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

[(Anonymous)]

Re Secutatrix: It wasn't only bad Latin (which the council translated as "let industry flourish") but also very bad heraldry. The new device, crest, bearers an' all, has the motto 'Optima Petamus'(allegedly "we seek the best"). As a council tax payer in the borough, any comment I make on that would be defamatory. The Smart Arse.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Who are you and why don't you get yourself a lurker's LJ

This journal's resident lurker is my mother - I suggested that she set up an LJ, her main objection to which seems to be "but I wouldn't have any friends!" :)

[(Anonymous)]

Are old bats allowed to have LJ's? I'm tempted as it's a wonderful place for a rant and I do enjoy Venta's contributions. As for the heraldry, I should have said supporters not bearers. My Pa was the heraldry buff, brother inherited his Boutell's. What I like about heraldry is the language = gules, fesse, rampant, passant et al.
Venta's Aged P (and I have worked out who you are!)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

the only academic area where you can expect to be ambushed by Norman French, bad Latin, Welsh and even some Gaelic at a moment's notice.

How about here?

the "common usage makes it right" rant

Surely that should be "common usage make's it right"?

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Shrewsbury makes me uncomfortable

Um. I think I must have missed a meeting.

I don't know where you live, but I can find out.

I have a l33t ninja housemate (_yakumo_), so bring lots of mooks.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

OK, just as long as I know that my failure to meet expectations is irremediable.

I don't often get to say "irremediable".

Evil global mastermind? Sweeet. Have her call ahead so that the two of them can make sure they have contrasting costumes.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't often get to say "irremediable".

And I nearly spoiled it by reading it as "irredeemable" on my first pass.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Isn't "fesse" French for "buttock" ?

I only know this because a friend's Rough Guide to Paris included "Cela me fait-il de grosses fesses?" on the one-page essential-phrase list.

[(Anonymous)]

With her mother about, too? Come on, would I worry? Not so much "Rough Guide to Paris" either, i suspect. as a wonderful book called "Merde, Genevieve" (or all the French you never learned at school, with asterisks to denote degree of rudeness/obscenity).

[venta.livejournal.com]

No, it really did come out of the Rough Guide to Paris. That's what made it so funny - a book which only provides one page of essential French phrases considers "Does my bum look big in this?" important enough to include.