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August 25, 2006 7:14 PM

Photographing Squirrels with Cameras No really, taking pictures of real wild squirrels next to real vintage cameras. No computer editing, he swears. Some are completely odd and others entirely cute as hell. Hours of time well spent!
posted by Dome-O-Rama (23 comments total)

funny.
posted by blaneyphoto at 7:21 PM on August 25, 2006

Amazing
posted by kdern at 7:55 PM on August 25, 2006

Fantastic!
posted by jonson at 7:55 PM on August 25, 2006

Metafilter: PLEASE OF TO MY SQUIRREL WEB SITE

(this is so great)
posted by tpl1212 at 8:07 PM on August 25, 2006

God I love squirrels. But I love chipmunks even more.
posted by peep at 8:15 PM on August 25, 2006

Aaahahahaha...oh man, these are fantastic. This was one of my favorites.
posted by Stunt at 8:52 PM on August 25, 2006

This just proves that given infinite time and and infinite internet, you'll see some weird shit.
posted by mrnutty at 9:06 PM on August 25, 2006

“Squirrels,” said Ira, who’d followed along. He was peering down at a hole in the trunk. His gaunt cheeks stretched in a grin. “A big nest of them. Yum.” He disappeared into the hole, greeted by an explosion of squirrel chatter.
posted by homunculus at 9:27 PM on August 25, 2006

No idea why it makes me smile so much, but it does.
posted by chris24 at 9:43 PM on August 25, 2006

because it's adorable!
posted by owhydididoit at 9:57 PM on August 25, 2006

Thes are pretty cool, as pictures.

Now I don't know about anyone else, and I'm probably just a horrible bastard, but I hate that the artist implies that someone gives a flying fuck by overtly displaying copyright crap in the titles.

Flickr has license management for this very reason.

Copyright © 2006.
posted by Matt Oneiros at 9:59 PM on August 25, 2006

Although I normally think of squirrels as rats with good PR, this was quite cute.
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:18 PM on August 25, 2006

man, did rudy rucker just do way too much LDS in the sixties?
posted by joeblough at 11:40 PM on August 25, 2006

This is nuts!
posted by gomichild at 3:45 AM on August 26, 2006

He takes pictures of squirrels with old cameras.
No, he actually snaps the squirrels... with... the cameras.
Ummm, okay, - no, wait - he makes it look like they're photographing squirrels.. photographing other squirrels... [sigh]
posted by CynicalKnight at 4:35 AM on August 26, 2006

I wonder how much peanut butter residue he has on those things.
posted by mrmojoflying at 5:43 AM on August 26, 2006

Just when I thought this post couldn't get any better, homunculus posts a Rudy Rucker story. I just finished re-reading Frek and the Elixir, and was so sad when I had no more to read. I savored every word of the fucking glossary, delighting in every connection to Saucer Wisdom. That link was just enough to keep me from going into Rucker withdrawal.
posted by brundlefly at 6:11 AM on August 26, 2006

It's almost like the guy took a big list of nouns and decided he would take photos of whatever two he randomly chose. Squirrels and cameras. It certainly could have been worse.
posted by flarbuse at 6:58 AM on August 26, 2006

This is the best use of squirrels and the internet since the seminal squirrel fishing site of 1997.
posted by LarryC at 7:06 AM on August 26, 2006

Was the title a reference to the Dilbert TV show? (Am I a huge loser?)
posted by potch at 7:16 AM on August 26, 2006

No kidding flarbuse, we could have ended up with hobos and flamethrowers or something.

...on second thought, that would be fucking sweet. Ok, let's try that again. Alarm clocks and squid. There we are, much better. Where by better, I mean worse. I don't think that would have quite the same cuteness about it as squirrels with cameras. Well, that and squid need to die.
posted by Stunt at 12:49 PM on August 26, 2006

Squirrels sure are one of the cutest wild animerls.
posted by Citizen Premier at 1:54 PM on August 26, 2006

Was the title a reference to the Dilbert TV show? (Am I a huge loser?)

See here.
posted by bob sarabia at 2:41 PM on August 26, 2006