Always a time to celebrate Image ID: 25697800

And why should we?

Because at the tail ending of this financial year we’ve added another 2.5 million images to our stock photography offering. That takes us to right up to 10 million images!

Tell us your reason to celebrate…

Christine and Wei Ming both have Service backgrounds
so they get you, they understand your deadlines,
your budgets and your bosses and they are here to help you.

Very soon you’ll be hearing from one of them so please
give them a few minutes of your time. We want to hear
how we can become a better image supplier to you.
We’d also like to impart some knowledge about
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New Smile from Singapore

There is the Force - Image ID: 21876503

There is no emotion; there is peace.

There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.

There is no passion; there is serenity

There is no death; there is the Force.

Powerful words. Dogmatic notions. Deep philosophical meaning that can lead to hours and hours of discussions and perhaps even sleepless nights…

Enough said!

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What is the potential of uplifting marketing with some clever use of social media? Today we see a very interesting real world example which essentially is doing something for the greater good - or in this case at least alleviating some of the mess!

A lot of people don’t really understand the value of Twitter. So here’s an application that should help us see the potential. Today Microsoft Bing posted this:

Bing

Retweet this & @Bing will donate $10 to #CNNHelpGulf up to 100K: http://bit.ly/howtodonate #BingforGulf

When doing a little search on this, as of right now it appears that Bing has reached it’s 100k pledge with 10,000 retweets (Twitter mentions) already far exceeded.

It’s very difficult to calculate just how many eyeballs this campaign has gathered but here’s an attempt to do the math with a very conservative estimate.

10k of retweets X 129 followers per account = 1,290,000

That’s way over 1 million eyeballs since late this morning.

It’s actually way more, as this is an extremely conservative estimate:

1. The 10k retweets are actually far exceeded and will increase as the day goes by (a rough figure would be 5 times that)
2. Twitter usage has grown exponentially since this time last year when the Guardian reported the average following of 129 per account.
3. This doesn’t even consider the celebrity factor of Twitter major players like Alyssa Milano who has 894,843 follows right now and she is only one of many celebs who have tweeted this

Alyssa Milano

RT this & @Bing will donate $10 to #CNNHelpGulf up to 100K: http://bit.ly/howtodonate #BingforGulf /via @RyanSeacrest

Midwinter Night at Lake Tornetraesk near Abisko, Sweden, swedish lappland

Winter Solstice (also known as midwinter) happens when the Earth axial tilt is farthest away from the sun. This is the day where the sun is at its lowest position in the sky and the night will be feel longer than usual. Worldwide, many cultures celebrate the day recognising it as symbolic of rebirth, sometimes with a festival, a ritual or even a holiday!

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A website Only The NEXUS offers (amongst its range of truly geeky products!) a device called “Antena Booster”.

This Antenna Booster is a passive device that works by sitting in the battery compartment of your cellular device, and it is designed to improve reception and also reduce the amount of static in a call. Not a widely know feature, the Antenna Booster also captures any stray radiation that is emitted from the housing of your cellular phone and uses that same radiation to improve the performance of your signal. Easy installation, great use - the Antenna Booster is a must have for any cell phone user!

Come to think of it: how much static do we actually get while on the mobile phone? Does it interfere much with the call quality? Does it fry our brains slowly but steadily? Can it cause a fire at a gas station?

Well, MythBusters tried answering the last question here:

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As, for general call interference /annoyance that static might cause – you let us know. As for me – I get my hair standing up in quite unfashionable way during winter when i spend too much time on the phone…

Statue of a Hindu evil genie - Image id: 15972805

This is not the most highly researched article but ocassionally a spur of the moment thing is just far more interesting than a thing thouroughly thought through. It might be compared to an over-analysis of a horse race - by the time the anxious commentator gets one word out, the race is over and no one wants to know about his revelation. An irrelevant revelation probably can’t even be called that any more anyway.

Perhaps others will find stranger keyword searches and we invite you to spend ample time just doing that but in the meantime this one tops the list.

Search “Anon” and see for yourself.

Scattered throught this article are two random examples that better tell the story than presented here in words. Take the “Hindu evil genie” - he certainly looks evil. Is it the sword, those red spiked shoulder pads or that upturned moustashe that gives him away? We pity the parents whose daughter has a thing for “bad boys” and brings this fellow home pleading they see the “good heart” in him “if only they can get to know him better”. We advise the genie drop the sword or at least the shoulder pads before meeting the parents. Unfortunately in such cases the bad boy’s tough guy exterior hides a sensitive artist protecting his art and soft interior with some significant object of defence. For the evil genie, it’s a sword and there is no way he’ll drop it.

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New and bright staff in Indonesia

We now have more staff to wait on you hand and foot. Lucky and Yugi have joined Meilina & Nitya to give you the best service ever. They are taking over from Annabelle Lusiana and they promise to work twice as hard to make your work easier.

Lucky and Yugi both have Service backgrounds so they get you, they understand your deadlines, your budgets and your bosses and they are here to help you.

Our clients in Indonesia soon might be hearing from one of them so please give them a few minutes of your time. We want to hear how we can become a better image supplier to you. We’d also like to impart some knowledge about Photolibrary to help find the best images faster, also how you can save money and receive gifts.

Does meat create too much heat? Image no: 22771282

That surprising conclusion comes from a couple of scientists who have taken an unusual look at the production of greenhouse gases from an angle that not many folks have even thought about. Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin, assistant professors of geophysics at the University of Chicago, have found that our consumption of red meat may be as bad for the planet as it is for our bodies.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1856817&page=1

Should we all convert to vegetariansim to save the world? It might be really good news for vegetarians but could it be that simple to stop global warning by just not eating meat?

If this is true but we also may need meat to survive, then we’re left with a bit of conundrum. There’s some debate on that point also.

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From Da Vinci to Michelangelo to Van Gogh to Monet to Kandinsky to Rembrandt to Warhol the world has learned to appreciate and criticise art. But can all those artists and thousands more be combined together, brushed with the same comb, put on the same level. Can Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel be compared with “The Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp (a urinal put in a gallery claiming to be a piece of art)? Can da Vinci’s Mona Lisa be in the same basket as various street art, such as graffiti and abstract sculptures that by-passers take for rubbish bins?

Andy Rooney blasts the world of modern art, which he envisions as pretentious especially when displayed in large, public places in this 60 Minutes video:

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But what about your own backyard? The paintings your kids make? The lovely arrangement of dead bugs your cat laid out for you on a terrace? Or perhaps some geeky office art?? We have a local talent here at Photolibrary and below is his recent piece (medium: packaging material, Tic tacs, some old box | title: The Internet Tower | philosophical value: “Too deep to even begin”)

Image ID: The Internet Tower