TLLT: 08

8/31/08

Topsy Turvy Time

Click the pic to find out what is UP with the upside down house.
Check out a Flickr set here of an Upside Down House in Poland!

8/30/08

Travel Safely, Stay Safe my friends

Geaux Away Gustav
Originally uploaded by skooksie.
A friend of mine left her home tonight with family and pets to drive out to safety, and friends of hers have stayed behind.

To all on the roads tonight and tomorrow godspeed find safety, to those who choose to remain behind if you rode out Katrina and Rita use every skill you learned for survival and stay safe.

I am thankful also that the tragedy of the Katrina pets, while it brought out the best in many people, showed what a mistake it was to leave them. They are being allowed to be evacuated too.

Click here for this essential site for help and updates at Red Cross

Yenni Building, LA 08.30.2008
Originally uploaded by American Red Cross.

Frisky Fridge

Is your refrigerator running?

Maybe flying? :)

Follow the Penguin

Click the video for a story about a Penguin, a Beauty Queen and her search for a Crownfish. It's a commercial for Samsung, but seems to be selling only an imaginative mind.. strangely spooky and cool.

Believe In Reincarnation

A serious message presented beautifully

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
Agency Location: Warsaw, Poland
Creative Director: Max Olech
Art Director: Bożena Ślaga
Copywriter: Radek Kotapka

Fragile Sea

8/29/08

Twist

SpeckTacular

Pebblebet

I just love the way some people think. She has collected pebbles with an eye for letters and numbers and their freeform organic shapes show us how beautiful our alphabet and numeral shapes can be.

Read about the artist here and read about her beautiful book here

Camo People

This wonderful work is not photoshop but real life camouflaged people blending into the background in an artful way. View the website here

Liu Bolin is a young Beijing based artist. The ‘Camoflague’ series is an exploration of human nature and animal instincts which features Chinese citizens painted to blend into their surroundings. The subjects are covered head to toe in paint, camouflaging themselves in front of the Chinese flag, a billboard or downtown Beijing.

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

8/31/08

The Way Out

Something Fishy!

Topsy Turvy Time

8/30/08

Travel Safely, Stay Safe my friends

Frisky Fridge

Follow the Penguin

Believe In Reincarnation

Fragile Sea

8/29/08

Twist

SpeckTacular

Pebblebet

Camo People

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