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16 April 13

edgmont:

Okay, this is super meta — but also cool for photojournalism geeks like myself.
In the seconds after the tragic Boston Marathon bombing this morning, Globe photographer John Tlumacki snapped this harrowing and widely-circulated image of 78-year-old runner Bill Iffrig on the ground, three policeman springing into action around him.
But check out the AP image above, taken from the bridge above the finish line just seconds before the Globe photo. If you look carefully, you can actually see Tlumaki in a yellow vest, camera poised, about to take the now-famous photo.
Also, be sure to read this interview with Tlumaki about his experience on the ground today.

Okay, this is super meta — but also cool for photojournalism geeks like myself.

In the seconds after the tragic Boston Marathon bombing this morning, Globe photographer John Tlumacki snapped this harrowing and widely-circulated image of 78-year-old runner Bill Iffrig on the ground, three policeman springing into action around him.

But check out the AP image above, taken from the bridge above the finish line just seconds before the Globe photo. If you look carefully, you can actually see Tlumaki in a yellow vest, camera poised, about to take the now-famous photo.

Also, be sure to read this interview with Tlumaki about his experience on the ground today.

28 December 12

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Happy holidays from Singapore. I’ll be here for two weeks total — visiting friends, soaking up the sun, and eating Asian food to my heart’s content — before heading back to Paris in early 2013.

4 September 12

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explore-blog:

Cargo: Moon Dust – a customs declaration for moon rocks and moon dust samples filled out by Neil Armstrong and his team upon returning from the moon in 1969

(↬ this isn’t happiness)

29 August 12

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When I’m walking behind locals

cantomemes:

Or in Paris, walking behind tourists.

17 August 12

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Another hilarious Olympics-inspired tumblr: Mo Farah Running Away From Things

22 July 12

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arreter:

Ernest Zacharevic

Painter and street artist Ernest Zacharevic worked on new wall pictures in Malaysia. His paintings are showing mischievous children interacting with their physical surroundings.

I’d love to see these!

(Source: ponies666)

31 May 12

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Top 5 hawker centres in Singapore -- my guest post for Hostelworld

8 May 12

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I miss this place.

19 April 12

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A film crew came to our Gaelic football training session a few weeks back.

I can now cross “Appear in a French children’s TV program” off the bucket list.

18 April 12

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The best cover letter, ever

blessingwaung:

Dear Sir:

I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land’s-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.

I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.

I have just returned and I still like words.

May I have a few with you?

Robert Pirosh
385 Madison Avenue
Room 610
New York
Eldorado 5-6024

Love it. Fat buttery words… mmm.