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While Seated [024]

While Seated [024]

I’ve always wanted to subscribe to people, not people on platforms.
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Michael David Murphy
Jan 30, 2017
Half Man Half Noodle

Half Man Half Noodle

(Or half a constitutional crisis concerning the difficulty of making a start.)
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Michael David Murphy
Dec 16, 2016
He Knows Who The True Americans Are

He Knows Who The True Americans Are

(Or, When Your Garage or Basketball Hoop Supported Hillary)
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Michael David Murphy
Nov 29, 2016
I Didn’t Expect to Find Myself Living in The Future

I Didn’t Expect to Find Myself Living in The Future

(or, whaddya think Gary meant by that?)
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Michael David Murphy
Nov 1, 2016
Eggleston Door Stop Porch Drop; What Gose Goes With; Personal Time-hopping via Wild Hyenas

Eggleston Door Stop Porch Drop; What Gose Goes With; Personal Time-hopping via Wild Hyenas

(or, Thank You!, Ruger?)
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Michael David Murphy
Oct 24, 2016
Take Your Seats, We’re Recruiting; She Over You, Fried Rice King

Take Your Seats, We’re Recruiting; She Over You, Fried Rice King

(or, when you realize the pizzeria was always a parking lot)
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Michael David Murphy
Oct 5, 2016
Trump’s Tropic Thunder, Fatal Failures, an Appropriated Pile of Crowns & Crumb on Power Lines

Trump’s Tropic Thunder, Fatal Failures, an Appropriated Pile of Crowns & Crumb on Power Lines

(Or, what happens when September hits and the South suddenly becomes livable again.)
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Michael David Murphy
Sep 4, 2016
Musk’s Nightmares, Hamilspin, Reince’s Emergency Vehicle, & Proficience at Photographing Profligacy

Musk’s Nightmares, Hamilspin, Reince’s Emergency Vehicle, & Proficience at Photographing Profligacy

(Or, “Budbud. Not Trump.”)
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Michael David Murphy
Aug 20, 2016
Trumping The Smiths, Pans for Small Fries, Chronological Corey Sign & more

Trumping The Smiths, Pans for Small Fries, Chronological Corey Sign & more

(Or, When Disparate Looks Desperate & Goes Pro)
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Michael David Murphy
Aug 14, 2016
How out-of-focus does a photo need to be to become a photo about forgetfulness?

How out-of-focus does a photo need to be to become a photo about forgetfulness?

(+ 50 Diptychs, ‘lil Trumper, and photographing “white privilege”)
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Michael David Murphy
Aug 9, 2016
Embouchure Two-Fer, Bibi/Barry Shadow Portrait Face Merge…

Embouchure Two-Fer, Bibi/Barry Shadow Portrait Face Merge…

(…& the ongoing exploration of syncing podcast audio with real-life video, as it happens)
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Michael David Murphy
Jul 30, 2016
Getting Fuzzy with Fuzzy, Interrogating Iconic Photographs & Facebook Burns Their Paper

Getting Fuzzy with Fuzzy, Interrogating Iconic Photographs & Facebook Burns Their Paper

(Or, breaking-up a fight between which week was worse; last week, or the last last, or that other one.)
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Michael David Murphy
Jul 20, 2016
The Flesh Is Good, Shore’s Strange Drugs & What Homophobic Golfers Yell the Morning After Orlando

The Flesh Is Good, Shore’s Strange Drugs & What Homophobic Golfers Yell the Morning After Orlando

(Or, the body language of budding man-selves.)
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Michael David Murphy
Jul 6, 2016
What Algorithms Care About, Corporate Crossfades, Featurebugs, and Have You Seen “Sir’Ron”?

What Algorithms Care About, Corporate Crossfades, Featurebugs, and Have You Seen “Sir’Ron”?

(If John Belushi were alive he’d be wearing a “Trump University” sweatshirt)
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Michael David Murphy
Jun 7, 2016
Everything Goes Like That

Everything Goes Like That

(Except when it doesn’t and the trucker takes you only as far as 1989-era Belchertown)
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Michael David Murphy
May 23, 2016
Best Guess Is Atmosphere, Save Some Salmon Dog & the Animated Beard Cage

Best Guess Is Atmosphere, Save Some Salmon Dog & the Animated Beard Cage

(Because a tricycle with a Bernie sign isn’t redundant, it’s a recumbent)
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Michael David Murphy
May 12, 2016
A Mirage by Any Other Name, Hotel Hamilton, Forcep Art, and Lazy Sundayisms

A Mirage by Any Other Name, Hotel Hamilton, Forcep Art, and Lazy Sundayisms

(Or, what to do when you believe you’re being followed by a “Fata Morgana”)
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Michael David Murphy
May 2, 2016
Badu Berenstain, Photographic Puritanicalisms, Office TropDrops, & Passing Shadows of Airplanes

Badu Berenstain, Photographic Puritanicalisms, Office TropDrops, & Passing Shadows of Airplanes

(Or, where Flea’s ear meets Kobe’s nose, plus the oddest photograph I’ve seen in a long while)
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Michael David Murphy
Apr 26, 2016
TAIL IS HANDLE VERY RARE, Beverly Perfect Loop, Ringer-On Product Shots & Hitchcock Self-Improvement

TAIL IS HANDLE VERY RARE, Beverly Perfect Loop, Ringer-On Product Shots & Hitchcock Self-Improvement

(When the title’s all-caps it’s not me yelling, it’s the guy down the street.)
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Michael David Murphy
Apr 15, 2016
The Headless Caddy, Sleepy Microphones & Nose Play: All in All It’s Just Another Appropriated Wall

The Headless Caddy, Sleepy Microphones & Nose Play: All in All It’s Just Another Appropriated Wall

(Or, when you take a screenshot while driving that’s absolutely the best photograph you’ve made in years.)
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Michael David Murphy
Apr 8, 2016
Obama’s Wetfish, Nixon Knew, Surfing Lightroom Filenames, and Hockney’s iPad Art

Obama’s Wetfish, Nixon Knew, Surfing Lightroom Filenames, and Hockney’s iPad Art

(Or when daycare’s closed, the kids are napping and you’ve finally gotten around to backing-up your back-up)
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Michael David Murphy
Mar 25, 2016
The Impossibility of an N’Word-Free Screenshot of a Trump Rally Livestream

The Impossibility of an N’Word-Free Screenshot of a Trump Rally Livestream

Plus using Fair Use fairly, talking to golf-balls, the Facebookification of Instagram, #slyhigh, and when Marc Rubio is president.
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Michael David Murphy
Mar 16, 2016
Ted Cruz Laugh Track, Kasich/Kendrick, 100 Billion Bernie-isms

Ted Cruz Laugh Track, Kasich/Kendrick, 100 Billion Bernie-isms

(Or. what a month looks like when you can’t stop making political vids)
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Michael David Murphy
Mar 3, 2016
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