Colour me once, colour me twice

[venta]

So. Colour bars.

So, secutatrix has been offering to make people colour bars, to suit the topic of their choice. I think this refers to the sheep a while ago which drew a pretty rainbow bar for you, and and said "x is love" where x was something from your interests list.

I requested a colour bar for "north". Secutatrix made me one, for which thank her very much:



Which is nicely executed, but it's a bit, well, grim.

So, I thought I'd try and construct one myself out of images which I associate with home, and try and demonstrate that actually there's some quite nice bits.



Now, allowing for Secutatrix being a lot more ept with her graphics software than I am, and having made her colours much nicer, wouldn't you agree that mine's a much better north ?

I'm curious as to whether any of my images are identifiable, given the size and colour shiftedness.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't be very specific, but for yours I get:

Beach (with some kind of jetty or pier, or those wooden things they build to stop the sand washing away, although I thought that was more of a south coast thing), waterfall, rather splendid door-knocker, hill, church, beer.

I'm pretty puzzled the the third (yellow) image in secutatrix's version anyway. My best guess is a sloping roof with some kind of dormer window or chimney, possibly in the process of falling down.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty puzzled the the third (yellow) image

That, she tells me, is a cokery. I'm think it was a top hit for "dark satanic mill" on google image search :)

I'm glad you can recognise the waterfall - I wasn't sure it was identifiable! I was hoping people could actually name the locations. Shame on you for not getting the beach :)

Dark Satanic Mill

[wimble.livejournal.com]

My belief, inherited from my father, is that this is is a misreference. His claim is that the Dark Satanic Mills referred to in Jerusalem are actually Mills of learning: specifically Oxford and Cambridge. The Dark Satanic description has a moral base, rather than a literal one, As Blake did not approve of the academic syllabus.

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[venta.livejournal.com]

Really ? I didn't know that. I'm not very well-educated in my Blake, though.

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Take with a pinch of salt: I don't know how true it is. Can't ask the bugger. :(

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

How can one be "among" two things?

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Pedant!

Maybe I've not included precisely the right list in my comment: maybe there's a third relevant university I don't know about; maybe it's a reference to the colleges themselves?

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nah, it was Oxford, Cambridge and Hull.

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[wimble.livejournal.com]

As in "Go to Hull"?

Or are you winding me up?

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nope, that was me making a reference to a televisual entertainment programme.

I don't do it very often, so make the most of it :)

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Nope, don't recognise it. Probably something ... Northern!

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[venta.livejournal.com]

Rubbish. It's very well known.

I'm sure onebyone will back me up on this.

Re: Dark Satanic Mill

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Quite right. They don't let Northerners on the telly, do they? At least not without training in RP and promising not to bring their whippet.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Blackadder IV (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blackadder)

(Rowan Atkinson went to Hull university)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I shall consider myself darkened.