Saturday, September 27, 2008

CDIII: All Quiet on the Mocha Front

©Lani Kai
Trypto: it looks like someone spilled a really large latte
Trypto: superventi
Trypto: or like planet Starbucks
Trypto: which has Frappuccino oceans
Lani Kai: and complementary Wi-Fi?
Lani Kai: but only for AT&T users
Trypto: and also a crazy man who paces between the bathroom and the front entrance and mumbles about "sexy time" and "six figure income"
Lani Kai: aren't we already on planet Starbucks?
Trypto: no, we are merely being invaded by Starbuckians
Trypto: planet Starbucks is where they came from
Lani Kai: it appears they overextended
Lani Kai: and are losing ground

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

CDII: Fearsome

© Trypto
Trypto: prepare yourself to see a lizard
Lani Kai: I am not afraid
Trypto: Blogger is afraid
Trypto: it wants to quarantine the lizard in its own blog
Trypto: or maybe I clicked Create Blog instead of Sign In

CDI: Corpulence

©Lani Kai
Trypto: trying to retrieve the lost weight I see
Trypto: there's like two sticks of butter in that thing you know
Lani Kai: it was worth it
Trypto: I need not tell you what else was worth it
Trypto: whom else, rather

CD: Endless

©Lani Kai
Lani Kai: 400 posts!
Trypto: and this image symbolizes the infinite posts yet to come?
Lani Kai: yes
Lani Kai: the road ahead is endless
Lani Kai: but there will be no passing from this side
Lani Kai: now we just need to make that book

Monday, September 22, 2008

CCCXCIX: Cultural Context

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Trypto: what the heck is this?
Trypto: the architectural equivalent of a seizure inducing strobe light?
Lani Kai: to be honest I don't remember
Lani Kai: it was taken at the hotel at Kansai International Airport in Osaka
Trypto: oh, it's Japanese
Trypto: that explains everything
Lani Kai: the airport itself was designed by Renzo Piano, but I don't know if the hotel was
Lani Kai: if it is, then it would actually be Italian
Trypto: but he was responding to the cultural context of the site
Lani Kai: landfill in the middle of the bay
Trypto: LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

Sunday, September 21, 2008

CCCXCVIII: Blue Morning

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©Lani Kai
Trypto: the foreground is distracting
Trypto: it is not blue enough
Lani Kai: I thought of that after uploading
Trypto: there are ways to fix it
Trypto: judicious cropping being the most obvious
Trypto: making it all B&W being the second most obvious
Trypto: and some other more complicated procedures being less obvious
Lani Kai: I think I'll go with the most obvious

CCCXCVII: Nolo Contendere

©Lani Kai
Trypto: quickly, list all the anagrams of STOP in 30 seconds or the world will explode
Lani Kai: pots
Lani Kai: tops
Lani Kai: umm
Trypto: opts spot
Lani Kai: spot
Trypto: you just killed us
Lani Kai: oh well
Trypto: not very remorseful, are you?
Lani Kai: I plead no contest

Saturday, September 20, 2008

CCCXCVI: Accusations

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Trypto: is someone going pee down there?
Lani Kai: you were the only person there when I took this photo
Lani Kai: is that what you were doing?
Trypto: look at the angle of the stream, I'd have to be lying on my back right by your foot
Trypto: I think it was you
Lani Kai: by that logic, I would have to be lying on my back right by my foot
Lani Kai: which is more difficult than you lying by my foot
Trypto: you have an evil contraption

Friday, September 19, 2008

CCCXCV: Fortia SP

©Lani Kai
Trypto: wow that's colorful
Lani Kai: I was not expecting the star trails
Trypto: how long was the exposure?
Trypto: a million?
Lani Kai: I don't know
Lani Kai: a few minutes
Lani Kai: it was shot on film
Lani Kai: so I don't have the relevant data

Thursday, September 18, 2008

CCCXCIV: Missed Opportunities

©Lani Kai
Trypto: something's exploding down there
Trypto: terrorists?
Trypto: no wait, that's you
Trypto: WHY ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES OF THE BRIDGE AT NIGHT HUH!!? YOU GONNA GIVE THEM TO AL QAIDA!?
Lani Kai: yeah that's what the policeman thought
Lani Kai: so he told us that we had to leave
Lani Kai: using "we have to close the gates" as an excuse
Lani Kai: and that's why he is shining his lights at us
Trypto: that was a policeman?
Lani Kai: yes
Trypto: wow
Trypto: he's exploding
Trypto: or summoning Jesus
Trypto: or time traveling
Lani Kai: you know it's a bad picture when there's something so distracting in the corner
Trypto: yeah, you should sue him
Trypto: for the value of the Pulitzer Prize in photography you would have won, had it not been for his interference

CCCXCIII: Unclean

© Trypto
Lani Kai: so why do they turn black?
Trypto: for thinking unclean thoughts
Lani Kai: do they ever turn white again?
Trypto: no

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

CCCXCII: Bogeyman

©Lani Kai
Trypto: it looks like a future-pineapple
Trypto: after pineapple trees have been subjected to horrendous amounts of radioactive fallout due to World War III
Lani Kai: and it's grown limbs?
Trypto: yeah it's pretty scary

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

CCCXCI: Meteors

©Lani Kai
Trypto: you don't usually go for the super contrast
Lani Kai: well, the city lights were completely blown out
Lani Kai: and that was all I could do with it
Trypto: what city lights
Lani Kai: that big white area near the bottom?
Lani Kai: that's Crescent City
Trypto: are we looking at the same picture?
Lani Kai: I should hope so
Trypto: there is no city
Lani Kai: scroll down
Trypto: I am at the bottom
Lani Kai: scroll up
Trypto: stars
Lani Kai: I'm sure you see a big white blob in the middle
Lani Kai: it's kind of hard to miss
Trypto: oh
Trypto: I thought that was just an atmospheric effect

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

CCCXC: Starlight

©Lani Kai
Trypto: twinkle twinkle?
Lani Kai: more like twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle
Trypto: naw, some of them are twankles
Lani Kai: which ones are those?
Trypto: ummm
Trypto: the retarded ones

Friday, September 05, 2008

CCCLXXXIX: Form Before Function

©Lani Kai
Lani Kai: that's my desktop right now
Trypto: your desk top is a pink beach?
Trypto: where do you plug things in
Lani Kai: those rocks on the left
Lani Kai: those have USB ports
Lani Kai: and then the monitor is plugged in behind the black part on the right, along with the keyboard
Trypto: how do you keep it all from sliding off
Trypto: it seems quite curved
Lani Kai: it just seems that way
Lani Kai: it's part of the design
Trypto: oh, I see
Trypto: postmodern

Thursday, September 04, 2008

CCCLXXXVIII: Cyan You Later

© Trypto
Trypto: this is what it started as
Lani Kai: that's a weird hue
Trypto: it's green
Lani Kai: but with lots of cyan
Trypto: that's why they're dying, cyan-ide
Lani Kai: well, cyanide does get its name from the color of the cyanide ion

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

CCCLXXXVII: An Offer You Can Resist

©Lani Kai
Trypto: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
Lani Kai: I think this one trumps all past spider shots
Trypto: it's beautiful in a disgusting sort of way
Lani Kai: I could show you the full resolution file
Trypto: no thanks