ImageInterpretationOfTheDay

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  • Dec. 30 2005:_ Define This Band a BRILLIANT image interpretation game up at electrical studios in Chicago

http://www.vanguardsquad.com/zlectric/PantherBand.jpg

Mar. 13 2005: http://www.modhdwe.com/982040.gif
please help

Mar. 11 2005: The new http://cache.lego.com/images/shop/prod/10143-0000-xx-33-2.jpg Wikipedia logo ?

Mar. 10 2005: this picture has just been banned from public display, in France. Why ?

  1. It's an advertisement and advertisement has been banned from the French Republic (hooray!)
  2. The bishops complained

Feb. 16 2005: http://www.liberation.fr/zoom.php?Objet=31508 at first I didn't read the accompanying newsbit with this video capture because I was taken by the image and I thought, ok, this is the italian hostage in irak and I found the image beautiful: cool red scripture and a green shirt, the woman seems to be praying and that's it she is probably asking the bad guys to release her but in fact she's not. She's asking us to stop the invasion of Iraq. Well, probably not us because we were against the invasion of iraq, she's mediating between some iraqis who took her as a hostage and the governments of the countries that invaded iraq, if she fails she will die. We marched, millions of us, to prevent this war and now we have to die because we failed to make our voice accounted for. I'm stuck with this and can't seem to find any solution by interpreting this image anymore. Green shirt, cool red scripture, white wall, no message for me, I don't understand why those pictures are released, perhaps someone does ?

Feb. 15 2005: http://www.tolerance.org/images/teach/pt/iia/road_crossing_tt_thumb.gif What are these people running from? Go (and see the rest of the Image in Action feature)

Feb. 14 2005: A War Waged In Images:Of embeds, unilaterals, sat phones, sandstorms, and a divisive conflict the world has had to see to believe As he had in Afghanistan, Magnum's Luc Delahaye, on assignment for Newsweek, shot in eerie, epic format with his Hasselblad XPan, a rather controversial camera selection for a newsmagazine. The images he made have a chilling formality, like desert dioramas. Delahaye rendered coalition troops as would-be toy soldiers; huddled clusters of detained Iraqis appeared to be tiny human pawns in a vast global death-match.

added Feb 15 2005: Compare this, from the Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism :

"America has freedom of speech because all words are considered equally vapid. Only images count--the censors love snaps of death & mutilation but recoil in horror at the sight of a child masturbating--apparently they experience this as an invasion of their existential validity, their identification with the Empire & its subtlest gestures."


Feb. 12 2005: Woman mourns relative killed in tsunami, Cuddalore, India, Tamil Nadu, 28 December World Press Photo of the Year 2004

Feb. 10 2005: Brilliantly illuminated by the sun, this pure white, elegantly proportioned ceramic pitcher on a sparkling silver platter is an object whose meaning has never been explained.

  • Personnaly, I'd say that this pitcher has the same effect that the white rock in Cezanne's Pont de Maincy, explained in an essay by Thierry de Duve in a Jeff Wall book: it attracts the attention of the viewer and eventually distorts the whole perception we have of the overall scene...

Feb. 9 2005: What can you interpret from the attempt in Cindy Sherman's photograph, Untitled #167, to depict the human subject?

  • Our take: Humans come from the dirt of the earth, they are part of nature and their origin is the same dirt as the earth's, this is rich and black dirt amongst which grotesque elements of the human body are dispersed. The ground seems to have been freshly ploughed (by a god or some material force), the body parts and accessories have come to the surface, they have yet to come together. A small make-up mirror attracts the attention of the viewer, in it a face is also about to come together, liberally picking itself up from the ground, by chance or necessity. I find that this central detail reveals the difference between humans and the rest of that rich black dirt of nature, also the will of humans to differentiate themselves from that dirt. It kind of obviously refers to the Mirror stage, too: only this mirror will make the self happen.
  • The Guggenheim's take, after all they own the actual thing. Notice how this interpretation is first informed from sources outside of the image, stating meaning as if scientific. Notice how the above interpretation (our take) is itself influenced by the question about depicting the human subject. ContextContextContext !

Feb. 8 2005: Read the baby powder scented Final Solution of our enemies from beyond, otherwise known as: The Cuddly Menace ie. a very nice take on an old situationist recipe

Feb. 8 2005: Bird with letter funny repository of 3D renditions of characters from various famous paintings

Feb. 7 2005: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/optical_illusions/images/jaybay.jpg The Blue Jay, as we clearly see, Is so much like the green Bay tree ... (also, worthwhile documentation on optical illusions and perception)

Feb. 7 2005: Or, did artist Emsh just draw it up--not really considering the implications? Mildly interesting collection of SciFi girls , saved by relentless search for meaning in Pulp Covers

Feb. 4 2005: What does this picture mean ? a brilliant example of image interpretation by heath bunting and hogge from cube cinema in bristol

Feb. 3 2005: This is where it all started !

(this could have been a blog, really, except I did not like the WikiBlogPlugin)

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