how-to-photograph-science
Original: how-to-photograph-science on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Narrator/woman: If you're a scientist, now and then, you get interviewed and photographed.
Panel 2:
Narrator/woman: For many scientists, their work doesn't photograph well.
Photographer (off-panel): Could you put on goggles and a labcoat?
Woman scientist: I write code to analyze micrometeorite trajectories.
Photographer: Will the code fit in an Erlenmeyer flask?
Panel 3:
Narrator/woman: So, usually photos are staged in ways that don't make sense.
(The woman, now in a labcoat, peers into a microscope at a beaker of green liquid labeled "ASTRONOMY.")
Panel 4:
Woman scientist: Given that sense isn't necessary... why not do whatever we like?
Woman scientist (holding a large bag labeled "SCIENCE / 9000 Kilograms"): Can you photograph me loading this into a pickup truck?
Votey:
A close-up of the woman's face, looking smug/satisfied.
Text: Raw uncut science.
Narrator/woman: If you're a scientist, now and then, you get interviewed and photographed.
Panel 2:
Narrator/woman: For many scientists, their work doesn't photograph well.
Photographer (off-panel): Could you put on goggles and a labcoat?
Woman scientist: I write code to analyze micrometeorite trajectories.
Photographer: Will the code fit in an Erlenmeyer flask?
Panel 3:
Narrator/woman: So, usually photos are staged in ways that don't make sense.
(The woman, now in a labcoat, peers into a microscope at a beaker of green liquid labeled "ASTRONOMY.")
Panel 4:
Woman scientist: Given that sense isn't necessary... why not do whatever we like?
Woman scientist (holding a large bag labeled "SCIENCE / 9000 Kilograms"): Can you photograph me loading this into a pickup truck?
Votey:
A close-up of the woman's face, looking smug/satisfied.
Text: Raw uncut science.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about how scientists are photographed. Panel 1: a woman scientist sits at a computer while a photographer's camera points at her; caption: "If you're a scientist, now and then, you get interviewed and photographed." Panel 2: caption "For many scientists, their work doesn't photograph well." The photographer asks "Could you put on goggles and a labcoat?" She replies "I write code to analyze micrometeorite trajectories," and he asks "Will the code fit in an Erlenmeyer flask?" Panel 3: caption "So, usually photos are staged in ways that don't make sense." Now wearing a labcoat, she squints into a microscope aimed at a beaker of green liquid labeled "ASTRONOMY." Panel 4: she says "Given that sense isn't necessary... why not do whatever we like?" Holding a huge sack labeled "SCIENCE / 9000 Kilograms," she asks "Can you photograph me loading this into a pickup truck?" Votey: an extreme close-up of her smug face with the caption "Raw uncut science."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.