Here’s how you play:
- type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr search.
- using only the first page, choose an image.
- copy and paste each of the URL’s into the mosaic maker over at FD’s image maker.
The questions:
- What is your first name?
- What is your favorite food?
- What high school did you attend?
- What is your favorite color?
- Who is your celebrity crush?
- Favorite drink?
- Dream vacation?
- Favorite dessert?
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- What do you love most in life?
- One word to describe you.
- Your Flickr name.
1. Pink for Christine, 2. The neon lights, 3. Helix High SchoolScottish Drummers, 4. Whoever plays me…, 5. Kiefer, 6. acqua minerale, 7. Arched people, 8. day 73: creme brulee, 9. Author, 10. Las hermanas, 11. what it feels like inside, 12. Project Spectrum Outdoors
I loved this when I saw it on Magpie and again when Kiki did it. It seems it is the physical manifestation of all of the things we try to ascertain about people. If we could, or would compose a snapshot of people. People named Christine who love Japanese food and went to Helix High School. People who love pink and Keifer Sutherland and have to buy Pellegrino in bulk. Who daydream of London and not being diabetic so she could eat creme brulee every day. People who want to be an author who love The Boy the most in the world (which coincided nicely with my love for all things Dia De Los Muertos….I told you I am gothy). Who would use the word empath as an adjective, and craftily flutter by.
We try to understand, to know, to label. To put things in a context to which we can relate. To take the inexplicable and somehow explain it. I see these things all side by side, and I smile at the beautiful picture they paint and wish my own internal compass could reflect that beauty. To be by manifest the sum of all of the beautiful things I gravitate toward. Not the perversion that I identify with.
For now, I will lay in pink repose and marvel at the good fortune I have amassed, despite my predilection to feel I deserve otherwise.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
OOOOHhh…love the pictures! Especially the HOTTIE heels!
June 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
How awesome! I have to try it! BTW this just confirms that you are fabulous.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:05 am
I can’t wait to meet you, says this Pelligrino loving, goth girl. xo
June 19th, 2008 at 6:46 am
OMG I can’t wait to get home and do this. It looks fabulous- just like you! And for the record, Keifer Sutherland is one of my all time, long term celebrity crushes. Did you not just love him in Lost Boys?!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:46 am
This turned out so beautifully. I am now very thirsty for sparkling water…
June 19th, 2008 at 7:26 am
That was fun! Looking at yours, and doing my own!!
June 19th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I wonder if it would just hand me an image saying something like, “Certifiable” and “A-hole”?
Or, “I’m sorry, your request could not be completed as dialed. Please DON’T try again. Goddbye.”
June 19th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Hum, I wonder if that is a universal truth, that we all come up short of deserving the wonder that we have and are? I don’t mean it in the Christian way. I don’t work that way. It does seem to me though, for whatever reason, we are offered so much and we don’t always deserve it. We do have those moments, though, when we are good – goodness incarnate – and our cake is delicious and makes our bellies full…(sorry, a little goofy this morning…stomach flu somejow creating winds in my head. Can’t believe I even considered making my belly full today.)
June 19th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Nice montage, by the way, I’m almost tempted to do it.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Some women notice the heels, but for me, it’s all about that creme brulee.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I love the fluttering of those pink flower petals the most*
June 19th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Visual poetry. I love it.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Gorgeous. Keifer praying in the middle makes it all so zenny, too. Very nice.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:48 am
This combo came out so great – the creme brulee and those high heels are my fave!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Those are FABULOUS shoes and I love both All Saints Day and Day of the Dead. A couple friends and I used to sort of celebrate them in middle school. And now I sound a bit like a freak, but it was interesting.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Cool! I remember those fantastic red heels you posted in a picture up here one day. I think you would rock the pink.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Oh, I love that – and that flickr fun page you linked to is AMAZING! Wow, I’m going to be busy with that!
June 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Creme brulee is my favorite dessert.
What an amazing idea. I might have to give it a try. (By the way, I’m not surprised by how beautiful your mosaic is.)
June 19th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Oh, I did something like this last year, but with Google Images. It was GREAT fun, as is your posts. I love a picture saying a thousand words for me.
Not that I lack for the words, sadly.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Alrighty, mine’s up on my blog. Much fun! Thanks . . .
June 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Sorry, didn’t see the ping. Feel free to delete all the dross . . .
June 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Your life looks very pretty!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Love this one; your life is lovely.
(Didn’t Keifer grow up to be a fine fine man? I’m right there with you.)
June 19th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Pellegrino and creme brulee … *sigh* … and those shoes…
June 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am
What a gorgeously colourful manifestation of you Flutter. One wonders why your blog is so black!
June 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
[...] borrowing this idea from Flutter and Tysdaddy at Cheek of God. Theirs were so cool that I had to make one, too. What’s [...]
June 21st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
my high school mascot wore a kilt, too!
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
[...] saw this over at Flutter and I had to have a go! I love the idea of trying to label your life. The whole of my life I have [...]
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:07 am
people named christine who love japanese food rock.