This all started with today’s assignment for the Daily Shoot:
“Power plugs are ubiquitous. Can you make a creative photo of such a common thing? #ds448”
It took me pretty much all day to figure out what I wanted to take a photo of because power plugs are so ordinary, I couldn’t think of any idea that wouldn’t look really trite. However, after looking a few photos that were already up I got an idea:
What if I took a photo of an Australian Plug trying to fit into an American outlet? American outlets always look so sad, so if I took a photo of something that couldn’t fit in the outlet, it would be even more sad.
Luckily I was at home for the Superbowl and was able to find my phone and charger that I used when I was studying abroad in Australia last year (funny note: my phone which has been off since mid-July still has a 1/2 battery life!)
I took a lot of photos of putting the Aussie plug into the American outlet, but this is the photo I liked the best.
Then I was trying to think of something cool I could do with all the photos that I had left over from the shoot since some of them were kind of cool. Originally I was just going to do a complied screen shot, but then I noticed that all the image titles were numbers like: 2156.
I decided it would be funny if I made a song playlist poem for the photos, similar to what Colleen has done.
The poem turned out a tad more weird/creepy(?) than I thought it would be, but it was fun to have a different twist on the assignment!
Here is my masterpiece in all it’s glory (also check it out on my flickr gallery if you want)
Love this! Very cool! Your plug photos look so cute. I love how you put them next to each other and paired them with a song.
haha I showed it to some friends not in class and they thought I was a total weirdo. I am hoping people in #ds106 understand more… lol 😛
ps. didn’t mean to make the Oz outlet so creepy, but that’s how the song title worked out
How clever to combine these two assignments! It works really well.
This is too funny! The captions are so perfect.
This is great! Poor power plug. It’s like Romeo and Juliet- they can’t be together because of their families. So sad.
This is great. I wasn’t really inspired by that daily shoot prompt, but you’ve taken it to a whole different level.
That’s so cute! I love the plug romance. Clearly you should make a novel of it.
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