Thanks to Delmer I took up the Flickr photo meme.
The concept:
- Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
- Using only the first page of results, pick one image.
- Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.
The questions:
- What is your first name?
- What is your favorite food? right now?
- What high school did you go to?
- What is your favorite color?
- Who is your celebrity crush?
- What is your favorite drink?
- What is your dream vacation?
- What is your favorite dessert?
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- What do you love most in life?
- What is one word that describes you?
- What is your flickr name?
The results:
The pictures match the topics, left to right.
- Saint Michael’s Abbey
- Curry fiesta
- Mana O Laka Espan lavalla
- Maroon Bells Mirror
- Nicole Kidman
- The Original Irish Cream
- Galle
- Lemon slice
- The Leader of the Pack
- Greeting the boat
- Esoteric
- Mont Orgeuil from Gorey Pier, Jersey
My explanations:
- My name is Michael.
- I like curry, or Indian and Thai food generally.
- No search result for St Paul’s College, Lourdes College or Lavalla College (their modern name) so I typed in Lavalla and got belly dancers.
- Maroon in memory of Fitzroy.
- Nicole Kidman.
- Baileys Irish Cream. I don’t drink it very often, it’s just too wicked.
- Visiting Sri Lanka to coincide with an Australian test match.
- Lemon slice.
- Undisputed world leader.
- Juliet, Kathleen, Michael, James, Margaret. This search brought up one of my own photos.
- Esoteric.
- Gorey
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Twitter: delmerw
says:
I can’t speak for all Americans, but I don’t know that we eat that much curry. I hardly ever (“never” is more accurate) have it. It is always coming up in blogs I read written by Brits and Aussies. (I’ll bet if I read Indian and Thai blogs it would be there as well.)
Maybe we should have more of it here. It might lead to better relations-with-other-countries decisions. (“Shall we invade, sir?” someone might ask. And the reply would be “Let’s have some curry first, and see how we feel about it.”)
Thank you for sharing the Cricket video. That is an interesting looking sport. Do those guys pull down millions of dollars and get endorsement contracts? Or are things more sane in Australia?
Twitter: mgorey
says:
When I was a kid Chinese was the most exotic food you could get, then years later came pizza, Thai and Indian. Before that it was fish and chips or a counter lunch at the pub if you went out.
Thirty years ago cricketers weren’t paid much, then it became more professional. It’s gone crazy in the past year because of the Indian Premier League.
Players can now earn more in a few weeks with a club team than over several years with their national team. That’s not sustainable.