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Things I Hate Meme


Things I Hate Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is about things I hate.

These photos are not mine . . . please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

As usual here are the questions and answers:
1. An animal you hate. Elephants. Not in the sense that I have a phobia about them but that I am so extremely bored with elephants and Africa that I’ve developed a dislike.
2. A job you had that you hated. IT Sales. I started in IT technical sales; clearly I can do it; but I hated it
3. A person you hate. Richard Dawkins. See #9 below.
4. Your worst date. Ann. Let’s say no more.
5. Your worst holiday. What holiday? Didn’t have many of them as a kid.
6. Weather that you hate (like you hate the cold or you hate thunderstorms). Cold, wet & windy
7. Worst nightmare. That it actually isn’t a nightmare after all
8. A food you hate. Egg custard. One of very few foods I truly hate.
9. An emotion or trait that you hate (eg. prejudice). Censorship, which for me equates with intolerance, bigotry, fundamentalism
10. A movie you hate. Pick any one; they’re all garbage
11. A book you hated. Anything I did at school; let’s start with Dickens, Great Expectations
12. A city you hate. Brixham in Devon. When I went there some years ago it was completely run down, scruffy and full of posing low-life villains on holiday.

1. The Elephant Tree – elephanttree.com, 2. the seat of authority, 3. All Saints, Oxford (Now Lincoln College Library), 4. For My Friend Jo Ann, 5. Artists at Work 1950s, 6. Carnaval in rain – I am cold!!!, 7. ..retromuta-, 8. Steamed Egg Custard, 9. Against Censorship on Flickr, 10. The super pink K, 11. Katie … great expectations for the New Year …, 12. Brixham # Trust me

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One Word Meme


One Word Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is just a single word answer to each of the 36 question.

These photos are not mine . . . please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

As usual here are the questions and answers:
1. Yourself: useless
2. Your spouse: Norn
3. Your hair: coconut
4. Your mother: 93
5. Your father: dead
6. Your favourite item: stuff
7. Your dream last night: forgotten
8. Where were you last night: KF4248
9. Your computer: unstable
10. The room you are in: study
11. Your ex: physicist
12. Your fear: poverty
13. What you want to be in 10 years: happy
14. Who you hung out with last night: nobody
15. What you’re not: sane
16. Muffins: mule
17. One of your wish list items: PA
18. Time: dusk
19. The last thing you did: pee
20. What you are wearing: skin
21. Your favourite weather: sunshine
22. Your favourite book: Dance
23. The last thing you ate: apple
24. Your life: aimless
25. Your mood: depressed
26. Your best friend: who
27. What you’re thinking about right now: depression
28. Your car: invisible
29. What you are doing at the moment: surviving
30. Your summer: gone
31. Your relationship status: ring-fenced
32. What is on your TV: dust
33. What is the weather like: grey
34. When was the last time you laughed: septuagesima
35. Your pets: cat-fish
36. Your phone: functional

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1. Useless Brain Usage 2, 2. Jora Norn Hero, 3. Coconut tree on the beach., 4. Free Bird (DUC 93), 5. Dead Great White Shark, 6. book shelf project 1
7. Forget me not, 8. …planetary colonisation…, 9. 10: Unstable Ink Zone, 10. study for dancing flame, 11. fluorescence, 12. Bollocks to Poverty
13. 55.365 im happy with me, 14. Nobody’s perfect …. not even Rose …, 15. sane-az 49, 16. John the Mule, 17. wreck of the prince albert, 18. Dusk
19. Pee, 20. 365: Day 261, And we shed what was left of our summer skin, 21. Sunshine for the Soul!!, 22. Sandhill Cranes dances at dusk (5), 23. Apple’s heart 10.080view,thanks!, 24. Aimless
25. Depressed Goldfish, 26. Who are you, 27. Living with Depression, 28. the train of the invisible passengers, 29. { trying to survive …, 30. Ogimachi, Shirakawa-go
31. With This Ring, 32. Gold Dust Woman, 33. Jane Grey miniature…?, 34. Compline at Septuagesima 2008 – 03, 35. japanise cat fish, 36. Functional ware

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World's Tiniest Meme


World’s Tiniest Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week we have a midweek Flickr meme, called World’s Tiniest Meme!

These photos are not mine . . . please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

As usual here are the questions and my answers:

1. What’s your favourite quotation?
It’ll pass, Sir, like other days in the Army [Anthony Powell]

2. What’s your favourite book title?
How to Fossilise Your Hamster

1. Comics ‘On Patrol’ – Ottawa 2006, 2. “Horned Hamster”

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow Meme


Somewhere Over the Rainbow Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is about colours.

These photos are not mine . . . please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

As usual here are the questions. Having, as I do, a skewy slant on reality here’s a strange take on colours! (And no, I’m not colour blind.)

1. Sun
2. Sky
3. Water
4. Red
5. Orange
6. Yellow
7. Green
8. Blue
9. Indigo
10. Violet
11. Rainbow
12. Your Name Keith Marshall

1. diamonds to the sun, 2. “good morning,today’s sky”, 3. Kongxincai, Ong Choy, Hollow Vegetable, Water Spinach, 4. April Snow in Red Square, 5. Orange Sulphur or Alfalfa Butterfly…, 6. A touch of Green..Bamboo forest, Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain) 2a, 7. Green Sea Turtle Being Cleaned, 8. Blue Hotel, 9. Indigo, 10. Violet 03, 11. A hint of RAINBOW, 12. Marshall’s Beach Sunset

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Getting to Know All about You Meme


Getting to Know All about You Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is about getting to know you.

These photos are not mine . . . please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

As usual here are the questions and my answers:

1. Who would you most like to meet? Dalai Lama
2. Who would you most like to have dinner with? Dinner is such a restrictive idea, but I would like to meet the Genie who dispenses health wealth and happiness
3. Who would you refuse to meet? The pure evil known as Robert Mugabe
4. What are you best at? Organisation, administration and procrastination
5. What are you worst at? Anything that requires fewer than 20 left thumbs; I’m hopeless at anything practical — after 3 years of woodwork at school I still can’t saw a piece of wood straight
6. What is your favourite poem? “Macavity: The Mystery Cat”; TS Eliot
7. What was the first record you bought for yourself? “Albatross”; Fleetwood Mac
8. What is your motto? Zen Mischief
9. What’s the biggest/best compliment you’ve ever been paid? What’s a compliment? I don’t think I get them. I just do the job right the first time.
10. Who did you hit? Me? No-one. I have an alibi.
11. What is your worst phobia? Not having money
12. What insect do you dislike most? Maggots

1. Dalai Lama_Geelong_6_ 10.jpg, 2. Genie In A Bottle, 3. Mugabe, 4. Overcoming Procrastination Motivational Mind Map Poster, 5. the freak of the rubber duck world, 6. Macavity the Proud, 7. Royal Albatross, Southern Ocean, 8. Zen Kitty, 9. The Original Version., 10. Who Me, I am Innocant, 11. Old diesel train, 12. Maggot Art

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Photography Meme


Photography Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr Photo Meme is to about, well, Photography!

So here, as usual, are the questions and my answers:

1. What camera do you use the most? Olympus E500 dSLR
2. What is your favourite lens? My Spectacles; I’m as blind as most of a bat without them.
3. Who is your favourite photographer on Flickr? Tina Manthorpe, although that is a really hard choice
4. Who is your favourite photographer of all time? Leonardo da Vinci. What? You mean all those things aren’t photographs? Oh come, on … he invented everything else so he surely had a camera! (In fact David Hockney has the theory that even as early as Leonardo artists were using camera obscura
5. Who introduced your to photography (mom, dad, friend, sibling, etc)? My father; I started by using his Box Brownie
6. What is your favourite thing to shoot? Arrows. In the air!
7. What is the one most important tool? Excluding your camera! Err, my eyes!?
8. What inspires your photography? Almost anything, but probably mostly colour & pattern, and the humorous
9. If you could shoot one event in history what would it be? This isn’t something I’ve ever really thought about, so I’ll go for: Great Fire of London, 1666.
10. Where would you be published if you could choose? Anywhere they’ll have me; I’m not proud
11. Choose anywhere in the world that you would love to photograph Shinto Temples of Japan
12. What was the subject of your favourite photograph? Pretty Girls

As always these are not my photos (except #5) so please follow the links to enjoy the work of the photographers who did take them!

1. Enjoy summer (and beer), 2. Funny Glasses in Rome, 3. Swaledale, 4. Leonardo da Vinci Annunciation, 5. kcm76 and Parents, 1984, 6. I shot an arrow into the air, …., 7. Black Line Eyes, 8. Shaping Light, 9. London’s Burning005, 10. Fish., 11. Giant Wooden Phallus, 12. While waiting for you…

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