Wednesday, May 30, 2012

My favorite photograph is related with the new internet phenomenon, called "meme". This picture was taken in the last year by a Reuters photo-journalist, in the Buckingham Palace. In the press photograph you can see the president of EEUU Barack Obama and his wife (and first lady) Michelle Obama during their visit to the Queen of England on May 24th, 2011. What made this image famous is the strange and funny face of both of them.

I like it because this photo is the base of a lot of comic pictures created in internet under the name “meme”. The “meme” is a cartoon that express a simply emotion, just with an expressive face. In this sense, the face of Barack Obama represent the expression “everything went better than expected”. On the internet, the image is accompanied by the phrase “not bad” (as shown in the following image).

For more clarity about the "meme" concept (in special to the Obama meme), I select some pictures as an example of how to use this concept.



1 comment:

  1. Excellent job, Vladimir.

    Post 5 had a full grade and you got a 7.0 but as you posted after the class and indeed very late (the last day to post is Sunday with one point off) I will give you a 5.0 considering this post is very important.

    More comments next class.

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