sigma7 | Flip that house

Make sure you get to see the New York Times online gallery of Edgar Martins's work. It's an interesting exploration of the spaces in which....

It's what? Shopped? Hrm, so it is. (I love the MetaFilter thread. It's like listening to the zeitgeist talk to itself.)

Normally it's just an embarrassment, but for someone who hangs his hat on the lack of digital manipulation, it hollows his life's work something fierce. Reminds me of the conversation with

dawnmipb about whether memoirs could/should have any story craft beyond the inevitable point-of-view embellishment. My stance was/is no, because giving it the label "memoir" has to mean something, and it's such a shallow, simple restriction that you should have no problem adhering to it, or if you feel compelled to violate it, change the wrapping to fiction. If you want to tout yourself as Photoshop-free, then there's only one thing you need to do, and Martins failed to do it repeatedly.

And an interview with the Minnesotan who called shenanigans. He invokes Linus's Law, and that makes me happy.

Also, which is the bigger faux pas, showing up for a dental appointment (a) five days late or (b) naked? (I'll bet Ambien was involved. To put your mind at rest, I do not have a good tan.)