Today’s Photo Friday is entitled: “Juxtaposition″

jux·ta·po·si·tion
–noun
1. an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.
2. the state of being close together or side by side.
This week was my choice for the topic! I picked “juxtaposition” because 1) I absolutely LOVE the word, and 2) I thought it was a challenge that could be interpretation in a bajillion ways. I had no preconcevieved idea of what I was going to do for it. The word just came into my head when I read that the choice was to be mine this week.
I took this picture this past weekend in Denver. When I took the picture I was only taking it because it tickled my fancy. I thought it would be way cute to have my little friends copy the big blue bear’s pose, all lined up. Only after I got home and was going through and catalogueing the photos from the weekend did it strike me that this would make an excellent and FUN submission for this weeks “Photo Friday”. So, here is “Big Blue Bear and Little Friends Peeking”!
From L to R that’s the Big Blue Bear, Abner, Stephanie, Colin, and Clare — in juxtaposition!
This Big Blue Bear is peeking in the windows of the Denver Convention Center. His body is made up purely of planes. Pretty cool. Designed by a computer.
The sculpture was unveiled in June of 2005 and is called “I See What You Mean”.
They are all interested in what’s going on in there!
Please visit the other participants’ work!
Welcome to CordieB of the blog “Looking Through The Window“
(Jan’s entry – A Curious State of Affairs - uses a cool online tool called a Hockneyator to create a collage. You should check it out and snag that link to try this tool yourself!)
I’ll add anymore links should I find that there are any more new players out there!
Next week’s topic comes to us from Tina of SkyWindows and is “Religion”.
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Given to me by Larry of the blog "Hallelujahs"
the bear is GREAT! did you take a close up? I want to see the planes. (huh? planes!?)
I just love this photo and I just love the composition and I just love the way your friends have lined up to help. I just love it, OK? It’s superb!
I would most definately have taken a photograph of this sculpture if I’d seen it. It is SOOO cool!
Since everyone seems to like the “Hockneyator” I will incorporate it into a Photo Friday for the week after Tina’s topic “religion” – then CuriousC can select the title the week after that, if she wants.
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Love this….at first I didn’t even see the people included…just the big blue bear…..very cool! Thanks for teaching me a new word too!
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What a cool bear!!!!
That is such a strange looking sculpture!!!
Hi Lou, we have a new member to add to this week’s entries list: CordieB @ Looking in the Mirror (follow the link from my site)
There is a new post on my site about the Photo Friday portrait week too!
That’s a really cool pic. I had to take a second look to see the people looking through the windows- the bear is so overwhelming. I didn’t realize you were the responsible for picking the topic; cool word – I love learning new words!
Thanks for sharing.
Peace!
CordieB