• Barfy heart. - Kungfukitten
  • I totally meant to note that... it was late!

Day 122: Just Keep Swimming...

Once upon a time (ok, so just over a month ago) there was a man... who went by the moniker d.rex. Basically, he was obsessed with getting into Explore. He figured his girly legs and Stripey Silliness was the way to go (and boy, was he right!)
Seeing the possibilities before him, he decided to share the love/power of the "barfy heart" emblazoned socks he'd acquired for the star shot! A beautiful lady, known by most as ambrosialove, was bequeathed the fabulous footwear... and thus began the elusive Sisterhood! *shouts and chants of "Long Live The Sisterhood" are heard from the gathering crowds*
Simple laws were established, as any good reign realizes is necessary. First, and foremost, thou must use the goods in an endeavor of auto-portraiture post-haste. Finally, as current custodian, you may determine who is worthy of the honor after you!
Up for the challenge, the aforementioned lovely was tutu much for us all! Some 62uolegnaiam felt a formal twist was deserved. ~*Cherron*~ had us seeing Socks, socks, socks and more socks, while a knock knee'd...Skymama showed how scary the Explore phenomenon/pressure can be to all the sisters! Next thing you know, Miss Dyxie pulled a fast one on everyone, and didn't wear them on her legs! Once the socks were sent north... any & everything short of sanity was expected. A [usually] manly-man, calling himself alaskanmariner, set aflame the motto, "Never Stop Exploring". He put this into immediate practice by hopping into his modern dogsled, and hand delivering the socks to an newly adopted sister northpolemama... who showed that even the north pole dwellers can be found soaking in the sun. Much unlike mivox, who gets her kicks & giggles with more Xtreme behavior! (Girls these days!)
Once the dust, er ice, settled, it was time for an entertainment break. Never one to disappoint, Kungfukitten put on a show Sock Puppet Style and Fred & Enid were natural-born stars! For those worried at this point in our adventures that the socks have gone the dogs... fear not. Qathi was not eating the catfood (I couldn't smell it on her breath at least... so I'm convinced!)

After all that, somehow I was given the privilege to follow suit, er sock... and I aim to please.

I present to you, the SOTTS: underwater!

Imagine, if you may, a girl... at a pool... with knee high stripey-socks, and an underwater camera apparatus... I soon had a crowd around me, and the pool was basically empty (as I'd timed it accordingly, so as not to give many any heebie jeebies!)

more to come later... for now, I must post (or folks will surely keel over and die!) and get some sleep... swimming & SOTTS can wear a girl out!

[ftr: I'm experiencing my first ever issue of "this is not what I see on my computer" with flickr... I know all the good of using standardRGB, alas I'm simply using iPhoto, so I don't know where the translation is being lost... *growl*
Seriously, it looks pertier than this, promise!
-update-
Ok, I've read around for way too long, and it's an issue of firefox's interpretation, or lack thereof, of the color profile. I've tried to "convert" the shot to sRGBm but I'm only running Elements on this computer... so I'll send the whole flie to anyone who can convert it and preserve the EXIF... otherwise I'll try JDM's comp & Aperture sometime later!]

[blogged & blogged elsewhere]

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    artsy_T, sarah. reed., crossmage, Grodada, and 130 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. taminsea (74 months ago | reply)

    OMG! This is Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) Amancay you rock girl! =)

  3. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    yay... thank you, I think I needed that!

  4. endswith_y (74 months ago | reply)

    This is cool! The last thing I need is encouragement to wear my own stripey socks while swimming =P

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  5. monsieurpotts (74 months ago | reply)

    I think this looks radiant as-is. I really like the colors and the bubbles.

  6. artsy_T (74 months ago | reply)

    love!! a swimmin' sock sista!!

  7. sarah. reed. (74 months ago | reply)

    :) cute!

  8. crossmage (74 months ago | reply)

    What a fun thing to encounter before work - amphibious footware and a story and journey to boot. I'll be thinking and grinning about this all day.

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  9. PoeticaL (74 months ago | reply)

    I love this. I just finished reading a book called "Broken Open - How difficult times can help us grow by Elizabeth Lesser" Within the book she speaks about how we try to go against the current of life or we just tread the water and grow tired....and that what we need to do is have faith that we're strong enough to just keep swimming."

    So then I come to flickr today and here's your picture. I don't find most things in life to be mere coincidence.

  10. ambrosialove (74 months ago | reply)

    Holy linkage! How long did it take for you to write that description!

    I love all the little bubbles in this underwater shot! Stripes and bubbles go well together!

  11. DorothySH (74 months ago | reply)

    This is absoultely amazing. I love this shot.

  12. d.rex (74 months ago | reply)

    Wow! This is completely original and awesome. Great job sistah!!! :-)

    LLTS!

    And yeah, seriously...that description must have taken forEVER! You rock.
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  13. d.rex (74 months ago | reply)

    You are now the new group icon. Yay! :-)

  14. d.rex (74 months ago | reply)

    ALSO...

    ...love the Nemo reference. :)
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  15. The Flooz (74 months ago | reply)

    yay for swimmy socks!!! incredibley original :)

  16. [ circle k ] (74 months ago | reply)

    fun shot! go SOTTS!

  17. Red Sash Photography {kristin blessing} (74 months ago | reply)

    Whoo Hoo! Amanky! This is great! Love it!

  18. Agent Retro (74 months ago | reply)

    Love this!!! Long live SOTTS! I hope I eventually get a chance with the most famous socks on Flickr! : )

  19. There's A Kite! (74 months ago | reply)

    Best one yet!

  20. Rachel.::.K (74 months ago | reply)

    This is so totally awesome. Nice job!

    Love live SOTTS!

  21. bass_nroll (74 months ago | reply)

    love the Idea!

    really nice,
    a fav!
    Seen on Explore

  22. The Socks Collection Project ™ (74 months ago | reply)

    swimming in socks! wow!

  23. northpolemama (74 months ago | reply)

    supersupersuper shot!! Love it!

  24. Rachel-B (74 months ago | reply)

    wooo! LLTS! This is amazing and awesome! ;) you did a great, great job! I love the bubbles and the kicking legs. and yay for you for getting in the pool with those on! ;) and man, that is a forever long description - go you! Now I want to see outtakes! ;)

  25. mivox (74 months ago | reply)

    hahahaha ... that's fantastic! :-) (and WOW to your description ... DAY-UM girl, no wonder it took so long! hahahah)

  26. Dyxie (74 months ago | reply)

    That was the longest description and tags I have ever seen. You did a GREAT job!!!!!!

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  27. jenicra84 (74 months ago | reply)

    Hope this makes Explore!!!

  28. Christy9799 (74 months ago | reply)

    so cool!

  29. sadandbeautiful (Sarah) (74 months ago | reply)

    OMG...this is fantastic!! I lost track of the SOTTS socks for a minute there!

    Amazing...really great job. And holy tags! LOL.

  30. mary.abigail (74 months ago | reply)

    I love this!!

  31. Kungfukitten (74 months ago | reply)

    I didn't know Fred and Enid could swim. Thanks for taking the socks to a new and exciting fronteir. You rocks the socks!! (Also I think you might be missing a > after "Never Stop Exploring" above. That will fix the extended linkage. ;)

  32. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    oh my... I don't even know where to begin, everyone... seriously, thanks for the response & encouragement! wow!

    ah... but it's so much fun!

    I'm pretty fond of the bubble myself, was a big part of the final desision factoring... but what are you running? 'cause what I see is dull (in comparison to the vibrancy I see in iPhoto!)

    I aim to please... and grow grins!

    Coincidence, Schmincidence... God is good, all the time!

    with some of my own rabbit tailings... approx. an hour after all was said and done... way later than I'd expected! *heavy sigh*

    I was going for original... the awesome is just a bonus, I guess?
    I love the fact that you returned 3x in a row to comment...

    does this mean "you're back"? or is it the mere draw of the SOTTS that got you out from behind the lurking shadows?

    you will... even if it takes a while. I honestly didn't expect my turn to come so soon!

    wow... that's a big statement... thanks!

    *had to go look* ok, so you're across the world... I'll have to wait until later tonight to even see where I end up! Thanks for the visit!

    yeah, it's the newest thing, hadn't you heard!?

    a triple shot of "super" *beams*

    ah yes, the outtakes... coming soon to a stream near you! (I took over 100 shots, including some in the park before the pool cleared of a school group... so yeah, watch out! I fear you may be seeing them for weeks to come!)

    I needed a good writing exercise... plus it was fun... and when I put my mind to something, it will come out with bells on!

    yay... if I can thrill Dyxie, i've officially made it in flickr world... right!?

    it better at least hit the bottom ranks or I might just have an emotional breakdown... singing "Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me" at the top of my lungs... looking for worms for consumption!

    one must always track the SOTTS (that should be another rule!)
    and um... yeah, I love tags... always have!

    ok girl... now go, immediately, and get on the waiting list to join the sisterhood! you hear me!?

  33. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    yay... they were a bit weary of the proposed adventure... had to drug 'em a bit ;)

    *fixed linkage issues*

  34. Kungfukitten (74 months ago | reply)

    Yeeaaaaa! I saw you on Explooooooore!

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  35. Rachel-B (74 months ago | reply)

    woo! I see it too! there on page 27. ;) weird that the firefox thingy isn't showing it, but whatev! it's totally there!

    crap. that means the streak continues and the pressure is still on... ;)

  36. ambrosialove (74 months ago | reply)

    The greasemonkey extension never shows it for photos uploaded that day, right? I came to that conclusion based on my own observations, but I'm not a hundred percent sure on that.

  37. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    the issue is that the day hasn't culminated around here... yet, once it does, explore officially exists for the day gone by...

  38. Sandman5 (74 months ago | reply)

    Excellent shot! Congrats! Seen in Explore!
    You might want to add it to 365 Explored.
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  39. ambrosialove (74 months ago | reply)

    But Explore exists for today already. I really just think the script has some issues with things.

    www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/2007/05/03 /

  40. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    its there... hidden-esque, for me. Until midnight... I can't get to it, straight up from the explore page!

  41. Rachel-B (74 months ago | reply)

    ah! that makes sense then. good to know - I guess I never really paid that close attention before. ;)

  42. A girl and her dog (74 months ago | reply)

    Bubbles! Love them. You get so many bonus points for doing this in a public place. You ROCK!

    Long live the SOTTS!

  43. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    yay... I'm all about the bonus points... can I turn them in or a trophy?

  44. ellie_4_jc (74 months ago | reply)

    LOVE it. :) Well worth the wait. ;)

  45. KatColorado (74 months ago | reply)

    they look great underwater - and it was a good way to say time - shooting and washing at the same time ;-)

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  46. jeneyepher (74 months ago | reply)

    awesome job.
    hooray for the sisterhood!!!!
    wonderful capture.

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  47. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    the wait? as in the wait for you to come see them?

    that's me... all about multi-tasking/killing two birds with one stone (or shot!)

    you're sweet!

  48. ferrous (74 months ago | reply)

    brilliant!!! my favourite sotts pics so far, i reckon! yay!!

    LLTS!! :-D

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  49. ferrous (74 months ago | reply)

    oh .. & the story was awesome, too. love what you did there. :-D

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  50. amanky (74 months ago | reply)

    hearing that means a lot... both the "best yet" and the story nod...
    thanks!

  51. Wooble (74 months ago | reply)

    Nice shot. I hope you rinsed all of the chlorine out of them immediately after getting out of the pool, though :)

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