When is a picture of a sandwich more than a sandwich?

by | Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The answer is that when that picture has been taken by someone you know and it ends up on the NYTimes Freakonomics blog!

Long story short, a picture of a sandwich taken by Leigh Wolf has been used by the cool people over at Freakonomics to illustrate a story. Check it out here… and yes, the photo is credited to someone called 46137, which as it turns out is “Leigh” rotated 180-degrees (works best with a calculator font). Oh the beauty of Creative Commons and the web!

Topics related to this post: Art | Blogging | Design | Economics | Fun | Photography | Representation

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TPACK @ AMTE

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Barcode yourself

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New ambigram, Algebra

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Recreating D-Day…

... on a shoe-string budget. Three designers and a big empty beach, see the results! http://www.youtube.com/v/WRS9cpOMYv0

The song remains the same

The song remains the same

As I dig through my Research Gate requests I realize that I have missed out on putting some of my articles onto my website. Here is another one (and on a side note, it never hurts to make a Led Zeppelin reference in your paper - actually the paper starts with a quote...

9/11/2001 – 9/11/2011

For Whom the Bell Tolls — John Donne No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manner of thine own Or of thine...

OofSI: The year that was

OofSI: The year that was

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The futility of existence, Part II: What now?

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Brilliant stop motion

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2 Comments

  1. kakyshock

    Thanks the author!

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  2. Sean

    Love the book… love the blog… and honestly… love the photo. Now i’m hungry. 😉

    I just did a little presentation yesterday on blogging and social networking that included a lot of discussion of creative commons.

    It was a fascinating topic for the folks in our districtwide afterschool PD shortcourse on edtech. The fact that technology has so rapidly made older notions of copyright nearly obsolete, is… sigh-inducing.

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