06-01-11 – Urban Art

A B:
Graffiti by kestrana, on Flickr

Schnee’s stat manager gets the numbers data, but doesn’t display the pictures and their respective votes. 🙁

I see pictures here:
http://www.schneeworld.com/fsm/showContest.do?contestid=6257103

Hrm. Musta been a glitch in the matrix.

CD DO at your earliest opportunity to do so, invest in a decent surge protector (or two). Sorry to hear this.

But I have to say, I’m laughing at myself because I kept reading ‘lighting’ and not ‘lightning’ for some three times, trying to figure out what you were trying to convey. I iz stoopid.

Well, if it’s just modems and not laptops, the phone line would make sense. But even if turned off, if stuff’s plugged in during an elec. surge, it could be damaged (or so the interweb sez). And yeah–I totally hear ya on the cable company and modem models they support. Shesh.

I’da ziploc’d the camera and taken the shots anyway. Not that the FSM shows it, but I kinda like taking weather pictures, and can do pretty well sometimes. This summer, my goal is to figure out how to master lightning so I can finally compete with caradoc. Difficulty factor: I gotta get me built one of them fandangled irfanred thingamabobbies to trigger the sensor.

Yep, if it’s plugged in, it can and will be zapped by a strong enough surge. And lightning hitting anywhere near a powerline is going to be strong enough. Surges can also come in through the coax going to the cable modem or TV and the phone line going to a modem, DSL modem or phone. They make surge protectors for those as well. It’s questionable whether anything other than unplugging would help with a direct or near-direct hit, though.

On another note: Dangit! I just remembered a shot I took recently that would’ve been perfect for this contest. Too late now, so I’ll just have to leave it here as a B. So without further ado, I present: The Canoe Tree.

This was a hard vote for me…was I voting for the photographer or the artist who created the mural? I tend to avoid shooting street art, or any other kind of art other than old statuary, for that very reason. Yes, there is a lot of technical skill in capturing something like street art well, but what makes it interesting, what makes it noteworthy is a third party all together.

You will note that the Banksy’s (advres, me, and Bucky Bacon) are doing fairly well. Is that because we took good photos or Banksy is easily recognized.

My brain hurts. Time to go put wierd shiat on my scanner.