![]() ![]() There’s a pretty high murder rate down here, and a pretty high suicide rate, too. They smoke too much, drink too much, don’t exercise. The Dead have a lot of self-destructive habits, at least the ones I see. They come every week.Ĭory leans across the bar and passes me a five and shouts above the music, “Give me change for the cigarette machine?” Four people are already standing, ready to dance and the DJ leans into his mic and starts saying all those incomprehensible things like “allemande left and shift a gear.” The four people, three Dead women-one of whom is a punk princess in her leather and crinoline square dance dress-and a Dead guy start doing their thing. ![]() After a moment, the lights flash and then pulse with the bassline. The light is really yellow over the stage and I can’t tell if he’s Dead or not. He’s wearing shorts, fishnets, and red cowboy boots. ![]() The square dance caller is a kid with a cowboy hat and a goatee. The caller is setting up his equipment on stage. The big fad among the Dead these days is square dancing. The kind that people start talking to until they realize that they aren’t alive.īut like I said, the Dead have fads. Cory says they look more like those sculptures of maids and old women that look really real and normal enough to fool you. I always say the well and truly Dead look like they were made out of clay or something. Even if Schmitty wasn’t scarred all over his face from some kind of accident-maybe he went through a windshield-he just looks dead. Not like Schmitty at the other end of the bar. Cory was drowned when a drunken boater hit his boat and was resurrected as part of court-ordered restitution. “You’ll marry some guy and live in the suburbs,” Cory says and takes a pull on his Heineken.Ĭory laughs. “But you don’t expect to live here the rest of your life,” he says. I’m taking classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art, doing the starving artist thing. The rent is cheap, and that’s why I moved here. “I dunno,” I say, “I like it here.” I do. “Would you live here if you weren’t poor?” he asks. Cory, one of my regulars, says it isn’t like that. The Dead tip for shit because they just aren’t all that interested. I work in Deadtown, at a bar mostly frequented by the Dead. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.That’s right-those glossy, slick, carefully-crafted images shot by Leibovitz-wannabes fail to capture the attention. That seems pretty accurate, but whatever the reasons, we can all smell stock photos a mile off.īut so what if people can tell? Does that matter? According to eye-tracking studies (where they monitor what parts of a webpage people actually look at-and the parts they ignore) conducted by web-user experts Nielsen Norman Group (NNG), users completely ignore stock photos. The three telltale signs you’re looking at a stock photos according to Garber are “prettiness, preciousness, pose-iness”. After countless thousands of visits to meticulously preened, stock-heavy corporate websites, we’ve all become blackbelts at identifying stock images. to know you're seeing a stock image,” says writer at The Atlantic Megan Garber. Here’s the problem with stock photos: everybody can tell it’s a stock photo. Seems like the perfect solution, right? Wrong. There are lots of stock image databases on the internet that allow you to get your sticky hands on the “right” photo just by typing in a search query (“baby wearing bowtie and beaglepuss”) and paying a fee (or even get them gratis). If only there was a way I could (legally) get professional images without having to pay premium prices.Guess what: you can. ![]() Most of us also understand that hiring a professional photographer is likely to cost big bucks. Most of us understand the appeal of a professional photograph over a rough-n-ready homemade snapshot taken on your iPhone. ![]()
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