https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/ytho/ Recent content in Ytho on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:05:57 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-02-09-meme-tastic-memes-are-thoughts-that/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:05:57 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-02-09-meme-tastic-memes-are-thoughts-that/ <p>Meme-tastic. Memes are thoughts that propagate - funny images are just one example. Before Richard Dawkins became a general troll and dickhead, he was a brilliant biologist who changed our understanding by noting that genes seek to propagate - not organisms, which are merely the vessels for those genes. He also hypothesised that human ideas could propagate in a way completely analogous to biological evolution - with ideas simply sticking around because they had the right properties to propagate rather than because they were particularly useful. The term, &lsquo;memes&rsquo; was coined to describe these units of idea that could stick and propagate. These little piles of stones seem a pretty fine example to me. Someone made a first one and then&hellip;</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-28-i-guess-i-was-always/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:55:05 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-28-i-guess-i-was-always/ <p>I guess I was always political. Just not popular enough to get the change we needed&hellip;</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-28-this-one-must-be-from/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:39:55 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-28-this-one-must-be-from/ <p>This one must be from high school.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-22-guerrilla-dslr-photography-im-going/ Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:04:32 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-22-guerrilla-dslr-photography-im-going/ <p>Guerrilla DSLR photography. I’m going to photograph the birds that land on the phone line behind our house using this 10 year old Nikon D200 and this 40 odd year old Pentax / Takumar 400mm lens that’s been butchered to fit. Watch this space.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-20-whatever-flaws-this-selfie-has/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:58:20 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-02-20-whatever-flaws-this-selfie-has/ <p>Whatever flaws this selfie has, dammit I’m proud I got the focus 95% on at 105 at f2.5.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2017-06-12-beefers-wtfisthis-burger-terriblenames-ytho/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:59:53 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2017-06-12-beefers-wtfisthis-burger-terriblenames-ytho/