Creepy bar photo

Here is the origin of today's Midnight Sun Tipsy Tuesday creepy bar photo

Crop and do a little Photoshop magic and you get something more David Lynch-y:

I liked this one too:

Swine Flu Heaven

Bacon... tastes like Heaven on Halloween.

Mystery logo / mascot revealed

This logo character represents Korean kim chi.  It's a terrible logo.  I love it.

Asparagus transformation

Anything this phallic is fraught with symbolic complications.

I used this for my post on Midnight Sun's blog for my Tipsy Tuesday column. The post was about the restorative power of asparagus extracts on hangovers.  Sam Sessa very cleverly gave the post the headline "The Asparagus Drip", you know, like an IV drip, plus it goes with the photo. I processed the photo to give it a kind of magical aura. The last thing I wanted to do was give any additional sexual nuance. Boring purple background becomes spectacular burst of energy in the process.

Consider what happens when I take the same photo and rotate it to give a more, urr, virile angle.  It's practically impossible to deal with a single spear of asparagus without it being sexual.  Example, that's just weird:

If you want to get even weirder here's another treatment:

It matters where you put the light flare.

Odalisque

I used this photo of a drunk chick for my post on Baltimore Sun's blog Midnight Sun today.  Laura Lee called her an odalisque, which I had to look up.  It does come out looking like something from a Velvet Underground song.

Baby octopus photo

Here's a photo of baby octopuses and the Picnik.Com manipulation.

 

Another example of Picnik.Com photo manipulation

Below are the source photo and the result of it being manipulated in Picnik.com.  Picnik is really easy to use.

I think that I cropped it, used Autofix, and then the Invert effect but chose the hue instead of using the default actual color inversion.  I just slide the button around until I found something that worked best for me. My intention was to change it to something less realistic to emphasize the symbolic nature of the image.  I think that before I inverted the colors I used tghe Vibrance effect to give greater contrast to the whitish foam against he white background.  It worked really well.

The second photo was used for my guest column on the Baltimore Sun's bar and nightlife blog Midnight Sun.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2009/08/tipsy_tuesdays_breaking_the_se.html

Cuban sandwich

I don't think that I ever posted this before. It's kind of simple for me, but most people still don't get it.  It's not really about marriage OR a Cuban sandwich, but a Cuban sandwich is a very good thing. I'm hungry.

 

marriage/lunch in Miami 
   
someday I'll marry

a Cuban sandwich

scrunch in togetherness

full of meat and juices

bundle up ourselves

in a smashed crusty-fresh roll

all full of enthusiasm

hot-pressed between iron plates

flavor sealed in, naturally

 

from the Baltimore City Paper, 2002