MetaFilter posts tagged with captions

Milk Information: flickr plus twitter.

Greg Nog — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:21:18 -0800

Milk Information: Type a title at the top of the page, have a related Creative-Commons-licensed flickr photo and twitter text combined below. [via mefi projects] The results are sometimes appropriately-paired, sometimes absurd, and sometimes very much like a sublimely nonsensical Successories poster. Examples: Bad idea. Chance encounter. Don't worry. Uh oh. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Photographers respond to New Orleans racial bias photos

Brian James — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:42:24 -0800

Looting vs Finding Chris Graythen, an AFP photographer in New Orleans (skip down to his post) who shot the photo of two white people "finding" goods in the floodwaters, defends his caption. "These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water." Meanwhile, the editor for the photog of the "looting" image says that he actually saw the looting occur. "'He saw the person go into the shop and take the goods,' Stokes said, 'and that's why he wrote 'looting' in the caption.'"

Caption this

mathowie — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:42:21 -0800

There are a lot of small sites doing caption contests from time to time, but I've never seen a site with such a long history of them. There's gold in the archives (1, 2, 3, 4), and weekly contests still going on.

Make-your-own-thingy-type-of-post

magullo — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:08:25 -0800

The challenge was to take the top 3 most emailed photos on yahoo and create a hopefully amusing story about the sequence. I reserve the right to refuse a disturbing picture, this includes any pictures of celine dion.

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 03:47:17 -0800

Captionistas Wanted: This year's New Yorker cartoon competition, slightly more challenging than last year's is now online, awaiting witty captions until November 20.

maggeh — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:16:50 -0800

"Mohammed, do you ever get that 'not so fresh' feeling?" The Captions Blog takes press photos and adds humorous fictitious comments. One of my favorites is a photo of two military men wrestling. The caption reads, "Soldiers prepare for Operation Sweet Sweet Lovin'." Kudos to the highly amusing moderator and creator Jeff Druzba. He seems to have prevented this site from devolving into the baffling inside references and unfunny gross-out jokes that proliferate on other group "humor" blogs.

BGM — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:55:13 -0800

Why the media has no credibility.... Read the title, then read the caption under the picture. Sigh....

rcade — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:56:58 -0800

Atlantic Monthly has dubbed Joe Clark "the king of closed captions" for 25 years of volunteer work to improve the quality of captioned TV programming and other accessible media. Who else on MetaFilter has a double life as an altruistic hobbyist?

solistrato — Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:04:15 -0800

When captions go bad? It's the one below the first picture.