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    Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!

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    Image of GHG GHG
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    Funny story, I'm not evacuated and my pool is perfect. The angle makes it look like I'm way closer. Thanks for the concern though bro
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    05/08/09

    @GHG: You know what? If I were in your place I'd be doing the same thing, only there would be fewer girls and more crying.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    Is this a Bret Easton Ellis photomontage?
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    05/08/09

    @HiredGoons: It's the scene the director cut from "The Informers."
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    They will become like the Pompeii figures, writhing in agony, except they will be flashing the Star Trek peace symbol.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    Well, I'm getting a Night of the Comet flashback where in those "end of the world, everyone is now dust, let's party shots," were really hauntingly beatific and surreal (and Dawn of the Dead '04 totally stole that scene with the girl in the opening!). The only thing missing from these pics are the blood thirsty, red dust zombies.


    I'd like to see one eat that dude's arm like now. Then it'd be a party.

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    A few years ago I was sitting outside with friends at a Starbucks and there was a fire buring on a ridge about 5 miles away. We noticed something dusty on the cups and the table: ash! One of the other customers went inside and requested a free fresh coffee because some of it had gotten into his drink. I Love LA.
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    Image of Choire Choire
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    Eh, we pretty much used to pull out lawn chairs and watch the hills burn down when I was growing up in California. Of course we didn't have Flickr or Tumblr or Twitter then.


    Or Netscape. Or Mosaic.

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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    05/08/09

    @Choire: ...or the word "epic" to bat around...
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/08/09

    @Choire: Or cameras.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    The coloring makes them look like stills from a Douglas Sirk film.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    They need two hos down that house.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    CSI: Santa Barbara

    After wild fire passes through, five attractive people are found dead in an otherwise empty swimming pool. "What do you think happened here, Horatio?"


    "I'm not sure, [removes sunglasses] but somebody's going to be on the hot seat."


    The Who: "Yeeeaaahhhhh!!!!!!"

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    Image of blix blix
    05/08/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Ha! "Where there's smoke there's murder".
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    05/08/09

    @blix: "We'll smoke the truth out somehow."
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    It'a also hard to tell how close that fire is to the house. I have photos of the Grand Prix Fire that look like the flames are at the end of my street but they are actually miles away.


    Actually.


    But he would be getting a lot of ash in the pool -- yuck and one of his guests might need an inhaler or two.

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    Image of flossy flossy
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    I don't know, something about these photographs is decidedly... awesome? Maybe it's because, from a formal standpoint, the messed-up color balance beautifully complements the surrealisitc scene? Maybe it's the perfect distillation of the "fuck it, let's party" school of pseudo-ironic 21st century nihilism-lite? Maybe it's because these dolts are about twenty minutes away from choking on fumes and sleeping in a drainage pipe? What can I say, the work just speaks to me.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    05/08/09

    @flossy: the way he's jacked around with the color balance screams either:


    a) i can't remember to change the white balance from "incandescent" to "sunny"

    b) i am trying really, really hard to make these look surreal in the most amateurish way possible


    neither of which work for me, in terms of beautiful awesome surrealistic scenary


    i mean he should have his photoshop taken away from him for the one with the house, basically.

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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    05/08/09

    @flossy: I like 'em too, but I'd have been packed and out of there by now.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    05/08/09

    @flossy: I agree with you. I like their sulfurous Brah-fest of the Locust.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    05/08/09

    @flossy: Agreed.
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    Image of blogissuchanuglyword blogissuchanuglyword
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    If that's as epic as he can possible look, brah has got some work to do
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    Image of blogissuchanuglyword blogissuchanuglyword
    05/08/09

    @blogissuchanuglyword: *possibly
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    Hey scrawny tailpipe-fucker,


    Five people does not a party make.


    And three guys with two girls? Ratio, brah!

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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    And this is a pic of grandma being singed alive because I forgot to push her and her wheelchair out of the driveway while I went on a kegger run. Epic to the Extreme.
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    Image of blix blix
    05/08/09

    In reply to Raging Santa Barbara Inferno Pool Party Everyone!
    They don't require fences around pools in CA?
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    05/08/09

    @blix: pretty sure that if your yard is fenced, it counts as a pool barrier in cali.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/08/09

    @blix: Yes and no. Some people are "grandfathered in" so that they don't have to have one and the law is that the fence has to exclude people from the general pool area which might mean your backyard. Nobody would want to break up the landscaping to put an ugly fence around their pool.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    05/08/09

    @blix:


    Seems to me we aren't drowning enough California children

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    Image of blix blix
    05/08/09

    @allyzay: @Tart of Darkness: @smitty: @ADismalScience: Thank you all.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    05/08/09

    @blix:


    In this particular case, any opportunity to "thin the herd" should not be questioned...

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