Feb 9th, 2010
by vantagep.
From Mashable.com
If Dear Abby and your therapist just aren’t cutting it this Valentine’s Day, you can tweet at the world’s longest-married (living) couple, Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, for the scoop on how to score and sustain love.
That’s right, while some of the older set just can’t wrap their heads around Twitter (
) (unless it’s connected to a fax machine), the Fishers will be all up on the microblogging site this V-Day, dispensing pearls of wisdom to the younger set (for whom the sanctity of marriage has already been destroyed by Facebook). The whole project was dreamed up by blinkbox, which is an on-demand movie and TV website in the UK.
Herbert and Zelmyra — who were married in 1924 and are 104 and 102 years old respectively — are inviting us romantically bankrupt miscreants to visit their Twitter page, @longestmarried, from today until February 12. Simply tweet your question to the pair, who will select 14 questions that they will then answer on February 14.
The couple, who enjoy hanging on their front porch, watching trains pass by, counting cars and talking to their neighbors, are apparently the model of wedded bliss. They each have their own bedroom — so Herbert can stay up late watching baseball. Well, I guess distance does makes the heart grow fonder.
Posted in: Vantage Miscellaneous.
Feb 5th, 2010
by vantagep.
Um, can we say second grade nostalgia? In a good way??
http://content.photojojo.com/websites/kaleidocycle-photo-origami/
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Jan 28th, 2010
by vantagep.
I just got my first Blik decal in the mail a few minutes ago and I am soooo excited to put it up in my new office! Blik makes wall decals (aka stickers) that you can attach, peel off, reattach. Check out the awesome design I’m putting up (baby not included):
And check out their other fantab designs at www.whatisblik.com. No, I don’t work for them. I just love me some Blik wall decals! Yippee!
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Jan 26th, 2010
by vantagep.
It’s Tuesday Tidbit day! Yay! Hooray! (Man, I’m on a “poet and didn’t know it” roll today: earlier I called that plastic thing on my desk that holds papers and folders the “folder holder”.)
ANYway, today’s tidbit is short and to the point: people like to see things that utilize odd numbers. Visually, you can use this in a few ways: first, with the rule of thirds; second, by utilizing triangles when posing people; and third (don’t you love that there are THREE reasons to use odd numbers? I do.), by including an odd number of subjects in your image (three people instead of two, three columns instead of two, etc).
The most interesting explanation I’ve heard for this is that our brains naturally want to pair up similar objects and if you have an odd number of those objects, the brain can’t pair anything up; therefore our eyes keep moving around the composition, from one object to the next, in the attempt to find the pairs. Ultimately, it’s this eye movement that you’re after because it keeps the composition dynamic and engaging for the viewer.
Whether or not that explanation holds water in the scientific community….meh, doesn’t matter to me. All I know is I like me some photos that have odd elements in them… 
Happy shooting from Vantage!
Posted in: Tuesday Tidbits.
