random

For example, this image can be described by the labels: sky (50 points), bird (60 points), soaring (120 points), or frigate bird (150 points).

Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.



Is this the end of civilisation the random pun and poetic compound of the Google Image Search? It is the random quality of Google Images that I appreciate, and in honour of its odd surprises, I compiled a collage from the search "I prefer random images"




(Click for a better view)
 

stovetop

 

 

delay ill

Anagrammed Tube Map
(via As Above, Kevan)

With due acknowledgment to the creator of the London (Non Old?) map, I tried my hand at the local Lilydale line, a section of railway much traversed in childhood and in dreams.

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Comments: delay ill

The forecast for sidecar month is an echidna storm.
Posted by Tony.T at February 20, 2006 04:06 PM

not Monash Direct?

Matron Chides as Medics Thrown for not directing them to Modern Switch instead.
Posted by boynton at February 20, 2006 04:22 PM

Two reflection on the London Underground map: what a strange & haunting world it conjures up; somebody must have spent many, many hours composing it. Hmm...
Posted by Dick at February 20, 2006 11:19 PM

I suspect many Australian train stations of being anagrams already.
Posted by Kevan at February 21, 2006 03:34 AM

Yes, there's a kind of urban narrative there.

Actually some of the names read like good blog names. "Swearword & Ethanol" "Dully Hubris"...


You mean all the -gongs and - nongs, Kevan? ;)
Interesting that "Mooroolbark" didn't yield as many choices as the prosaic, English "Ringwood East"
I had to discard "Gradient Woos" and "Sweating Odor" before settling on "Organised Tow"...
Posted by boynton at February 21, 2006 02:29 PM

Craigieburn/ Broadmeadows Line:

Nice Air Burg
Dead Swab Moor
Can A.J.A.*
Long Rye
a.k.a. Pork
A love space
Homer's tart
Be reveling
Eden's son
No poems done
A lost cave
Newt-maker
Kong in nest
Let hormone burn*

(*Gummo T. contributions)
Posted by Zeppo Bakunin at February 21, 2006 06:58 PM

Wonderful.
Eddie should have said: "We have a saying in Dead Swab Moor..."
You always have to go to the end of the line to get the nice air, but I think "a.k.a Pork" is my fave.
Posted by boynton at February 22, 2006 10:01 AM

fitness

Keeping Fit: A Health Exhibit For Men and Boys (via the ultimate insult)

(image SWHP0019.jpg)

lost and found

thought there was something vaguely familiar in that bad scan of the kangaroo, those muted blue tones of melancholic McCubbin with the impressionist (puckered matchbox surface) edges.

we're one panel short of a pioneers

more on The Lost Child here.

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Comments: lost and found

Well found, B.
BTW have you read Peter Pierce's book about lost children and Aus?
Posted by wen at January 28, 2004 07:31 AM

No - but read 'about' it yesterday. Looks like another to put on the wanted list.
Posted by boynton at January 28, 2004 12:00 PM

so, let's get this straight in my fevered brain... are we saying that a matchbox cover was pinched from mccubbin and a kanga put on it, or that ms boynton, while keeping an eye on a certain dog artfully replaced one with the other? thus showing either how the world is full of coincidences or that some poor poor visually creative sod was so frustrated designing matchbox covers that this kind of joke is the only way to redeem his/her brutalised life? and is right now eking out a cubicled existence unaware that THE WORLD HAS FOUND OUT?
Posted by David Tiley at January 28, 2004 01:41 PM

Hang onto those strikes, B. Did you know it was McCubbin who actually painted the matchbox? Apparently it's the matchbox equivalent of the Penny Black. On second thoughts, the philanderer may have said: "You get a penny back."
Posted by Tony.T at January 28, 2004 01:56 PM

David

actually miss b was blushing at posting such a bad scan (even though the painterly quality of the found roo was half the point) and then looking at it thought: oh well it kind of looks a bit mcCubbinesque, so then did a quick paintshop collage...
and I just found the third panel:
http://phillumeny.onego.ru/labels/egypt/page1/page1big2.html

as you can see I forgot to flip the kangaroo back after scanning...
(I thought the line "environmentally safe" was quite apt)

Yes I did know that Tony.
It was exhibited in the famous 2 x 1 ½ exhibition, along with Robert's Shearing the Ram, and Conder's (Parasol at) Mentone.

Well Penny's back legs account for her distinctive Lope. And apparently the 1930 Penny is very rare.
Posted by boynton at January 28, 2004 02:40 PM

Didn't the Heidelberg school do their rough sketches on the top of cigar boxes? Perhaps McCubbin was out of lids on the day he spotted the roo and grabbed the matches instead...
Posted by mcb at January 28, 2004 04:11 PM

ah yes, mcb! Bravo.
The missing link.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/conder/9x5.html

and actually if you see Conder's "How we lost poor Flossie"
"...probably the most endearing of Conder’s exhibits. The subject of this witty narrative is the small terrier in the centre of the painting, greeting a larger dog. Flossie belonged to Conder’s friend Frederick McCubbin and, following its encounter with this unknown canine, was neither seen nor heard of again"

I think Flossie might have made a cameo on the
(parallel universe) 2 x 1 ½ exhibition of impressions painted on matchboxes. Detail.
Posted by boynton at January 28, 2004 04:26 PM

Was Roberts a ringer?

Click....

http://www.picturestore.com.au/images/products/medium/AWTR115.jpg

Click....

http://www.picturestore.com.au/images/products/medium/AWTR120.jpg

Chick....

http://www.picturestore.com.au/images/products/medium/AWTR580.jpg

And Lope Velez....

http://silent-movies.com/Ladies/PVelez.html
Posted by Tony.T at January 28, 2004 06:32 PM

yes Roberts is, and may have committed the odd blue bellied joe to matchbox.
(And The Tiff painting is a good match and could well blend into this Summer afternoon pastiche I think )

As you know Penny loped away to the tune "on the 14th January,1966"

And yes - Lope/lupe is now in the loop/soup.
More "Taylorology", Tony? (see Lupe's links)


Posted by boynton at January 28, 2004 06:52 PM

Oh dear/OMG - just spotted that TERRIBLE mistake.

Of course I meant "On The 14th FEBRUARY 1966" !!

To non-oz/ generation Y readers this was the day when we swapped to decimal currency. They had a TV campaign featuring 'Dollar Bill' and this last line was sung to the tune of "Click Go The Shears" - (which Tony refers to here) ...

Had January on my mind. Is it any wonder I don't win at Trivia? ;)
Posted by boynton at January 29, 2004 02:37 PM

Hmmm... now I'm noticing similarities between Lupe:
http://silent-movies.com/Ladies/Velez/Velez23.jpg

and the woman on the front of the redhead matches:
http://www.redheads.com.au/

(except, of course, for the hair colour)
Posted by mcb at January 29, 2004 04:46 PM

again, mcb, that match-up is rather uncanny!

- and her hair morphs a bit here

http://members.bettanet.net.au/~katynjoe/avant/avant1.htm

(nb number 3: 'This is Penelope"...)
Posted by boynton at January 29, 2004 05:14 PM

Ha Ha. Such a mistake! Tsk Tsk. Here's a Taylorology - "Get a grip, Boynton!"

Lupe really IS pronounced Loop. As in Poop. It is I tell you. It is. Appropriate considering she drowned in her torr-let.
Posted by Tony.T at January 30, 2004 09:41 AM

saturday seurat

driving round alexandra avenue along the yarra yesterday in the late afternoon of a warm spring day with the soft light like seurat in the shadows and the keen green of the exotics, the balmy air of the drop dead beauty of this postcard vista caught our breath.
I suppose to so juxstapose may be deemed colonial but oh well.

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Comments: saturday seurat

Has Seurat ever been to Melbourne? That's amazingly similar.
Posted by Tony.T at October 19, 2003 09:09 PM

Bonyton,
Good to see some imagery.
The trick now is to work the image into the poetics. Now that would be really groundbreaking in the weblog world.

On another note: why colonial?
It's a montage.
It's post-modern inter-texuality.
its photography v painting.
it's realism versus impressionism.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 19, 2003 09:42 PM

Nicely done!
Posted by fredf at October 20, 2003 11:04 AM

T - yes but he forgot his camera.

Gary - I meant the consciousness may seem colonial (or is that post-colonial) in the urge to compare, the so-called "'superstitious valuation' of Europe" - that would seek seurat and the seine or the thames in our antipodean vistas.
Or as Barry Humphrey's wrote:
"Our gorgeous modern cities so famed throughout the earth,
The Paris end of Collins Street, the Melbourne end of Perth."

Technically I like those descriptions though. I was hoping that the po-mo factor may over-ride the po-co.

- and thanks, Fred.
Posted by boynton at October 20, 2003 11:06 AM

In Australia
where light is bright
one must use
a Dag-O-Type
Posted by Tony.T at October 20, 2003 02:06 PM

Mr. T. you are hereby sentenced to 10 years hard labour as Bracksie's P.A. for that. C'est da guerre. (Brumby minor made me say that and then ran away.)
Posted by Sedgwick at October 23, 2003 01:11 PM

Actually I think T and Brumby should compose odes together in camera.
Posted by boynton at October 23, 2003 01:39 PM

You've just earned yourself 15 years for that. (Don't take that as a negative comment. Focus on the positive.)

Didn't know T was bi-cameral.
Posted by Sedgwick at October 23, 2003 02:41 PM

well he's looking to buy a camera I believe...

& any more bad punning and we'll all be sequestered until the next sesquicentenary
Posted by boynton at October 23, 2003 03:11 PM

Kay Seurat-Seurat.
Posted by Sedgwick at October 23, 2003 04:23 PM

... anyway, Tony the Teacher started it all. As always I bleam the teechirs. Spell check.
Posted by Sedgwick at October 23, 2003 04:27 PM

It's anyone elses folt.
Posted by Tony.T at October 24, 2003 09:54 AM