Monday, October 8, 2012



Free write about the above image for 10 minutes.  No stopping until the timer goes off.

14 comments:

  1. So there's a guy walking around a ruined amusement park. This is kind of like Zombieland, but without Bill Murray or that funny guy that looks like Michael Cera or Emma Stone. Interesting juxtaposition... amusement parks are supposed to be happy and full of life and excitement, but this run down place is obviously quite the opposite. Its sad and creepy and quite desolate. It begs the question of what happened. And then there's the man. He's dressed in nice clothes, walking around in the mud and ruin. There's a dog there with him, so at least he's not lonely. It looks like they're walking towards a ticket booth. I doubt that's a coincidence, so.. dramatic/situational irony? I'm not sure of the literature term. I just know it's kind of funny. I keep going back to the man's clothing... Nice pants, nice sweater, collared shirt underneath. Why is he dressed nicely in this armpit of a place? Maybe it's a zombie apocolypse and he just woke up, or maybe he just hasn't come to terms with the destruction around him and is trying to maintain some form of familiarity with the world by dressing normally. This is probably what the fall festival looks like right now... except there are probably a few abandoned babies and a few dead bodies at the good ol' FF. Classy place. I bet not even sweater man would go to the FF. He'd rather play in the mud of Chernobyl/Pripyat. Pripyat is definitely the feel I get from this picture. No massive catastrophe, no bomb or flood or fire. Everybody is just gone, and the place has fallen into natural disrepair. Radi

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  2. It looks like we're at a fair! Woo-hoo! However, nobody is at the fair. Actually it looks like the fair is abandoned and demolished. There is a mysterious man walking through the destructed equipment. Maybe he went there that day with his wife and two children and a zombie apocalypse occured and everyone died except him and OHHHH NOOO! hmm, and maybe now he is walking around searching for his lost family. All of these pictures potray feelings of hopelessness. WHY?!?! Are you trying to put a downer on my mornings? That's rude. I come to school all happy and ready for the day and then you go and make us write about pictures of hopelessness! Unlessss, this is your way of making us appreciative of what we have and that we have good lives and all that jazz. So then you would be using reverse psychology. In that case, as unlikely as it probably is that that's what your doing, bravo. We still have three minutes.. ughh! Well it also seems like in all these pictures is the color yellow. Reason? Probably. Yellow makes people happy. And in all these pictures, there is a sense of sadness and hopelessness. Yet there is the cheery color yellow always hanging around somewhere. Happy hopelessness. Oxymoron? Probably.

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  3. This is the artwork for the newest video game, Mr. Mgorium's Wonder Emporium: World War Z. In this video game, you play through various levels of the emporium as Mr. M and try and defeat zombies. This is the screenshot of one of the last levels. This is where Mr. M is walking up to the ticket booth to receive more guns and ammo, but when he presses the button to replenish his equipment, a huge horde of zombies come out and he must ride the ferris wheel and shoot the zombies. As Mr. M, you must run to the ferris wheel and turn it on and get into it. Then, you mustdefeat the massive horde before they take out the control box and topple over the ferris wheel. What makes this game hard? It's just like real life in the aspect that there is no map, if you get bitten once, your health will slowly die down and you will turn into a zombie, and you can only kill the zombies with headshots. Boom. Headshots. That was the main thing in the game. That's what makes this game more lifelike than others. All the graphics in this game were also taken by photocapture and edited by the latest in CGI (computer generated images) technology. Every hair on every character moves. Every fabric in their clothes moves. everything seems so real. Sony has partnered with Rockstar Games and will release this monumental game for the Playstation 4 only. The Playstation 4 will be the only game console out that will have the CPU to process the graphics and detail. Everything that you see in the game has been scanned in from real life using a 3D scanner. Everything from the guns, ammo, and characters to the scenerey (the grass, rocks, the toys in the emporium) to the clothes the characters wear.

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  4. Last night's tornado isn't stopping this rather determined man from having a good time at the theme park. As he notices the warped and broken metal, he begins taking long, angry strides toward the ticket booth.

    He reaches the booth and examines it carefully. The boarded-up windows of the booth, to him, appear as crystal-clear glass. He taps on the wooden window and begins to mutter words to someone who isn't there..

    "How much for a ticket to ride the Ferris Wheel?" he says.

    But the man hears no reply. The supersonic silence was deafening. The eeriness of the abandoned park begins to wash over him. He looks upward to the swaying metal frame of a roller coaster. As the frame moves with the wind, a horrid screeching resonates throughout the once-crowded park. The man screams in pain, as the sound shatters the silence like falling glass from a two story window.

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  5. In the very center of the picture, there is a man with his back facing as if he is walking away from the camera. He is wearing a sweater and some type of pants. He is surrounded by a huge piece of machinery that looks like some type of ride or roller coaster. It has yellow and white bars with pink yellow and white baskets in the middle of the bars. The man is walking through mud leaving tracks in the mud. He is walking toward a yellow box which looks like it could be the control center for the ride. In the far background, it looks like there is greenery with a mountain way in the back. The sky is blue with some white clouds. He could be walking toward the control box to try and start up the ride . The ride looks like there are baskets or seats that are yellow, white, and pink. They are made out of metal and that is what the people sit in. The framework and structure of the ride seems to be the white and yellow bars stabilized into the ground. It makes a hole in the center of the structure as an opening for the seats of the ride. It looks like it resembles a Ferris Wheel. This could be at an amusement park somewhere in the mountains since the background seems to show some type of mountain. It may have rained there recently because the ground looks like it is wet mud. There are tracks in the mud either from the man who is in the picture walking through it, or other people walking through it. Since there is no one around besides the man, this place could be abandoned and need fixing up. In this case, the man may be there to help fix up the ride or the entire amusement park. There also looks like there is a red trashcan over by the yellow shack type building. This may mean then that the yellow building sold food. The yellow building also has lights surrounding the sign at the top resembling something in an amusement park.

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  6. One day Mr. Norman was feeling that he could be trusted. The beast inside of him was tamed and under control. He realy wanted to fo to the county fair. He thought back to when he was a young lad. His father would always take him to the fair each year. Mr. Norman or "Kipp" as he was called by all of the county folk, skidaddled down to the fair in his old, beat up, copper orange, pick up truck. As he arrived, the sights, smells, and sounds came to him. Kipp began to walk to the farris wheele, the ride that he and his father would always ride. As he walked to the ride, people stopped and staired because they had not seen Mr. Norman in many years. The young ones only hearing tales of him stood with their mouth half open. As he got to the farris wheele, the worker shouted, "Hey lookey there! Old Man Norman's come out to play! Sure your wife don't wanna ride too?!" Then all hell broke loose. Crashings, bangs, and thunderings. Poeple's lifes were being endangered. Kipp made a path of distruction giving to mercy to those in his way. All that was left was that lone ticket booth. He politly asked the ticketier, "One ticket please".

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  7. First off, I REALLY like this picture. I think it looks really cool. I first notice the ferris wheel. But the "cars" or whatever they're called look strange to me, not how the normal cars on a ferris wheel do. I might just be making that up, i don't know. There's a man stadning underneath, walking. Not sure why, or what he's walking toward. I think it might be a ticket booth that's in front of him? Or a food stand? As I look closer, I see that the ferris wheel and whatever little building behind him is shut down. So maybe it's not amusment park season? There's rollercoaster in the background too. The man looks old. Maybe he's reliving memories from his childhood by going back there? It looks kind of like something's broken underneath the ferris wheel. I can't quite tell what it is though. There are broken tree limbs everywhere too, and now that I look closer, the ferris wheel is damaged and so is the rollercoaster. Is that thing even really a roller caoster? Was this after a bad storm?

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  8. This is what happens when the Fall Festival goes bad. The Ferris wheel has fallen over and everything is crushed. Everything, that is, except for a lonely ticket booth, which remains standing even in the midst of disaster. Everyone has been evacuated and no one is around. Just one man remains. He approaches the booth, but why? Why would he need a ticket, now that the festival is broken? What's he going to do? Ride the Ferris wheel? No. Then what? I don't know. I started this story really dramatically and now I don't have an ending. Oops. I guess nobody will know how it ends, except maybe the man in the picture.

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  9. In the picture, we see a man surrounded by storm damage. The man seems to be surveying the damage and is probably shocked. The storm seems to have destroyed some valuable equipment and twisted metal like it was taffy. The bolts were probably ripped right out of the supports. Behind the man we see what appears to be a food booth that seems to have survived most of the damage. This picture is scary because we just got done with the Fall Festival and there were hundreds of people in the park when the storms came through on Friday. Evansville is lucky that it was just primarily rain and not a lot of wind. There is no way to anchor the rides, like the ring of fire, down properly or make it sturdy enough to withstand any storm. The base on a lot of these rides are so small, they are lucky to be standing at all. There are many dangers inherent, and we see that in this picture. The ride that fell over the top of the path where the man is walking seems to be a Ferris Wheel. There thing are great for fun, but as soon as wind comes knocking up against it, it becomes a lever. As soon as the top passes a certain point out of alinement, the whole thing is coming down. The hasty erection of there rides means there is very little safety concerns for the general public. The whole point I'm trying to get across is be careful. You don't want to be walking through wreckage like this man had to.

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  10. An arcade inside a broken Ferris wheel. Or it could be a ticket booth, with tickets for a place far, far away. Or, you know, for the Ferris wheel. At any rate, whatever it is, and whatever it's for, it's there. Or, then again, perhaps it's not. It's there in someone's imagination, at least. Or, it might not be. Because my imagination isn't really focused on it at the moment, and how would I know if anyone else was imagining it? That picture looks fake, like it's a drawing or animation of some kind. But supposedly it's for real. A tornado... and last time it was a fire. So there's kind of a theme going, huh? That's interesting. Oh, and before that it was a flood! What's with all the natural disasters? That's so strange; I wonder if it was on purpose.
    At any rate, there's a man, just like there was a man in the aftermath of the fire, and two men after the flood, even though one of them really looked like a woman from the angle the photo was taken. And there's the man, looking like he's walking toward the ticket booth. Perhaps he wants to buy that ticket to the place far, far away. At least we know he's probably not buying a ticket to ride the Ferris wheel. Or, if that is what he's trying to do, he's certainly not very observant.
    And know we have half an owl, which is much cooler than half a fish.
    There is sand, like the sandy sand of a sandy beach far, far away. Or, you know, in that one place, with that one guy.
    Two little owl feet.
    In the basement of the amusement park, in a small little sandy sand pit, walks a man, an unobservant man at that, who quiere to ride the Ferris wheel that has since already been destroyed by yonder tornado which ripped through almost only moments before in the distant distance of that place far, far away in the basement of the amusement park's sand pit beneath the eye of the coming storm which passed but moments before the unobservant man didst walk and maketh his way toward yonder ticket booth from which he shall desire to extract a ticket, that lone magical ticket, which shall then draw him to that Ferris wheel, which the impending storm had long ago destroyed, through which he shall travel to a place far, far away from the sandy basement in the amusement park.

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  11. Everything fell with a thud, Charles' family was smashed by all of the rides. It was supposed to be a great day. The carnival had just opened and there was not a worry in anyone's mind. They were all ready for another funfilled week. The clowns were dancing, the lights were glistening and the grease- covered food was all ready to be devoured by patrons willing to pay a couple extra bucks. There were no worries. All of a sudden, an explosion the soybds of a bomb went off. They went off simultaneously. All the rides began to fall. Charles' wife and son were on a spinning ride and were instantly evaporated. Charles was the only survivor. Everyone else perished in the blasts and inferno. He walked through the carnage and found no other sign of life except a puppy. He walked along, alone.

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  12. This is a picture of the end of the world. The man and his dog and one of few survivors in a bombing at a carnival. The different nations of the world are at war with the each other causing this mass destruction. This lone survivor from this bombing by New Zealand must now, with his trusted dog, save the world from is destroying it's self. A task that many before him had tried and failed, but for him it is personal. His family had been killed by the attacks and he knew the only way to revenge them was to end this war.

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  13. For some weird reason, this picture reminds me of a commercial I've seen. I don't even remember what commercial it is, though. Maybe some kind of credit card or something. But just looking at it, I see an amusement park. The amusement park has been shut down & this man decides he is going to explore it, just for fun. He can't decide where to look first because there is just so many things to see. He decides to walk towards the photo booth to take some pictures of himself. He walks in & there is already someone in there, taking pictures of themselves. He is startled by the woman & she is by him. They both decide to just take pictures together. After they take some pictures making funny faces, they go & start up the rides & ride a few. They fall in love & both live happily ever after. The end.

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  14. This picture is very confusing and busy. There is a lot of stuff going on. The setting could possibly be a fair of some sort since there is a ferris wheel. The place looks very deserted except for the one man in the middle. It looks like he is walking, but I cannot tell where to. The place looks run down and unappealing. There is no gravel or grass, only mud. It also looks like there is some debris on the ground. Maybe it is an old park/fair that is no longer used. Or maybe a storm went through, such as a tornado, and left a mess. This could explain the desertion. There is a lot of yellow in the picture, which could symbolize insanity, because the place looks pretty insane. It could also symbolize hope. Maybe there is hope that the park could be refurnished and be useful again. I wish I could better understand what was going on. There are many possibilities, and it is hard to infer on which is correct. I really like this picture because you can tell that there is a lot going on around the top and sides of the picture. In the middle, however, there is just a mysterious man walking to who knows where.

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