As if you didn’t know: stock photography is absolutely infamous for being the most facile and obvious photos to communicate moods, ideas, and images.
So how this charming collection of what-in-the-hell ever made it to stock libraries is truly beyond me, but thank you Buzzfeed for putting it together.
Some of my favorites from the collection:
via Tori Main
Every second of this is just horrible. On every level.
Fantastic.
via Cynical C
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uh…here’s some hate?
I really don’t know how this can be topped. First off: kid lip synching contest in Philippines. Secondly: the song – sheer ironic joy. Thirdly: oh my god the performance. You never ever saw this coming.
How can they POSSIBLY have made such a crap, 80s-style, corporate/industrial film for this totally fucking amazing technology? It’s so bad – I don’t think this Claytronics technology is for real.
Seriously. Who did this? They should have their nose rubbed in it like a bad dog.
Pat Robertson brought his unmatched insight into global political history to the current catastrophe in Haiti and pronounced the crisis a result of Haiti’s pact with the devil to get France out of their country.
How could I have missed this chapter in my political history classes? Thank you Pat Robertson. You make the thinkers of America cringe once again.
Uh…should we not be reading into this?