Continue reading Photo&Caption: Glass.
I take photos like a madman. I click gigabytes like they were...
bytes. In this massive collection, I've got some decent sHAWTs
(statistics, really). I'm sharing them with you in this series: HAWTsHAWT [hot shot].
Summers could be spent at Scituate, MA. I'm happy I took the trusty Olympus C-50 as an adult to document this little gem.
Summers could be spent at Scituate, MA. I'm happy I took the trusty Olympus C-50 as an adult to document this little gem.
Continue reading HAWTsHAWT: Scituate, MA.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm insightful...
I, like everyone, enjoyed his music, but I'm not going to fawn over his music. I'm going to write about this intense, universal sadness with his death. The world is hurting, and that makes me think of an important question...
Is the world hurting because they won't see Michael perform again? Is the world hurting because we won't have another Michael Jackson album? Is the world hurting because his voice won't be lent to another cause?
OR
Is the world sad that Michael Jackson never found happiness?
Continue reading JLF: Michael Jackson. Oh, the Empathy!.
John has asked us to do team coverage on Michael Jackson's death. He, like, pointed me to a few websites to do some research and let you HAWT readers (he made me say that0 know about parts of Michael's life you might not know. This'll be fun!Before all, I have to say that, like, Michael Jackson was a hero to me. My family would play his music when we went camping or hunting, and when I hear Thriller and Rocking With You I'll always thinking of skinning a bear or grilling possum on the fire. My family will miss you, Michael.
The first thing is that Michael Jackson was an Indiana boy! I knew a girl from Indiana once, and she did trapeze and she was GREAT... she was so independent and feisty. And so was Michael Jackson! And David Letterman!
Continue reading J.C.: Michael Jackson - Some Facts.
I remember learning Spanish and French... and struggling. These verb conjugations! The masculine and feminines! So damn frustrating.
Then someone told me how complicated English is, with its verb conjugations and the exceptions to those verb conjugations and rule-changing combinations of letters (i.e., ph, th, gh, ou). It had never occurred to me that English was complicated in any way, but as I thought about it... Yeah. It's a doozey.
Another reason it's a doozey? There are tons and tons of words in the English language. How many? How about the fact that we might have just crossed 1,000,000 words. Yes. That's one million.
Holy balls.
Then someone told me how complicated English is, with its verb conjugations and the exceptions to those verb conjugations and rule-changing combinations of letters (i.e., ph, th, gh, ou). It had never occurred to me that English was complicated in any way, but as I thought about it... Yeah. It's a doozey.Another reason it's a doozey? There are tons and tons of words in the English language. How many? How about the fact that we might have just crossed 1,000,000 words. Yes. That's one million.
Holy balls.
Continue reading English is a Giant Language.
I take photos like a madman. I click gigabytes like they were...
bytes. In this massive collection, I've got some decent sHAWTs
(statistics, really). I'm sharing them with you in this series: HAWTsHAWT [hot shot].
4 hours at the Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Center), and I'm bound to get some great shots of the city. This, my friends, is one.
4 hours at the Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Center), and I'm bound to get some great shots of the city. This, my friends, is one.
Continue reading HAWTsHAWT: Manhattan from Rock.
Words have lost their power. Where Shakespeare discussed how the pen is mightier than the sword, the writer of our times (Dan Brown? Sue Grafton? John de Guzmán?) should say, "Video is super, super powerful. Much more than pens or guns or sticks or stones."
In fact, it's hard for many to wrap their minds around something unless they are visualizing it. (Just ask any Los Angeles jury... they don't believe anything unless it was caught on video. Even then, there's doubt.) So, I'll post a couple of examples of crisis-defining media, then I'll introduce one of the scariest videos you'll ever see. It puts a shape on Iran's current situation. I'll warn, though, that the video from Iran is haunting, so read on with that in mind. It is NOT for children.
Tiananmen Square:
This video perfectly communicated the magnitude and desperation of the Chinese 1989 protest. Finally, the rest of the world got it. No amount of written reporting communicated as much as this simple minute of video.
In fact, it's hard for many to wrap their minds around something unless they are visualizing it. (Just ask any Los Angeles jury... they don't believe anything unless it was caught on video. Even then, there's doubt.) So, I'll post a couple of examples of crisis-defining media, then I'll introduce one of the scariest videos you'll ever see. It puts a shape on Iran's current situation. I'll warn, though, that the video from Iran is haunting, so read on with that in mind. It is NOT for children.
Tiananmen Square:
This video perfectly communicated the magnitude and desperation of the Chinese 1989 protest. Finally, the rest of the world got it. No amount of written reporting communicated as much as this simple minute of video.
Continue reading The Image of Iran's Protest: Neda.
So, you use iTunes to manage your music? The majority of digital music users do. Or maybe you use Windows Media player? There are a couple of people with you. Or maybe you don't believe in digitizing your collection? Then I'd like to see your portable record player you clop around with... and I'd like to know, exactly, how you are reading this on your tin-can broadcast station.
Either way, iTunes and WMP both use proprietary formats that don't allow me to, say, take music from my desktop and easily throw it onto my laptop. Well, actually, there's iTunes Plus, which allows me to pay more for a song to be able to copy it around a bit. I have to pay MORE to use the media I buy? Great. It's also hard to find any sales at Apple's iTunes store. And Windows Media Player has no store, so there's nothing to buy there.
What I'm saying is that they are dumb, and there are options out there! Our favorite? Amazon's MP3 store.
Yes, Amazon's MP3 store is fantastic. It's all we use at HAWTaction's headquaters. We find it amazing that most people don't use it. Heck, we find it amazing that most people don't even know about it.
Either way, iTunes and WMP both use proprietary formats that don't allow me to, say, take music from my desktop and easily throw it onto my laptop. Well, actually, there's iTunes Plus, which allows me to pay more for a song to be able to copy it around a bit. I have to pay MORE to use the media I buy? Great. It's also hard to find any sales at Apple's iTunes store. And Windows Media Player has no store, so there's nothing to buy there.
What I'm saying is that they are dumb, and there are options out there! Our favorite? Amazon's MP3 store.
Yes, Amazon's MP3 store is fantastic. It's all we use at HAWTaction's headquaters. We find it amazing that most people don't use it. Heck, we find it amazing that most people don't even know about it.
Continue reading Introducing... Amazon MP3 Store.
I take photos like a madman. I click gigabytes like they were...
bytes. In this massive collection, I've got some decent sHAWTs
(statistics, really). I'm sharing them with you in this series: HAWTsHAWT [hot shot].
The steam? No one quite knows where it comes from... but it's everywhere.
The steam? No one quite knows where it comes from... but it's everywhere.
Continue reading HAWTsHAWT: Union Square at Night.
Continue reading Photo&Caption: Dog Bath.
... From your news headquarters ... at HAWTaction ... we bring you ... Breaking Knews ...
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Every season of the ever-popular TV series "24" starring Keifer Sutherland is getting a new DVD release that will be called, "24, The Director's Cut: 48." In an effort to expand the rich universe of 24, all 7 seasons will add 24 hours of footage to cover other action that happened in each fateful day.
"24 is a revolutionary show, where each second of the 24 hour day is accounted for," executive producer Brian Grazer told HAWT reporters. "Each season is 24 episodes long, starting and ending at the same time of day. We are careful to edit pieces so not a beat is missed. No action jumps forward. In fact, we are sure to include a lot of 3-minute car rides into the storyline so we can break for commercials." This reporter counted, and there are 145 such examples in the season's 168 episodes.
"24 is a revolutionary show, where each second of the 24 hour day is accounted for," executive producer Brian Grazer told HAWT reporters. "Each season is 24 episodes long, starting and ending at the same time of day. We are careful to edit pieces so not a beat is missed. No action jumps forward. In fact, we are sure to include a lot of 3-minute car rides into the storyline so we can break for commercials." This reporter counted, and there are 145 such examples in the season's 168 episodes.
Continue reading Breaking Knews: Additional Scenes on 24 DVD "Incredibly Boring".
I can't sit idly by and not celebrate the 100th 200th 300th 400th 500th post of HAWTaction [hot ak-shuh
n].
This is momentous. It's unprecedented. It's HAWTaction [hot ak-shuhn]. We're just 18 months after HAWTaction went live, and a weekday still
hasn't been missed. It's a small operation here (smaller than you
even know), so, we're hella proud of hitting 500. Half-millenium mark!! The celebration's
running strong: John just opened a root beer, JLF's burning a wheel and
Jenn's chugging diet prosecco.
n].This is momentous. It's unprecedented. It's HAWTaction [hot ak-shuhn]. We're just 18 months after HAWTaction went live, and a weekday still
hasn't been missed. It's a small operation here (smaller than you
even know), so, we're hella proud of hitting 500. Half-millenium mark!! The celebration's
running strong: John just opened a root beer, JLF's burning a wheel and
Jenn's chugging diet prosecco.
Continue reading HAWTaction is 500 Posts Old.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
I mean that when the U.S. is caught torturing, conservatives like FOX News don't disparage team Bush for torturing... they get mad at Obama for releasing the torture memos and then blame the liberals for caring about torture!! They spin that torture, which has been internationally accepted for sixty years, isn't that bad when WE do it. (JLF: When the U.S. Does It, It Isn't Torture) Oh, and waterboarding isn't a big deal anyway, pussy liberals.
So, how will FOX News blame the liberals for the recent shootings in the U.S.? How will they say an doctor-killing cook and a shooting by an anti-Semite old cook is the liberal's fault?
Continue reading JLF: FOX News Hates. O'Reilly Gets Owned..
I take photos like a madman. I click gigabytes like they were...
bytes. In this massive collection, I've got some decent sHAWTs
(statistics, really). I'm sharing them with you in this series: HAWTsHAWT [hot shot].
There is decadent.... then there is Vatican decadent.
There is decadent.... then there is Vatican decadent.
Continue reading HAWTsHAWT: Vatican Ceiling.
I'm way into big buildings. They do a lot more for a city's character and future than most people recognize. So, I think it's HAWTaction [hot ak-shuhn] to keep tabs on new projects like the Archipelago 21, Dancing Tower (Kuwait), Tall Building Update, City of Silk, Shanghai Tower, Russia Tower, Anara Tower, Okhta Tower, Nakheel Harbour and Tower, Bahrain WTC, Honeycomb Skyscraper, Burj Dubai... in Dubai... in Pictures, CCTV and TVCC Towers, Tokyo Sky Tree, Burj Dubai (Revisited), Dancing Towers, Dynamic Tower, Dubai Towers, The Lighthouse (Paris), The Lighthouse (Dubai), Antilla, London's Super Tower, Eiffel Tower, Shuffle Tower, Full Moon, Caspian Bay, Chicago Spire, Chicago's Aqua Tower, Infinity Tower, Teardrop, Christmas Tree or the Burj Dubai.
There was a glut of Tall Building posts last year, when the economy was still bloated like a Crumbs cupcake. Lately, it's been a Tall Building desert. HAWT has had to dive through any and all architecture news to find a structure (any structure) to report on. It has been pathetic... and we at HAWT expect Obama to refill our cup by passing a $100,459 trillion billion stimulus package to bring back sassy architecture projects.
Well, I was slipping through buildings coming to NYC, and I found some gems I hadn't before discovered. Like this. This is a building coming to 56 Leonard St.
Sure, that doesn't look like much. Boring, right? But wait until we step closer.
n] to keep tabs on new projects like the Archipelago 21, Dancing Tower (Kuwait), Tall Building Update, City of Silk, Shanghai Tower, Russia Tower, Anara Tower, Okhta Tower, Nakheel Harbour and Tower, Bahrain WTC, Honeycomb Skyscraper, Burj Dubai... in Dubai... in Pictures, CCTV and TVCC Towers, Tokyo Sky Tree, Burj Dubai (Revisited), Dancing Towers, Dynamic Tower, Dubai Towers, The Lighthouse (Paris), The Lighthouse (Dubai), Antilla, London's Super Tower, Eiffel Tower, Shuffle Tower, Full Moon, Caspian Bay, Chicago Spire, Chicago's Aqua Tower, Infinity Tower, Teardrop, Christmas Tree or the Burj Dubai.There was a glut of Tall Building posts last year, when the economy was still bloated like a Crumbs cupcake. Lately, it's been a Tall Building desert. HAWT has had to dive through any and all architecture news to find a structure (any structure) to report on. It has been pathetic... and we at HAWT expect Obama to refill our cup by passing a $100,459 trillion billion stimulus package to bring back sassy architecture projects.
Well, I was slipping through buildings coming to NYC, and I found some gems I hadn't before discovered. Like this. This is a building coming to 56 Leonard St.
Sure, that doesn't look like much. Boring, right? But wait until we step closer.
Continue reading Tall Building: 56 Leonard Street, New York.
Continue reading Photo&Caption: Tiptoe.
Sometimes there are TV shows that are really, really good
that few people watch, and I feel compelled to draw attention to them.
Now I have a blog to power that drawing. I drew attention to Arrested
Development sans-blog and it, single-handed, pushed the show's canceling back
by about 4 minutes, which is like a year in TV time.
We are HAWT can't get through the day without Comedy Central's 23rd hour block. It's a 1-2 punch of the Daily Show and Colbert Report. This week, you should tune in to Colbert at 11:30PM. Why? Colbert's been on the air for years now, he's been the focus of Web_geM's... so... why now? Why recommend this week, of all the weeks?
Because he's filming in Iraq.
Where The Daily Show has a comfortably static system, with its smarmy host and questionably-effective pack of correspondents (these days, at least), Colbert flies solo. He runs the entire 30 minutes as a powerhouse cliché of all things Bill O'Reily. Comedy Central grants him the independence he wants by letting him break free from his popular lead-in, and let him fly. Last holiday season, he had a Christmas special, A Colbert Christmas, The Greatest Gift of All, that harkened back to Christmas specials from the 60's. Colbert embraced the campiness with original songs and a story so whacky, it worked perfectly.
Colbert's dipping back into that well, trying to rekindle older times. He's broadcasting from a war zone, à la Bob Hope. It's going to be brilliant.
We are HAWT can't get through the day without Comedy Central's 23rd hour block. It's a 1-2 punch of the Daily Show and Colbert Report. This week, you should tune in to Colbert at 11:30PM. Why? Colbert's been on the air for years now, he's been the focus of Web_geM's... so... why now? Why recommend this week, of all the weeks? Because he's filming in Iraq.
Where The Daily Show has a comfortably static system, with its smarmy host and questionably-effective pack of correspondents (these days, at least), Colbert flies solo. He runs the entire 30 minutes as a powerhouse cliché of all things Bill O'Reily. Comedy Central grants him the independence he wants by letting him break free from his popular lead-in, and let him fly. Last holiday season, he had a Christmas special, A Colbert Christmas, The Greatest Gift of All, that harkened back to Christmas specials from the 60's. Colbert embraced the campiness with original songs and a story so whacky, it worked perfectly.
Colbert's dipping back into that well, trying to rekindle older times. He's broadcasting from a war zone, à la Bob Hope. It's going to be brilliant.
Continue reading TV RCMNDTN: Colbert Report.
Seeing how summer's coming back, along with its blinding sun, it's time to revisit last year's post about sunglasses and how cheap ones are just no good.
We here at HAWT have decided to take on your eye safety this summer of 2008 and explain to you why cheap sunglasses are just, simply, no good. Don't use 'em. Don't. Use. 'Em.
For the purpose of this post, we're gonna break down sunlight into two types of waves: visible light and ultraviolet light (UV). Of course visible light is the bright stuff that allows us to see things. You know, light. The other is UV, and it can do us some damage. UV is the main reason we get skin cancer, and people are wising up to this UV, checking the UV Index before heading out to the beach and correcting their sun protection accordingly.
Well, this UV also damages our eyeballs. It is the leading cause of welder's flash (photokeratitis or arc eye) and may lead to cataracts, macular degeneration, pterygium and pinguecula formations. None of those are fun. Let's look at all of this graphically, shall we? Here is the eye and sun on a normal day:
Why Cheap Sunglasses are No Good
June 24, 2008
June 24, 2008
We here at HAWT have decided to take on your eye safety this summer of 2008 and explain to you why cheap sunglasses are just, simply, no good. Don't use 'em. Don't. Use. 'Em.
For the purpose of this post, we're gonna break down sunlight into two types of waves: visible light and ultraviolet light (UV). Of course visible light is the bright stuff that allows us to see things. You know, light. The other is UV, and it can do us some damage. UV is the main reason we get skin cancer, and people are wising up to this UV, checking the UV Index before heading out to the beach and correcting their sun protection accordingly.
Well, this UV also damages our eyeballs. It is the leading cause of welder's flash (photokeratitis or arc eye) and may lead to cataracts, macular degeneration, pterygium and pinguecula formations. None of those are fun. Let's look at all of this graphically, shall we? Here is the eye and sun on a normal day:
Continue reading Why Cheap Sunglasses Are No Good - 2009.
I take photos like a madman. I click gigabytes like they were...
bytes. In this massive collection, I've got some decent sHAWTs
(statistics, really). I'm sharing them with you in this series: HAWTsHAWT [hot shot].
I could relive the 2008 Italian trip every day, scanning through the pics and pulling out HAWTsHAWTs. But that wouldn't pay the bills. Here's a parking lot. In Venice.
I could relive the 2008 Italian trip every day, scanning through the pics and pulling out HAWTsHAWTs. But that wouldn't pay the bills. Here's a parking lot. In Venice.
Continue reading HAWTsHAWT: Venice Parking Lot.
Continue reading Photo&Caption: Red Bull.
