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I just love these photos . . art on two legs . . two great legs!!!

@1:25
Who's art? LOL

Don't recall seeing the one at bottom left - verrah nahce!

Wow love love love it so hot but Adam is hot always ;)

Look at that, a collage crediting the photographer. Very nice.

Interesting PHOTO MONTAGE.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I embrace Adam's many looks and constant evolution, but pleeaaase(!) no more shaved sides.

This is a hot collage.

Shaved sides - so what, and such hoo haa about something so trivial.

10:31
Read post @8:56 - S L O W L Y with thought and google the words if you don't know the meaning of collage and montage... Thank you @8:56!

@1:59am

Really? Oh brother. :/

1:59 am, language is a live thing and the meaning of words change over time. Google collage app or cookie or stream and read S L O W L Y and admit words take on new meanings.

“The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time.”—E.B. White, The Elements of Style

It was seeing the pictures from this photo shoot that I understood the haircut.
So artsy and cool. Unusual and beautiful.



xo laura

@April 13, 2014 at 4:44 AM
&
@ April 13, 2014 at 4:56 AM

Thanks you!

Also, @4:56, E.B. White, The Elements of Style should be required reading at birth! ;)
Good quote! :)

11:20 here - that's THANK you, no S!! ;)

JAK here......For those of us who studied art and who are word purists, this type of collection of photos will always be a photo montage. It will not be a collage unless ticket stubs from concerts, portions of a program or set list, a few lines of lyrics or a flower you wore in your hair is pressed and dried and all these things are glued onto a backing along with the photos! Collage is a French term for the type of composition I just described, it means 'gluing'.
In the American Language Dictionary the definition is just as I said above.
Of course I also still use the word gay to mean lighthearted and carefree, I know it now has a different meaning as well.....but since I do not call my heterosexual friends 'straight friends' or refer to my homosexual friends as 'gay friends' I prefer the original meaning of the term. But others may use the words as they will. I will in my mind, 'feel happy and gay' and refer to the above as a 'photo montage'.....but I will not get into a tizzy (is that word used at all anymore?)
God knows what it's new meaning is!

I do not choose to leave "old forms in the backwaters of time"....sorry E.B. White!......my choice........:-)

Wow. I never would have guessed JAK to be one to stay ridgidly stuck in the past and not embrace the new the world has to offer.

agree

2:47 I think JAK is just saying she was very accustomed to those original meanings, but wasn't bothered by the other uses. We each have a right to our own preferences.

I would say she respects the original meanings of the words and has mentioned several times she is a word lover and collector of delicious words from every language. But her main passion is the English language. She is, in fact, a logophile, a verbivore, a lexophile!

I've heard she dabbles in Medieval Literature, even reads Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century The Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English! ..... Gasp!

Poor thing....wasting precious hours that could be spent wading thru the mucky Urban Dictionary. Let's pity her, not censure her....she simply doesn't understand that scholarship is passé.

I'm fairly sure I understand her point of view!......
.......JAK :-)

2:47 & 5:12
Hope you learned a valuable lesson. Many more where that came from! :)))

@JAK,
Always entertaining,
always educating,
with so much talent, humour and fun,
intelligence spiced with Florida Sun!

'Ole!'

I am @April 13, 2014 at 5:12 PM

(my brevity @5:12 was due to posting off of my phone, gah JAK - you wanna talk about something that is hard to jump on board with :))

And the only lesson I learned was that at 6:58PM JAK surprised me again with what I perceive as a bit of a condescending post. I don't post with a tag (the muck and mire here lately just prevents me from wanting to do so, that's a whole other issue, lol) but I have actually had lovely exchanges with JAK as an anon here before, more than once or twice actually. But I have to be honest, I found both those perspectives from JAK rather "above it all"-ish. Not very elegant wording there from me, :), but idk, just came from my heart. I am not particularly young, not particularly old, and, at the risk of tooting my own horn, when not using blogs and being more carefree, a very good writer. However, in being a good writer, I personally find it helpful in reaching my audiences to be utterly and completely open to the constant rendering of new meanings and nuances attached to words. I grasped fully what JAK said at 11:39AM, but, idk, that last sentence at 11:39 just rubbed me the wrong way, if I'm being totally honest, and compelled me to post @5:12, albeit briefly :). I also comprehend completely what you were expressing JAK @ 6:58... but the lines:
"Poor thing....wasting precious hours that could be spent wading thru the mucky Urban Dictionary. Let's pity her, not censure her....she simply doesn't understand that scholarship is passé"
struck me as a little self serving, a tiny bit condescending, and almost, well, a little hurtful. Since I feel confident in saying that I believe that was not your intention, I thought I would just post my POV right now. I would venture to guess that you will be open to reading it, if you come back to this old thread. (Real Life kicked my butt this weekend, I am behind :)). I have been called to task rather similarly here on 24/7 before, and I have always tried to learn and grow from it. My posts have been perceived and taken differently from how I intended them on several occasions, sometimes resulting in hurt feelings, and I was glad to have been called to the carpet for them. (Not that your posts here warrant being "called to the carpet", that comes off harsh, but I am sure you know what I mean JAK). Well gosh, it's late, I'm blabbering, must get to my day, yikes!

Anon @7:10 AM......JAK here......Greetings!.......I have enjoyed our exchanges in the past and look forward to the future. You were wrong in only one thing above....shamefully I admit it was my intention to be "self serving, condescending and a little hurtful"......I am not always nice. I get aggravated frequently, but if I lash out I don't scream and yell. I do it quietly.

The statement about my being "rigidly stuck in the past and not embrace the new that the world has to offer" (which preceded your 5:12 post) lit my fuse. I feel I do embrace the present and hope to be around awhile to embrace a little of the future. However, I revere the past, the exquisite language of poets, scholars, novelists and playwrights. That world is my playground when this world is grim .... And it's grim a lot lately. :-(

I apologize for my hissy fit....Hopefully my better nature will show up soon! I look forward to chatting again. Pax!

@JAK @ 10:48

7:10 here

I am posting from my phone again, right now, ugh, so must be brief, but quickly - dear woman you restore my faith in humanity, truly you do! I get the feeling that we are more alike than not. Want to say more, but can't tolerate the tiny keyboard on this phone! LOL. Have a great evening. :)

Also JAK, there is something that I want to apologize to YOU for; I will try to come back to thread another time. 7:10

Greetings again....your posts sound very much like my best friend since 8th grade! Same cadence of speech.
She and I are of the last generation of letter writers I fear.
We live an hour apart, only a bay and a long bridge separate us, yet we haven't seen each other since 1985!
But a large portion of our Soc.Sec. checks go for postage. We write each other 5 days a week, sometimes 10 long pages or more. We are both 'wordy' and love the process. Real fountain pens, real ink....sometimes different colors like we used as teens.

Our lives have been intertwined almost forever, we tromped thru Europe several times in our 30s and 40s,
Me writing poems or essays of what we saw and experienced.....she photographing whatever struck her fancy.

The content of your posts also is very much like what she would say.....so, you may be assured the resemblance is a compliment. I look forward to your posts! We may not always agree, but I respect what you say!...JAK