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These are all done in Pencil.
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Brent - Yes I am, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Behnam B and 269 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Neya
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rah-PM 2012
I'm with Rah
- Shey
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris Charabaruk
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- Sullivan
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
Has anyone ever corrected the record and pointed out, with the exception of the Charlize Theron drawing, that these are indeed photos by Alexander Von Reiswitz?
- erik weisz
Erik, thank you for bringing this up again, but I think I already mentioned something about this in my prior comment. However, since it appears that you only signed up to friendfeed to leave a single comment, (ok, why?) I will try to summarize what I wrote previously. In brief, I learned after doing a little research that all photo-realistic drawings like the ones that I shared here,...
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- Michael Fidler
Awesome
- الکامپ
I can assure you that what are claimed to be drawings of animals, in your post here, are photos. I used a website to that allows you to do an comparison of the Von Reiswitz photos and the images you have posted here. There are no differences. Every hair matches up. As a pencil artist myself I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to get that kind of accuracy and have it look...
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- erik weisz
but... it has to be real, i saw it on the internet
- Iphigenie
Eric, it doesn't matter to me if you just joined, and I apologize if I made you think otherwise. If you have any questions regarding friendfeed, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them. At this point, I would be happy if we could find someone who is an image analysis expert, and finally point this thing to rest. Every time that I look into this, all I find is a...
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- Michael Fidler
the site spammed above must all be done in pencil too, right, thats why you posted it?
- Iphigenie
I'm amazed that people are still posting these photographs of animals and calling them pencil drawings. This is at least the third case I can remember (and there are probably more) of this happening. The myth about them being drawings was debunked long ago. It's also funny that whenever they get posted the person posting them doesn't make it clear that they aren't the artist, exactly as you have done.
- canadianmaple09
@canadianmaple09 I posted these back in March, 2009 when I was beginning to use FF regularly. I ran them through TinEye hoping to find their source, but it returned no results. When I ran through again yesterday, TinEye returned over four pages of results. If I had it to do over again, would I? Yes
- Michael Fidler
The people you refer do don't join "just to slam" someone, they are concerned members of the online art community that want to see real art appreciated and fake art or photos being passed off as drawings revealed for what they really are. Artists such as Brian Duey, Armin Mersmann, Paul Lung, Zindy Nielsen,and many others do not receive the appreciation they deserve because of scams like this.
- canadianmaple09
canadianmaple09, the worthiness of your motives notwithstanding (and they are worthy, definitely) you could definitely have approached Michael completely differently by say, giving him the benefit of the doubt rather than attacking in a highly accusatory tone.
- Chieze Okoye
When you've seen these same pictures posted multiple times by people that just find them on the internet and claim they are pencil drawings, when it has already been established on multiple occasions that they are not, the "benefit of the doubt" approach seems a little too generous. People post these images and claim they're drawings to get views for their own site or blog or page or whatever it is they post it on. It's wrong and it needs to be stopped.
- canadianmaple09
I can understand that, but you should also keep in mind that everyone is not as well-versed in the issue as you are. All I'm saying is that you would probably be more effective in this case if you weren't setting this up as a us-vs.-them, "must destroy with the validity my argument!" attitude when talking to a guy who's been actively having a discussion on the issue in what seems to me (having been around when he first posted the images and the follow up thread and what not) to be good faith.
- Chieze Okoye
Look at his first comment here. People clearly thought he drew them. He doesn't set the record straight. He also claims that they "are actually pencil drawings" and that "I have more drawings too." Later he claims that you need to look at them closer to see they are drawings and that he will "post the originals". Once again, this makes it sound like they are his. This follows the same...
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- canadianmaple09
Greg and Chieze, thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. @canadianmaoles09, for what it’s worth, I share your concerns about giving proper attribution when sharing also. However, I admit that I'm more conscious of it now than I was at the time of this post. Nevertheless, I have never taken credit for anybody's work here other than my own!
- Michael Fidler
BTW, I didn't realize it before, but I just noticed that you're new here too. I hope you like it so far and spend more time here. IMO, friendfeed is still the best thing around!
- Michael Fidler
I would probably qualify as an image analysis expert, but there's no way to prove that online. One thing we can do is look at color. Even though the images are black and white,they're actually RGB images, meaning they contain cyan magenta and yellow. If you look at the image of the rhino you have posted then look at the photo of the rhino at the photographer's site you can see they both...
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- erik weisz
I just finished my presentation for Razorfish Technology Summit in the morning. Oh, man, I +love+ @prezi presentation tool.
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yes, prezi rocks
- Kirill Bolgarov
oh my...check out ⇢ BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop - #mac - - http://bumptop.com/mac...
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I Wish For You, Plate 2 - http://thomashawk.com/2010...
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Almond Butterscotch, TranceMist, Sumaira Mudassar and 2 other people liked this
Aline Ohannessian to Aline's feed, All Things Apple, The Apple Room: TNW Apple, RWW: The Future of Tech
What Does Apple's Tablet Really Mean for Our Society? : TreeHugger - #apple - - http://www.treehugger.com/files...
TranceMist, Ahmet Kutay, Batu and Ron Thompson liked this
It may become as commonplace as a calculator, keyboard and mouse commonly found on desks? Or like an iPhone, commonly carried around?
- TrafficBug
Given how rarely i have pockets anyway- and therefore have my iPhone in a bag - I could almost see myself hooking up headphones to the tablet and talking on that, if one can. Then I wouldn't really need the phone. It might be a bit of a pain, but my current phone isn't much of a phone as it is. I'll give my phone to my son and just carry the tablet in my bag - it'll fit in the Coach that's too small for a computer anyway.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
If the USA were divided into districts of equal population - http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/assets_...
Mark Douglass, Doug Beeferman, j1m and 24 other people liked this
I like how Los Angeles is like the same size that it actually is.
- Jandy
I know I've been rooting for CA to be divided into areas that make more sense culturally/politically...
- Spidra Webster
C. Edzel Pearcy did a similar redraw in the 70s; I think his was more culturally and economically sane: http://www.tjc.com/38states/ For example, the Hudson Valley in New York has more in common with New York City than it would ever have with Southern Pennsylvania, but this map here shows them in the same state.
- Mark Trapp
love this how is it done? who did it?
- Thomas Power
Free Discovery Channel App for Android Now Available - http://www.intomobile.com/2010...
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Google Nexus Two with QWERTY, is the Motorola Shadow? | Android Community - http://androidcommunity.com/google-...
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"We advice you to have the salt shaker ready on this one. As you might remember, Google’s Vice President of Engineering Andy Rubin recently talked about Google’s plan for an enterprise version of the Nexus One. Apparently, the Motorola Shadow will be the Nexus Two with a hardware keyboard."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Now we're talking .. physical keyboards FTW !
- Andrew Perry
I hope this comes to Sprint...but judging from the color schemes, I think I have an idea where it's going.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Motorola's on a hot streak: Droid, Motoroi, and now Shadow.
- Vezquex
How's this different from Droid? Besides the design update.
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
Never mind. These are the changes you are looking for: "The handset is believed to have a large 4.3″ touchscreen of either 850 x 484 pixels or 854 x 480 pixels, an 8-megapixel camera capable of shooting High Def video and HDMI port." That sounds stellar. I think 4.3 is the holy grail for pocketable screens. That's about the size of the PSP screen.
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
FAA imposed a ground stop on all flights to Haiti to prevent planes fm running out of fuel http://www.stumbleupon.com/su...
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Rumour Roundup: the Apple Tablet is an “iPhone on steroids” - http://tgrblog2beta.tumblr.com/post...
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2010 prediction: Foursquare will get acquired by either Twitter or Facebook very soon (corrected)
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“iPhone’s for Sheep; Android’s for Geeks” | Smarterware - http://smarterware.org/4411...
rowlikeagirl, ganassa, Jeffrey Canton and 6 other people liked this
Gina is right. The same part of the brain tells me the same thing. Perhaps it's the geek detection part.
- Nenad Nikolic
"when I spot an Android handset? A small part of my brain assumes that person is someone with superior technical skill, someone who values openness, and someone who is ahead of the curve."
- TranceMist
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Android, Droid Does, All Things Google, GNU/Linux, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Organize Android’s Home Screen Icons in Folders - http://smarterware.org/4424...
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"while you don't have unlimited home screens in Android, you do have the ability to create home screen folders--which is nice for place/context-specific icon groups, because you can name them."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
I started making them right away. So far.. Music, Cam, Video, Podcast, Shop, Games, Location, News, & System. I tried out other Home replacements like GDE but always come back to the default.
- Rodfather
Good idea, but I'm gonna have to think a lot about my folders
- LANjackal
sofarsoShaw BAZINGA! to sofarsoShaw's feed, Funny Pics and Videos, iPhone, Fun Stuff, Android, All Things Mobile, Mobile 2.0
F#CK YOUR SMaRT pHoNe
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Benim arka plan bu..
- CunkuOyle
annddd your GODDAMN TABLET TOO!
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
MSI shows off 10-inch Android tablet running new Tegra chipset -- Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2010...
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I have to admit, that looks pretty sweet...
- Jeffrey Canton
from Bookmarklet
Eco-Friendly Van Meets All-in-One Mobile Home | dornob #shareit - http://dornob.com/eco-fri...
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"The Volkswagen Microbus is a classic - even to those of us born after its time. Arguably unlike the newly remade Beetle, this remake of a VW classic is remarkably true to the original on the outside - but on the inside it is a bio-diesel hybrid stuffed full of high tech gadgetry and eco-friendly innovations."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
*swoon*
- Nicķ
sounds awesome. live the hippie dream, only it probably costs about $50,000 or something.
- Thomas Hawk
It's kinda cute. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Not a fan. Then again, didn't like the original ;)
- Mo Kargas
Super cool VW Bus making a comeback...
- JR
wow, you can buy an awful lot of pot with $129,000.
- Thomas Hawk
Want.
- Ken Sheppardson
Want!!
- Sarah Perez
Very intriguing. How much steel is in that thing? Chris, that would be my next question after fuel consumption: how safe is this thing? And I agree, when we can go back to making transportation that costs less than a small home, we may have achieved something amazing. ;)
- Melanie Reed
However, I have heard (and I'm not remembering where at the moment) that there has been a movement growing of people seeking alternative housing and substituting things like this as the new "mobile" home.
- Melanie Reed
AWESOME!
- Sullivan
@drewdomkus ... you need this for your move!
- Sullivan
So wanting one! Cute ^__^
- Neya
Hehe, it's dinky, isn't it? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It looks like it could almost fly in the first pic. ;-) Well, maybe not. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Looks a bit different than the 76 Kombi @imbutafool and I owned several years ago
- ThePicMan
Oh, shit, it's so beautifull!
- Igor Kuzmin
Everyone is loving this! We should have an FF one and use it to travel to all the FFers around the World (like Pea seems to be doing ;-)). Hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Look it is my retirement home.
- John Flynn
Oh no, don't say that, John. That puts me right off it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I want one!
- TranceMist
I've owned 5 VWs, two of which were split window vans. I'd love to have another, this is awesome!
- Rick Bucich
from twhirl
I have had more VWs than other cars...starting with a 71 Superbeetle, and a Split Window Microbus. I would LOVE to have something like this.
- Kreg Steppe
Good for grandparents to visit grandchildren and children through the European continent (or another one as well)...nomadism-revival!
- Isabelle Ayel
wow i posted this a while back and now can't seem to find it for some reason. friendfeed's search function really sucks!
- Cee Bee
Want. Cannot afford.
- Jules
Cee, really? I find FF search is pretty good.
- Kol Tregaskes
I love this Mobile...owned a few Vdubs, lived in a VW camper, but this is off the hook..I would become a true nomad with this...
- bcultral
It's just so cute, LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
love it
- chance
Perfect for the recession :-)
- Richard A.
I'd like to have something like this, something small. What do you really need? A bed, perhaps a TV and room for your computer. Then you can live anywhere you like, in theory.
- Kol Tregaskes
so cute ;)
- sakura
Richard, agree. No council tax bill, no utility bills, just petrol I guess?
- Kol Tregaskes
I Love this
- Nima
Who is this Canadian designer Alexandre Verdier? Seems like he is on Facebook, Linked In but I can't seem to find anything else about him.
- Brian Sullivan
We had a wesvalia built Micro when I was a kid. I loved that thing. It was a little flimsily built; but boy it was perfect for my family of campers and road-tripping warriors. Too bad this one is so pricey
- Bill Rawlinson
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
loving this wordpress theme suffusion http://www.aquoid.com/news...
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Me too. Best theme I've seen so far.
- TranceMist
xkcd - iPhone or Droid - http://xkcd.com/662/
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Announcing FF To Go (a mobile FriendFeed) http://www.fftogo.com/ Read more from @louisgray here: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Marcos Marado, Atul Arora, Bruce Lewis and 15 other people liked this
Works like a charm on IE/WM5. Well done!
- Thomas Brox Røst
You did it it again! You are on fire!
- Phil Glockner
Many. many thanks. I am glad to be able to update my mobile FF rant. Now there IS a better way :)
- Colin Walker
Bump for the good times
- Jesse Stay
Digging deep, Krynsky. Nice
- Josh Haley
Krynsky?
- Jesse Stay
I'm here.
- Mark Krynsky
Of note, this was well before Ben joined FF.
- Louis Gray
Josh...that's what she said....
- Mark Krynsky
I was just about to write "wow this is *old*" but really it wasn't that long ago. A lot has happened in the last 1.5 years
- Benjamin Golub
You can say that again. 1 month on the web = 7 months IRL
- Jorge Escobar
Love it!
- Kevin Fox
Oh snap, that was Jesse. Ooops! Thanks Jesse! And all props to B-GLOB!
- Josh Haley
At the Google France event, listening to media leaders who seem totally under terror as their audience plummets
TranceMist liked this
Traditional media? Like TV and local newspapers? Ha! It's about time...
- TranceMist
Don't get screened for prostate cancer - AmyTuteurMD - Open Salon - http://open.salon.com/blog...
Christian Burns , Michal Cierniak, Murray Barton and 22 other people liked this
"Most men will develop prostate cancer if they live long enough. However, most prostate cancers are very slow growing and usually do not kill the patient. A man with prostate cancer generally dies of some other cause long before the prostate cancer becomes life threatening. Therefore, the PSA test diagnoses many cases of prostate cancer that do not need to be treated as well as a few cases of prostate cancer that are very aggressive. Not only is there no benefit to diagnosing the slow growing prostate cancers, but there seems to be very little benefit to diagnosing the aggressive cancers early, since some do not respond to treatment even when administered in the early stages. The second study, Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomized European Study, showed a very small decrease in deaths associated with PSA screening. That decrease came at a very high price: To prevent one prostate-cancerdeath, 1410 men (or 1068 men who actually underwent screening)would have to be screened, and an additi"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Cheerful! [And informative.]
- Akiva
How do you know if they benefited Chris? The point of such studies it to see what would have happened if they were never screened, the the evidence in this article suggests that they would have most likely been better off (no unnecessary surgery), though it's probably worth doing a little more reading before assuming that this article presents the best available evidence.
- Paul Buchheit
This is very important piece of research, great share. Is it going to change policy?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
IMHO there's a pretty serious logical disconnect between "Don't get screened for prostate cancer" and "To prevent one prostate-cance rdeath, 1410 men would have to be screened". How much does a test cost, by the way?
- Ken Sheppardson
@glenc: if their numbers is close to the ones in this study, it means the reduction of mortality at at tune of about .5% of those treated. Too bad this article doesn't quote any numbers for serious side-effects
- Count Caturday
@cristoblanco: that's basically what they say (w/o the numbers, though) the chance of associated troubles is much more significant than that of life-saving
- Count Caturday
@kshep: it's probably more about side-effects than cost
- Count Caturday
@chris: if loss of sexual function is the only side effect, that might be true. Besides, the study is not 'anti-treatment', but 'anti-screening'. They don't object to treating those who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer 'normally'
- Count Caturday
This is a public policy argument, not a guide to individual action. You can see this here: "there seems to be very little benefit to diagnosing the aggressive cancers early, since some do not respond to treatment even when administered in the early stages.". That may well be true overall, but I'd much be tested, and if necessary treated, to take a chance on a full recovery, even where 'some' do not respond.
- Stan Scott
I seem to recall discussing a similar issue with Paul some years ago regarding mammography.
- Gabe
The side-effects for screening are minimal. The PSA is a blood test that can be done along with other screenings (like cholesterol). I do these anyway and plan to keep on getting PSA tests.
- Leo Laporte
A very poor and ill informed article. Too many men are still diagnosed too late in stage IV disease and last 12-18 months. It is a fallacy to think it is slow growing in all patients.
- Sally Church
It is scientific fact that those diagnosed early with any cancer are more likely to receive surgery and be cured. The watchful waiting approach favoured by many PCPs is not always the best approach. My own father was diagnosed in stage III and in 18 months he was dead. Ignorant doctors are one of my biggest pet peeves. They should re-train every 10 years to keep current.
- Sally Church
Hmmmmm interesting <note to self> get screened real soon -]
- Chris Loft
Sally, I think the point is that being cured doesn't necessarily prevent you from dying. A large number of people who are cured of cancer wouldn't have died from it anyway.
- Gabe
Isn't the lesson here, don't get treated for prostate cancer? It seems a misnomer to focus on screening. Why not just get screened once a year and then operate if it seems like it is becoming a problem?
- Kevin Fischer
Kevin, the lesson is don't get treated if the cancer isn't likely to kill you.
- Gabe
Those stats are focusing on general screening. Obviously, a doc should factor in risk and symptoms. I will say it is a little harder to hear this if you have a loved one who died of prostate cancer.Now, I am waiting for the up and coming salivary diagnostic tests - much easier and less expensive, making the cost differential less of a factor. Just grab a gob of spit and test for everything!
- Patricia F. Anderson
The supposed problem is that the expense of the screening, but the side-effects of treatment, which can apparently be worse than a slow-growing tumor and useless against a fast growing one. What is needed is better treatment.
- Paul Buchheit
Gabe, that's a very simplistic view. Many do die from prostate cancer so taking the no treatment approach doesn't help everyone.
- Sally Church
the conclusion of the research article seems to be that PSA screening is ineffective - a meaningful improvement wasn't found
- Mike Chelen
Shooting For the Skeleton’s Curves - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Remember Shepherd Johnson, That Guy Who Had His Flickr Account Nuked After Posting Comments Critical of President Obama? - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Unsatisfied at having his first thread locked, user Johnson opens a second thread objecting again and complaining that he’s already tried to contact Flickr privately but that they won’t respond to his private correspondence: “Yeah, Zack, I tried getting in touch with flickr staff via the method you suggested. And nobody will talk to me. Heather never called me back. Like I’ve said before, this issue is not going to go away until we can come to an understanding. Why don’t you contact me or have another flickr staff member contact me, this is getting ridiculous. -Shepherd “ So what does Flickr do next? They lock his 2nd thread complaining that nobody at Flickr will communicate with him and then indefinitely boot him from the help forum. Using typical condescending Flickr parent/child language, they call banning him from the Help Forum a “time out.” What a crappy way to treat your customers. Especially a customer that lost a bunch of their photographs.
- Thomas Hawk
Unfortunately JiLLL that's where the photo community largely resides today and so we have to put up with it I suppose. Still, having a monopoly ought not exempt you from good customer service. Deleting a users account, ignoring him, then locking his threads and banning him from the help forum are not the way Flickr should be treating their users. I'm not sure what it will take to change that there. Maybe they really just don't care.
- Thomas Hawk
I am using Smugmug. I don't see any reason to put up with this.
- stephenkaus
I use Smugmug as well. For that exact reason. I'm not putting up with this. If the community Is having trouble with one site, i have two words to say: MOVE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
This is getting really, really stupid. I don't get flickR. I do like it, though. But I think I've stopped liking *them.*
- Anthony Citrano
The site flickr is actually great. I think the problem is with the people administering it mostly. Maybe what it needs is some sort of change in control/change in staff. I'm not sure. I'd think that Yahoo would want to do more with it than abuse customers. I think SmugMug's a great place for hosting photos, but it lacks the community platform that Flickr has.
- Thomas Hawk
I really wonder if Flickrs problem is Yahoo doesn't know what to do with it. Yahoo's main business is selling advertising but they haven't been able to do that on Flickr. Fee based services are not a Yahoo priority and as such I wonder if Flickr doesn't get the financial attention they need to get quality employees.
- ChiliMac
I don't think Flickr makes much money for Yahoo at all. It was only recently that they reported finally being profitable. But all the more reason not to delete accounts willy nilly. Why pay money for a staff to delete accounts at all? If you don't like someone or something they produce then simply ignore them and block them. Why pay people to go through the volumes of content and censor...
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- Thomas Hawk
Thanks for bringing us these stories, Thomas.
- Spencer
I wish I didn't feel the need to write them Spencer. That would be best of all.
- Thomas Hawk
Luke, they are called the Flickr Cabal. They are actually an organized group of sycophants whose only aim in life would appear to be to defend Flickr at all costs. Flickr staff celebrates them there. They have their own little private group on Flickr. It's actually pretty pathetic. People come to the forum looking for help and they end up insulting them and blaming them for any flickr...
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- Thomas Hawk
Flickr is getting sickr.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
So who's going to write the “Is FlickR A Cult” article? I don't think I have the courage. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
I like the Flickr community. I am just not down with the current administration. Can we have new ones? :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
@Mathew: relax, dude, we just had an election. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
I am glad that you caught my dry wit. ;-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
@Luke The negative tone thrown towards Shepherd in the forum is just amazing. They completely ignored the point he was making: Flickr had ignored his private attempts at communication, so he was once again resorting to a public forum. And then Zack just tells him to continue with private communication (which will be subsequently ignored), and we all return full circle. As was stated so often, from a customer service view this is just abysmal.
- Nils Sandin
Ah, voting and democracy, what a concept ;-)
- Nils Sandin
@Luke: I share your perspective here; best way to "vote them out" is by directing our dollars elsewhere.
- Anthony Citrano
So, say I don't renew my membership next March. What are some viable options?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Update: http://friendfeed.com/thomash... Now Yahoo apparently are threatening to call the cops on Johnson.
- Thomas Hawk
One might think that Yahoo has had enough problems in recent years that they would not want to go down this road.
- pitlord
I would like to also know the viable options to Flickr.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I'm giving SmugMug a try - I really like it so far.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
SmugMug is great and again I use it lots but it has advantages and disadvantages when put against flickr, lack of community being one. One big advantage is that a pro account pretty much lets you customize your site as much as you want to create a distinctive look, although the one annoying aspect for me on SmugMug is you can't have a photo in multiples galleries without duplicating the...
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- Russell G
Wanna know where speed traps and traffic cops are? Yes there is an app for that:
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Here is Trapster founder Pete Tenerillo showing off his app that shows you speed traps and traffic cameras, among other things. http://trapster.com for more info http://twitter.com/trapster
- Robert Scoble
from email
I hope they work better than the old radar detectors, but I have a feeling they do.
- Michael Fidler
中国用户也需要这个东西，探头和交警在哪里？看看你的手机就知道，LOL. Chinese motorists would love this app!
- Bannka
Trapster is a cool app; here's my recent mini review: http://www.whybuyusedcars.com/2009...
- Eric Miltsch
Plus Trapster works in Virginia and DC. . . legally.
- Dave Roth
I'm loading it right now. The map for my local area is very accurate. I can't wait to see what it can do on the road. Thanks for the tip Robert:)
- Michael Fidler
It does work in China! It's Global! Check the map: http://trapster.com/rl...
- Justin McCarthy
My Trapster was going off over Labor Day Weekend - and the alert can be startling, at first! (It's a siren). I've found the freshly reported alerts the most accurate.
- Kurt Starnes
Or just slow down...
- Hayes Haugen
Cool. Nice to know there's a webOS version coming
- Rodfather
love the idea, been thinking of similar thing like alerting the phone owners off the police parties/speed traps ahead, its an application i was thinking of a messaging system. whenever a motorist approaches the speed trap or traffic cops could be alerted via a flash message, and i wanted it to work on all GSM phones, a user could report the traffic cops to a number which would then alert the motorists going in that direction, it would require the use of a lot of hardware but it was just an idea
- testbeta
Thanks Pete for the service and thanks Scoble for letting us know
- testbeta
Or you could just, you know, drive at the speed limit?
- Bryce Roney
from IM
I wonder how the info is provided. If it comes from the police, I am not sure they would divulge the true locations.
- Brent - Yes I am
Have to say, agree with @Bryce You could always do the safe and responsible thing and drive safely in the first place. From someone who got 'done' 3 times as a kid, I now stick closely to the limits. Less stressful as a whole.
- ImJustCreative
from twhirl
Why as adults are you condoning the use of information that makes us act recklessly? Not the best bit of social media influence and advice I have seen.
- ImJustCreative
from twhirl
@imjustcreative @bryce Yep agree would be really nice to hear about the guy that killed someone while checking his anti-radar iphone app <sarcasm
- roger byrne
Pha, old hat. This stuff has been available to Sat Nav users forever. I have this on TomTom on my Palm LifeDrive, it's a simple database of camera locations with GPS coordinates. Move along, nothing to see here.
- Gilbert Harding
gilbert: it is now at a wide level, and Roger: this application speaks so no need to look at the screen
- testbeta
@gilbert Oh thats sooo much better now, now its only some ppl getting killed because of ppl playing the system <real big sarcasm
- roger byrne
Here's' a thought for you Roger. There have been some serious accidents in the UK because of people suddenly slowing down when they see a speed camera up ahead. Causing the vehicle behind to ram into them. Now you could blame both, or just the guy behind for not paying attention or going a bit too quick. But if both of them had some advance warning of the camera, I leave you to...
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- Gilbert Harding
Gilbert your trying to justify something that promotes illegal activities either way you cut it. If the people weren't speeding they wouldn't have to slow down for speed cameras...so in the end its the speed thats killing not cameras or radars!
- roger byrne
Roger: it is just to avoid those traffic checkpoints, nobody wants to be handed a ticket for whatever reason it is, these things help it makes people extra cautious and i would praise the guy(pete) behind it
- testbeta
That's innovative but horrible.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Roger The official line on the purpose of the cameras is to slow traffic to the posted speed limit. Therefore they do the job and would continue to do so if every driver knew their locations. All that would change is the revenue stream from the cameras.
- Gilbert Harding
I'm doing right now a live PR combo between brightkite, livestream.com at http://www.livestream.com/ewing20..., other web.2.o tools, to promote my new video -)*"The 9/11 Gay Club"*(- [Dj 'greencard now' 9/11 Anniversary MIxxx ; ] at http://www.youtube.com/watch... ; everyone who wanna join the party stream, please join ; btw, we live in public will run for OSCARS ;
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
I am FOR this, 100%. Nothing really matters. Anyone can see. Nothing really matters...to me. Ergo, if it's shiny, I'm for it. More fun that way. Y'all can drive 600 miles an hour and burn for all I care. Or not. Point is, all of you law-abiding do-gooders are only protecting an extortion-based government revenue stream system.
- Will Conley
where can I get in the beta for the Palm Pre version of Trapster?
- Matt Kurio
He took time to hang them as you wanted, my God!
- Phil Jeudy
Haha bring this to London lol
- Sabeur Thabti
Who is Edward Przydzial and Did He Issue a DMCA Takedown Notice over the Joker/Obama Image to Flickr? - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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sheesh, this story is getting crazier and crazier.
- Thomas Hawk
indeed
- sean percival
Wow. This is taking more or a soap opera turn lately.
- ChiliMac
yeah, the fact that he posted it to live journal in October is kind of meaningless given that you can edit an entry after the fact.
- Thomas Hawk
Very interesting! Nice detective work Thomas.
- Jeff P. Henderson
So looking through Edward's photo stream on Flickr, I see photos that were more than likely not shot by him. For instance http://www.flickr.com/photos... or http://www.flickr.com/photos... The second even says it's an AP photo in the description. All are listed with all rights reserved Copyright. Doesn't this violate Flickr's TOS?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Here is his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jeff P. Henderson
such an interesting developing event......love the detective work!
- dafire
Not sure why, but I find the idea of a Heavy Metal Republican a bit funny. :)
- travispuk
hardly topical anymore...
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
interesting.. traces back to Photobucket page http://bit.ly/DACQh for user detroit_01 AND here is the EXIF data showing the image was created December 25th 2008 Jeffrey's Exif viewer http://bit.ly/3tG2pP
- David Sanger
Just posted this update to my blog: Update: I received a reply back this morning from Przydzial to my Facebook message asking him if he filed the DMCA takedown notice against Firas and if he is claiming ownership to the Obama image. Here is his reply back to me: "i do not own the image. time magazine photographer does... i am the "creator" of said image not firas whatever. i posted them...
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- Mrsth
2nd update. I think I'm done with this one for a while. Update #2: I just received back a second reply facebook mail to my reasking Edward the question as to whether or not he filed this DMCA takedown notice and this is what he replied:"i'm finding you have already posted a blog about me, made your assumptions and printed all type of trash that has been deemed harassment. the links to...
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- Mrsth
Your first comment on this post TH is definitely ringing true. BTW did you know you were posting as your better half ;)
- travispuk
opps, I always forget to log her out and log myself back in when I'm working from home.
- Thomas Hawk
Well, so either Edward or Firas is lying. Based on all of the information I have read, it is not clear who is the actual author of the image. I wonder if we will ever find out?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Flickr Shuts Down Forum Discussion On Obama-Joker Image - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"Oh, this just gets better and better. Or perhaps sadder and sadder. In a post earlier this morning we discussed Flickr’s questionable decision to remove a photoshopped image of President Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. In that post we quoted Flickr’s director of community Heather Champ who said “We very much value freedom of speech and creativity” in an explanation about why the image was removed from Flickr. We called B.S. Now Flickr has shut off further comments on that forum post, which was most definitely not headed in a pro-Flickr direction. In his message shutting off the discussion, Zack Sheppard reiterates how important political discussion is to Flickr: Political discussions and expression are definitely allowed here on Flickr. We don’t want to squelch political discussion, but if something is in violation of the Community Guidelines or copyright law and it’s reported, it will be taken down whether it’s a kitten, a...
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- Thomas Hawk
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Deleting photos is bad enough, but shutting down a *conversation* is outright censorship.
- TranceMist
you can check "virtuality check" from francois fortier. and see what's going on http://books.google.com.tr/books...
- takmaz
The policy of removing something upon receipt of a notice is a really scary trend. There needs to be a higher standard of proof for infringement complaints.
- Patrick
I keep reading the horror stories of censorship and account deletions at flickr. It definitely makes me concerned for the 33,000 photos in my stream, not that I have copyrighted material in it.
- Robert Owens
Gizmodo: Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives http://gizmodo.com/5342776 #bittorrent #thepiratebay - http://twitter.com/Gizmodo...
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Heading up to Pandora's offices to take some photos for a photoset and blog post. Pandora's one of my favorite music sites on the web. They rock.
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Nice to meetcha, Thomas. :) Lucia
- Pandora Radio
Nice meeting you as well Lucia, and thanks to you Tom, Tim, Chris and the rest of your team. You guys have a great office and a great service.
- Thomas Hawk
A great service indeed!! I don't know what I would do without it!!
- Tamon Yanagimoto
Oh to live in the US
- John Cooper
In Europe we have Spotify. Great selection of streamed music.They're trying to get their app in the iPhone app store.
- Paul Nash
Wife and I just took a driving trip from Portland to San Fran. Used the Pandora app on her Pre all the way. Awesome.
- Fleagle
One of Europe’s brightest startups: SoundCloud - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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16-minutes with cofounder of SoundCloud, which won two TechCrunch Europa awards right after this meeting. (Best design and best entertainment service).
- Robert Scoble
Finally they get the love they should have got long time ago! Great webapp indeed! http://blog.go2web20.net/2008...
- Orli Yakuel
Darren: I'm using a Canon 5D MKII with a 24mm F2.8 lens. I love it.
- Robert Scoble
The godfather anoints a new favorite. He's had his flops (EG FF) but I doubt Soundcloud is one.
- Lucas Gonze
Google Getting in on Real Estate - http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009...
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