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)]

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.