Glen O'Neal wrote: > Perhaps an interesting twist on the Cliché theme. Imagine producing an image > that illustrates a common cliché. For instance: > "A fork in the road" > You can pick any cliché and illustrate it in visual and literal terms. > Here's another: > "Put up your Dukes" > Several pictures of John Wayne hanging on drying clips in a darkroom. > "Egg on your face" > This ones obvious .... > "All of that and a bag of chips" > ...
Some of these aren't cliches, exactly - they are just expressions that are recognized and definable. Your idea about illustrating sayings in this way could really be fun but I don't call "a fork in the road" a cliche. " put up your dukes" in dialogue in a film, sure, cliche. But we are photographers, and I think the idea was to do photgraphic cliches.... um no, I think it was just Robb's impishness, actually.. to make us writhe a bit before April fool time. That being said - I think your idea much more fun than doing photo cliches... especially, if we each did one without specifying what it was... Then I don't have to find the puppy and kid one :) And, oh yeah, "all that and a bag if chips" is, as the reviews say, "new to us" - Sounds teddibly British to me - as in fish and.... > "Snowballs chance in Hell ...." > This could be an interesting challenge ... > So this is the idea anyway. What do you think? > > Glen > ANd you thought of that because of all this complaining about its too hot or too cold where ever "here" is for may of us, yes??? <g> annsan > I
