Photography

I recently have been hankering to take some photos. Some real artsy, cutesy photos of interesting stuff and people. But my camera is dead.

I feel like I need a digital SLR to be good, but I don't really know the first thing about taking pictures! Can someone please just put a fancy camera in my hands, set me in front of a beautiful scene and teach me?

This was probably exacerbated by all the time I spent on Flickr yesterday looking at their Interestingness feature.