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Jul 24, 2012 2:00 PM   What does a dream look like? As vivid as the images may be in your sleep, by the time you wake they are long gone. But for this week's Shooting Challenge, you reassembled those fleeting pictures. I love taking photographs at night, but without the proper preparations (e.g., fast glass, tripod, sobriety), the resulting snaps are often too blurry to use. When it comes to photographic representations of dreams, however, some blurriness can actually be useful. My submitted photo started with just such a blurry pic - a late-night snapshot of a shadowy metal grate that was so out-of-focus that it was actually more ghostly and evocative than a tack-sharp photo would've been. That became the backdrop for a composite image of photos I took the following night, including a doll that hung over the DJ booth at a dance club, a seemingly dead-end apartment corridor, and the backside of an African mask that I spied through a shop window. The final addition was the tex...

Jul 22, 2012 4:00 PM   You know the type. Oh, I was just sitting here, reading some Dostoevsky, listening to this band I love but you probably haven't heard them but oh we must go catch them live some time, when my cat did this amazing thing, and I happened to snap off an Instagram photo in time. Right. Andy Pandy is pretty on the money with how that adorable shot actually happened. (Click the image to see the whole comic.) [Pandyland via Laughing Squid] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Here's a strange story from a Best Buy customer in Virginia that's a reminder to keep your personal stuff safe when using services. The customer, Sophia Ellison, went to the Geek Squad at the Fair Oaks Best Buy store in Fairfax to transfer data to her brand new iPhone, reports Neal Augenstein at WTOP The employee serving her offered to buy her old iPhone which had a cracked screen. So, he paid her $60 and promised to wipe it.  The next day, Ellison realized that her new iPhone 4S didn't have any of her photos, which included "suggestive" personal photos. When she called to complain, the Geek Squad worker called her back, and told her that he had put all her photos on a CD, and to go to his house to pick them up. Creepy. Here's what a Best Buy spokesperson had to say to WTOP. It looks like the employee has been fired: "First and foremost, we apologize to this customer for an unfortunate experience caused by what appears to be rogue action against our code...