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A special dedication to Carlton Holls
Serendipity demands the management of diverse kinds of tacit knowledge, a kind of networked wisdom, a hunter's sagacity, a knack for combining clues.
As I was having a stroll alongside the river, I spotted a flack of seagulls gathered at about a hundred meter away. There was nothing special about them it's just the M shape of the flock, at rest, that had attracted my attention. I so decided to look closer, luckily I was carrying a 200mm telephoto lens, I fixed it on my camera, aimed, focused and started composing just in time to see one bird lift of suddenly. Most photographers will understand why my index pressed the trigger :-)
The above quote is just an excerpt; If you find it appealing scroll down, explanation will take less than 90" to read.
The word “serendipity” was famously coined by the 18th-century aesthete Horace Walpole, who based it on an Eastern tale of three princes with a knack for “making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” Serendipity is a prized quality in Internet culture and yet in stressing accidents over sagacity, we abuse the term. The princes in Walpole’s old tale describe a missing camel sight-unseen with such alacrity that they are accused of having stolen it; in their defense, they unravel the clues they used in reconstructing the absent animal, telling a story scavenged from the traces it has left. “Serendipity” demands the management of diverse kinds of tacit knowledge a kind of networked wisdom, a hunter’s sagacity, a knack for combining clues.
In this sense, the science historian James Burke is the Carl Sagan of Serendip. Beginning in the late seventies, the Connections series he presented on the BBC and on American public television unraveled technology’s history as the interwoven record of sagacious discovery. Unlike mystical approaches to the history of technology, Connections didn’t approach its subject as the revelation of some plan or purpose or fate; Burke didn’t stoop to theorizing, but knit together, clue by clue, the story our inventive, tool-making ancestors left scattered through time. The story he tells does express a theory, however: that technology is the key in which serendipity expresses its role in human experience. Source GEAR FUSE - RAD STUFF FOR RAD PEOPLE.
TD: 1/800 f/8 ISO 1250 @200 mm
So, this is my curious attempt at meta-metahumor.
To fully appreciate (or deride) it you'll need to be familiar with:
And I made quick work of this great photo by Sophistechate, made available under a derivatives share- alike creative-commons license!
Image from the LondonFurs Christmas/Winter Party 2015, "The Photo Booth".
Fursuiters please credit "Mikepaws" if re-posted.
Image from the LondonFurs Christmas/Winter Party 2015, "The Photo Booth".
Fursuiters please credit "Mikepaws" if re-posted.
Image from the LondonFurs Christmas/Winter Party 2015, "The Photo Booth".
Fursuiters please credit "Mikepaws" if re-posted.
The colourful creatures of the Furry Fandom that were taken at the annual LondonFurs Summer Party.
Fursuiters please credit Mikepaws when posting, thanks!
Image from the LondonFurs Christmas/Winter Party 2015, "The Photo Booth".
Fursuiters please credit "Mikepaws" if re-posted.
TTC 1337, a 2007 Orion VII NG HEV, is seen laying over on route 36 Finch West at Finch Station.
In Internet culture, the number 1337 represents the word “Leet,” which is a short form of the word “Elite.”
My workmates 'gave' me this set of Domo-kun stuffed toys, because I was insanely jealous of them, after they found them at the local Salvation Army family store for less than $5 each! OMG!
Left-to-right: Sad TV News Reporter Domo-kun, Larger Domo-kun, Tired and Cold Domo-kun.
The dressed up domo-kun have their original Japanese tags still attached, and Reporter has a $2.00 Salvation Army price ticket attached too, because you wouldn't believe that it was got for $2 without it :)
Image from the LondonFurs Christmas/Winter Party 2015, "The Photo Booth".
Fursuiters please credit "Mikepaws" if re-posted.
The colourful creatures of the Furry Fandom that were taken at the annual LondonFurs Summer Party.
Fursuiters please credit Mikepaws when posting, thanks!