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15-MAR-2007

Origin of Velcro

I'm holding the burr, (which attached itself to me quite
uninvited), with my high tech photo gloves.

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Bernard Bosmans06-Jul-2007 10:14
Hilarious what a great hairdo and a you're a stylish velcro photographer.
Guest 15-Jun-2007 04:51
SPECTACULAR - LOVE IT!!!
Soenda18-May-2007 21:36
Well it WAS the inspiration for one of 'em. Usually the one I wake up with. ;^D
Guest 18-May-2007 20:04
Love this - at first ah thought it was yore new hairstyle!

Mike :o)
Guest 11-May-2007 21:47
Fascinating shot - and an hilarious description of your techno-glove technique!
j>a>e>17 :):):)09-May-2007 06:39
a direct descendant of Raymond Burr I am sure :):):)
love this :):):)
12302-May-2007 06:09
Awesome title, strong composition, and an excellent DOF. Voted
marie-jose wolff16-Mar-2007 13:03
very fun image!
Soenda16-Mar-2007 05:01
Oh yes, all the trendy photographers here have photo gloves. They're exclusive custom jobs.

You start with a pair of those tiny little knit jobs---the kind that look like they'd only fit preschoolers, but stretch out very well. You take exact measurements of each finger that operates a button, dial, lever or joystick on the camera. Then surgical slits are made in the gloves over the pads of just those fingers. The tension in the yarn eases the incisions into little oval openings right where you need them.

Next, you take the high quality, lint free gloves you buy by the gross at Sally's Beauty Supply, and which you had cut off all the finger tips from last fall before you gave it any thought, and which proved to be only slightly warmer than wearing no gloves at all, and you pull those over the wooly knit gloves.

After the first several times that you put these fine photographers' accessories on the wrong hands, which fact you only discover after you are out in the ice and snow, at which point the slits are on the wrong sides of the fingers (of both hands!) and which prevent you from operating anything other than the camera neck strap, you learn to carefully keep the left glove in the left pocket, and so on, until all the gloves are in the correct, corresponding pockets.

Then, if you are very clever, you try to avoid getting burrs on the tips of the fingers of these gloves. Because once you have a cockleburr on the tips of the fingers of one glove, you have cockleburr bits on the tips of the fingers of both gloves, rendering you unable to operate anything on the camera except the neck strap.

But they look really cool, don't they!
Lee G16-Mar-2007 04:31
Photo gloves!? You have all the trendy hi-tech gear.
That is one sinister looking berry.
Guest 16-Mar-2007 03:12
Cackle berries of course. I should have known that. Nice detail and color. V
Henster 16-Mar-2007 00:32
You can see its little hooks. No wonder it is hard to get rid off.
1moremile16-Mar-2007 00:14
You are so smart. It really is the origin. Very good. v.