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Twitter and Tumblr

Hairy Beast is on twitter at @hairycritter and on Tumblr at indivisiblehairybeast.tumblr.com.1

We haven’t pinned down exactly how we’re going to use those accounts, but here’s the game plan for now:

  • We’re using the tumblr account to reblog content, which will then be copied over to hairybeast.net using IFTTT. We’re not planning to use the tumblr to post new content indendependant of the wordpress blog at hairybeast.net. We love tumblr, but one of the lessons of 1/125 is that tumblr can be a maddening place to publish, organize, and maintain content.
  • The twitter account isn’t currently doing too much. I’ve got it set in IFTTT to tweet with links to new posts (for those who for prefer following a twitter account to using RSS).
  1. No, we couldn’t get @hairybeast or hairybeast.tumblr.com. We also don’t have hairybeast.com, and I cannot recommend googling “Hairy Beast” unless you’re a hirsute dude enthsusiast. A sensible blogger would probably have chosen a different name. ↩
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War From Above

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Beginning with the American Civil War and moving forward to the present it is possible to find someone who announces that __________ war is “the most visual/photographed war” of all time. And for the most part they would be correct, at least for the time at which they were writing…

via NO CAPTION NEEDEDSeeing War From Above » NO CAPTION NEEDED.

::swoon:: for historicity.

Also, this is a good example of my parting shot at Rebecca Sharplin-Hughes’s Greenham Common series.

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Burning Playground O’Clock

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Alex Welsh: Bayview-Hunters Point is San Francisco’s neglected neighborhood. (Photos.).

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It’s interesting that Slate doesn’t mention (or if they do, it’s buried further than I skimmed) that this image has been circulating in blog posts much like this for at least five or six years.

This and other forms of implicit false photo presentism are a pretty common occurrence in the blogosphere. In the case of Vivian Maier, the same discovery happens with such regularity that we call it Vivian Maier O’clock. And the same couple of Marchand and Meffre photos crop up with a not dissimilar regularity in posts about Detroit.