anna paquin - i got this picture from ign.com. i don't really get much into movie actresses like some other people. but anna paquin is so beautiful! i don't think a lot of other people like her so much as those other "hot" actresses. whatever. i remember seeing her in finding forrester with aaron and joel and the word "hot" came up. i then attempted to explain the quadrant system, but it didn't work out. this picture is no longer online because i guess people like sarah michell gellar better. but not me.
ben and eric - i got this picture from curtis. this was taken after spring pops my junior year. it was great. everyone is still here then, and i'm beginning to become good friends with eric. this sorta symbolises how eric and i are always so crazy. i guess we're just too wierd for people. this is sorta a crazy picture from inside a car. i don't know who's. eric doesn't really looks like he wants to be crazy. that is probably a medium strawberry breeze with heath bar. which is sorta funny because heath used to be in sha bop shoppe.
bev looking cute - i got this picture from beverley. it symbolises what college could be and the future of linguistics. she brought in this picture for us to scan and we took it to richard. he was working at the list and he scanned it for us gave it this name. it's from nineteen sixty nine. yeah, she's sorta cute in this picture. we worked on her site that day and talked about how to talk about linguistics to other people and lots of other stuff. she teaches phonology. i can't wait!
ensor with masks - this painting is located in the menard art museum, aichi, japan. it was painted by james ensor, a belgian, in eighteen eighty nine. it's from the art nouveau movement. this is one of my favorite paintings for my computer because i feel like i can relate to ensor in it. ensor was going to be the great inheritor of flemish art. but eventually his paintings got too wierd for people because they showed all the horrible people in the world with grotesque masks. this one symbolises me at eastern. that's me with the hat.
fish mailbox - i got this picture from one of aaron's backup cds. this photo was taken by rob and edited by aaron. this is the full size photoshop picture of the pattern from the plb mp3 site. aaron's mom is holding the mailbox but she isn't in the picture obviously. i still have the photo of this. aaron threw away almost everything in a stalin like purge or wayman like eviction. it's from way back in the glory days, when i didn't have to rot. plb was thriving. i was having fun. aaron had a tyrannical rule of the site but no one cared yet. pretty much, this picture symbolises all of plb.
fish mailbox line art - i got this picture from one of aaron's backup cds. this photo was taken by rob and edited by aaron. this picture could very easily symbolise me and eric taking things too far. this is the full size photoshop picture aaron made. it went on the cover of the sheet music eric and i used to perform with. you see, long after plb went dormant, eric and i decided to sing the only popular song, fish mailbox, for sha bop shoppe. that was before him and i "killed" sha bop shoppe. aaron arranged the song for us, for two tenors and piano. we rehearsed with him, did tryouts, and everyone voted for us because they thought it was so funny. i first got the idea to do this from when bryan kao and i used that music to lead calesthenics at choir camp with and mr. westerman shut it off in the middle. i sure showed him. and i have an audio copy of the performance that will soon be on the site. i'm still waiting for the video copy from him. he says he'll give me a copy when i bring him the finger cymbals. i don't have them. i'll just buy some. it's worth it. as soon as i get it it'll be up in the movies page.
i am the computer - i took a screenshot of this picture myself. one day i came in to work at lt and pat had been working there before me. when i turned on the monitor on the consultant machine, this is what was on it. i pat often makes art out of things. for example, in mckenny there are sketches of a lot of the dumb patrons we have at our lab. and also he made a collage of all sorts of stuff he found at the lab. i thought this was pretty funny so i took a screenshot of it. this symbolises how people are enslaved by their computers and so forth. notice how there is an aim icon in the menu bar. that reiterates the aformentioned fact. that folder says ben because jeff hadn't made an account for pat yet so i let him use mine. the applicaton.pdf is the old lt application that they'll probably take down soon. the fishman picture has sort of a wierd story. one day i was looking at pictures from saga three and they had the pictures of all the enemies. well, you know how often enemy images are recycled. but in the sagas, not all the names for enemies would really match the picture. the first enemy of this picture was called a fishman. one of them was called a selkie, which is a seal that can turn into a human, from orcadian folklore. there's this linguist who's email address had selkie in it so i decided that if i ever used aim again and she had a name then that would be the buddy icon. it's sorta wierd though, because it looks like a fish, not a seal. oh well, i guess that's as good a reason as any to never use aim again.
london virgin of the rocks close up - this painting is located in the national gallery, london. it was painted by leonardo da vinci, a florentine, from fifteen oh three to fifteen oh six. it's from the italian high renaissance period. this is actually a close up from it. it's so pure. what a symbol. this is one of the most beautiful portraits i'ev ever seen. the lighting is really nice. it all seems so soft and beautiful. i don't know how to describe how i feel. it's just so beautiful. i'm about to cry.
madonna of the meadow - this painting is located in the kunsthistorisches museum, vienna. it was painted by raffaello sanzio, an umbrian, in fifteen oh five. it's from the italian high renaissance period. i remember the very first time i saw this one. it was during humanities. for our art history test that was on the renaissance we learned the alba madonna. there were always unknowns on the art history tests. well, i was enjoying myself at that time, i loved the renaissance art so much. i still do! but that's when i first fell in love with raffaello sanzio. he remains my favorite of the high renaissance. well, the slide came up for the unknown and i knew immediately that it was raffaello sanzio. it was so beautiful! later that day i asked mrs. giles what that painting was, and she told me that it was madonna of the meadow. i knew at once i had to have it. someday i hope to see it for real.
rita hayworth - i found this picture online after searching for a long time. i really want a poster of this for a wall at my cell at jones. i don't think the symbolism could be any more obvious. if you really don't understand, watch the shawshank redemption. it's almost essential to watch that movie before talking to me to understand all the symbolism in my life. while you're at it, watch a beautiful mind and the man who wasn't there. those are really good too. and don't miss requiem for a dream. god, that movie is everything. totally life changing.
robbie and rob - i got this picture from curtis' picture site. this is pretty much a good example of robbie and rob. well, at least from back in the day. maybe it symbolises rob's craziness. this is what curtis had to say about it. "Absolutely weird. It's hard to explain, but it just looks like Rob is completely calm heading for something dangerous and Robbie is freaking out. And then there's that weird hand... Fixed BCI/C and red-eye (but not on Rob)."
saint john's - i got this picture from the memorial university of newfoundland website. as soon as i went to the penn linguistics colloquium, or maybe even earlier, i became very interested in different graduate schools for continuing my linguistics education. when looking for programs with good historical linguistics i found memorial university of newfoundland. i'm not amazingly interested in it any more, but at the time a main draw was the natural beauty and distance of saint john's, newfoundland. this is a beautiful landscape of memorial university of newfoundland and saint john's. it symbolises untainted purity of a small costal town with and academic campus. what a beautiful place to live it would be!
soul man - i got this picture from eric. this picture was a school picture and was edited by eric. it sorta symbolises the beginning of eric's irreverence and eric's creativity. it was for the cover of an arrangement of soul man he did for bryan kao for sha bop shoppe. it was designed to look just like the cover for steam heat arranged by kirby shaw. it's so perfect. it was really hilarious when i first saw it. you see, kirby shaw was really ugly, so when people put that piece of music on the ground i would turn it over so i wouldn't have to see him. he had a big gap between his teeth and looked like he was from iowa. he had the same cloudage and same name of series, choral spectrum. we sang another song called stompin' at the savoy. when we asked what stomping at the savoy meant mr. westerman said a savoy was a night club and i said that stomping was what you wanted to do to kirby shaw's face. the best part had to be the fact that eric's copy says don rims publishing corporation. haha. that reminds me of when sam said that he rimmed mr. westerman...
yellow cow - this painting is located in the solomon r. guggenheim museum, new york. it was painted by franz marc, a german, in nineteen eleven. it's a painting from the german expressionsist movement. this guy used color really well. other expressionists who i really love are karl schmidt-rottluff and wassily kandinsky. expressionism is a lot like french fauvism. that's people like henri matisse.
