TLLT

4/16/08

pretty pippin
Originally uploaded by happylolday.
My girl Pippin who was a rescue pet who is now an angel was a wonderful friend. I am so happy for all the great memories :)
I still miss her.

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." --Mark Twain

Do You Love Dogs? A sad OT

Do you love dogs and hate the people that hurt them? Click this. Public funds support this "artist".
Tom Otterness gets paid public funds that could be going to help shelters not people who harm for their own personal gain.

4/15/08

Coming to Life 57

More Coming To Life

HappyLOLDay Real Estate?

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4/14/08

Worldly Cubes

When the Water Recedes...

4/13/08

Rolling rolling rolling

Art...

Art..
Man

Machine

Mother Nature

4/12/08

Scalloped

Coming to Life 56

More Coming To Life

Thank you to Veloci Badgergirl for the wonderful babybird seedpod picture that inspired this sequence!

4/11/08

Coming to Life 55

More Coming To Life

Thank you Colleen for the
wonderful picture of the Zebras!

Parasol

BLLB, Bunny Looks Like Bunny

Yes where have the days gone? :) My lingering flu fun has been downgraded to a severe sore throat, so I have made myself feel even better by combining FF with TT (See HLD for what that means LOL) so.. enjoy this fluffy vs fluffy sequence.. :)
Hope you have a great Friday! :)

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