206 Comments Posted by Frida

You're right, that soap dispenser DOES look lonely...

The colours and textures are great, but the overall composition is excellent too--the placement of the column, the contrast between the bottom and the top, and the way the column not only dominates but unifies it.

[sorry...former art student here...]

Motts, are you pretty free with cropping, or do you mostly leave the images as is?

It looks like there's a brothel upstairs.

Yayyy! I agree with Jen, this is a great present. Signing cards will just have to wait.

My first thought was that this looked like one of those jigsaw puzzle photographs with the castle or villa in the autumn--so many gorgeous colours. This would make an excellent 1000-pc.

There's an idea: Jigsaw puzzles featuring Motts' photos. I'd rather do one of these than the same old Bavarian castle or fishing boat puzzles they always have. [And you can only do so many glow-in-the-dark wizard puzzles...]

I digress. Excellent work, Motts. All of it.

"me" wrote: "i know the people are bad and everything, but they don`t deserve something like that!"

Even beyond the issue of whether they deserve those conditions or not is the more important issue of what those conditions do to them. Guillermo expresses a commonly held opinion about what kind of conditions convicted criminals "should" have [I'm interpreting that as meaning they deserve poor conditions, I apologise if I'm wrong]. The problem is that when you house people in shitty circumstances, they often end up coming out worse than when they went in.

It doesn't help the guards either; poor conditions are stressful to them too. Dirt, noise and squalour generally make people more stressed, and in a prison, this often leads to increased violence. So not only are harsh conditions not conducive to rehabilitation, they also undermine prison security and the safety of the staff and inmates. What often looks like coddling of prisoners is actually necessary to help maintain order and to help prisoners function halfway normally when they get out--which they nearly always do. [How well do you think you'd cope outside if you hadn't seen TV in ten years?]

[gets off the prison reform soapbox]

It looks like it's looking out of the window...

That's what you get when you hire the building crew from the Winchester Mansion...

Does a toilet with armrests count as a chair for lone chair shots?

Somebody got the MiracleGro and the floor wax mixed up again.

I've looked at that picture 4 times, and it STILL looks like it's throwing up a two-handed devil-horns sign.