What do you look like in our beloved month of August 2014

This might not work :-/

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/2014-08-02%2016.27.08.jpg

Not from August (actually, July 4 day-drinking) but my friend just sent it to me.
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/10495106_10152622693567146_8094212022824747234_o.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uKwUZLs.jpg?1

Cropped out: books, books, books, alcohol, books.

lookin good boys x

nice stuff wins but the dude with the brolly seems way cooler than u

lol I don't even know that blond boy next to me there, it's one of my brother's uniLAD friends. Should really have cropped him out or something. Mods?

What do you want a moderator to do, crop your photo for you?

Blond boy definitely a mod, not a rocker.

U-MOD

Yeah that was a joke wmc

Blond boy got drunk later on and called a random woman a cunt

that photo bolsters some suspicions i formed a few days ago while reading complaints about the sweltering british summer.

wdyll in the bizarre landscape of the burren

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsgw8d21b7njvbg/P1020520.JPG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsgw8d21b7njvbg/P1020520.JPG

Dropbox mayne, used to be awesome

how the heck did that green field get into the middle of all that rock?

flown in for trump iirc

WDYLL on this AUGUST occasion 2014

(I guess I could just repost the picture but eh)

Taking questions after a successful performance in which we didn't die after dancing a 6-minute broadsword.

http://instagram.com/p/rGDdruFIji/

Aw broek ;___;

4th from L?

Maybe you can't copy image name instagram pics? http://instagram.com/p/rGDdruFIji/

xp lol yes!

also from July... martini lunch in Hollywood

http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/slideshow/AlbumID=12832916009/PictureID=699789332009/a=57464495_57464495/otsc=SHR/otsi=SPIClink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

ok i forget how to display an image from sn4pfish, nm

all internet photo storage sites suck now, in other news

I'm betting this doesn't do it either

http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/slideshow/AlbumID=12832916009/PictureID=699789332009/a=57464495_57464495/otsc=SHR/otsi=SPIClink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/

haha what is going on

have you guys got like a young person in the house that could work the computer for you?

no, howbout a faqing faq that tells us how to post pics on the ilxornet

Nick I used to have such a person, his name was... me ;_;

wins fails to follow the naming traditions and everything falls apart, as good an argument for conservatism as you're gonna get

have you guys got like a young person in the house that could work the computer for you?

I used to but then my fingers got too arthritic to dial the rotary phone and call them to come over.

Morbs! A martini!

lol this is amazing

i have no idea if we're at the point where posting photos is the same on every site? doesn't seem that wd be the case.

laff it up e at this rate you'll never see the fr Ted house

wdyll on the boulevard of broken links

x-post - I WANNA SEE IT

(if I open yr broken link in a new tab I can see the picture and your lady looks lovely, I like her dress. Is that "Craggy Island"?)

Here's in orbit's:

http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xaf1/10431876_333323683491234_385509790_n.jpg

Ted house other side of that hill,ya

XP cool pic

that's the only one I can figure out without having to use a 3rd-party host like imgur.

I don't get these filenames that don't stop at .jpg. It's like an American phone number that's (728) 832-98234987-2934798.

yeah its a shortened link but Dropbox used not to do that. but from the phone its not an available option I don't think.

I liked this from your pic:

http://i.imgur.com/t7HxIiO.png

Can't find a URL, but here, let me just run this through the Canon. I'll tape it right here on my cubicle wall.

http://render1.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6lQQ%7C%3Dup6RKKtr%3AxxrYz%3DKAmDZHKrfr%3D-DgjfDUXxWPxrj7t%3DzrRxrj7t%3DzrR_mtqU7graQPexqpxQQGexJlJxJnGxv8uOc5xQaPPQlG0GGQQnqpfVtB%7CRup6aQQ%7C/of=50,360,480

I don't get these filenames that don't stop at .jpg. It's like an American phone number that's (728) 832-98234987-2934798.

Seriously, it used to be enough to say "you're linking to a page, not the image on the page," but that image link of Morbs' is 3 lines long in the dialogue box.

haha, wow, he turned into a splotch of red.

I just use flickr. Go to all sizes, pick what you want, right click and copy image location.

i think i used flickr 4 years ago when i last posted a photo, brb

I still have my same old Jaz Drive Photobucket acct from when I started here 10+ years ago.

Morbs you have cute cheeks and I like yr pinky hold.

I am also feeling the very 70s style booths and china at wherever you're dining.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww

sorry for doubling up, but it's been a month of contrasts

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/1601287_10101997725229590_3517621051493865429_n.jpg

new headshot taken by a photographer i know who does great, hip work:

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3901/14911038602_61e9d4acda_z.jpg

i like the photo, but oy, i'm going grey.

The niece and I, enjoying squid.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/sotoalf/1897011_10101723691600198_7275842154372188668_n_zps50a7ae48.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tK7AX4f.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0a4ohhT.jpg

Looking at Aimless's photo from a week ago, I thought at first that was a golf bag to his right (before noticing there weren't any clubs). "Jesus, that's one errant drive there."

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5567/14798946730_4e3dabe67e.jpg

I question the validity of this certification

dunno looks legit to me

A while back this really awesome woman I follow on instagram wrote something about selfies that I loved so I'm going to copy it here. This is her instagram and she's great.

http://instagram.com/p/qNu0T2yJDN/?modal=true.

"The other day @shay.bjordahl and I were talking about selfies. Anyone who knows me, knows I am fucking down for selfies. Selfies by women are a political act. We have been told our entire lives that we are ugly and our bodies are ugly and that we should "love ourselves," but don't really love yourself cuz that's self centered oh and btw you're still ugly. It's suffocating. But selfies. There is power in women literally owning their image, of exploiting the male gaze, of controlling how the world sees them. I love seeing photos of my friends in my feed. I love knowing they felt cute and happy and pretty and wanted to remember it. I love that they felt comfortable and confident in a world that makes that impossible. Do I wish our bodies mattered less? Sure I do, but we live in them and women owning that and celebrating that power for themselves, I am fucking here for it. My grandmother Barbara was woman I am connected to like no one else. She was an artist. She was outspoken and feminist and ruthless. She literally looks like my twin. For a woman born in 1922, there are a ton of "selfies" of her. Ones of her "modeling," ones of her ice skating, ones with my grandpa. I cherish these photos. I cherish this sexy nip-slip photo probably more than any other. She was in her early 20s here, like me. And this was her body, HER body. And years later she proudly pasted this photo in an album alongside photos of her family and her life. This was how she saw herself. She owned it. So duckface on, you beautiful babes. #babevibes"

And so here's my latest selfie with a new phone, insane lipstick and ridiculous earrings.

http://i62.tinypic.com/sylc13.jpg

lol for a second I worried I posted that on the pasta thread.

omg

that's a v v cool quote/instagram, and a p punk foto from yself

Hm. I don't see anything wrong with selfies, but equally women have been told that they should be measured by what they look like, their presentation, the idea that surface and corporeality is all that matters, and selfies very much do nothing but support that idea. They're not harmful but they're certainly not radical.

Although ENBB does look rad, so...

I need to know what that lipstick is STAT. It looks so so aweseome! As do you, of course :)

Grrrrrrrreat hair imo

Aw, thanks all. IO - I finally found a stylist who I fucking LOVE. I'm never letting anyone else cut my hair ever again.

Em, I think the thing I love so much about that quote is the part about power in owning your own image because I really feel that's true for me.

Quincie - http://limecrime.com/lips/velvetines-39.html in pink velvet. It's amazing!

selfe!

selfies are a disabling of the process of external gaze imo. they can of course be co-opted (as can any form of expression) and used as a means for women to exploit themselves for others' benefit but the effect from what i can largely tell is to change object to subject, which is surely ideal

lol crut

My biggest problem with selfies, is the word selfies. I just can't speak it.

imago otm

also lol crut is right :)

i took self portraits all the time as soon as i had a camera because i couldn't even figure out what i looked like unless i could examine my face in a picture
years and years of "is this what my face looks like?!"

totally get that quote -- your picture is lovely enbb and i love the lipstick, which is not insane just vibrant

I think my problem is that "caring about what I look like" as a form of radicalism strikes me as merely a recuperation of radicalist poses for the same purpose as "caring about what I look like" via patriarchal and capitalist structures. I want to care about what I think like and what I act like and be able to ignore what I look like if I want to.

HOWEVER, I realise (should realise, should act upon more often) that refusing to be shamed by one's body is different to being defined by one's body. And wresting back control of your own image isn't the same thing as forcing everyone else to be image-conscious. Though it certainly seems that way sometimes, and that's why I get twitchy around grand claims like ENBB's friend makes.

yeah i mean i understand what the person is saying even if i'm not on board with grand claims in general

I've played with these ideas myself - in my novel, no character's appearance is described until the second half, at the start of which they all parade and are described entirely naked & it is as meaningless as you want it to be

owning your image is important, but owning the means of disseminating it is also important

i think owning your image is perhaps subordinate to owning the means of broadcast & the vectors of presentation

but provided you're in a safe & personally-approved context i think it is to be encouraged that people who want to take selfies do so

on which note,

http://i.imgur.com/WDd5aN2.jpg

I don't understand the philosophical context for large parts of this essay, but I like a lot of it.

If the the body of the Young-Girl is her primary commodity, her ticket of entry into the world of consumer capitalism (outside of which she is not only useless but also illegible), then her ability to authentically maintain the femininity of her body maintains its value. Participating in femininity, and documenting and representing that participation, is not only a relation of the young girl to herself, as the narcissism explanation would have it. It is also the relation of the young girl to herself as the Young-Girl, as an object to work on, and whose realization can be more or less effective. The selfie is both a representation of and, in the case of social media sites like Instagram and Facebook, an opportunity for the public recognition of that labour. The image may assert sexual subordination, but it still asserts.

http://text-relations.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-young-girl-and-selfie.html

yeah it is all fkn means of production ultimately

lol can I sub in 36 year old woman and the selfie when I read that? ;)

(that's reductive but yknow xp to selfe)

i took self portraits all the time as soon as i had a camera because i couldn't even figure out what i looked like unless i could examine my face in a picture
years and years of "is this what my face looks like?!"

I think I'm a little too self-conscious for this? Although I do have a picture of my side profile, which I am not really into, and it's by no means a good picture but looking at it makes me feel really good because I'd just shaved and gotten my hair just how I wanted it.

Now, recordings of my voice on the other hand.... maybe I should get used to those.

i never showed them to people, i just took the pictures and put them away

you're going to leave behind quite the collection, some day

having heard so many old male academics casually mention how the selfie is the apotheosis of narcissistic neoliberal individualism i have become a full-blown reactionary selfie promoter

I kind of don't get the idea that we have to constantly have an opinion on our appearance/body/face
"love your body" that kinda thing
My body is p cool at the moment as it's incubating another one

This doesn't mean we shouldn't take pics, I need to take more tbh as I love looking at old ones.

I think if you're at all self-conscious you have an opinion, even if it's muted? I am sure there's a philosophical angle there in the field of self.

http://i.imgur.com/tdWEBXz.jpg

on a whale watching ship off the north coast of iceland.

i almost barfed. there were no whales.

did you at least get to eat rotten shark?

nope! however i did eat lots of tasty fish my entire time there. i never knew cod should be so goddamned delicious!

should could

did u pee in the blue lagoon y/n

Karl do you eat fish on the reg or was this out of the ordinary

thought the thing in the background said FAP for a minute

http://i61.tinypic.com/kdmiba.jpg

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/1610809_10152304653848693_2067903531948682072_n.jpg

Me in Brooklyn, trying to fit in.

Ed is that the Puffing BIlly? (or something less obvious, I know theres a few active steam trains round here)

Me and my beloved, being drunken spazmos.

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/p526x296/10431466_10152180872037757_1735294921994599719_n.jpg?oh=ffdd67fcf6f10751b2e60983b1f00896&oe=5474CDAF

It is Puffing Billy, I volunteer down there in the absence of any paid employment. Hit me up if you ever want a free trip.