A Fourth Idea
Last week’s post was called Three Ideas, but then I had another.
Idea #4: Find The Horse
Idea four is a game. The game is called Find The Horse. It can mostly be played in cities, but also in towns. It requires no animals. It requires a museum.
Every museum has a horse. It’s true, probably. A player wins Find the Horse by finding the museum’s horse. It’s up to all the players to decide on a museum ahead of time. The game is for 1-99 players.
Ready, set, find the horse! But first you might want to secure press credentials, which will get you free admission to the museum. Otherwise you’ll have to spend thirty dollars, and the prize for winning Find the Horse is twenty dollars. So you’re winning at a deficit without press credentials.
How do I secure press credentials?
Type ‘newspaper’ into monster.com or something; I don’t know.
Once you have your press credentials, you may enter the museum for free. You may even wear a hat with a PRESS tag stuck in the ribbon. You may even carry a Gralfex with a single-use bulb flash on a big handle, use the camera to photograph the horse once you find it. Try saying, “what a scoop!” when you do.
The museum will really think you are press if you say that.
When you take the picture, a security guard will yell at you for blasting the horse with your ancient flash. No flash photography in the museum!
“That’s okay,” you say, “it was a single-use bulb.” You pop out the spent bulb, which flies to the floor. You crush it beneath the heel of your boot. The security guard smiles and murmurs into a walkie-talkie.
Truth be told, there are many ways to go about finding the horse. The above is just one way. But if you go that route, you run the risk of getting lapped by a pre-vetted “journalist” working with modern technology, with an iPhone camera. That “journalist” may even be me. Surprise!
I win!
By the way, I was recently reminded that iPhones use something called “computational photography” to take their pictures. It’s different than other sorts of photography. But I wonder: Do I have to think about computational photography, or may I please remain focused on finding the horse?
Snow Stumper #49
The weekly column where I try to answer the photo-questions posed by David Webster’s 1968 book Snow Stumpers, one by one.
What kind of animal would get food by digging a hole like this?
my answer: the animal who is hungry for potato. the animal who is hungry for onion. the animal who is hungry for carrot. it all comes from the ground, can you even believe it?! i like this animal! it likes the ground!
actual answer: Squirrels often make holes in the snow in search of food underneath.
Worm
