Hope- The diamond

Yeah, I have come across this over-rated and over-hyped term- ‘hope’ a lot of times. Not that I am not optimistic, I have optimism by the cartloads- it’s just that the concept of hope has been way too dissected by the philosophical enthusiasts.

 Hope for me is that killing smile the lady at the mall had. 

Hope for me is mum’s raisin cake.

 Hope for me is dad’s coffee and smoke after the dinner…

 Heck, hope for me is my dog Mac!

Picture this…

 

 I came across it on the new photo sharing site I have been talking about…

So now, hope for me is also a diamond! Cool… 

 (Photo posted by Juanita Miller at bubbles)

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Mona Lisa et al

One of the most intriguing manifestations of art is perhaps Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Lying at the Lourve in Paris, Mona Lisa’s sloppy smile, or smug, or whatever you can call it, has proved a mystery for many a historians since ceturies. Infact, it’s that curve of her lips that has been the hot topic of art historians, religious bodies and secret societies ever since Leonardo struck his final stroke on the canvas.

Photo posted by Renah Stewart at the cool new photo sharing site

The expression through the visual medium could not get any more exciting and challenging than this painting. But with the internet, there’s a new age of art, expresions and intrigue in the e-community. Surfing thru the net is like coming across many smugly smiling Mona Lisas, many in-the-making Leonardo Da Vincis. Don’t mind the exaggeration, but indeed, today the internet has surpassed the limitations of time, space and money and brought to your eyes an exciting range of audio, visual and static means of entertainment through podcasting, video-sharing sites like Tou tube, and photo sharing sites like flickr, showbeyond, and more recently, 123bubbles.com.

 Out of these, I seem to have developed a soft corner for 123bubbles. I have been to 123bubbles.com quite a few number of times and seem to like the innate simplicity which the site projects. Every two three days or so, the photos change and I see more smiling faces, more toothless smiles and more happy family get-togethers.

 Photo posted by Hendy Nugraha at www.123bubbles.com

and

 Photo posted by Julie Barber at www.123bubbles.com

 This is a cool new site that for once, does not  entirely cash on the technology savvy youth who catch splendid, politically correct photos, agreed, but at the same time, it’s a site where moms and dads and sisters and siblings bare a wide grin and capture some crazy moments of life. And then, they put it up on 123bubbles.com without any inhibitions about how good or bad the photo looks. Quite frankly, Flickr and webshot.com gave me a huge inferiority complex, which 123bubbles.com is slowly easing down.and

Photo posted by Carlos Cerritelli at the cool new photo sharing site

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Funny photos

There were always some photos that you deemed fit only to be hidden away in the back of an album. Well, with time, weren’t you surprised how the same photo that embarrassed you quite a big deal ages ago brought back a very tender, almost relishing memory of the good ol’ times.

 

Like, you might have not liked the look of a photo in which your eyes seemed a bit too sleepy, or some pic in which you were just in the process of devouring a large slice of pizza. Imagine that a good decade after that fun pizza outing, long after you had forgotten that you had actually hidden that photo somewhere, that picture fell off the album and on your lap. Lo! The memory of that wonderful day will flood your living room.

You’ll remember the day was bright and sunny, the hottest girl of your high-school even happened to be in the pizza place that day, but damn, you were just too hungry to notice how lovely she looked. And then, this joker of your best buddy decided to use his camera just the moment you were biting the pizza like a hungry convict. What a day that was…

Funny photo? Well, you would rather thank that silly bum of your friend to have clicked that moment. And you might as well give him a call right away, what say?

Btw, I found some nice funny photos at http://123bubbles.com/ … Check this site out…

What are Expressions afterall?…

Expressions 

Expressions are one of the oldest signs of evolution. They are as old as rocks and stones and even beyond. What else do the layers of the Grand Canyon store in their ancient layers of soil, than a directory of expressions evolved over different periods of time?

Minute creatures which were just an amalgamation of cells gathered together slowly and developed to a being that was capable of expressing himself. The business of expression started with things as elementary as hunger and thirst, went on to become as complex as those of insecurity, embarrassment and delight.

 

Today, expressions rule the globe. Everyone, from the producer, the businessman, to the advertiser and right up to the common man constantly tries to innovate his store of expression as much as possible for, it’s as simple as this: The more diversely can you express yourself, the more individual position you carve for yourself in the globe of aspirations…

Photo sharing sites are the most recent, also one of the most classic tools of self-expression. Visual signs of expression, like a smile or a frown are the most direct means of putting your thought across. It depends on you how you choose to exploit the range of signs and symbols of the human behaviour to make a collage of intelligible communication by the way of photographs.

Even a landscape, without any human figure in it is a definite form of expression for it brings to the viewer a certain idea about the photographer. Also, any expression also provides a wonderful opportunity to be analysed in no specific manner. The viewer may not exactly defer the same idea which the sender associates with the expression.

A person may post a landscape of a lush green field with a blue skyline depicting a clear weather to depict his feeling of delight at nature’s bounty, but a viewer may interprete the same scene as a sign of loneliness with no soul visible in the picture for miles around the countryside.

This is what expression is all about. It is a wonderful bigamy of thoughts and interpretations…