TLLT: Coming to Life

3/9/10

Handimals

Hands Look Like Animals.. Guido Daniele's hands that create become a beautiful creation :)
Click the picture for the whole set on Nat Geo.
Thanks Amazing Pics Twitter feed

2/12/10

1/9/10

Can Pinocchio Come Out and Play? Things Look Like Humans

I have been noticing things in the news that taken alone are just hopeful medical or impressive tech stories, but together makes me wonder.. when is the Robot coming? There is seemingly enough "stuff" out there, or soon to come, to assemble a pretty extraordinary robot by now. Question is when will this Pinocchio come out to play? It brings up a few questions.

Did the Blue Fairy create a Robot, or a Real Boy made of wood?

Pinocchio dies saving his family from the nightmarish whale. In return he is gifted with "real" life.

The only thing that changes about him as a soul is what he's made of. Are building materials the ruler on which something is judged to have rights? If he's killed as a "real" boy is it a crime, if so, why not when he's made of wood, if he's still the same "person"? It's easy to assume that most people would think a wooden or metal, artificially created person should have no rights, but what of one made of the same stuff we are? Well this is a children's tale that isn't real. Right?

What if you really have to face this question because someone skips the wood stage and goes right for flesh and bone? Science Fiction? Science yes but fiction still? Let's assemble a Robot:

Brain

Bones

Muscles

Skin and here too.

Eyes

Nervous System and here too.

Heart

Blood Vessels and Blood, here too

Internal Organs and Hands and Feet.

Features they could have built-in...

Helping Children with Autism
A Womb, Great Conversation Skills, Moving Things with their Brains will give them a lucrative future as magicians, Balance by learning from its mistakes, Knowing what it's Tasting (sort of..), Cooking for and Feeding you, Sensing your Every Need, Music Appreciation, Color Identification, Self Defense, Could they look like a Loved One, Could You Fall in Love with One? Would they like a Pet? Buy a Car?

Some of the Prejudice they will face.

This is just a small sample of what is publicly known. I am sure there is much more not revealed. Whether we like it or not it looks like the not-so-far future will have these new human/humanoid rights issues arise.

What side will you take?

Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)

A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Complete Series

9/28/09

5/22/09

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

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Features they could have built-in...

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TLLT, How it started

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