For Apple’s Upcoming Tablet, Content Is King
3:43 pm, September 30th, 2009, Leander Kahney
As Brian Lam on Gizmodo today says about Apple “redefining print” for its upcoming tablet, it’s all about the content.
If Apple has learned anything from the iPod, it’s that a modern consumer electronic device is a three-legged stool: hardware, software, and media that fills it.
Apple doesn’t want to launch a tablet without media to consume on it. This is the mistake Apple made with the Apple TV: It’s a great piece of hardware and software, but the content isn’t there yet (especially the paucity of Hollywood movies).
So Steve has set out to persuade publishing houses, magazine companies and textbook publishers to make interactive books and magazines that make sense on an interactive, multitouch device. Here’s the key paragraph from Lam’s story:
“Some I’ve talked to believe the initial content will be mere translations of text to tablet form. But while the idea of print on the Tablet is enticing, it’s nothing the Kindle or any E-Ink device couldn’t do. The eventual goal is to have publishers create hybridized content that draws from audio, video and interactive graphics in books, magazines and newspapers, where paper layouts would be static. And with release dates for Microsoft’s Courier set to be quite far away and Kindle stuck with relatively static E-Ink, it appears that Apple is moving towards a pole position in distribution of this next-generation print content. First, it’ll get its feet wet with more basic repurposing of the stuff found on dead trees today.”
But what might this “hybrid content” look like?
One clue comes from Enhanced Editions, a U.K. startup founded by former-book industry executives that seeks to marry technology with traditional print publishing. “We have long-since seen the destiny of the latter bound to its embrace of the former,” the company says.
Founded in 2008 after the launch of the App Store, Enhanced Editions says the iPhone/Touch platform is a unique multimedia device, while iTunes presents an exciting distribution mechanism. So the company created an iPhone app for publishing “enhanced” ebooks. “We set ourselves the mission of making the reading software that Apple themselves would make,” the company says.
The company just published it’s first enhanced eBook, Nick Cave’s “The Death of Bunny Munro.” See the trailer for the book above.
Available as a $24.99 app (there’s also a free lite version restricted to the first three chapters), the app includes:
* The Bunny Munro ebook.
* An audiobook narrated by Nick Cave himself, synchronized to the text.
* An original ebook soundtrack, composed by Cave and Warren Ellis, that’s been specially mixed for headphone listening.
* 11 videos of Cave reading excerpts from the novel.The app can be used to switch between audio and ebook versions, and remembers your place even if you switch formats. It has tilt to scroll, the ability to add bookmarks, or email quotes to friends. There’s also built-in news reader that receives news and extras sent to the app. The company says it has other multimedia tricks up its sleeve, but is keeping them under wraps for now.
The book is being well received, but the app is getting rave reviews. “The app itself is amazing,” says one reviewer on iTunes. “This is the new (and hard to beat) standard for book as app,” says another.
It’s not hard to imagine how such multimedia-enhanced ebooks, and likewise music CDs (Apple’s rumored “Cocktail” project) would be ideal content for a touchscreen tablet.
Next up from Enhanced Editions are Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and Audacity of Hope, and The Corner by David Simon and ED Burns (of HBO’s The Wire), among others.
As they said during the first dotcom boom, “content is king.”
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
For Apple’s Upcoming Tablet, Content Is King
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
AT&T MMS outage?
Oh yeah. You read that correctly. We’ve received a couple tips about MMS possibly being down completely for some AT&T subscribers and a quick call to AT&T’s customer care line revealed that there is a known latency issue with MMS in all states with no estimated time of repair.
So we ask you, dear readers: is your MMS feature working on your iPhones?
Incredible inside and out - 2010 GeigerCars Camaro Kompressor
2010 Brabus Mercedes-Benz Viano Lounge Concept
"A 32-inch electrically deployed LCD screen is integrated into the partition wall behind the front seats. It serves as monitor for the computer system with Sony Vaio notebook and Wireless LAN network for connecting additional notebooks to the on-board network and for connecting to the internet via UMTS. A Sony Playstation 3 game console plays Blu-ray movies and games such as the racing simulator Gran Turismo 5 in stunning clarity on the big screen, which can also display the images from the digital TV tuner. The large screen can also be used in split-screen mode to simultaneously monitor the images from the various external cameras.
The audio signals of the various sources are carried in highest perfection Dolby Surround by a sound system custom-designed for the Viano.
Radical Winter Retreat: Private Ski-In Mountain Home
Radical Winter Retreat: Private Ski-In Mountain Home
What do you do if you want a distinctive two-family vacation home in the mountains and you just happen to own a truckload of redwood siding? You call Robert Harvey Oshatz, Architect, of course. His creative environmentally-friendly home designs bring a stunning and truly unusual touch to the ordinary home or vacation home, no matter where its foundation sits.
This particular home was designed for the aforementioned siding-owning families. Sitting in a ski resort community in Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado, the structures is affectionately know as the “snow clam” to the locals. It sits in the perfect position for avid skiers: you can ski from the door of the house to the ski lift, take the lift up, and then ski directly back to the house.
Although it’s obviously a man-made object nestled in the hills and trees of Mt. Crested Butte, the house seems to harmonize with its surroundings. The shape of the exterior calls to mind large boulders or mounds of snow. The sweeping roof echoes the famous Colorado peaks. The grand redwood exterior resonates with the surroundings in a way that synthetic siding never could. Even from the outside, the home appears light and airy, yet grounded and stable despite its precarious-looking perch. Oshatz is known for his wildly imaginative designs and his belief that architectural theories and styles simply don’t hold water. He bases his designs on the balance and harmony within each project and between the project and its surroundings.
The interior of the snow clam is no less impressive than its exterior. The three story home boasts three fireplaces, two garages and an entire story devoted to a children’s playroom. The gentle curves of the outside are brough into the home as well, with swooping ceilings and winding staircases. There may, in fact, be no better place to spend a ski vacation than wrapped up in front of one of the cozy stone fireplaces, watching the world go by from the multitude of windows.
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Don’t Look Down: 10 Peculiarly Precarious Modern Buildings
Don’t Look Down: 10 Peculiarly Precarious Modern Buildings
By Mike in Architecture & Design, Technology, Urban Everything, Urbanism, Various
The world’s worst skyscraper disaster is still fresh in our minds, and every year sees a new calamity in our global obsession with building storey after storey, higher and higher. You would think that all architects would be careful to make their buildings look as stable as mountains. You’d be wrong. Thanks to modern building materials and behind-the-scenes architectural wizardry, the new field of precarious-looking urban architecture is on the rise – as these ten vertigo-inducing examples illustrate.
(Image via: arch daily)
Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi – the most acutely leaning building in the world. It bows out 18 degrees from the vertical – in comparison, Pisa’s famous tower is only leaning at 3.99 degrees. Technologically ambitious and architecturally stunning, it looks like nothing on earth. (Well, okay, it does look like something in particular, but this is a family-friendly corner of the Web and we refuse to draw certain parallels).
(Image via: cosmoworlds)
And by the looks of the first concept drawings, Capital Gate was meant to be even more ambitious. How on earth would this design have stayed up? Judging from the reworked shape, the designers couldn’t answer that question either.
(Images via: luxuo)
If you live in the Danish principality of Rødovre, you may see this queasy-making structure against the skyline. This ‘Sky Village’ is made up of 60 metre square blocks built up around the building’s core. Exactly how is up to the buildiers – meaning that in theory, no two buildings would look alike. We applaud engineering flexibility, but our applause for rock-steady stability is louder. Exactly how will it stay upright, please?
(Image via: freshome)
It may look like a bad or possibly drunken attempt at Photoshopping – but the Walters Towers will soon be reality. Forming an enormous W (possibly standing for “weird”), this apartment block complex in Prague is the slightly fevered work of architects Bjarke Ingels Group, and for obvious reasons, uses the latest in load-bearing building materials.
(Image via: freshome)
Our questions are endless. Do the lifts go diagonally? Is it safe? How would it fit in with the current Prague skyline? Is it safe? Exactly how is the weight distributed? Oh, and is it safe?
(Images via: design boom)
How would you feel about living in a building that looks less built than balanced? This Singaporean residential complex by OMA comprises of 31 six-storey apartment buildings stacked up in a thrilling haphazard manner, with the aim of circulating fresh air around every building. Since this is Singapore, heat loss wouldn’t be a problem – but what about air-con efficiency? And that certainly isn’t a balcony-view for the squeamish.
(Images via: gayol87 and IASeNews)
Costing over $600 million and reaching 51 floors into the blue, the China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing was completed in December 2008. It is built of steel, and its two rakishly-skewed towers had to be joined in the dead of night when the metal was coolest, to prevent expansion distortion. The local nickname? “Big shorts”.
(Image via: daylife / Reuters)
In February this year, it narrowly escaped damage when the nearby Television Cultural Centre caught fire after opening ceremony fireworks went awry. This event has sparked an inquiry into the widespread use of high-explosive fireworks in China – and into the subsequent attempt by national authorities to suppress coverage of the blaze.
(Images via: coolboom)
Commanding what must be one of the most spectacular views in Sydney, the Holman House teeters on the brink of architectural possibilities. Although not quite as unstable as the above photos suggests, the house juts out from the cliff edge so alarmingly that we commend its current occupants for their nerve (and try to hide our jealousy at having that view). But isn’t the Sydney basin prone to earthquakes?
(Image via: dezeen)
The new Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro is an award-winning response to the question “How unconventional can we make a museum look?” Looking like a stylishly collapsing carpark (ahem, arguably), the front-facing “vertical boulevard” hides galleries, auditoriums and even an outdoor cinema perched on top. No word on what the residents of the surrounding tower-blocks think of this last feature.
(Image via: dezeen)
Due to open in 2011, the design is meant to channel the energy of the beach promenade, providing an extension of its movement rather than an interruption. If they could turn one side of those steps into a waterslide, we think it would be made completely perfect.
(Images via: homedesignfind)
As well as challenging our assumptions and sensibilities, good architecture should make us feel happy. So what about this house from Ensamble Studio that seems designed to perturb, upset and make us permanently uneasy? From the swimming pool sticking out into thin air to the apparently badly-supported slab of concrete poking high above the roof, this void-riddled structure is certainly fascinating and challenging…but is it lovable?
(Image via: skyscrapercity)
Unlike with Capital Gate, there is no attempt to subvert the shape of the two towers that make Madrid’s Puerta de Europa. These massive structures (115 metres tall) look like conventional skyscrapers – except ones that lean towards each other at a 15-degree angle.
(Image via: luciapensache)
Completed in 1996, they were the world’s first leaning high-rise buildings (so urbanites who suffer from vertigo, you now have someone to blame for the trend). They are positioned so far apart to provide the room for a subway interchange.
(Image via: arch daily)
The new housing development of Strandkanten in Tromsø, Norway, is 900 decided modernistic homes making best use of reclaimed land – and of design possibilities. The waterfront properties lean out over the water as if they long to go for a dip.
(Image via: arch daily)
After hundreds of years of straight-up window design, how do we feel about windows that themselves lean out, making it impossible for us to safely do so? And there is the potential problem with all these designs: they’re built for people, and need a warm public response to become a success. No matter how ingenious the techniques or how space-age the materials used…are we truly willing to step inside?
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A kiss - a simple act that can convey a diverse array of meanings. A kiss can be intimate and private, or meant for public display, it can convey love and affection, or simply provide comfort. Its use as a greeting is under fire in our current climate of H1N1 fear, as the French government has begun encouraging citizens to forgo "la bise", their traditional cheek-to-cheek kiss, for health reasons. Gathered here are 33 recent photos of kisses expressing greetings and farewells, congratulations and joy, respect and, above all, love. (33 photos total)
Team Columbia rider Mark Cavendish of Britain receives kisses on the podium after winning the second stage of the Tour of Ireland cycling race in Killarney August 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)A couple kiss as they set up at the Climate Camp on Blackheath, in south London, on August 26, 2009. Around 1,000 activists descended Wednesday on a stretch of open land in London after the location of the week-long Climate Camp was finally revealed. Protesters arrived from several areas of the capital to Blackheath in south east London, setting up the camp on a hill overlooking Docklands and Canary Wharf. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) #This picture taken on July 8, 2009, shows Aksentije, 14, a Serbian youth with Downs Syndrome being kissed by his father Sasa as he attends a community center in the southwestern Serbian town Aleksandrovac. Aksentije plays a leading role in a film highlighting the difficulties of disabled persons being accepted into society, and how they strive to triumph over adversity. (ALEXA STANKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images) #Angie Heusinger, firefighter Jonathan Croom's mother, kisses his casket after speaking during a funeral mass for her son at St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Croom was one of two Buffalo firefighters who died Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 after falling through the floor and into the basement of a burning convenience store while searching for a victim who was reported trapped. (AP Photo/Harry B. Scull, J.R.) #Connie Kirchner kisses her cat, Buddy, after finding he had survived the 49er fire that destroyed her home in Auburn, California, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. The 49er fire broke out Sunday, consuming 340 acres, and burned an estimated 50 homes. Kirchner and her family were forced to flee their home Sunday before they could grab Buddy. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) #Brawn GP Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello of Brazil kisses the TV camera on podium after the Italian F1 Grand Prix in Monza September 13, 2009. Barrichello won the race ahead of his team mate Jenson Button of Britian and Ferrari's driver kimi Raikkonen of Finland. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) #Claire Williams, right, and Cori Giroux kiss as they wed at the stroke of midnight in South Burlington, Vermont, on the first day that Vermont's marriage equality law went into effect, September 1st, 2009. The wedding was officiated by Atty. Beth Robinson, left, head of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Taskforce. (AP Photo/Karen Pike) #Kim Clijsters of Belgium kisses the championship trophy after defeating Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in the Women's Singles final on day fourteen of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 13, 2009 in the Queens borough of New York City. Clijsters defeated Wozniacki 7-5, 6-3. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images) #Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, is kissed on the cheek by his uncle as he arrives at the Iraqi Al-Baghdadia studios in Baghdad on September 15, 2009, following his release. Zaidi was released after a nine-month stint in prison. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) #A woman in Taipei logs onto the blog of Yang Ya-ching on September 14 2009 to look at photos posted by Yang about her kissing experiences in Paris. The Taiwanese woman's ambition to kiss 100 men in Paris has become an overnight web sensation after she provided details of the quest on her much-visited blog, so far notching up 54 smooches with photos of some of the encounters. (PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images) #Punk lovers kiss on the Central Pier as rebels from across the world arrive for the Rebellion Festival on August 7, 2009 in Blackpool, England. Thousands of punks have descended on Blackpool seaside resort for the annual Rebellion festival, featuring bands from the heyday of the rebel punk rock movement. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) #Mathilde Anthouard kisses her 4 year-old daughter Penelope in the police department in Athens with on September 14, 2009. Penelope Orfanos, who was kidnapped in October 2007 in France by her Greek father, was found on September 14, 2009 in Athens, according to the police. The father, Kyriakos Orfanos, was arrested, the Greek head of the juvenile police squad Georges Tzanakatis said. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images) #A woman kisses a phial of what local Roman Catholics believe is the blood of Saint Gennaro at the Duomo in Naples in this December 16, 2006 file photo. Fear of H1N1 flu will stop devout Neapolitans from performing the time-honoured ritual of kissing the blood of their patron Saint Gennaro when the city's annual festival begins later this month. The decision to forbid kissing of the glass phial containing the saint's blood was taken reluctantly by ecclesiastical and city authorities on Monday, and has brought protests from local politicians. (REUTERS/Renato Nicois/Agnfoto) #Whitney Toyloy, Miss Switzerland 2009, kisses a dolphin at Dolphin Cay in Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas on August 8, 2009. She is in the Bahamas for the 2009 Miss Universe competition which was held in the Imperial Ballroom at ATLANTIS, Paradise Island on August 23, 2009. (DARREN DECKER/AFP/Getty Images) #
12.Posted by tj_lifephoto September 16, 09 12:36 PMGreat inspirational images. The last one is the funniest!
14.Posted by Sam Daniel September 16, 09 12:42 PMI hope the terrorist around the world get their message.
16.Posted by Brody September 16, 09 12:53 PMHeaven forbid two men kiss romantically. Sadly, still to shocking for most, I suppose.
17.Posted by Marcelo Lombi September 16, 09 12:54 PMGo RUBINHOO BARICHELLO! There´s no brazilian pilot like you
18.Posted by Ritish September 16, 09 01:23 PMBeautiful photographs of a wonderful and eternal expression of love.
20.Posted by Carigis September 16, 09 01:32 PMpapelbons wife looks like a bunch of fun to be around...
22.Posted by rob solomon September 16, 09 01:37 PMeven the dolphin likes a kiss from a pretty girl!
25.Posted by Aamer September 16, 09 02:07 PM23 was very moving.. no father should go through that.. May he find peace
26.Posted by Javaid Anwar September 16, 09 02:08 PMWonderful expressions of love affection and respect
27.Posted by Claire September 16, 09 02:15 PMI'm french and it's very difficult not to do "la bise" when i see my friends or when i arrive at work every morning. I'm the only girl so my "Guys" love this habit!!!!
Cool shot, very positive!28.Posted by khan September 16, 09 02:26 PMI felt real emotion in # 23. It brings tears to my eyes.
29.Posted by Khristopher September 16, 09 02:39 PMThe guy in #1 is a hottie... but where is two men kissing?
32.Posted by bince September 16, 09 03:46 PMnot even a single gay male kiss?
now that's disgusting.very disappointed.
34.Posted by James September 16, 09 04:15 PMVlad, #17 may be gross to you, but note that a kiss is a kiss. One should never be afraid to kiss someone they love, regardless of their age, race, gender, religion, etc.
35.Posted by ethanol September 16, 09 04:28 PMGreat idea and collection but 5 animals and not a male version of #17 is realy strange. Is it so choking ?
And a french kiss ?
;-)36.Posted by adina September 16, 09 04:33 PMvery very nice:)i think are a lot of same moments but no evrybody is doing a photo when it's happend,good luck at kisses.kiss all
*sry 4 my bad english38.Posted by Luke September 16, 09 04:52 PMI agree with questions about male gay kiss. Also, what about famous Madonna & Britney kiss?
39.Posted by Veron September 16, 09 05:49 PMThis is such an amazing collection. Full of emotions, regardless of country, religion or cultural likes and dislikes.
40.Posted by mileslarboy September 16, 09 05:55 PMLoved it, but I've got to agree with #16 and #32.
41.Posted by Apoelistas September 16, 09 06:08 PMOne of the best collections posted here!
Now, a gay male kiss? Who would want to see that???#32 is cute:)
42.Posted by Abraham Jr September 16, 09 06:12 PMI miss Juria, my wife, terribly and passionately! :( I can only kiss her on my computer's webcam for the past six months. I also miss my children and do the same thing.
The 'Collection of Kisses' series reminds me of the final scene from Guiseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, where Salvatore, the lead character, now a filmaker, views the spliced film of kisses as a final remembrance from Alfredo, his passing old theater projectionist friend. Those reading in should see the film!
43.Posted by Anonymous September 16, 09 06:36 PM#17 is so disgusting... Plus I disagree with that law..
45.Posted by inlookout.com September 16, 09 07:46 PMAmazing. A site that celebrates beauty and life and art can still be home for the hateful and the homophobic.
46.Posted by Vicky aka VickStix September 16, 09 08:38 PMI loved them all. So what!!! No male gay kiss. Geez.. people lighten up. There IS a gay kiss in the collection. Gay is gay, so they covered that minority. If they had two men, then everyone would be complaining that there was no female gay kiss.
I love the dolphin one. I have a picture of myself, just like that one. :-) One of the best days in my life, since I had always wanted to swim with the dolphins. They are such majestic creations. And that picture brought back that memory. :-)
Thx for the great collection.
47.Posted by Nellie September 16, 09 08:49 PMWhy are people always complaining. Buy your own camera equipment, shoot a series of quality pictures on a topic of your choice and then publish it lal under your own name. Amen.
I love these series of pictures and it is difficult enough to get a few good shots on a topic, to get 32 of them. Thank you is what I say.49.Posted by AnneP in Grafton, Massachusetts September 16, 09 09:28 PMAbsolutely love photo #11- Jonathan Papelbon with daughter Parker. Nothing can melt my heart faster than seeing a new father holding his young daughter with such adoration and protection.
50.Posted by daltonic1 September 16, 09 09:30 PMthought i'd see at least ONE picture of Paul Stanley in this mix...
51.Posted by Asif Iqbal September 16, 09 11:17 PMGood collection of pictures and great moments as well.
Keep it up..
52.Posted by lmak September 16, 09 11:25 PMi would have liked to see more gay kisses. c'mon people - we exist and we kiss.
53.Posted by Pastor Keith September 16, 09 11:54 PMWhy on earth would totally desecrate a wonderful picture display with picture #17? Please, please, understand that my opinion is worthless and to be honest I DO NOT HATE gay people. Either Jesus exists or He does not, if He does not then there is nothing wrong with gay people marrying each other but if Jesus does exist we had better do as He says. Jude Verse 7 says: “just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.”
54.Posted by Christine September 17, 09 01:43 AMEnjoyed the pics ;) People should stop complaining about what's on this display and what's not. I think it's great!
55.Posted by Daid September 17, 09 04:11 AM#23..... sigh.....picture does entail more than a thousand words
57.Posted by deubci September 17, 09 05:45 AM#30 gross. That old blood must be pretty fetid by now.
58.Posted by mmennonno September 17, 09 06:32 AMIn my family, sons kiss their fathers. In sports men often kiss when they make the goal. Men in some countries kiss in greeting. The sad thing about not including men kissing here is that it indicates an almost pathological aversion to men showing any sort of affection to one another whatsoever. That's not only sad, it's sick.
59.Posted by Jim Pettit September 17, 09 07:24 AMTwo things:
1) Excellent collection, as usual.
2) Thank God for Vermont.!
61.Posted by Gustav September 17, 09 08:29 AMAll pictures tell a whole story. I love them all. My personal favourite is 32.
64.Posted by Tom September 17, 09 08:34 AM#7 is stunning
I am sad by all the hate over picture #17 - showing a picture of two people who are in love kissing is not horrible. People need to quit with all their bigotry and grow up
67.Posted by NorwoodGuy September 17, 09 10:57 AM#53: Your post desecrates these comments with your intolerance. I think Jesus would have taken all of the people into his heart, not just the ones you like. If anything, Jesus stood up for those that had no representation. Perhaps you should too.
69.Posted by kim September 17, 09 12:25 PM#17 is wonderful to see. Cheers to you for including it!
Thank you so much, it made my day.70.Posted by Living-God Mel September 17, 09 12:41 PMSeriously cracking up that more people are offended by two women kissing (#17) than one women kissing 100 men (#25)
America, f*ck yeah!
71.Posted by mdmadph September 17, 09 02:17 PM@Pastor Keith
Jesus never said anything about marriage, sorry.
The book of Jude that you quote was not written by him -- as I recall, Jesus never wrote anything down.
For all we know he was totally fine with two ladies (or Brad Pitt's) locking lips.
74.Posted by elkram September 17, 09 04:22 PMHoly Crap #17... Does everything in life have to have religious overtones and implications? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
75.Posted by Anonymous September 17, 09 04:57 PMReligion has no place in the law-books. Period. What one religion or group thinks is wrong is just fine by another. The last time I checked, America isn't a theocracy, but it seems to be turning into a theocrazy. This is why we have a separation of church and state!
You people who are full of hate toward gay people falling in love and wanting to recognize it like every other citizen need to keep their bigotry to yourselves.
76.Posted by Ricky Heredia September 17, 09 06:13 PMExcelentes fotos, gracias por compartir momentos marcados con tanta emoción!!,, saludos
77.Posted by Abhishek September 17, 09 11:41 PM#23 - What to say about it .. A pain I am feeling since I seen it ..
You had done an AWESOME work ..
78.Posted by Chris September 17, 09 11:49 PMExcellent photos! #2 is my favorite, however, I'm struck not by the kiss but by the woman standing there waiting.
80.Posted by Gaurav September 18, 09 02:49 AMGlad to see love around!... Thank you for wonderful moments.
82.Posted by Elena September 18, 09 08:00 AMThanks for the beautiful kind photos! :)
I am from Russia, and my personal favorite photo is # 10!84.Posted by Pastor Keith September 18, 09 10:18 AM@ mdmadph
It is funny how we twist things to try and make our point. I never said Jesus wrote anything DOWN did I? I said if Jesus is God we had better listen to him. The bible is inspired by God, Jesus is God, you do the math...The bible doesn’t say not to molest children; it doesn’t say not to sell drugs it doesn’t say a lot of things, are these things okay, or are the precepts in place. By the way the bible has a lot to say about marriage and how we are to live our lives. As for your last comment “For all we know he was totally fine with two ladies (or Brad Pitt's) locking lips.” Actually we do know that Jesus would not be fine with two ladies (or Brad Pitt's) locking lips, because He hates sin and He decides what sin is. This is not a comment on hating anyone I DO NOT HATE GAY PEOPLE.
85.Posted by Cori September 18, 09 12:17 PMWhat I find interesting is that there are people who would be offended by two gay females kissing, but if they saw two 'hot' actresses/models kissing it would be more than fine.
And @ Pastor Keith:
Your disclaimer that you "DO NOT HATE GAY PEOPLE" doesn't negate your post. Sorry.86.Posted by aneez September 18, 09 02:33 PM#23 is heart breaking. The pain of the father is caught so vividly in the picture.
87.Posted by german torres September 18, 09 03:12 PMA KISS ENCLOSES ALL THE WORDS THAT WE CAN´T SAY
88.Posted by Haplo September 18, 09 10:07 PMWell, this is the closest we've been here to F1, so it's good :)
89.Posted by noontide September 18, 09 10:24 PMDoes anyone see a much deeper political symbolism in #26?
America, symbolized by the statue of liberty ...
kissing (endorsing?)
communism, symbolized by the deep red and arc of a sickle in the old Soviet flag.
Just a thought.
91.Posted by french fan September 19, 09 02:39 AMJust discovered boston.com, wonderful pictures. thanks for that: a real pleasure...
93.Posted by GoSoakYourHead September 19, 09 04:32 AMUgh, people just STOP. Love is Love.
Get over it.
Us queers are not going away.
Learn to accept it.
For all the shit and ignorance you say about us, maybe we should start straight bashing you.How would you like it if you were judged because you like the opposite sex?
I could walk around saying " EWW Straight people! go to hell you breeders!"
...doesn't sound too nice huh.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But when you use your opinion to disrespect others and mentally/physically abuse them because of it, you lose that right.
94.Posted by Craig Eastman September 19, 09 09:02 AMHas anyone considered that the reason for no male-on-male kissing may just be that, on this occasion, the editor doesn't have a decent picture to hand? Let's not automatically assume that they "can't confront it".
95.Posted by Danish September 20, 09 09:15 AMAll Great Pictures!!!
I just want to know, who or what is holding the flag in pic # 3..
96.Posted by Kevin September 20, 09 11:07 AMBreakdown
10 Inanimate object kisses (flags, trophies, camara, glass, net, shoe, track and religious icon
6 members of the opposite sex
6 children
5 other species (cat, lion, dog, dolphin and sea lion)
3 dead relatives (coffins included here)
1 sports winner
1 relative (nephew)
1 member of the same sexThis is like a 13 year old girl's idea of what kisses are about.
97.Posted by Biscotti Boy September 20, 09 12:11 PM"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." -source unknown.
Thanks for the beautiful pictures.
98.Posted by Ritumbra September 20, 09 12:20 PMSo true,.... A kiss jus speaks everything, so many countless emotions can be said by just a Kiss... Like many of us, I also got tears, specially for the Father who kissed his dead son and the mother who kissed the casket of her son ....
Amazing Amazing !!
99.Posted by bdbd September 20, 09 02:14 PMAs the t-shirt says, "Feelings are boring, kissing is awesome!" Nice collection
101.Posted by pappi_singh September 20, 09 02:55 PMAfter going through all the photos, I came to a sad realisation - we Indians really don't kiss at all do we ?
102.Posted by Yussuf Ayoub September 20, 09 04:31 PM# 21 # 22 & # 23
# 21 kissing his shoe
# 22 threw his shoes got imprisoned now kissed by uncle
# 23 kissing son who has been killed by air strike. All the agony of a father.
All three are sad pics. All clinging to show their willingness to depart from sadness by those simple kisses
103.Posted by Mick Rogers September 21, 09 12:00 AMAll these photographs are unique in their own special way...some are very touching...especially some of the funeral ones, the elderly lady kissing her cat after losing all she owned stuck in my throat
104.Posted by eduardo September 21, 09 06:13 PMNot surprised no gay guys kissing... Should someone viewing these pics find gay couples kissing offensive, Its usually two guys makin out that people find more offensive so they use a girl couple instead. Could just be they didn't find a good photo either (although, I am dubious that is the case..)
107.Posted by Hannah September 22, 09 06:45 AMWhat do I say about no.17. this is simply not God's creation!
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