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X Marks the Spot...

  • 06-06-2009 1:15pm
    #1
    Anouilh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭


    I've started looking more closely at visual metaphors in Photo Blogs.

    Do the rest of you use them?

    All week the BBC used nautical metaphors along the river Thames to mirror the events in Parliament.

    I've used a piece of sculpture to reflect the crossroads society seems to be at in Europe at the moment:

    http://moderntwist2.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-difference-year-makes.html#links

    Let's have some fun.

    Metaphors for our times to be posted here, please...


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  • #2
    AnCatDubh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭AnCatDubh


    X is rather timely with the elections. I know where there is an X - just have to capture it.

    X as in X on the voting paper (albeit we don't use X's but many people will still do put X on the ballot paper) or X as in Incorrect - the way some people will feel about the socioeconomic situation withing the country.

    Hmnnnn. X as a theme - if only I had my camera at the polling station yesterday :rolleyes:


  • #3
    mrmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,967 ✭✭✭mrmac


    X+Y = Z? :D

    I'm just not arty enough to think of metaphors - ya pretty much have to spell things out for me!


  • #4
    Anouilh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Anouilh


    AnCatDubh wrote: »
    X is rather timely with the elections. I know where there is an X - just have to capture it.

    X as in X on the voting paper (albeit we don't use X's but many people will still do put X on the ballot paper) or X as in Incorrect - the way some people will feel about the socioeconomic situation withing the country.

    Hmnnnn. X as a theme - if only I had my camera at the polling station yesterday :rolleyes:


    I've taken a rest from making new photos as I have a backlog from February and March when I literally seemed to be welded to my camera.

    I think there is some legal issue about photographing around polling stations so I left my camera at home yesterday. There was a lively turnout but not much to engage the eye.

    I think the economy is about to liven up a bit again. We can't join all the negative thinking and it's a question of just finding new ways of thinking and developing new business ideas.

    Perhaps keeping our eyes peeled for signs of new business activity would keep spirits up?


  • #5
    Anouilh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Anouilh


    mrmac wrote: »
    X+Y = Z? :D

    I'm just not arty enough to think of metaphors - ya pretty much have to spell things out for me!


    You seem to be pretty much up to speed with your equations...

    Could be useful as a theme for a mathematical set of photos.


  • #6
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Anouilh wrote: »

    I think the economy is about to liven up a bit again.


    The last line in the link of your OP says "recessions really are hilarious". Would the economy livening up again dampen your spirits?


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  • #7
    Anouilh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Anouilh


    humberklog wrote: »
    The last line in the link of your OP says "recessions really are hilarious". Would the economy livening up again dampen your spirits?


    Oh, I was just trying to be a tiny bit controversial, which is not really my usual brief. The last recession was truly comical as I had two jobs and still no money. That sort of experience tends to develop a keen sense of humour.

    In fact, nothing seems to dampen my spirits.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/anouilh/2977221837/

    Ebullience rules.


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