Tuesday, September 28, 2010

WK 5 Blog Exercise: Visual vs Symbolic Language

Google image search of "Economy"

Image from: http://www.ethicalmarkets.com

Visual images and Symbols:
Solar
Solar Cells
Blue Skies
Flowers
Green Fields
Windmills
Greener Pastures
Rally at Washington

The Dome
Power to the People
Jobs

U.S. Moving too Slowly
Time for Change is Now
The World
Hope
Bio-tech
Lab worker with rubber gloves
Test Tubes
Cutting Edge

New Era
Brave Frontier
The Future
Sustainability
Balance


This image is of a flyer that contains five separate still shots of various aspects of the green economy. One picture contains the image of the Capitol with someone holding up a sign with the phrase "Green Jobs". The next picture shows giant solar cells in a field of flowers. A picture can be seen of a scientist with gloves holding a vial with some sort of sample to be tested. Below that is a scene of windmills towering over a flat green plain. In the center of all of these scenes is an image of a tall skyscraper with a sculpture of the earth in front; superimposed on that image is text containing the phrase, "The new green economy". I choose this image because the content is forward thinking. I think this is the direction our economy will have to take in order to achieve a long-term harmonious relationship with our planet.




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