Futile Hug Syndrome

If it's 'next morning' and there's a close shot of a person in bed asleep,
they will awake up, and turn with arm outstretched as if to hug person
lying next to them, but will always find an empty space, as their partner
has been up hours fixing breakfast/taking the dog out/exercising.
MICHELLE MENDOZA, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, England

- from Roger Ebert's website  http://bit.ly/mN4CFV

Anti-gravity self portraits from Japanese woman

 

Anti-grav self portraits reveal the everyday life of a person who can levitate

— Attractive forces are for suckers. At least that's what Tokyo photographer Natsumi Hayashi would have you believe. These anti-grav self portraits are just some of the daily "levitations" posted by Hayashi on her photoblog. Notably, these pictures aren't doctored in any way, with Hayashi preferring to rely on good old-fashioned jumping to create the illusion of levitation.

"Sometimes I need to jump more than 300 times to get the perfect shot," she told MSNBC's Laura T. Coffey. "I set the camera with the shutter speed of 1/500 second or faster to freeze my jumping movement."

You can check out more of Hayashi's daily levitations (including some awesome 3D stereo images) on her blog: yowayowa camera woman diary.

Via MSNBC