CDLXIII: Origins

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Lani Kai: I like the cropped version better
Lani Kai: the original is rather unoriginal
Trypto: lol, that should be a Buddhist koan for photographers

CDLXII: A Lack of Fire

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Lani Kai: was there a fire here?
Lani Kai: with green flames or something
Trypto: ironically, quite the opposite I think
Trypto: there was no fire, it's just dilapidated, and the green fireproofing which was behind the plaster wall is now showing, and reflects a green tinge onto everything

CDLXI: Metaphor

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Lani Kai: and what does this represent?
Trypto: the wooden stick is a phallus
Trypto: and the white metal thing is also a phallus
Lani Kai: and the green round thing?
Trypto: that represents the American dream

CDLX: What Happen

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Lani Kai: somebody set us up the bomb
Trypto: you have no chance to survive make your time

CDLIX: Critics

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Trypto: my mom says my pictures are ugly
Trypto: and that I should take pictures of pretty things "like [Lani Kai]"

CDLVIII: See You Later

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Trypto: a wall inside the derelict gas station
Trypto: what does it look like to you?
Lani Kai: an alligator with a couple of power sockets

CDLVII: For Sale--Vintage Style Food Mart on Highway, Great View!

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Trypto: this looks like the picture a realtor takes to put in the ad!
Lani Kai: i.e. descriptive but boring
Lani Kai: I know
Trypto: did you get any pictures of the incredibly racist graffitti inside?
Lani Kai: no

CDLVI: Odd English

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Lani Kai: I didn't get any detail shots like this
Trypto: I know! you should have came in
Lani Kai: that's an odd bit of English there

CDLV: Discom-Bob-ulated

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Trypto: if you had a big green monster, what would you name it?
Lani Kai: Bob the Dinosaur, after the one in Dilbert

CDLIV: Withheld

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Trypto: from yesterday's
Lani Kai: yes
Trypto: ok so you were holding back
Lani Kai: actually I had forgotten I shot a few pictures on digital

CDLIII: Not a Through Street

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Trypto: this photograph is very mysterious
Trypto: it is like the second panel in a three-panel story
Lani Kai: what happens before and after?
Trypto: well, I don't know
Trypto: there are many possibilities
Trypto: it kind of suggests a police officer walking up to write you a ticket
Trypto: or someone went to this dead end to jump off the cliff
Trypto: giving a new meaning to the term "dead" end!

CDLII: In Which an Insightful Question is Asked

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Lani Kai: did you know that you can help fight against global warming by eating kangaroos and camels?
Trypto: that's silly, wouldn't it use a lot of fossil fuels to ship kangaroos and camels to southern California?

CDLI: Brilliant Green is Jerry

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Trypto: I have no idea what was green in the background
Trypto: would something green in the foreground bleed into an out of focus background?
Lani Kai: no, not with the pushpin visible like that
Lani Kai: and you'd be able to tell if it was in the foreground
Trypto: I guess I'm just brilliant to make it line up like that then

CDL: Secretive

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Lani Kai: I know that choppy bokeh
Lani Kai: it comes from the 50mm f/1.8
Trypto: freak
Lani Kai: well, given the two lenses you have...
Trypto: how do you know I only have two?
Trypto: maybe I have secret lenses

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Trypto: I think its weird, how secret means to hide stuff deep inside you
Trypto: but if you add an e, it becomes secrete, which means to ooze gross fluids
Lani Kai: so feminine secrets should actually be feminine secretes?

CDXLIX: Not Metric

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Lani Kai: ooh, IMG_1000
Trypto: I know, it is a milestone
Trypto: not that a mile is a particuarly impressive distance
Lani Kai: a milestone is just a marker along the way
Lani Kai: it is not a destination

CDXLVIII: Progess

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Trypto: wuzzat
Lani Kai: one of the buildings in Las Vegas between the Monte Carlo and Bellagio
Lani Kai: you took a photo of the construction here a while back
Lani Kai: Project CityCenter, it's called
Trypto: wow, I guess it's moved along a little
Trypto:　they have a few windows now
Lani Kai: well, some of the other buildings are more or less complete on the outside

CDXLVII: Tryptofantasy

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Trypto: a lot of really expensive dresses come with a handbag
Trypto: and a lot of really expensive handbags come with a wallet
Trypto: and a lot of really expensive wallets come with a keychain
Trypto: I want a dress that is so expensive, it comes with a handbag, wallet, and keychain
Lani Kai: my really expensive camera did not come with a lens
Lani Kai: you want a dress?
Trypto: well... no
Trypto: that came out wrong
Trypto: I just...
Trypto: the principle
Trypto: jeez
Trypto: leave me alone

CDXLVI: Bignosian

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Trypto: ooooh
Lani Kai: I pushed the exposure to ISO 16000 in post process
Lani Kai: it was shot at ISO 6400
Lani Kai: with that said, it's still less grainy than the shot on ISO 3200 film from the other day
Trypto: he has a big nose
Lani Kai: he does indeed

CDXLV: On Monstrosity

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Trypto: this looks like a still from security camera footage
Lani Kai: it's ISO 3200 film
Trypto: or one of the grainy photographs people use to prove the existence of UFOs or the Loch Ness Monster
Trypto: those blurry lights in the back are aliens
Trypto: or Loch Ness Monster scales
Lani Kai: well, good
Lani Kai: I was going for the Loch Ness Monster look
Trypto: the Loch Ness Monster is hungry for some cheese and crackers at this cafe?
Lani Kai: no, it is a fierce monster
Lani Kai: it seeks human blood and flesh
Lani Kai: hence there is no one here
Lani Kai: they have all been eaten
Trypto: it has good table manners
Trypto: there are no crumbs to be seen
Lani Kai: well, it comes from a wealthy Scottish family with a long heritage
Lani Kai: they teach manners from a young age

CDXLIV: 123

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Lani Kai: rule of thirds!
Trypto: shhh, don't give away the secrets