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Archive for October 2006

   (2006.10.09)

Jaws turns out to be useful for something after all.

   (2006.10.08)

When, right below a display of the product in its blazing primary colours, your staff still has to handwrite a description.

Sign below yellow-and-red bottles of Sunlight Multi-Action says SAVE! THIS WEEK, 6.99, a barcode, and other type

Which do you understand better, Concentrated laundry soap or SUNLGHT LIQ MLTACTN LMN 946ML?

   (2006.10.07)
Backhoe, jacked up on support legs, sits parked in front of bright yellow tubes in bundles stacked three high
   (2006.10.06)

So Good® Ωmega® Original Fortified Soy Beverage carton with its goddamned pink satiny ribbon and matching cap

   (2006.10.06)

Exactly what kind of bullshit did CBC try to pass off to the Canadian broadcasting regulator?

   (2006.10.05)

This is my third full shoot of this hard-to-photograph sign-cum–folk sculpture. I hereby give up.

A dark-blue block the size of a small car sits atop a building. Its raised black ridges on two sides partially surround the words BATTERY TECH written in cutout white letters
   (2006.10.05)

Spacing Neighbourhood Watch™

   (2006.10.04)

Someday, somebody will do a good job of setting the future in South Africa

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