2003
So.
Blogpix.
These are the first pictures taken with this photo album in mind. The first album entries that are not scanned from old prints. This is a whole different kind of photography, perfectly 21st century. Immediate gratification: see, want, take.
Taken, in fact, in the last hour. So fresh and new you can almost smell it. A tangy, new, unvarnished greenness. Can you see? Can you see?
This is how blogpix are supposed to be: wacky angles, available light, odd framing, bewildered expression, sallow, unshaven. If you can manage either a funky loft apartment or excitingly seedy student digs in the background, so much the better.
You must develop, you see, a relationship with your digital camera. Through it must come your carefully-cultivated web personality. It must say "I am intelligent, but caring; cute but not superficial." It must say (though not out loud) "You want to sleep with me -- and you never will."
And thus I fall into the welcoming arms of the web cliché I have always -- had I but known -- wanted to be...
Posted by matt at September 13, 2003 05:01 AM
At the very least I want your flat.
Posted by: Max at September 15, 2003 09:15 PMat the very least, i want max to have your flat.
Posted by: aaron at September 15, 2003 10:06 PMAnd at the most?
Posted by: matt at September 15, 2003 11:07 PMAs nothing is ever enough, 'most' is a concept doesn't apply.
Posted by: Max at September 15, 2003 11:15 PMconcept ^that^ doesn't
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Posted by: Max at September 15, 2003 11:16 PMNo.
And while I'm in refusal mode, you can't have the flat either.
So there :P
Posted by: matt at September 15, 2003 11:50 PMThank you, thank you, thank you for your fitting satire on all those old-fashioned looks bestowed upon us by all of those bloggers. How true.
Posted by: Daniel at September 16, 2003 12:48 AMHow about I just take the flat?
Posted by: Max at September 16, 2003 08:49 AMMax, since Matt is attached, can I move into the flat with you?
Posted by: Faustus, M.D. at September 16, 2003 02:28 PMNot wanting to be constrained by the shackles of heterosexual relationship models, can I come too?
Posted by: Shyboy at September 16, 2003 03:49 PMThis sounds like an excellent plan. Matt, will your bed fit three of us comfortably once you and Ian have buggered off?
Posted by: Max at September 16, 2003 04:06 PMNo it won't, and no you bloody can't. What is this? Be off with the lot of you!
Posted by: matt at September 16, 2003 04:09 PMOK, is your bed big enough for five?
Posted by: Shyboy at September 16, 2003 04:31 PMHe already said it wouldn't fit three. Matt, you clearly need a bigger bed.
Posted by: Max at September 16, 2003 04:52 PMNot wanting to be constrained by the shackles of heterosexual relationship models, may I suggest that the bed is not the only choice available to us?
Posted by: Faustus, M.D. at September 16, 2003 06:11 PMIndeed, though we might also want to use the bed for sleeping in perhaps?
Posted by: Shyboy at September 16, 2003 06:30 PMMy excuse for not understanding "no it won't" is that I'd just come back from a Spanish lunch with all the over-indulgence that entails.
Posted by: Shyboy at September 16, 2003 06:32 PMFor those of you who aren't local, Matt lives in one of the original and most desirable loft developments in the city.
Posted by: Max at September 16, 2003 08:30 PM... although that blue is a bit mid-90s Shallow Grave.
Posted by: Max at September 16, 2003 08:41 PMAre all the boys in London as handsome as Matt or are we just lucky? :) I love those extreme closeup shots. They're PERFECT weblog images.
Posted by: spriteboy at September 17, 2003 07:23 AMOh, much more handsome. Sometimes just walking down the street in London can be an ordeal, leaving one wracked and quaking with sexual desire.
Or is that just me?
Posted by: matt at September 17, 2003 03:57 PMYes, but I find the same applies to getting out of bed in the morning.
Posted by: Max at September 17, 2003 04:12 PMI thought the bed wasn't big enough to fit three.
Posted by: Faustus, M.D. at September 17, 2003 04:54 PMI know I've seen them a hundred times before, but I just have to say that the second and fifth pictures, particularly, are really rather nice.
Posted by: Stairs at November 5, 2003 03:12 AMA *hundred* times? Baby, that's bordering on an obsession ;)
Posted by: matt at November 5, 2003 09:30 AMI should learn to use figurative speech, perhaps.
Posted by: Stairs at November 6, 2003 10:08 AM