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It’s when a client does something that feels scuzzy. Something that isn’t technically against your contract, but you’re still pushpins-in-your-pants uncomfortable with it. Or when you go buy something at a store, then get home and realize that the coupon (which was the whole reason you bought the item) is still folded neatly at the…
I couldn’t even tell you what grade I was in. Just that I was happily skipping along through the list of classroom tasks when I grabbed our daily coloring sheet and saw a map of the United States. “Oh, cool!” I thought. “I know exactly what I’ll do with this!” And I set about coloring…
The light flashed across the lens as I shifted the tripod to find the right frame. I set the camera on “timer,” went to stand directly in the firing line, and waited. Then rushed back to look at the LCD screen, then set it up again, and waited. Again. And again. At first, every click…
The prison gates shut with a reverberating claaang. Somber violins threaten in the background. Prisoners lurk and grapple against the bars of their cells, following you as you hurry to pass by. And then, the climactic moment. The camera whirls around the corner, as if pulled, and shows…. A man, standing serenely in the center…