The Mosaic Picture Meme
Fun June 14th, 2008I’m not a huge fan of the blog meme, but this one I liked. I stole it from my pal Ferd, who stole it from someone else. We’re all thieves, really. But in a good way.
The Mosaic Picture Meme
Originally from Bud who changed the rules slightly.
The Concept:
This Meme is all about the Mosaic Collage that you are about to build by answering the questions in this meme by using pictures! First what we changed: The meme we stole required the use of programs that you needed to register to use. So it was tied to you downloading two programs (and learning them…) Here we do the same meme, the exact same way, but leave you to your own resources. We also simplified the rules to allow a bit more creative (and speed!). So here we go:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Google Image Search or same type of search engine for pictures.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. You can’t search forever for a certain image.
3. Copy and paste each in any program that you can post the pictures in a mosaic pattern. You can post them 3 X 4 or 4 X 3. We used Microsoft Paint below.
The questions:
1. What is your first name?… Kathy
2. What is your favorite food?… BLT. The more B, the better.
3. What high school did you go to?… Notre Dame, Green Pond, Bethlehem, PA. It’s where I encountered a new set of horrors after the ones I suffered in grade school.
4. What is your favorite color? … Maroon
5. Who is your celebrity crush?… Will Lyman, television and stage actor, and also the voice of PBS’ Frontline. I’m in love with his smooth, sultry voice. My husband is not allowed to talk when Will is speaking. He may use sign language in an emergency, say, if our house is burning down. But he may not talk to me.
6. What is your favorite drink?… Apple juice. I drink water almost exclusively, but when I splurge, it’s apple juice. What a flavor blast!
7. What is your dream vacation?… Without reservation, Paris, France. Our trip there in 2004 ruined us for any other vacation we’ve taken. Nothing else compares.
8. What is your favorite dessert?… Magic Cookie Bars. I make these for student assistants I hire to help on our team at work. One student ate a whole batch himself and asked if I put crack in them. Beware. They’re addictive.
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?… A writer.
10. What do you love most in life?… My husband, Dave. And, as you might guess, he’s a saint for putting up with me all these years.
11. What is one word that describes you?… Peculiar, but you knew that already.
12. What is your blog name?… The Junk Drawer
So there you have it! I’m not inclined to thrust a meme on others, so feel free to tag yourself if you’re interested.
UPDATE: Because the images used in my mosaic were taken from Google Images, I should properly credit the sources. In order from left to right:
Kathy, BLT, Maroon, Junk Drawer, Notre Dame Green Pond, Will Lyman, Apple Juice, Paris, Magic Cookie Bars, Writer, Peculiar, My Husband Dave
Stumble it!
June 14th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Beautiful! Now you can make up T-shirts with The Junk Drawer logo on front, and this mosaic on the back. Or frame it, poster-like. The possibilities are endless…..
Regan did something similar about me, but in Power Point. It was cool to see all my favorite things displayed on the big screen.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:30 am
This is kool ! I’ll get on it right away !
June 14th, 2008 at 7:36 am
I think Dave needs a haircut. His bangs are out of control!
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June 14th, 2008 at 7:43 am
This is really cool and I tag . . . MYSELF! I wanna do it.
So . . . that animal is Dave? That doesn’t seem fair, especially when Will Lyman looks so HAWT.
Maroon? Apple juice? Kathy, you are living on the edge!
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June 14th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Nice idea. Think I might do this on Sunday.
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June 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Now this meme I like :O) I will definitely give it a go.
Maroon is a very ‘peculiar’ favourite colour.
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June 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
By the way, are you allowed to use Flickr and other such image sharing service ? I hope not ! But this should be clarified !
June 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I see it now – Husband Dave is the flowers ;O)
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June 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am
ann of the shampooo bag — This was fun to do. So random, yet so not! I would love to make a poster of the Junk Drawer logo, now that you mention it. Not sure how the image quality would fare on such a large object. Have to order one from Zazzle.com and find out.
Jaffer — It is WAY cool! After you asked about Flickr pics, I went looking for this meme there. It seems others who’ve been doing it link up to the Flickr picture owners. That’s the best way to do it, I think, to be in line with copyright. I don’t know if I can sleep at night, knowing I just stole stuff from Google images. Hmmm, do I keep it up or take it down?
Susan — Funny! Yeah, and those horns are always getting in the way.
JD at I Do Things — Babs caught which one is Dave. The animal is ‘peculiar.’ Will Lyman? I want him to record my answering machine greeting so I can hear him every day. I’m in love with a voice, what can I say? Last week I had both apple juice and a regular Coke! It was chaos!
Lauren — Do it! It’s fun to try and pick a single picture from the first page of results. And some seemingly have nothing to do with your search string. Have fun with it!
Babs — I love maroon. It’s what drew me to my blog’s theme. I love the deep red header. And, yep, you got the Dave pic! Doesn’t make much sense, but I loved the pretty flowers.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I agree with you on the copyright issue. But Google brings me cooler pictures and Flickr can’t find any results for “Jaffer” and “ManiaRavings”
I’m going to use the results from Google and link to the sources in my answers.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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June 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Oh my soul why did you have to remind me of magic cookie bars? I haven’t thought of those in years and I have a Key Lime cheesecake to dispose of this weekend! Love your collage. Cool idea, Kathy!
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June 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Love that photo of the cow, lol
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June 14th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
That’s pretty nifty…no shame in stealing it 🙂
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June 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
That’s a different meme and it is kind of a neat departure from the typical ones. My favorite meme was the very geeky, show off your desktop meme. I thought it was fun seeing other people’s desktops. Am I wierd?
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June 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
WAY cool, Kathy!!! : )
I loved all the pix!
Nicely done!
June 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I have one question. Where are you people getting all this free time?
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June 14th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Yeah, I agree… wow, this would take some time to do! Very nicely done Kathy!!!
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June 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Thanks for the blogging idea. I’ve been a little strapped for topics lately.
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June 15th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Jaffer — You see I went back and credited my photos. It’s funny, that totally slipped my mind! I know I credited people who probably stole the pictures from elsewhere, but at least it’s something. I love yours! I’ll be over to comment soon.
Jenny — Ah, so you know the magic cookie bars! I don’t make them anymore, simply because I know I’ll eat an entire batch myself. Dave doesn’t much care for them because they’re too sweet for his taste.
Congratulations again for being accepted into the Society of Midnight Wanderers. I’m so glad they asked you!
DrowseyMonkey — The hair is adorable! But can you imagine how long it takes him to get ready to go out on the town?
Chelle — I still felt bad, considering all the dust I kicked up about copyright a while back. I didn’t think of it for this meme for some reason. I think my excitement over doing it got the best of me!
windyridge — I remember that desktop meme. I didn’t do it because I felt I had to clean up the desktop first (mine’s fairly messy), and I think one of the rules was to take the shot “as is.” You are most certainly not weird. That’s my territory.
FerdC — Thanks for giving me the idea. I loved yours and now I think you’ve started something!
Sue — For me, I have two words for you: “No kids.”
Maureen — It took perhaps 45 minutes. That’s including thinking of answers and writing about them. That’s not any more time than I put into a regular post. Do it!
Libertine — Me too. In a bad way. I have Ferd to thank for giving me the idea. Otherwise, there still might not be something new up on the blog. Geesh. I haven’t had a stretch like that for a while.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:10 am
i just made one it loooks awesome
June 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Oooh, I tag myself!
June 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/warriors34/?action=view¤t=blogmeme.jpg
Enjoy!
June 15th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Excuse the intrusion, fell in through your blogdoor by tripping over some random linkage. Lots of interesting stuff here Kathy, and interestingly presented. Don’t lock the door, I think I’ll be back.
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June 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I’ve had this one started and queued up for a rainy day for weeks, but haven’t gotten around to finishing it yet. Now that you’ve done such a great job with it you’ve inspired me to dust mine off and give it a shot.
I can see why you chose that image for “Kathy.” There wasn’t a whole lot of other choices that would have made sense for you. Try keying it into Yahoo image search… you get a MUCH different set of results!
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June 15th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I will go back and credit each image before I post mine now. I didn’t think of that when I first searched them.
Babs – beetle’s last blog post..Summertime blues
June 15th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I have a couple of images that don’t exist at the link any longer. Any suggestions?
Babs – beetle’s last blog post..Summertime blues
June 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
brooke — Isn’t it fun? If you can link to it here, post back.
Regan — Yours is very nice. How’d I know there’d be cats and cupcakes in it?
Brom — Welcome, and what a fun comment! The door is always open at The Drawer and there’s always a party going on. Come back any time you want!
Jeff — Um. And none of those would have fit me either. Would I kill for a body like that? Sure. Will it ever happen? Not likely. I await your mosaic!
Babs — Mine didn’t take that long to amend. I look forward to seeing. Some of my links might not point directly to the picture, but at least I have the website noted. I wouldn’t sweat it. We’re making an effort to credit.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Oh, that’s too funny. I just realized your Kathy image is really an abstract piece of art about George Bush called “The Decider.” I didn’t catch that until I visited the artist’s web site. She has some really interesting stuff over there.
See, that’s why this Junk Drawer is so cool. You learn about places like that over here.
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June 16th, 2008 at 7:19 am
That is one excellent cow. And you might just be the only person I know whose favorite color is maroon. I bet most of us don’t consider it within the realm of color options. There’s something wonderful about taking the road less traveled. 🙂
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June 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I wonder who invented memes? Someone told me Al Gore did. Kathy, is this true?
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June 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Me again — When I went back to the site so I could credit the photo, I poked around a bit. Her stuff is really funky. I love it!
Jenn Thorson — See, told ya I was peculiar! And I want that cow. Or is it a yak? I’m not up on my beasts of burden.
kev — Yes, it’s true. He also invented Post-it notes and the Rubik’s Cube.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Yes yes ! Blame it on Al Gore ! It’s all his fault you know. He also invented Global Warming !
Wikipedia has a large article dedicated to the study of Memes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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June 17th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Jaffer — I remember looking up memes when I got asked to do my first one. Had no idea what it meant. Thanks for linking.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I loved your idea and tagged myself ..
Thanks for this .. was loads of fun to do!!
B
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June 17th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Should have known you’d be a BLT lover!!!
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June 17th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
B — As memes go, this one was the most fun to put together!
KFJ — I don’t know why I even eat the lettuce and tomato part. I’d rather have a BBB sandwich. The more B, the better!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:48 am
I found you through Jaffer, He has used meme. Now I am definitely going to try on my blog.
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June 20th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
sheetal — Do it! It’s so much fun putting together and neat to see what others have done with theirs. I’d like to see it.