Saturday, June 25, 2011

Images and Words week 112: Worn

Greetings from Amy and welcome to week 112 of Images and Words. My theme is "Worn", here is my entry:


I'm turning my Images and Words skills toward activism!  This is the first image in a series that I think I'm going to call "Images and Common Thoughts" or "...Common Beliefs" or "...Ideas" or something like that?  The goal is to help spread peace, love, and understanding by showing that different religions, philosophies, and science share common ideas even though they express those ideas differently.  I chose "Poverty" for my first theme in this series because I had been reading different religious perspectives on the poor, then I remembered that Darwin was a very nice guy so I decided to see if I could find a quote from him about the poor.  When it only took me about 30 seconds to find it I realized that helping the poor is a truly universal ideal and I needed to make this I&W. My photo is my son's shoes, d'oh!  He's been resisting letting me buy him new shoes because money is tight, but honestly it's not THAT tight. We CAN afford to buy him new shoes, so I'm hoping that with his old shoes now immortalized he'll let me buy him a new pair.

I posted this photo on a few different pages on Facebook and it received a great response!  A lot of people shared it, and one person made it her profile picture.  I was really honored when a professor of religious studies said she wanted to use this image for her class!  She said that to make her Survey of Religions class more interesting she was taking a special look at the theme of "poverty" and how religions deal with it.  So I sent her a full size version of this photo and just asked her to keep my copywrite in tact, she's a pastor so I trust that she will.

I feel that "Poverty" is too narrow a theme for Images and Words so I'm choosing "Worn."  If you want to do "Poverty" then feel free, otherwise I think and hope that "Worn" will be a broad and fun theme.

The Rules:

Each week we will post an original photo with words on it. The idea behind this group is to expand our minds through our photography.

Photos must be your own, but the words can be someone else's as long as credit is given after the words. 

Your post can either be serious, or if you'd like comical, but never obscene .

Posts can either have one word on them,quotes, or full poems ... Your choice.

All posts are to be done on your own site in a blog form with a link back to it being left here. 

New topics will be posted on Sundays.

Posts can be made through Saturday.

One post per person only please.

38 comments:

  1. this is how I am feeling after so many weeks working these long hours....worn out...

    I love how you show the sameness of theology worldwide...if people could only accept that...I believe you have seen my photo with your own eyes...


    http://ethansdad54.multiply.com/journal/item/2826/Images_WordsWorn_

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  2. Amy, thank you for a wonderful theme. I love the image you chose for your entry and the words that accompany it. A very thoughtful, loving post!

    Images & Words Week # 112 ~ Worn

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  3. Thoughtworthy theme and a great presentation of quotes, dear Amy. There are several reasons for poverty in the world, none so apparent as the rate of childbirth in the poor countries where the MEN cannot see either the necessity of contraceptives or see it as humiliating and a questioning of their potency.

    Another reason are of course the dumping of the excess produce from the farms of Europe in Asia and Africa to the detriment of the local farmers.

    Here is mine - http://andrewhanson.multiply.com/journal/item/139/IAW_CXII_-_Poverty

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  4. Love this Amy, you are certainly giving a powerful and inspiring message here...
    Let's look for what unites us instead of differences and this is a great example of
    that...

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  5. Love this Amy, you are certainly giving a powerful and inspiring message here...
    Let's look for what unites us instead of differences and this is a great example of
    that...

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  6. Excellent idea, Amy! Love the photo... the B&W as well as the quotes make it a very interesting photo!

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  7. Great ides and photo Amy. You have such an considerate son. I love all your words and the fact that your shot is in B/W. It adds more seriousness to the issue.

    http://suebella.multiply.com/journal/item/107/Images_Words_-_Worn_Erosion

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  8. A thoughtworthy entry, dear Amy. Quotes worth pondering. Great photo to go along with words.

    Here is mine: http://andrewhanson.multiply.com/journal/item/140/IAW_CXII_-_Worn

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  9. Your picture would make a great poster, Amy. I only have one photo that fits the theme and with the Poverty side of it rather than Worn. I used it recently in another group, so some of you will have seen the picture already. Recycling is a good thing, though, right?

    http://brycecoddnormal.multiply.com/journal/item/29/Images_Words_-_Week_112_Worn_Poverty

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  10. I am using the Word Worn for my post Amy.
    Your poster for Peace is so worthy and to your credit it is Perfectly Put Together.
    Congratulations on the Special attention that it has already gathered across the net.
    Images and Words week 112: Worn

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  11. I really like your poster Amy

    I chose the word worn instead of poverty
    http://poetessgarden.multiply.com/journal/item/2047/Images_Words_worn...nothing to exciting but it's different lol

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  12. Hi Amy. That's an excellent picture. Is it a picture? To me it's more like a poster. Congratulations for it being so widely well-received on the 'net. I'm not sure if I have a photo that would go with your theme of poverty, although I probably do have something to fit the general theme of 'Worn'. I'll come back later with that probably. In the meantime, related to your poverty theme, if I may I'm going to post this video project I made about four years ago. Originally it was to be for the Philip Glass composition 'The Prophesies', from the soundtrack to the movie 'Koyaanisqatsi'. I wanted to expand on the premise in the movie at the point where this music is placed, of poverty in the US. In putting together the imagery for the vid, I realised that even poverty is relative to where one is born. In the first world countries, poverty seems to be looked on as lack of material wealth, whereas in the third world it is lack of basic human needs, such as food and clean water. A little over-generalised perhaps, but look at the images, and see if you think the same.

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  13. Nearly forgot to mention, the voices in the composition are singing the prophecies of the Hopi native American tribe.

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  14. Much trouble with Picnik this morning. Picture blurred with each application (drats!). But, for whatever it's worth, here's my entry:
    http://awordsmith.multiply.com/journal/item/482/Images_Words_112

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  15. Awesome Amy .... Not sure I have anything to enter but I will check out what I have....

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  16. Well done with the video Mitch, it's very disturbing I must say.... Some well known photos there also, the little baby with the vulture waiting is one that no one can forget in a hurry... So sad....
    I'd agree with you about the ways to define porverty, that's spot on as everthing in this word seems to
    be relative....

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  17. something close to my heart.........................poverty............living in South Africa it is only too near to all of us. Will think about this and come back later, have only seen this now , did not show in my inbox, saw Belita's entry and came on over.

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  18. beautifully profound message, Amy !

    I used a synonym of worn, 'erosive'

    Images & Words #112 ~ Erosive Beauty !

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  19. I am in and now time to make some dinner for my man before he divorces me with Multiply grounds *smile*

    http://klintm.multiply.com/journal/item/306/IMAGES_AND_WORDS_-_week_112-_WORN_-_1_-_POVERTY

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  20. Great job, Mitchy!

    I gotta say that Koyaanisqatsi is a MUST see for any photographer! Find a DVD (or Netflix?) and watch it on the biggest screen you can find.

    http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php

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  21. Finally took some time to try and find the right words to go with the photo I took for the theme yesterday.

    Rockin' Heart Ranch Images & Words Week 112: Worn

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  22. Just to let everyone know, I have been in the Hospital since last Thursday.
    Had Fluid built up in my lungs and couldn't breathe, all from My Diabetes.
    I am so thankful to be feeling better and to be back home.

    Thanks for such a Nice Theme Amy, Love Your image and the words.
    "Worn" fits so many things so Well including Yours truly~!!
    I've got to get in my bed and rest , but I will be back tomorrow to see everyone's entries
    Smiles
    Weenie
    http://leadfootweenie.multiply.com/journal/item/607/Images_Words_Week_112_Worn_

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