The image ignites a question from one of our communication readings, how far can an image be compressed before it stops making sense? This is such a clean image, free of fluff; I wish the meaning were as clear to me. Maybe this is some type of mascot for an extremely silly marking campaign. Personification is a fine rhetorical trope, but without the context of other juxtaposed components (besides the eyes), I can't understand this at a products level. If this lime were placed in the context of gin, I'd say this liquor would leave a person content and lively.
I do agree that the lime has taken on a personality of it's own. This lime appears to be friendly. Positioning him—obviously a he—with a point on his head is really funny. The crop of him seemingly peaking from around a corner translates to me as shy and approachable. Also the white background adds a cheerful quality to the object. I am not sure if you are serious though; it's not easy to take googly eyes seriously. If noise is anything that gets added to the signal between the sender and receiver, I am definately carrying a little noise from my childhood. For some reason, I keep thinking about sock puppets.
About my images, My original intention was to show a tragic and bitter ending to a pretty lime possibly equating lime to a source of bar room seduction, but the sterile, lighting did not help at all. The need to obsessively cut out backgrounds and use daylight quality lighting, only added cheerful noise to the images. Maybe I should have brought in the drink. A flashlight would have possibly given the entended danger quality. Also, at the end of my animation the lime flopping over as exhausted and used was so much more silly than tragic.
The image ignites a question from one of our communication readings, how far can an image be compressed before it stops making sense? This is such a clean image, free of fluff; I wish the meaning were as clear to me. Maybe this is some type of mascot for an extremely silly marking campaign. Personification is a fine rhetorical trope, but without the context of other juxtaposed components (besides the eyes), I can't understand this at a products level. If this lime were placed in the context of gin, I'd say this liquor would leave a person content and lively.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that the lime has taken on a personality of it's own. This lime appears to be friendly. Positioning him—obviously a he—with a point on his head is really funny. The crop of him seemingly peaking from around a corner translates to me as shy and approachable. Also the white background adds a cheerful quality to the object. I am not sure if you are serious though; it's not easy to take googly eyes seriously. If noise is anything that gets added to the signal between the sender and receiver, I am definately carrying a little noise from my childhood. For some reason, I keep thinking about sock puppets.
About my images, My original intention was to show a tragic and bitter ending to a pretty lime possibly equating lime to a source of bar room seduction, but the sterile, lighting did not help at all. The need to obsessively cut out backgrounds and use daylight quality lighting, only added cheerful noise to the images. Maybe I should have brought in the drink. A flashlight would have possibly given the entended danger quality. Also, at the end of my animation the lime flopping over as exhausted and used was so much more silly than tragic.