We need IotDs!!!1!

UT handed it over.

There was a brief period of shared responsibility before Bruce picked up the slack, but now he too has retired.

People, we need IotDs.

Shake down your hard drive.
Go through your holiday snaps.
Trawl the next for (non-copyrighted) photos.

Come on peeps, this is core cellar business!

No one knows the protocol. Just throw any old pic up there and call it IotD, waiting or not waiting to see if anyone ELSE if posting and IotD.

There's no central processing center. Zen, are you volunteering?

Getting the ball rolling here.
This is pre-opening advertising-I did have it on my list of places to dine, but recent advisory emails from the British and Australian consulates indicate that a bomb was found in the roundabout leading to this particular mall, so giving it a wide berth for the moment.

Even when UT was runing IoTD I could never come up with anything worthy.
The Cellar is where I come to get my amazing images.

It was IoTD that hooked me in - had I been able to get those images myself I might never have come here - and how much poorer my life would have been.

Casi there is a restaurant in Amsterdam that specialises in garlic.
The Garlic Queen (link to restaurant website menu)
They even have garlic ice cream.

I think since I've been here, I've submitted 2 or maybe 3 for IotD. I just don't come across them.

IOTD was my entry into the Cellar (I submitted an image for the IOTD, though I don't remember which one).

I have decided, don't send me IotD candidates, I gave up the IotD master job years ago!!

Sundae;728491 wrote:

Casi there is a restaurant in Amsterdam that specialises in garlic.
The Garlic Queen (link to restaurant website menu)
They even have garlic ice cream.

Sundae, have you tried the garlic icecream?

infinite monkey;728363 wrote:

No one knows the protocol. Just throw any old pic up there and call it IotD, waiting or not waiting to see if anyone ELSE if posting and IotD.

There's no central processing center. Zen, are you volunteering?

Decentralise! Co-operative anarchy! What's the worst that could happen, two IotDs with the same date? We'll live.

Just date it appropriately, give it a title, put a NSFW or GRAPHIC warning if appropriate, and post. If you screw up, I'm sure someone will let you know.

The only serious thing is not pinching copyrighted photos.

A dull IotD is better than no IotD at all!

True. I live in horror of doing something "wrong."

I'll try to contribute now and again. :)

I think I first found the cellar through some body paint pics that NBN posted, and then got hooked on IoTD. Maybe I'm a negative nancy, but I can't imagine IoTD existing today as it did in, I dunno, '02 - '04. There are so many websites dedicated to sharing cool photos that it would be hard to do something that didn't feel redundant.

The volume of amazing photography online has gone up to crazy, amazing, changed-how-we-see-things levels, as has the rate at which it is shared. Which is to say that my photo-addiction (born here, maybe) has not ended with IoTD. I get my fix elsewhere:

NYT Lens blog (RSS), best of daily news photos (see the horrors of the world in HD) + occasional features.

Foreign Policy Slide Shows (RSS), intermittent and slightly more predisposed to propaganda. (I really got a kick out of this one, and was going to make an IOTD about it but didn't want to double-day it so I let it slide.)

In Focus (RSS), a new feature at The Atlantic that collects photos thematically, all generally stunning. (Check out the Afghanistan sets: so good it hurts / it hurts because it is so good.)

LUCEO (RSS), a collective of younger photojournalists, puts out a steady stream of work. They're doing it to feed themselves, so sometimes what they make is beautiful and sometimes it's banal, but occasionally it's beautiful in how banal it is so I keep coming back.

Finally, songs you taught me (RSS): for the days when you just want something beautiful to look at, without a story or even much spatial context.

casimendocina;728416 wrote:

...recent advisory emails from the British and Australian consulates indicate that a bomb was found in the roundabout leading to this particular mall, so giving it a wide berth for the moment.

According to the Jakarta Post (not entirely accurate by all accounts), the bomb scare was a hoax-the package that was found contained sawdust.

Re the reliability of the Jakarta Post, they published a story last year that an Englishman had committed suicide on Christmas Day because he was alone. Turns out, the guy was French, he was with his family and was in a pool when he had a heart attack so he drowned.

Sundae;728491 wrote:

...restaurant in Amsterdam that specialises in garlic.
The Garlic Queen (link to restaurant website menu)
They even have garlic ice cream.

Here's the menu for the Jakarta branch of Mad for Garlic-there's a little bit of overlap but being Indonesia, EVERYTHING has to be laced with chilli. It's horrendously expensive. However, if I were to splash out and go, I reckon the Garlic Hug Steak would be the one to go for.

http://www.madforgarlic.co.id/images/web/mfg_menu.jpg

casimendocina;728807 wrote:

Re the reliability of the Jakarta Post, they published a story last year that an Englishman had committed suicide on Christmas Day because he was alone. Turns out, the guy was French, he was with his family and was in a pool when he had a heart attack so he drowned.

You have to look at the truth within the lie.

squirell nutkin;728904 wrote:

You have to look at the truth within the lie.

It's all about stripping it right back to the basics, isn't it: "someone died" - the rest can be along the same lines as "this movie is based on real events".:rolleyes:

I'm doing my best.... pretend like you care.....