{"id":544,"date":"2007-02-15T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/02\/15\/me-dot-jpg\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:04:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:04:18","slug":"me-dot-jpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/me-dot-jpg\/","title":{"rendered":"me dot jpg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/index.php?tag=lance-wakeling\">Lance Wakeling<\/a> recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/607174\">his first books<\/a>. Yes, books. For a &#8216;first&#8217; one just wasn&#8217;t good enough so he went ahead and published two first books.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image545\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/page0008.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"me dot jpg - page 8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using the print-on-demand services of lulu.com (which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/09\/lulu-book\/\">I support as well<\/a>!) allows Lance to do his thing with the perl scripts and web crawlers and to compile these basic black&#038;white books to further disseminate the already overwhelming presence and volume of images such as &#8220;me.jpg&#8221;. He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first one is called ME DOT JPG, a collection of images from a google image search of images specifically named &#8220;me.jpg.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here we&#8217;re given a snapshot of how people see &#8216;me&#8217;: as avatars, as floral arrangements, as high school yearbook photos (inspiration for the other book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/653484\">My Yearbook 0.2<\/a>, perhaps?), as landscapes, as casual snapshots or studio portraits, or as electron-wielding quantum-neutrino-brained DORKS. Whatever your fancy it&#8217;s a simple premise that speaks wonders about the volume of information and the arrays of interpretation abound today.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Lance Wakeling recently published his first books. Yes, books. 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