TLLT: 05

5/31/08

5/28/08

A Little Star for You

Thanks Rick for sending me the cute last picture!

5/24/08

5/22/08

A TLLM.. Things Look Like Movies

Rick sent this to me (Thanks!).. They got me, seriously cannot begin to say how much I love the film Blade Runner. A perfect home for me could be the JF Sebastian home in it's dusty gothic glory and toys and talking robots. Everywhere I have lived in NYC I have been able to see the Empire State Building and the way it sometimes sits in the eerie lit clouds at night.. love it so much.

Empire State Bld - New York, USA
Originally uploaded by miguel valle de figueiredo.

This man's Blade Runner Defense (which I thought for a sec would be about the sprinter..)

of his massive ads really does tweak it in your brain this plan of his is probably going to work. I will love a divey bar or small hole in the wall restaurant because it reminds me of something out of Blade Runner. NYC is filled with moments like this I am always having a Blade Runner (or Brazil for that matter) flashback. I love it.. yikes, the adman is getting me.. would be cute to see some big WWF Panda and Polar Bear faces roll through there though...

Right before she takes the pill...or is it the smile after?

The real life thing made art by the above..
Read all about it Here

5/21/08

Do you love Goats?

Do you love Goats? Then click here :) :)

Hanging Out

5/20/08

Coming to Life 60

More Coming To Life

5/18/08

Born to Run

Movement is Art

Movement is Power

Movement is Freedom

There is a lot wrong in this world but when there is something right it gives hope. These Cheetah prosthetics, amaze me... the debate over this young African sprinter, Oscar Pistorius, is whether or not he should be allowed to RUN in the Olympics. He not only runs but runs like the wind. All issues of the sport aside, I just love that a person who would in other times and places be confined to a chair or crutches or not be able to get around at all can have the hope to not only walk but to take off and run. Man and science can be beautiful.

5/16/08

Stacked

5/15/08

In the Wind

5/14/08

Sea Monster

TLLT, How it started

photo, syncros

I have always been told I have a unique way of seeing the world and have fun weaving stories connecting one part of nature to another.
Through Flickr and its vast collection of photos I have been able to make these connections come to life visually and to gently expand the view of the earth we share. We are so interconnected in shapes and colors, we live on a single floating rock, maybe that's why.

I like to think of the man in Africa and the woman in the US who have come together with others through their pictures to tell one whimsical story. Will they ever meet? Probably not. But in one small space of web they are unexpectedly side by side becoming a part of a visual tale or poem.

This way of seeing the world blend always makes me smile.

Click the photos to go to the individual photographer's sites on Flickr
"Blog This" I only use Flickr pictures where the blog function is enabled. This means the photographer has allowed their pictures to be used in blogs. I only want to include people who don't mind being brought into a web world like this. I do not just take what I see.

# C Merry Website
# C Merry MySpace

Guidelines

This style does have guidelines:

These are just guidelines of course. There are plenty of other places to get straightforward stories, this is just another way to tell a tale. The journey to find it is part of its magic.

Avoid the Obvious The reason for this style is to appreciate how the world is connected by nature and chance. Don't use something with a smile face painted on it for example, use something that seems to have a smile face on it by total coincidence or a frozen moment in time that was not planned.

Colors, Textures and Forms Use shapes and colors that are similar to weave a tale. You'll be amazed at what shares similar features.

Searched For and Chance Finds Don't go out and take a picture of a blue texture if you need one to connect images in a tale, find it "out there". Part of what is amazing is sharing your vision and assembling it from the world's vision.

Text and No Text The picture should do most if not all of the storytelling. If telling a tale with text it should enhance the image not explain in excess detail why it's there. It should be clear what it's illustrating.

Top to Bottom Scroll Align your tales to begin at the top of your picture list and end with the last. That is of course if they do have a beginning and end, they don't have to. But as in everything there will be exceptions. If presented on a webpage side to side indicate whether it's to be read from left to right or not since not all countries read pages from left to right. What is great about this style is almost everyone can see what you are saying.

Change the World You can depict fact but use this form to expand the world by imagination

TLLT

5/31/08

Urchin

5/28/08

A Little Star for You

5/24/08

Somewhat in Reality

5/22/08

The Blade Runner Defense

5/21/08

Do you love Goats?

Hanging Out

5/20/08

Coming to Life 60

5/18/08

Born to Run

5/16/08

Stacked

5/15/08

In the Wind

5/14/08

Sea Monster

TLLT, How it started

Happy LOL Day

TLLT Story Styles

About Me

Guidelines

Blog Archive

Fun Semi-TLLT

Mentions and Thoughts about TLLT

Cool people