When I first read the comment, I thought Dave had said "fragrant wreckless" behavior - that would be funny given that it's a toilet bowl and the act would be full of wreckage below. :)
Thanks abbot - I've fixed the photo. Cayetanno Ferrer's "transparent" street art is probably one of the most interesting street arts I've seen in a while.
For those who like the Urban Bloods collective, check out the "subversive" Art Not Oil, as featured in Neatorama before.
The drama of the competition, the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat, Yayo, are the reasons that the spelling bee contest was put on live TV (on ABC, of course!).
First of all, Neatorama owes a lot to its readers, such as yourself, so thank you for coming to the blog (especially those who have been coming since August 2005 when Neatorama started).
I'm sorry to read that you won't be coming around anymore, and even sorrier to hear that the reason was not because of the content but because of the presence of advertising on the blog.
As you and other readers may have noticed, Neatorama recently went down twice for a prolonged period of time (and actually only twice since we began).
The first was when Neatorama was forced off a shared server because of its growing traffic and hence load on the server. I was forced to spend more money to move it to a VPS hosting plan.
The second time Neatorama went down was a few weeks afterwards, when it was forced off yet again from the VPS for overloading that server! I tried to cut down on the number of entries displayed, but that didn't work well as a solution.
The next step was a dedicated server, which is actually much, much more expensive. I didn't want to charge readers (who would pay anyways?) or beg for donations, so the solution was to add advertising to the blog to help defray the cost of hosting and bandwidth.
Finding the appropriate advertisers was actually also a challenge: I wanted no adult, alcohol, pop-under, pop-up, floating types of ads (and of course, those are the types of ads that pay the most!)
I hope I was able to find a happy balance between the needs of having advertisements and keeping the blog interesting to its readers.
I'm not complaining - actually, I was quite proud and happy of this little blog that could. I hope that you will change your mind and visit again.
For those who like the Urban Bloods collective, check out the "subversive" Art Not Oil, as featured in Neatorama before.
To spiiderweb: what? me? obsessed? never!
Rollmops, is there a background story to that grill? I'd very much like to update the post with it...
Bobby, thanks for the correction!
First of all, Neatorama owes a lot to its readers, such as yourself, so thank you for coming to the blog (especially those who have been coming since August 2005 when Neatorama started).
I'm sorry to read that you won't be coming around anymore, and even sorrier to hear that the reason was not because of the content but because of the presence of advertising on the blog.
As you and other readers may have noticed, Neatorama recently went down twice for a prolonged period of time (and actually only twice since we began).
The first was when Neatorama was forced off a shared server because of its growing traffic and hence load on the server. I was forced to spend more money to move it to a VPS hosting plan.
The second time Neatorama went down was a few weeks afterwards, when it was forced off yet again from the VPS for overloading that server! I tried to cut down on the number of entries displayed, but that didn't work well as a solution.
The next step was a dedicated server, which is actually much, much more expensive. I didn't want to charge readers (who would pay anyways?) or beg for donations, so the solution was to add advertising to the blog to help defray the cost of hosting and bandwidth.
Finding the appropriate advertisers was actually also a challenge: I wanted no adult, alcohol, pop-under, pop-up, floating types of ads (and of course, those are the types of ads that pay the most!)
I hope I was able to find a happy balance between the needs of having advertisements and keeping the blog interesting to its readers.
I'm not complaining - actually, I was quite proud and happy of this little blog that could. I hope that you will change your mind and visit again.