What do all these pictures have in common?

Yes, newsletter subscribers, you are getting two emails today along the theme: What do all these pictures have in common? One is from the Life is a Fountain Newsletter, and one is from the Clerkmanifesto blog posting. Of course here in Life is a Fountain, there is always everything and too much.

It’s a lot of pictures, all of people in the library, mostly at the front desk. It’s a pretty regular day at the library. Except for…

Well, that’s the puzzle.

And it is a very easy puzzle. So easy, in fact, that it’s not really a puzzle.

Let’s maybe call it a tribute.

Or maybe even the puzzle is:

“Why would you spend so much time on this.”

But probably not that, since I think puzzles should have solutions.

In the plain version, which you’ll be getting from clerkmanifesto, you will get the unadorned “Nanu Nanu” pictures. They don’t have any filter effects or editing, beyond the first complicated edits.

Here you will be getting the “Shazbot” version, which has all kinds of filters and edits, and I think it is slightly more fun.

What do all these pictures have in common (Version 2)?

It’s a lot of pictures, all of people in the library, mostly at the front desk. It’s of a pretty regular day at the library. Except for…

Well, that’s the puzzle.

And it is a very easy puzzle. So easy, in fact, that it’s not really a puzzle.

Let’s maybe call it a tribute.

Or maybe this is what happens when I don’t have Dan to pose for me.

This is the plain version, the more unadorned approach that I am calling the “Nanu Nanu” pictures. They don’t have any filter effects or editing, beyond the first complicated edits.

In your Life is a Fountain Newsletter you will be getting the “Shazbot” version, which has all kinds of filters and edits.

If somehow you happened upon all of this without being a subscriber, well, how odd. You are in for a reckoning with the nature of the World.

So lucky you!