Denver: Funny signs and notices from around Denver

Maybe it's the marijuana smoke in the air, the younger population, or just the atmosphere of fun and play, but if you have an eye for detail, there are quite a few amusements around Denver. Here are a couple I was able to snap pictures of:

Rock on Denver! Or maybe I love you random street-crosser? This could be a coincidence, but knowing Denver, it's probably not.

Ghost Bus: If you know about the mystique and eeriness surrounding the Denver International Airport, you know how creepy this ad really is. Just replace the A with an E and you have: The easiest way to DIE. We're ready to go when you are. Sign me up!

Images: 4 photo galleries that are more than just entertaining

I stumbled on these four collections within a couple weeks of one another and realized that, unlike, many on-line collection of cute animals or photobombs, each of these collections have larger implications-- mortality, commonality, ownership, and appearance. Oh, and they're entertaining too!
 

1. Children Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions

2. Reflections: Portraits of the Elderly Seeing Their Younger Selves

3. Young people swap clothes with grandparents

4. Portraits of strangers who look alike

The New Chicago Sears Tower!

 
When I think of Sears, I think of the Sears Catalog. I remember looking through the phone-book-sized merchandise collection to make visual cut-out Christmas wishlists. I  remember competing with my sisters to see who could claim the coolest thing first as we turned the pages and pointed quickly. Oh the fun you could have before computers!

We snapped this picture along I-90 outside of Chicago on the way to Indiana. 

With the building formerly known as the "Sears Tower" being renamed to the Willis Tower, Sears must be looking for a new tower. This abandoned Sears warehouse/store better represents the failing retailer than anything I've seen yet.

Stephen Colbert??

First saw this photo, here. (Rare historic photos)

Beer pictures from around the world

 Mediterranean Sea from Greece 

(back when Corono was still independently owned)

At my last job, it was tradition to send co-managers a beer-centered vacation photo to let him/her know what a good time he/she was missing out-on back at work. The key was to send it mid-shift (thoughtful, I know). Here are a some of my favorites from that time and a few similarly themed from other vacation pictures.

Image: Martin Luther King Jr

Crazy Christmas Photo Competition 2012 Winner: Redneck Christmas

The following results from our Crazy Christmas Photo Competition were posted on Facebook, but I never officially posted the results here.   

"Redneck Christmas" took the victory with 25 votes. "Philadelphia Christmas" at second with 19. and "Florida Christmas" came out of nowhere to grab third with 13 votes.

Thanks again to everyone who sent pictures and contributed to our fun this holiday season! Hope everyone has a great 2013 and we see you and your ridiculous photos again in December.

Join the 2013 Crazy Photo Facebook Page here.

Crazy Christmas Photo Competition 2012: Final Pictures!!

Click "Read More" below to see the pictures and vote!

Knowledge: Are kids worth it?

My little sister after getting into the make-up

Here are a few interesting articles about whether to have or not have children. If your mind is made up and you read nothing else, at least take a look at the last link (27 reasons why kids are the worst). It will brighten your day.

1. Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?

Studies reveal that most married couples start out happy and then become progressively less satisfied over the course of their lives, becoming especially disconsolate when their children are in diapers and in adolescence, and returning to their initial levels of happiness only after their children have had the decency to grow up and go away. When the popular press invented a malady called "empty-nest syndrome," it failed to mention that its primary symptom is a marked increase in smiling.
Psychologists have measured how people feel as they go about their daily activities, and have found that people are less happy when they are interacting with their children than when they are eating, exercising, shopping or watching television. Indeed, an act of parenting makes most people about as happy as an act of housework. Economists have modeled the impact of many variables on people's overall happiness and have consistently found that children have only a small impact. A small negative impact  [Full article on Time].

2. Does having kids make you less happy?

However, research that takes into account parents' different circumstances indicates that parents who are able to spend more time taking care of their children "take much less of a happiness hit from having kids," according to economist Betsey Stevenson.

We may be answering the wrong question. The question is not how much happiness children bring or take, but how good is the happiness? We need to return to a precept that social philosophers and religious texts have long extolled: that a good life is not one centered around squeezing as much pleasure out of life as possible [Full article on CNN].

3. A former post on my sister's redecoration of our house

4. 27 Reasons Why Kids Are Actually The Worst

Image dump: Pictures for people who are afraid of heights

I like having fun in photos (see left) but I can't compete with these photos: Pictures for people who are afraid of heights.

12 Clever Tip Jars

You see them all the time at small coffee shops. Here is a collection of pictures: Clever tip Jars

Yann Arthus-Bertrand - Arial photography

Photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.

1. Unofficial photography collection



2. YannArthusBertrand.org

3. Wikipedia Bio

The struggle to right oneself

The photography of Kerry Skarbakka.



These photos are taken with wires in an entirely controlled environment. The photographer often uses himself as the subject due to the discomfort and potential danger of the work. The struggle to right oneself. His other exhibits are worth checking out as well.

Creative and humorous graffiti

World's best graffiti

Funny picture set to get you to the weekend

Unusual Photographs from NYNerd

I'm not usually too into the cute animal pictures...

But these are too funny not to post.

Three great image collections:

I'd space these out over a few days (there are a lot of pictures).

OMG That Rocks!

Hacked

Marcofolio Imagedump

Saturday Links

Neat elaboration of children's crayon drawings.

The work of Vladimir Kush.

An excellent Salvador Dali site.