I keep getting asked for them, so here they are: more Jeremy photos!

Pink2o: "Water for women". Sexist, weird marketing, or just a re-branding of the failed "Water for communists" product?

I love that there seems to be a Flickr group for almost any subject. Such as Unintentionally Scary Clowns.

Just for fun, I've started a music podcast called Sinko. You can listen and/or subscribe to it at sinko.kieranchapman.net, and I'll probably be updating it every two weeks from now on. (You can subscribe to it here.)

One thing that drives me nuts about soccer -- I mean other than the fact that I find it incredibly boring to watch (and, to put that in perspective, this is coming from someone who loves to watch baseball) -- is when players fake being tripped ("flopping") in order to try to draw a penalty call.

I didn't watch any of the World Cup, so anything I did see was purely accidental. But I did seem to see too many highlights of "tripping" which seemed to nearly cripple a player, only to see him up and running again in a matter of minutes (if not seconds). So I enjoyed Dave Eggers' piece about soccer in America, which included a pretty funny commentary about flopping:

The True Story of American Soccer

But flopping in soccer is a problem. Flopping is essentially a combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating, and these four behaviors make for an unappealing mix. The sheer theatricality of flopping is distasteful, as is the slow-motion way the chicanery unfolds...

[O]ur flopper will still be on the ground, holding his shin, his head thrown back in mock-agony... Once the referees have decided either to issue a penalty or not to our Fakey McChumpland, he will jump up, suddenly and spectacularly uninjured -- excelsior! -- and will kick the ball over to his teammate and move on.

One of my favorite scenes from the (surprisingly good) US version of The Office.

Wait -- how do I apply Head On again?

Jesus of the Week is a site that...well, has interesting pictures of Jesus. A few of my favorites are tattoos:
- I didn't know Jesus was a Wookiee
- People, people. These things are permanent!
- Hey man, what’s on your mind?

How to Shoot People (and Places and Things)

The first two [photos] I showed in class this evening ... were technically passable but artistically bland. More than anything, they’re examples of my modest competency in selective focus and the one-third/two-thirds rule for composing pictures, but little else. The more I learn about photography, the less interested I am in close-ups that fetishize surface textures, and the less impressed I am by well composed but basically inert subjects that don’t communicate a narrative of any particular stripe.

The "modest competency" comment really describes how I feel about my photos. Sure, some are well-composed and nice to look at, but they don't really say anything. I just need to practice and explore more..

This isn't exactly new, but it's too well-done not to link to it. The Ten Commandments as a teen comedy: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments: