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I am all for simple weddings. My wedding had under 20 guests and cost very little money. I believe spending lots of money on a wedding is silly. If you blow all your cash on the ceremony then who’s going to pay for the counseling and therapy? This picture set is just too funny. Liz is getting married again. She already has four kids from her previous two bad relationships. I can’t satirize this, just read the set description. The toasts must have been precious.

ETA: The pictures and comments have been removed as I feared they would be but I am keeping this post alive because that photoset truly made my day when it came out.

Years ago when I first logged onto Flickr I found this crazy shot of two British guys in a shower. No doubt the tag spamming had a lot to do with it. I found the whole photo stream to be very intriguing. They show a world of bored teenagers drinking and doing drugs. Everything about these drab and depressing pictures is foreign to me. The pictures are so amateur, that they look like a styled photo shoot. I like the unpolished. Real = Art.
This week I am not really featuring a fetishist per say but someone who takes amazing photos in the same style. However they professional photographers. The surreal world of Jake Dow Smith and Jonnie Craig of Hello Television in England who takes the strangest most surreal photos. Some of their work has been featured in Vice Magazine. Again, everything in his photos is different from the color, the poses, the objects. They all combine to create something original. When Wes Anderson put his retro-dressing characters in a house filled with the latest technology… from 1963 he is essentially trying to create the same illusion. Jake and Jonnie seem to spend everyday in that retro-futuristic world.

I noticed James’ Flickr a really long time ago. He has published hundreds of pictures of store mannequins and I once wrote him a message about how it makes my day to run into a display professional while he/she is creating a presentation. Oh and I called him a fetishist, oops! His reply was really nice nonetheless, here’s an excerpt.

So you call this a fetish eh .. well it could be that or just a obsession with mannequins for me as I love collecting them as well and shooting what ever display they are in as they do take photographs well don’t they and they never want anything from you for taking their pictures - James (5 Dec ‘05, 3.17pm EST)

I am awed by his dedication to preserving artistic displays that only last a few weeks.

Tune in next week to meet another Flickr Fetishist… If you have 120 unbelievably creative pictures of yourself on Flickr, you do not represent one of the candidates who could go on to having the honor of being considered as a pick for our Flickr Fetishist, but you rock nonetheless!

This is Ballet Bob from Atlanta, Georgia. He is forty-ish, married and enjoys dressing up in costumes and studying ballet. He is pictured here on “One of the RARE Times I got off my Lazy Butt to work out, and the only time I done it in Fishnets.” I’m glad to read he doesn’t work out in fishnet stockings all the time, that would be too weird. Bob has the exact same taste in shoes as myself, however, when I walk around in Mary Janes or ballet flats, nobody blogs about it. That’s why Bob is our Flickr Fetishist of the Week!

Tune in next week to meet another Flickr Fetishist… Congratulations, if you have 582 pictures of your hamster Chmurka on Flickr, you represent one of the candidates who could go on to having the honor of being considered as a pick for our Flickr Fetishist of the Week!