Road of Peas

the Residents are great, and have been creating cool stuff for decades (Residents Wikipedia page.) Now they have moved online, into the “Storyteller Era” - 2006-present.

The Residents use a cool eyeball head tux wearing visible riff as a theme, and in a comment DisAppointment Daughter has left my collage Seeing Eye to Eye.

DisAppointement Daughter posted this hotlink at 2304 10 Apr and since then there have been 245 hits. Hits will probably keep up the rest of today and then taper off when the comment leaves the front page.

Thanks, DisAppointment Daughter!

This is an odd situation. I found an access of one of my pictures of a syrfid fly with this referrer: http://www.ghettodriveby.com/beelike/.

ghettodriveby is an image search engine that returns a single image for a keyword. This is the only one of my pictures which has been accessed this way.

I plugged in some keywords I thought might be unique to my work, and eventually plugged in Staley Creek and bingo! this picture showed up. I was pleased.

Then I looked at the image url:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/annatzrenja/dStaleyCreek2robotvegetable.gif

(UPDATE MOMENTS LATER: While I was composing this post, ghettodriveby changed and is now sourcing the image from its original location. The photobucket image url still resolves.)

This is my image, renamed by adding most of my nom de ars to the filename, and served from photobucket. I don’t know if I like this or not.

I have created an account, and asked support how to see the context of this image, for all I know, the person is saying what a great photographer I am and listing my blog. They tell me there is no way to get in touch with another account holder. I must complain to discover, and so I have. Yuck.

Here’s the entire Staley Creek archive - I had great fortune there last summer.

and, um, Thanks! annatzrenja@photobucket, at least for giving me another chance to show this picture off. I hope you aren’t stealing my picture.

UPDATE 24 April 2007: Photobucket has removed the image.

Since google scarfed up blogger google image searches are finding images on Far Cartouche, and often an image original to Middle-Fork is sourced from this blog after I have posted about it as a hotlink.

I guess I like that, I’m certainly seeing an increase in visits at all three blogs. Even at Days Between Stations, which can’t figure out what the heck its mission is, resulting in much inactivity.

$girl has placed Flowers for Francis Bacon on her myspace page under Who I’d Like To Meet. Francis Bacon rocks, he was a truly great painter. (Ack! the link to his collected works is stale!) I wonder is $girl just likes my picture, or if she really wants to meet Francis.

in any event, Thanks $girl!

This picture currently leads in number of active hotlinks. This is the third time I’ve posted about it (all three together), that is also a record, but it’s really exploded.

I count 10 hotlinks for sure in the list, as well as some email, RSS pages, and some of those skip-the-thumbnail-page servers that are popping up.

From Buddhists to Bloody Disgusting Participants! We all like water, very cool.

Thanks! Y’all!

All Drop of Water Posts

This picture has started picking up hotlinks lately. It has had one going pretty much since the original post back in August 2005.

Now the top score is held by a soccer forum in a cheer for The Purple Storm.

In second place is Schnegggel1990s HP homepage. The picture seems out of place to me, not hardly tough enough for the company.

Following that up, the current hotlink list for this picture reveals a couple false starts, and the ancient acapella hotlink.

Thanks! Everybody!

These two spiders are caught in the act by Huckebein in a forum post at Stirling University. This is the third image of four - the rest can be seen at the originla Middle-Fork post. These garden spiders were living in the fuchsia bush in the backyard.

Thanks, Huckebein!

This is an odd hotlink. I’ve been ignoring it by mistake, confusing it with two other maple tree pictures. This picture has two hotlinks and I see I need to make additions to the search engine filtering.

The big hotlink is at Price of Oil. This looks like an astroturf site, but I don’t see what it’s up to. It caught my attention in particular because my proud Oregonian Maple Tree is described as endangered in Vermont. The comments on this blog take you to a suggestion that your email will be warmly welcomed. It seems weird not to have comments.

Owell, I think I’ll watch it for awhile, and maybe I can figure out why this website seems so weird.

Original Middle-Fork post

Thanks, Change of Oil!

UPDATE 28 Mar 2007 1437 - They’ve swapped out my picture for one at The Chamorro Bible. I wonder if they noticed that I blessed their use of my image, and only use unsanctioned images? The rest of the pictures are same, at least that I noticed.

This Eastern Oregon Sky photo has been hotlinked on Krissy Bobby’s myspace page for a couple months now. Her profile is set private. She hails from Oregon, so I suspect she lives out in that High Country. I took this too many years ago to remember where it was, somewhere northeast of Bend.

Original Middle-Fork post

Thanks Krissy Bobby!