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Originally posted by Babylon the Bride:
And that picture is so cool. Your shirt has the same pattern as the tiles.

um. your not from around these parts, are you?

lol - no, I got it. Merely too trigger happy.
But what I said about the shirt is still true.

*corrects post*

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Originally posted by Babylon the Bride:
What IS reflectoporn?

A brief history of Reflectoporn - as seen through the eyes of Fashionpolice.

There's probably a Wikipedia entry on this, but here's my familiarity and use of the term.

It all started with the Ebay exhibitionists who took pictures of their objects for sale while wearing no clothes. Of course this only really worked if their was a reflective object in the image. So sometimes you might see a naked Ebay seller in a mirror or reflected in the strut board of a guitar - stuff like that. At some point these images were called reflectoporn.

In WGB-usage reflectoporn just means an image of a Wigber on a reflective surface - be it cooking pots or restroom surfaces.

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Ebay exhibitionists

Whoa. I think it's the first time I hear about it.

Me too. I assumed it was an expression coined here. Wacky.

Cool, thanks.
But then almost all restroom pics are reflectoporn, right?

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But then almost all restroom pics are reflectoporn, right?

Yes.
The Restroom Project is a sub-genre within reflectoporn.

uh yeah, thats why all pictures should include some kind of reflection.
though obviously its grown since the beginning.

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The Restroom Project is a sub-genre within reflectoporn.

I thought it was Porcelain Pr0n, or a Faucet Fetish?

Call it what you want. We all know what it is.

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Originally posted by remotespook:
uh yeah, thats why all pictures should include some kind of reflection.
though obviously its grown since the beginning.

I thought the stricture was that YOU have to be on it. Not that it has to be a reflection.
(You as in picture taker. Not you, remote.)

Being on the picture without being a reflection is a twist on the whole genre.

Aha! The nouveau vague of restroom art!

'nouvelle vague'

'vague' is a feminine noun, so 'nouveau' has to be accorded.

sorry!

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Originally posted by ArkanGL:
'nouvelle vague'

'vague' is a feminine noun, so 'nouveau' has to be accorded.

If we're going to get picky, and I looove being picky, you should say "has to agree" instead of "has to be accorded."

Language language

let's get back to the elevated subject of the thread

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