Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Telling a Story in Pictures

Man in his early years was nothing more than kin to the monkey, hanging from branches in the tree and making it through life with very few thoughts in its head. This was millions of years ago.

Taken From: http://www.lovesanimals.com/images/animals/monkey/funny_monkey.jpghttp://www.lovesanimals.com/images/animals/monkey/funny_monkey.jpg


Man, during his evolution began to stand up right, and fashion tools for himself so that he could hunt, and survive. He romed the forests and hills about a million years ago.

Taken From: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Neanderthal_2D.jpg/250px-Neanderthal_2D.jpg


Then Man's physique changed further and he lost his body hair and began to wear clothes all the while evolving. He began to move into huts, caves and crude shelters about a 30 thousand years ago.

Taken From: http://www.shadowmillproductions.com/photogallery/caveman.jpg


Then Man created society, moving out of his caves and into the world. He made cities to live in, clothes to wear and he worked with his fellow man to leave the forests. He started these empires a mere 10 thousand years ago.

Taken From: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/images/roman_augustuspr.lg.JPG



Today Man is a creature that wears garments and lives in a society it has created. It no longer hunts for food but relies on its own creations and inventions to support its existence. Man has evolved away from the monkey it once was into a biped that walks the world over.

Taken From: http://www.britishcouncil.org/italy-education-290x459-man-in-suit.jpg


Notes on this Post:
This blog was annoying to say the least. The main reason for this was the posting ability of pictures in blogspot.com is atrocious. You would have to post a picture, then move around its corresponding code to where you would need it then type around it. You would then have to do this again with your next picture separately in order to prevent confusion and a blending of code. All in all a task that should have taken seconds took the better part of an hour. As far as finding the pictures this was a task that was both hard and easy. It was easy because you merely had to type in any word mildly associated with the picture you were aiming for, but then it was hard, very hard in fact to find a picture that was A) Decent B) Of non offending quality and content C) Able to be used and wouldn’t have a watermark and D) Actually fit the desired image in my head. So while this project gave the impression of ease, if one were to want something that looked good, and worked with the original image in one’s mind, it becomes harder and harder the better you want it to look.