Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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Photo of the day: Support Counter Intelligence

January 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Photography

Who doesn’t love a good pun? I’m more of a double entendre girl myself, but even a har har pun can get a chuckle out of me sometimes.

I found this tip jar at a Haagen Dazs in Santa Fe Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Now for those of you who are a bit slow, I’ll [...]

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Photo of the day: Vietnamese Sandwishes

January 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Photography

I saw this sign in the window of a local eatery and did a double take. I love collecting photos of misspelled signs, so I immediately took out my phone to snap a pic.

As I was capturing the shot I noticed something even more hilarious than the misspelling itself — looking closer I saw [...]

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Photo of the day: Floor seats

January 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Photography

Back in May, I snapped this photo on my subway ride home one evening. I don’t think he saw me, but even if he did I doubt he would have cared.

His nonchalance amused me on so many levels:

He’s sitting on the floor of the subway car. That’s even too dirty for homeless people.
He’s sitting right [...]

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What the customer actually wanted

October 1st, 2009 · 9 Comments · Design, Humor, Pain

A few weeks ago Orian sent me a hilarious but sad cartoon on the all-too-familiar process of cumulative error and product dilution during a project life cycle: customer request -> finance -> engineering -> manufacturing -> marketing -> delivery. Not only do we fail to deliver on what was proposed, but what the customer said [...]

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Photo of the day: Private Parts in Public

July 7th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Design, Photography

This big guy stands in the lobby of the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. As I walked around it the other day, I noticed something curious about his ding-a-ling — it’s a different color than the rest of his body. Which means that more than a few people have been rubbing it as they [...]

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