Urban Tomato was the name of my Latin Death-Ska band in college. Or not.
Because I can’t just take a photo of an urban tomato, I went and did some weirdo double-exposure thing in Photoshop. Yes, I said urban tomato. More about this photo, and this week’s links after the break.
I was taking photos of cracks in the pavement at the site of the old Lansing City Market when I spotted this greenish-yellow orb out of the corner of my eye.
There! In the fading day light, I spotted a lone tomato growing through the cracks in the pavement.
A strip of CAUTION tape wrapped itself around the plant’s base, as if to say, “LOOK AT ME.”
The succulent orb beckoned me nearer, and I felt like that guy in Alien moments before the alien egg opened up and his face was attacked by a Facehugger. Was this plant safe?
Who cares? It made for a neat photo. I decided to do a double exposure effect in Photoshop to add to the weirdness.
Links!
- Monday’s Photo: Rain Wall (taken in Lansing, MI).
- Tuesday’s Photo: A Plethora of Mr. Pricklepants (taken at the Magic Kingdom in Florida).
- Wednesday’s Photo: Mexico Temple at Epcot and a review of KOLA manual color filters (taken at Epcot in Florida).
- Wednesday’s Reverb 10 Drawing: One Word.
- Thursday’s Photo: Shadow Lantern (taken at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI)
- Thursday’s Reverb 10 Drawing: Writing.
- Friday’s Photo: All Cracked Up (taken in Lansing, MI).
- Friday’s Reverb 10 Drawing: One Moment.
- Saturday’s Reverb 10 Drawing: Wonder.
- Sunday’s Reverb10 Drawing: Let go.
Other links!
- I wrote about Science Fiction and Fantasy History Month for the Ginger and the Geek blog.
- And my Ginger cohort, Kat Cooper, came up with some free holiday labels for y’all to download.
- As you can tell by the extra posts above, I signed up to take part in the Reverb 10 project.
- There’s a great blog by Stewart Sternberg on the Elder Signs Press blog about why he started up Science Fiction and Fantasy History Month.
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Daniel J. Hogan is a freelance writer, podcaster, and a photoblogger. He hides in the shadows of Lansing, Michigan. Follow him on Twitter, @danieljhogan.
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Tomatoes are incredibly hardy unless they are growing in my yard. I once found some very successful tomato plants growing out of cracks in the pavement behind the Hannah Plaza.
I can agree with that — my one attempt at growing a plant on my balcony was an Epic Fail. Yet, this plant grew all by itself. Weird.