fauxtexting

The act of pretending to text in awkward or uncomfortable situations in order to avoid eye contact and/or conversation.

When she noticed her ex-boyfriend walking towards her at the mall, she pulled out her cell phone and began fauxtexting in order to avoid the utter awkwardness of talking to him.

by tanner4 March 4, 2010

fauxtography

the crappy pictures of the sky or dead plants that scene kids take with their digital cameras and call it a hobby. They say photography is their passion, but we all know it's really fauxtography.

Wow, a picture of the sky. And I see you went on paint and added your name with a TM. Now no one can steal your fauxtography.

by JF. May 4, 2006

fauxtograph

A fauxtograph is a practical joke in which the video setting of a digital camera is used to trick the target into posing for a really long time for what isn't a picture at all.

"Say 'cheese'!"

(person poses)
(pause)
(pause)
(pause)

"You're taking a fauxtograph aren't you? You asshole."

by GrannyPanties January 5, 2008

Fauxtographer

Any person who believes that ownership of a camera marketed as 'semi pro' means that they're a photographer. Examples are usually found elbowing their way to the front of the press pit at concerts, having spun the press office a bullshit tale about them "shooting for a website". Invariably they're students or people who work in IT. I actually coined this term circa 2001 on a British professional photographer's forum - it might have been on f8andbethere.org - and it's subsequently been stolen by any number of togs who claimed to have been the originator of the term.

More recently, it's been coopted as fauxtograph and fauxtography, meaning the deceptive use of visual media to illustrate a story. Personally I don't think that makes sense, and certainly isn't how it was first used fifteen years ago.

"I'm a photographer"

"No you're not; that's a £400 compact camera bought with your 20% staff discount from Jessops - what you are is a fucking fauxtographer, now get out of my damned way" *stabs offending student in the back of the head with the scalloped lens hood of a Canon f2.8 200mm IS*

by Calthulhu February 16, 2015

peasant fauxtography

Dreadful, over and under exposed, out of focus, badly lit and composed photos that the perpetrator thinks are excellent.

Peasant fauxtographer: Wow! My photos are just so good I should be a pro.

gutterminky: Is that pro as in prostitute?
Perhaps you should think about another career, like suicide, rather than producing peasant fauxtography which is utter garbage and shameful.

by gutterminky June 1, 2014

fauxtent

The proliferation of blog based sites simply copy/pasting from other sources. Particularly large paparazzi images of Jessica Alba in a Bikini taking up an entire page

Wow this blog is awesome, there is so much content here. Oh wait, its only fauxtent!

by Barfxmillion January 14, 2009

fauxterboat

the act of placing one's head in such a position for photographs that may lead someone to believe that person A is motorboating person B, when in fact there is no physical contact between the two parties.

My mom was upset when she saw a picture of me fauxterboating (verb) Sue because she thought I was making a bad drunken decision and these pictures would eventually come back to haunt me.

by A Train 2285 June 17, 2009