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We were hit by almost a foot of fresh snow.
Oh well that's Vermont for ya.
(update 4/2/07)
APRIL FOOL !!!
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📢Theme of the Month: April Fools🎨
you can pinch n punch as much as you want on April 1st, but the rabbits say with out an increase in carrots they simple wont be there to finish your sentence!
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'pinch and punch on the first of the month'. "White rabbits, no return".
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Attenzione ai pesci d'aprile e alle zecche giganti da adesso fino a dicembre (purtroppo)....
Watch out for April Fools' Day and giant ticks from now until December (unfortunately)....
Somebody mentioned yesterday that the idea is 'stolen'. Sure it is!! I thought that was a bit too obvious to mention. Well, we just got REALLY inspired by this group.
Life is not easy. After a hard day's work, endless house chores meet you at home. What do you think would a douse of cold water do to a tired and aching body?
Happy April Fools' Day, everyone!... have a great holiday!
Lighting info:
1x SB-800 Shoot through on camera left
1x SB-800 Silver umbrella on frame right
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Day 91 - April 1, 2010
Big Danbo invited Little Danbo to the park today for a picnic but never showed up. Apparently, it was one big April Fool's Day joke. Tsk, tsk.
What do you suggest Little Danbo do to get back at him? Leave a suggestion in the comments and the best one I'll use in the follow up photo to this one. Be as creative as possible.
On the way to work today I saw the car of someone who has some dedicated friends.
Good job...
Cheers.
"April Fool. Ha ha."
A nineteenth-century calling card printed on marbled paper that has faded over time.
Instead of a typical calling card with a name printed on it, some Victorian-era prankster handed out this card as an April Fools' Day joke.
For another Victorian calling card printed on marbled paper, see Marian Reynolds.
[Note: The following press release was leaked online. Please post it or pass it along by any means available to you. Put the rat bastards on notice, make them pay! The truth is... somewhere. Danke.]
[FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS WITH FRIENDLY DISPOSITION TOWARD US INTELLIGENCE CULTURE AND SURVEILLANCE MANDATES]
APRIL 2013
HIGHLIGHTS:
THE NEW WAR ON ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY DETAILED
LOMOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL IS NOT A CIA FRONT COMPANY
The Dept. of Homeland Security -- working in concert with the NSA, the FBI, but *not* the CIA -- is launching an offensive or war on analogue photographic equipment, claiming the "low-fi" and "low-tech" gear is a threat to national security because it's impossible to intercept images, and those using such cameras are at the fringe and off the grid, thus impossible to track as part of ongoing investigations and other as of yet unidentified purposes.
"Privacy has no real place in the post-911 world, and we would expect our citizens to pull together on the homefront, falling in line, as the nation once did during WWII, less concerned with self, and more focused on the collective," said Special Agent Red Opaleco.
"What do people have to hide?" added Opaleco. "Griddable, and that's a word I came up with, devices, or trackable ones, all digital cameras, especially smart phones, our favorite, are necessary to maintain order and sync the soft, trusting nature of the American people, and people all over the world for that matter, with the iron fist of our national security state at home, and similar regimes abroad."
"These analogue folks are anarchists, essentially, and by circumventing the security apparatus we've so carefully created since the rule of George II, aka Dubya, they align themselves with what the great one referred to as 'evil-doers,' and are in the truest sense of the term, enemies of the state. They will be stopped. Crushed. Unevilded... "
Deatogue, as the ad hoc organization invested with the power to pursue this new front in the war on 'evil-doers' is temporarily known as, points out that the free market has been doing its job already, with camera shops and film processing services "dropping like flies." "We Ncourag dis & look for maggots," said an organizational Tweet.
"I would like to categorically deny, incidentally, that we have bought, co-opted, taken over, whatever, the Lomography International firm," said Opaleco. "There have wildly irresponsible rumors that Lomography is in fact a CIA front, for years. We have no, let me repeat, no relationship with any such CIA fronts. Wait a minute strike that. Seriously. Let's start again. Siri: new graph."
"I would like to categorically deny that we, the CIA, or any other US and/or foreign intelligence agency in fact runs Lomography International," said Opaleco. "So people can relax with regard to any sort of 'lojack,' or other tracking hardware or software, including collusion with Flickr and other social media companies. So clearly Lomography isn't our most valuable asset, just in this particular campaign or war, if wou will. Huh? Do you really think people don't know already? How [censored by unknown] can they really be?! Offices all over the world... Right! Fine! Strike, delete, whatever... Siri: new graph!"
"The new rules of jingo, in this particular case, dictate that if you must indulge in the dangerously murky world of analogue, we have no problem with you buying Lomography cameras," said Opaleco. "But there's no 'invasion of the body snatchers' scenario with regard to a takeover of Lomography in order to prosecute the new war on analogue photography. It was so much simpler than that, although it certainly would have been feasible. Oh, and uh, Lomography remains an independent entity, not a front at all... cut, cut, cut! Send this over to the PR cogs for cleanup and dissemination. Is our account current at Edelman? Weber? Whatever. Dewey & Phükem will be fine. I think Howe's dead. That wasn't us... was it? [sigh]"
For press inquiries, please contact Red Opaleco at R.Opaleco@cia.sshhh.gov or Corrina [last name withheld] at lomography@cia.sshhh.gov.
Hello, Red. Shall I file your copy in "cool nefarious schemes," or "cluster [censored by unknown]s?"
[censored by unknown] yourself, Siri.
Very well. Red has private time, and now Siri does, too. Wink, wink.
[CRITICAL NOTE: DISREGARD NOTE AT TOP OF PAGE AND REDIRECT THIS TEXT TO THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENT FOR REVIEW. IMPORTANT: THIS DOCUMENT IS CONFIDENTIAL AND IS TO BE KEPT INTERNALLY UNTIL FURTHER ADVISEMENT.]
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Two found objects.
The larger plastic baby is probably from a King cake. I'm not sure about the smaller one.
Here is a high tech April Fools joke from Google. The end is surprising when you realize the whole thing is a joke. I was thinking while watching it that it was a great idea for the little ones in our life to have a self diving bike. It's short and worth a look click HERE
So when V3 didn't get the feedback I was hoping for, I started wondering if there was something missing from Toa Onuku. So back in January I scrapped it and started working on the newest version. So meet Toa Onuka, my new self-MOC. Gone is the dull brown and blue. Gone is the wimpy little staff. And most of all, gone is the stereotypical masculine proportions. If modern media has taught me anything, it's that skinny girls with big... erm, weapons are all the rage.
As an added bonus, she was the perfect place to use the trans-purple eyestalk I've been trying so hard to make all these years. But with some help from Socketball and my own molding expertise, I've finally managed it.
After much thought, I have decided to give up all nature photography, and strictly stick with HDR's and cityscapes..
I am really no good at all that naturey stuff, no more macros..no more flowers..no more water shots...no more woods...
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Guess what we woke up to today? Yes ... snow! Mother Nature's version of an April Fools' joke I suppose? Fortunately it is only a few centimetres and not as much as on this day in February. Mercifully all of this has melted and although there is snow on the ground today, the lake ice is almost gone and Spring is slowly showing its kinder, warmer, gentler face.
This is the back of our house with Nina, Rosa and Tess respectively serving as my winter models. Below is a view of my house taken from the lake ... for a variety of photos of the view from my front yard check out ...
Hey man, take a look out the window 'n' see what's happ'nin'
Hey man, it's rainin'
It's rainin' outside man
Aw, don't worry 'bout that
Everything's gonna be everything
We'll get into somethin' real nice you know
Sit back and groove on a rainy day
Yeah
Yeah I see what you mean brother, lay back and groove.
Rainy day, dream away
Ah let the sun take a holiday
Flowers bathe an' ah see the children play
Lay back and groove on a rainy day.
Well I can see a bunch of wet creatures, look at them on the run
The carnival traffic noise it sings the tune splashing up 'n'
Even the ducks can groove rain bathin' in the park side pool
And I'm leanin' out my window sill diggin' ev'rything
And ah and you too.
Rainy day, rain all day
Ain't no use in gettin' uptight
Just let it groove its own way
Let it drain your worries away yeah
Lay back and groove on a rainy day hey
Lay back and dream on a rainy day.
- Jimi Hendrix
"There was no collusion with the Russians, with Poootin, and we are totally EGGS-ON-A-GRATE(R)D!"
Sorry about this terrible yolk, not particularly eggscellent I know!
Have a very happy April Fools Day and Happy Macro Mondays to all!
So when V3 didn't get the feedback I was hoping for, I started wondering if there was something missing from Toa Onuku. So back in January I scrapped it and started working on the newest version. So meet Toa Onuka, my new self-MOC. Gone is the dull brown and blue. Gone is the wimpy little staff. And most of all, gone is the stereotypical masculine proportions. If modern media has taught me anything, it's that skinny girls with big... erm, weapons are all the rage.
As an added bonus, she was the perfect place to use the trans-purple eyestalk I've been trying so hard to make all these years. But with some help from Socketball and my own molding expertise, I've finally managed it.
We're at a famous restaurant outside Chicago where we've secretly replaced the coffee with sand and ground up clam shells...
This was the beginning of a TV commercial from when I was a kid -- this was the first thing that came to mind when when I thought about April Fools Day. HMM!
If you happen to be unfamiliar:
NOOOOOOOOO!!! I was trying to take some pictures of my latest build and on the way it slipped out of my hands! HOW COULD I BE SO CLUMSY!
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I am importing Pennsylvania farm country to Maryland, bit by bit. This is the bottom of my vegetable rinsing tub after washing spinach and celery and before tumping it into the back yard. Teaspoon by teaspoon I am enriching my red clay with beautiful black farm soil.
Taken for Macro Mondays "April Fools".
I woke up this morning to the sound of sleet on my window.... This one is from a spring ice storm a few years ago. After a gorgeous sunny and almost 70 day for Easter yesterday, it seems Mother Nature knows how to do April fools day jokes, too.
Neue Rinderrasse aus Niedersachsen, vorbereitet für den schnellen Genuss. Die Neuzüchtung soll Amateuren das Ausbeinen des Rindes erleichtern
My two owl sculptures on a winter's day of snow, casting their solar eyes at you!! Lol! No snow in the forecast, so hope April will prove to be all about Spring for all my Flickr Friends. Those coloured sticks are in pots of old flowers and are also solar and change colours. The flowers have not yet started to bloom again; it will take a bit of time and some I may have to replace.
Late afternoon in the garden. It is a warm day and I am enjoying a float made with frozen raspberries and blackberries in pure seltzer water.
My Gear:
Canon PowerShot SX70 HS bridge camera. It has a
3.8-247.0mm zoom lens. The lens is surprisingly good for macros. You can move the camera so close that the lens actually touches the object‼️
IMG_2855 - Version 2
www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
Date: April Fool's Day, 1976
Categories: Science, Space and Astronomy, Radio, Scientists, United Kingdom, 1976, BBC
Patrick Moore
During an interview on BBC Radio 2, on the morning of April 1, 1976, the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced that an extraordinary astronomical event was about to occur. At exactly 9:47 am, the planet Pluto would pass directly behind Jupiter, in relation to the Earth. This rare alignment would mean that the combined gravitational force of the two planets would exert a stronger tidal pull, temporarily counteracting the Earth's own gravity and making people weigh less. Moore called this the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect.
Moore told listeners that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the precise moment the alignment occurred. If they did so, he promised, they would experience a strange floating sensation.
At 9:47, Moore declared, "Jump now!" A minute passed, and then the BBC switchboard lit up with dozens of people calling in to report that the experiment had worked!
A Dutch woman from Utrecht said that she and her husband had floated around the room together. Another caller claimed she had been seated around a table with eleven friends and that all of them, including the table, had begun to ascend.
But not everyone was happy. One angry caller complained he had risen from the ground so rapidly that he hit his head on the ceiling, and he wanted compensation.
Moore's announcement was, of course, an April Fool's Day joke. It became one of the most celebrated April Fool's Day hoaxes of the late 20th century. However, it wasn't just a random joke. Moore intended it as a spoof of a pseudoscientific astronomical theory that had recently been promoted in a book by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann called The Jupiter Effect.
BB, our littlest scamp, has figured out how to open drawers, so the kids figured out how to thwart her!
As an April Fool, Scout says that all of my photos have been in Explore! This is the first 72 of them made into a poster. Have a
look at Scout yourself - I think you'll find that just for today all of
your photos have been in Explore too!
1. Assorted buttons, 2. Union Flag curtain material, 3. Bee on allium, 4. Windswept trees, 5. Early rose, 6. Letter box at Upton Upon Severn, 7. Selfridge building in Birmingham, 8. Circles in the sun,
9. Brighton Pier, 10. Selfridges in Birmingham - curves and cirles, 11. Cottage garden, 12. Cliff top view at Swanage, 13. Boat at Goring, 14. Waves on Chesil Beach, 15. Aluminium discs, 16. Selfridges in Birmingham,
17. Christmas lights, 18. Foggy New Year's Eve, 19. Selfridge Building in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, 20. Purple Cone flowers, 21. Aluminium discs covering the Selfridge Building, 22. Steam Engine detail Welland Steam Rally, 23. The Selfridge Building in Birmingham's Bull Ring, 24. Bench and blue hyacinths at Hidcote Manor Gardens,
25. More Ammonites, 26. Beach Huts, Greenhill, Weymouth, 27. Selfridge Building - Birmingham, 28. Christmas baubles, 29. Purple clematis, 30. Fairground ride on the seafront at Paignton, Devon, 31. Spot the difference, 32. Elgar graffiti,
33. After the rain, 34. Solitary tree under a stormy sky, 35. A rainbow of milk churns, 36. Sunflower in my garden, 37. Sunflower and fibonacci pattern, 38. Climbing rose, 39. Mauve poppy, 40. We will remember them,
41. 120 years of the Eiffel Tower, 42. Red and white tulip, 43. Concentric circles, 44. Pink summer rose, 45. Used tyres, 46. A spoonful of stars, 47. Beach huts at Swanage, 48. Pink striped clematis,
49. Aviary tiles, 50. Victorian Post Box, 51. Purple and pink beach huts, 52. Cup cake union flag, 53. Christmas clementines, 54. Inside Selfridges, 55. Beach hut and umbrella, 56. Galloping horses at Welland Steam Rally,
57. Mountains, 58. Yellow tulips, 59. Beach huts in Bournemouth, 60. Russian Dolls, 61. That's one small step....., 62. Pink Clematis, 63. Bunting in Eckington, 64. Summer colours,
65. An old telephone box, 66. Stained glass window, 67. Handmade felt Christmas trees, 68. Happy Birthday crossword, 69. Bournemouth beach, 70. First Quarter Moon, 71. Happy Valentine's Day!, 72. A view through the bridge
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
I've heard that Flickr, in order to help us all "get with the times", is going to start filtering out traditional film photos. So from now on I'll be posting photos from my digital Jam Cam. 640x480 FTW!!!!!
LEGO Star Wars 75320 Porg Battle Pack
136 pieces
USA $14.99 / DE 14.99 / UK £12.99
Available to pre-order from May the Fourth (VIP early access only)
Build up your army of adorable avians to conquer the galaxy and enact vengeance on a certain hungry Wookiee!
Includes stud-shooting blasters for the fearsome and wholesome Porgs as well as the iconic Force Tree from the planet Ahch-To.
APRIL FOOLS!