Brush with beardy celebrity!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006So after adding Dave Gorman to my contacts list on Flickr, he commented on one of my photos! This made me feel rather giddy and giggly. Does this put me in league with Heat readers and people who watch Cribs on TMF? Because I’m not sure I like that idea. Hmm…
It is a very good photo.
I don’t know Dave Gorman’s oeuvre that well (possibly a crime by now), but you’re in a different league from ‘Heat’ readers as there’s a level of proper human interaction between subject and object.
On the subject of ‘biggest burger ever’ [linklog], I refer the honorable gentleman to his link from some time ago — the one which begins ‘patty patty patty …’
The alternative page to which I am redirected if I do not provide personal information on this comments page doesn’t submit properly. It also breaks with your otherwise gorgeous house style. Just so you know.
To be honest, I’d get all giggly if anybody wrote to me.
benFebruary 15th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Haha, I’d forgotten about that enormous burger. A little google searching returns an even larger one with 98 patties: Yum.
SimonFebruary 15th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Hmm, I’m having a netiquette dilemma - I like his photos and want to add him as a contact, but am a bit worried I’ll sound like a mad fan/wannabe celeb hanger-on if I message him (don’t worry Simon, I’m sure you didn’t when you emailed him!)
Did you just add him as a contact or did you message him first?
EdithFebruary 15th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Netiquette! I haven’t heard that term since… what… 1999 or something? Well, not since my early days of usenet anyway, whenever that was. I didn’t message him first, I just added him (I figured that since random folk sometimes add me without asking, I could do it to him…). Not sure what the best thing to do in this situation is!
SimonFebruary 16th, 2006 at 12:15 am
oh! does it make me *incredibly* sad if i got excited just realising dave gorman *had* a flickr photostream??
lizzieFebruary 16th, 2006 at 1:02 am
ps, i sometimes read heat but have no idea what the hell the cribs or TMF thing is, so does that make me half bad and half ok?!
lizzieFebruary 16th, 2006 at 1:05 am
I’ve added DG without messaging now, thanks for the reassurance
As for netiquette: I had a visiting lecturer from Ljubljana this week who talked about netiquette and how when war broke out in Slovenia (Yugoslavia at that time) the Serbs and Slovenians on the ‘net kept to it and continued being polite and friendly for a while! He was great 
EdithFebruary 16th, 2006 at 9:22 am
So what was the gist of your email conversation with Mr Gorman?? (I am also excited by the photos!) (Also I think the fact that Dave Gorman is unlikely to appear in Heat, or Cribs should reassure your worries! Rather than being on a slippery slope, I think we’re on a differnt slope all together. Obviously a far superior slope.) (Confession - sometimes I do look at the copy of Heat in our staff kitchen.) (I’d never buy a copy though.)
Lucy TFebruary 16th, 2006 at 10:51 am
I have a theory that the esteemed Mr Gorman is preparing in secret for a new multimedia TV/web/book project called Dave Gorman’s Flickr Adventure. Or else he’s just dead good at photography.
diamond geezerFebruary 16th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
To be fair, the “war” between Yugoslavia and Slovenia only lasted about nine days, and didn’t really involve any fighting
MartinFebruary 20th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Wow! Well done Simon. Don’t worry, I don’t think you are in league with Heat readers at all - the photo is gorgeous and the comment well deserved! I’d be giggly too. But…what is Dave’s thing with rock and pebble balancing?! Intruiging!
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February 20th, 2006 at 2:01 pm