On my swiftly-slouching-towards-obsolete iMac, there's a screen-saving program which randomly presents images I've crammed in a folder in a never-ending montage, with the pictures slowly fading into each other ala the so-called "Ken Burns effect." Periodically, I've added new images to the folder -- just things I found cool or amusing or interesting for a variety of reasons. There are album covers, press photographs of bands, personal snapshots, interesting vintage photography, posters, etc. all in there. When it's on, it has something of a hypnotic effect. One can't help watching it, wondering what the next image will be.
Even though it's been doing this for the last several years, my wife took me aside this morning to ask me to remove a specific image from it, being that the kids were sitting in front of it and curiously mesmerized by it. The image in question was a photograph my colleague Drew took of me about two years ago, emphatically flipping the bird at the camera. Begrudgingly, I started filtering through the folder and decided to excise a few similarly objectionable shots. Not wanting them to go to waste, however, I'm presenting them here for posterity. Shoo your little ones out of the room and enjoy.
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