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You know, there are days for everything. Just look them up – I’ve requested days for clients, anyone can, really.
But the one that for whatever reason, always seems to resonate the most online, is today, National Talk Like a Pirate Day.
So, from the official website, I offer you the top 29 things to say at the office during National Talk Like a Pirate Day. More information can also be found by watching this video.
I personally love #’s 11 and 13.
29 “Arrrgh-Bring me a servin’ wench to bid me me pleasures!”
28 “Argh-lad, is that Lee Elliott over there – or am I as mad as a salted herring?”
27> “Billions of blue blistering barnacles!” – Oh My God!
24> “Hop to it, dogs: Thar be leftover catering booty in the break room for plunderin’.”
23> “Sixteen men an’ a copier mess — yo, ho, ho and a bottle of toner.”
22> “Avast, men! Get a spyglass full of the doubloons on *that* vessel.”
21> “I’ll be keelhaulin’ the next one of ye what leaves ye filthy Tupperware in the break room sink!”
20> “Arrr, matey, have your parrot call my parrot and we’ll one day partake of noontime grub together.”
19> “No, Bob Dess, I will not ‘shiver your timbers.’ I will, however, call my attorney.”
18> “To arms, me lads! The spoils of the snack machine shall be ours, to each in a fortieth share!”
17> “Me cell phone fell deep into Davy Jones’ locker Nobody flush… I’ll go get me hook.”
16> “Save that last donut for me, unless ya care to feel the cold steel of my hook hand up yer arse, matey.”
15> “Be that a peg leg, or arrr ye just happy to cast yer eyes upon me?”
14> “Fax ahoy, mateys!”
13> “Avast! A Team Builders meeting off our schedule’s port bow! Scuttle yer productivity, mateys, and prepare to be bored-ed!”
12> “No increase in me pay? Arrr, boss, let me tell ye where ye can store that hook!”
11> “Hold that elevator, ye whoreson bilge rat!”
10> “Ye bent my ear with yer lubberly questions WITHOUT tryin a reboot first? Arrr! It’s the plank for you, ye mangy cur… and thank ye for calling Microsoft Tech Support!”
9> “Arrr, load the Canon, wench, and collate me copies!”
8> “Avast, ya scurvy knave! Brave be ye, for certain, but arrr ye willin’ ta die fer that parking spot?”
7> “Twenty paces past the Magic Fountain of Water… bear ye left past the Chamber of Meetings… and a minute’s voyage down the Great Carpeted Hallway… the unisex bathroom’ll be on yer port side.”
6> “Aye, if it’s a large treasure chest and amazin’ booty ye seek, fix yer gaze upon the receptionist.”
5> “Boss, I’ll be borrowin’ a coupla doubloons from petty cash fer some Ho Ho’s and a bottle of rum.”
4> “Aaaarrrrrghhh! Who among us floated the air mead?”
3> “Arrr! I’ve arrr!anged for Arrr!lene in arrr!chives to send up that arrr!ticle on arrr!bitration.”
2> “Avast, ye demon copy machine! Taste the wrath of my arse!”
1> “Arrr, I have made note of yer demands and I have but one question for ye: Will ye be wantin’ slivers o’ potato fried in the popular French style with that?”
When a bomb blows up at a marathon finish line people run away, news photogs run towards it. When a regime commits atrocities against its citizens the telling images that shape global views are not Instagram, they are made by photojournalists who watch the whole scene to tell the story. When terrorist attacks take down sky scrapers forever destroying the landscape of a city and people are runing away, photojournalists work around rescue personnel and stand in the danger zone to bring the horror to the world. When candidates run for office the candidate is not surrounded by word-herders with point and shoots but instead photojournalists who can tell a new story every day, all day, when the ground hogs day effect is in place.
Photojournalists tell important stories every day not only globally, but in their communities. News photogs get you past the words and connect you with the story, the moment, the situation. Pick up your local paper, visit their websites, find out what is going in in your town, county, region and look at the imagery. What drives you to click on a story, or pick up a paper, more often than not it is a photo , not a headline.
The destruction of news photography and the notion that news photogs can be replaced by mobile phones and point and shoots is misguided, not only from an editorial stand point but the economic stand point when the bean counters look at their reader metrics. Virtually every newspaper’s metrics show more unique visitors clicking on photos and photo galleries than video and multi-media. More visitors equals more revenue. When the argument is economics, which it is, the choice to reduce photography and photographers is poorly thought out.
The Sun Times signed their own death warrant last week.
-Steven Frischling
Former:
Wire & Agency Contract Photog
Newspaper Staff Photog, Chief Photog, Photo Editor
Magazine Director of Photography
When a bomb blows up at a marathon finish line people run away, news photogs run towards it. When a regime commits atrocities against its citizens the telling images that shape global views are not Instagram, they are made by photojournalists who watch the whole scene to tell the story. When terrorist attacks take down sky scrapers forever destroying the landscape of a city and people are runing away, photojournalists work around rescue personnel and stand in the danger zone to bring the horror to the world. When candidates run for office the candidate is not surrounded by word-herders with point and shoots but instead photojournalists who can tell a new story every day, all day, when the ground hogs day effect is in place.
Photojournalists tell important stories every day not only globally, but in their communities. News photogs get you past the words and connect you with the story, the moment, the situation. Pick up your local paper, visit their websites, find out what is going in in your town, county, region and look at the imagery. What drives you to click on a story, or pick up a paper, more often than not it is a photo , not a headline.
The destruction of news photography and the notion that news photogs can be replaced by mobile phones and point and shoots is misguided, not only from an editorial stand point but the economic stand point when the bean counters look at their reader metrics. Virtually every newspaper’s metrics show more unique visitors clicking on photos and photo galleries than video and multi-media. More visitors equals more revenue. When the argument is economics, which it is, the choice to reduce photography and photographers is poorly thought out.
The Sun Times signed their own death warrant last week.
-Steven Frischling
Former:
Wire & Agency Contract Photog
Newspaper Staff Photog, Chief Photog, Photo Editor
Magazine Director of Photography
In fairness, the photo at Iwo Jima was staged to ‘recapture’ what happened in real time. Nonetheless, your point is well taken.
Amy
Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag being raised over Iwo Jima was NOT staged. This is a myth and one that has been cleared up many times. Don’t believe me, check out the New York Times – http://nyti.ms/17eloXP … as well as other witnesses to the event.
Rosenthal shot the second flag raising, as the first flag which was raised was determined to be too small.
Please do your homework before defaming a legendary photojournalist.
-Steven Frischling
In fairness, the photo at Iwo Jima was staged to ‘recapture’ what happened in real time. Nonetheless, your point is well taken.
Amy
Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag being raised over Iwo Jima was NOT staged. This is a myth and one that has been cleared up many times. Don’t believe me, check out the New York Times – http://nyti.ms/17eloXP … as well as other witnesses to the event.
Rosenthal shot the second flag raising, as the first flag which was raised was determined to be too small.
Please do your homework before defaming a legendary photojournalist.
-Steven Frischling
In fairness, the photo at Iwo Jima was staged to ‘recapture’ what happened in real time. Nonetheless, your point is well taken.
Amy
Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag being raised over Iwo Jima was NOT staged. This is a myth and one that has been cleared up many times. Don’t believe me, check out the New York Times – http://nyti.ms/17eloXP … as well as other witnesses to the event.
Rosenthal shot the second flag raising, as the first flag which was raised was determined to be too small.
Please do your homework before defaming a legendary photojournalist.
-Steven Frischling
In fairness, the photo at Iwo Jima was staged to ‘recapture’ what happened in real time. Nonetheless, your point is well taken.
A shocking move. I think you identified the issues well. Just because technology has changed doesn’t mean our need for good photographs that tell the story have changed. The “word” journalists are next to go. And without journalists, you have no paper. Perhaps the Chicago Sun-Times is foreshadowing the future, one group at a time.
A shocking move. I think you identified the issues well. Just because technology has changed doesn’t mean our need for good photographs that tell the story have changed. The “word” journalists are next to go. And without journalists, you have no paper. Perhaps the Chicago Sun-Times is foreshadowing the future, one group at a time.
A shocking move. I think you identified the issues well. Just because technology has changed doesn’t mean our need for good photographs that tell the story have changed. The “word” journalists are next to go. And without journalists, you have no paper. Perhaps the Chicago Sun-Times is foreshadowing the future, one group at a time.
A shocking move. I think you identified the issues well. Just because technology has changed doesn’t mean our need for good photographs that tell the story have changed. The “word” journalists are next to go. And without journalists, you have no paper. Perhaps the Chicago Sun-Times is foreshadowing the future, one group at a time.
A shocking move. I think you identified the issues well. Just because technology has changed doesn’t mean our need for good photographs that tell the story have changed. The “word” journalists are next to go. And without journalists, you have no paper. Perhaps the Chicago Sun-Times is foreshadowing the future, one group at a time.
Peter, even though I’m a videographer myself, I do recognize and have been moved by powerful photographs. There is definitely no replacement for capturing a “moment in time.” Video, by its very nature, can’t do that. I think the Sun-Times is making a mistake by letting photographers go, though they do have some alternative options in that respect, including sourcing from AP or Getty or other orgs.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
Presumably, the Sun-Times isn’t going to rely on citizen journalists for all its video, and will be amping up its professional video crew and associated equipment. Presumably, doing that in lieu of having photogs will help them meet costs associated with purchasing and inevitably repairing cameras, with all their moving parts (though if they go entirely digital with them, not as many as in a tape camera).
I think a great publication needs to employ all its resources to tell the story, and video can help in that respect, but photographs need to be used as well.
Peter, even though I’m a videographer myself, I do recognize and have been moved by powerful photographs. There is definitely no replacement for capturing a “moment in time.” Video, by its very nature, can’t do that. I think the Sun-Times is making a mistake by letting photographers go, though they do have some alternative options in that respect, including sourcing from AP or Getty or other orgs.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
Presumably, the Sun-Times isn’t going to rely on citizen journalists for all its video, and will be amping up its professional video crew and associated equipment. Presumably, doing that in lieu of having photogs will help them meet costs associated with purchasing and inevitably repairing cameras, with all their moving parts (though if they go entirely digital with them, not as many as in a tape camera).
I think a great publication needs to employ all its resources to tell the story, and video can help in that respect, but photographs need to be used as well.
Peter, even though I’m a videographer myself, I do recognize and have been moved by powerful photographs. There is definitely no replacement for capturing a “moment in time.” Video, by its very nature, can’t do that. I think the Sun-Times is making a mistake by letting photographers go, though they do have some alternative options in that respect, including sourcing from AP or Getty or other orgs.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
Presumably, the Sun-Times isn’t going to rely on citizen journalists for all its video, and will be amping up its professional video crew and associated equipment. Presumably, doing that in lieu of having photogs will help them meet costs associated with purchasing and inevitably repairing cameras, with all their moving parts (though if they go entirely digital with them, not as many as in a tape camera).
I think a great publication needs to employ all its resources to tell the story, and video can help in that respect, but photographs need to be used as well.
Peter, even though I’m a videographer myself, I do recognize and have been moved by powerful photographs. There is definitely no replacement for capturing a “moment in time.” Video, by its very nature, can’t do that. I think the Sun-Times is making a mistake by letting photographers go, though they do have some alternative options in that respect, including sourcing from AP or Getty or other orgs.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
Presumably, the Sun-Times isn’t going to rely on citizen journalists for all its video, and will be amping up its professional video crew and associated equipment. Presumably, doing that in lieu of having photogs will help them meet costs associated with purchasing and inevitably repairing cameras, with all their moving parts (though if they go entirely digital with them, not as many as in a tape camera).
I think a great publication needs to employ all its resources to tell the story, and video can help in that respect, but photographs need to be used as well.
Obscene and grievous. I’m all for “citizen journalism,” but waving smartphones and horsing around with Instagram do not a professional photog make. Sad, horrifying day.
Obscene and grievous. I’m all for “citizen journalism,” but waving smartphones and horsing around with Instagram do not a professional photog make. Sad, horrifying day.
Obscene and grievous. I’m all for “citizen journalism,” but waving smartphones and horsing around with Instagram do not a professional photog make. Sad, horrifying day.
Why not just let the “citizen” also write the story-who needs professional, trained writers?
Why not just let the “citizen” also write the story-who needs professional, trained writers?
Why not just let the “citizen” also write the story-who needs professional, trained writers?
Why not just let the “citizen” also write the story-who needs professional, trained writers?
Photography is like PR or event planning – way too many people think it’s just one of those jobs that ‘anyone’ can do. That it’s a ‘fun’ job and ‘easy’ to do. That it’s that simple to just pick up a camera and snap away – that something good will come. Photography is an art form – unfortunately those deciding budgets do not see that. A sad day indeed.
Photography is like PR or event planning – way too many people think it’s just one of those jobs that ‘anyone’ can do. That it’s a ‘fun’ job and ‘easy’ to do. That it’s that simple to just pick up a camera and snap away – that something good will come. Photography is an art form – unfortunately those deciding budgets do not see that. A sad day indeed.
Photography is like PR or event planning – way too many people think it’s just one of those jobs that ‘anyone’ can do. That it’s a ‘fun’ job and ‘easy’ to do. That it’s that simple to just pick up a camera and snap away – that something good will come. Photography is an art form – unfortunately those deciding budgets do not see that. A sad day indeed.
The message that the Chicago Sun-Times is sending is that content doesn’t matter anymore.Behind the newspaper’s massive lay off is an ideology. Society today values tools more than it values content. Are critical thinking and imagination – both elements of a good story – no longer important? Are readers willing to accept “lessened” journalism?
It is a sad day for everyone who enjoys a good story. For sure, readers deserve better and well-written content; good photographs that help tell the story; trusted facts. The power of
a good story is unlimited.
In my opinion the Chicago Sun-Times is making a big mistake. Could we call this progress? Let’s hope the “layoff disease” doesn’t spread.
Marcela
The message that the Chicago Sun-Times is sending is that content doesn’t matter anymore.Behind the newspaper’s massive lay off is an ideology. Society today values tools more than it values content. Are critical thinking and imagination – both elements of a good story – no longer important? Are readers willing to accept “lessened” journalism?
It is a sad day for everyone who enjoys a good story. For sure, readers deserve better and well-written content; good photographs that help tell the story; trusted facts. The power of
a good story is unlimited.
In my opinion the Chicago Sun-Times is making a big mistake. Could we call this progress? Let’s hope the “layoff disease” doesn’t spread.
Marcela
flyingwithfish, that is cool…!
flyingwithfish, that is cool…!
My understanding is that newspaper’s reporters are going to be expected to also learn video editing, so adding photography and that to their existing job could be extremely difficult to focus on the story itself. This is really about how newspapers are businesses and like other businesses with failing models, they downsize and either outsource or assign workers to do multiple jobs. I already saw this happen first hand at local newspapers in Chicagoland, which actually can show much more promise for a sustainable business model (with hyperlocal journalism and community building) than regional papers like the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune, both of which are hemorrhaging cash. For more on this, you can check out my white paper, “Press Forward: A Contextual Video Strategy for Today’s Newspaper Industries.” http://www.ramp.com/white-papers/5205/
My understanding is that newspaper’s reporters are going to be expected to also learn video editing, so adding photography and that to their existing job could be extremely difficult to focus on the story itself. This is really about how newspapers are businesses and like other businesses with failing models, they downsize and either outsource or assign workers to do multiple jobs. I already saw this happen first hand at local newspapers in Chicagoland, which actually can show much more promise for a sustainable business model (with hyperlocal journalism and community building) than regional papers like the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune, both of which are hemorrhaging cash. For more on this, you can check out my white paper, “Press Forward: A Contextual Video Strategy for Today’s Newspaper Industries.” http://www.ramp.com/white-papers/5205/
Man, what a shame another great industry becoming a memory right before our eyes.
Man, what a shame another great industry becoming a memory right before our eyes.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. via:athleticworx.com And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. via:athleticworx.com And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.
That said, there is definitely power in video as well. A good photo can capture a powerful moment, but a good video shot of many seconds can be just as powerful. Perhaps the best example I can think of in recent times is from 9/11. A photograph could not capture those shocking events as easily. via:athleticworx.com And videogaphers have captured other great moments as well over time – it particularly does well for documenting nature and, to some extent, the recent uprisings in the Middle East.