure and get my edited version – the version in the original post link worked but I forgot to turn off HTML in that post so it screwed up the script. It’s fixed now.