F 7 2024 - Headlines and Stories

 

Can you imagine being the journalist on these stories?

And then the headline writer who was in a hurry...

So I was intrigued with a headline the other day about a pigeon suspected of being a Chinese spy.  It was finally cleared by police.  It turned out to be an open-water racing bird from Taiwan which had escaped and flown to India.  It had two rings tied to its legs with words that appeared to be Chinese, causing the concern.  Strange  to me  is that they kept it for eight months so the report would definitely be very late in the making.   It wasn't without previous experience that they were cautious, in 2016 a pigeon was detained after it was allegedly found with a note that threaten the Indian Prime Minister. What do you think of this abstract?  It was stone facing on a building wall, and with an increase in vibrance and saturation, these are the colours that are revealed.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Jan 14 2022 - Wordle of the Day

 

I checked out the news in Google News.  I found this WORDLE, The Daily Game.  I don't normally go to Google News - it is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web.  This is the service opposed  by news organizations and countries over licensing and the lack of it by Google.  They even thought that displaying snippets of content without licensing seemed to be ok.  Where there is licensing, the company is under investigation.  France has fined Google and other countries such as Germany are involved in an antitrust probe. But what we noticed in the News Feed was the Wordle of the Day.  What is Wordle?  The New York Times on January 3rd, 2022 says that it is a love story - a game designed by Josh Wardle in November 2021 for his girlfriend.  It now has over 300,000 players.   "It’s been a meteoric rise for the once-a-day game, which invites players to guess a five-letter word in a similar manner as the guess-the-color game Mastermind. After guessing a five-letter word, the game tells you whether any of your letters are in the secret word and whether they are in the correct place. You have six tries to get it right. Few such popular corners of the internet are as low-frills as the website, which Mr. Wardle built himself as a side project. There are no ads or flashing banners; no windows pop up or ask for money. There is merely the game on a black background". It is based on five-letter words - around 12,000 in English.  Here is what it looks like: Here is the New York Times article about it HERE.  Isn't this a wonderful news story of the day!  A game that will soon become beloved world-wide.  This was a bit of graffiti in St. Catharines.  It has been colourized and given a painterly effect.  All of my manipulation software tools have to be upgraded and uploaded and then tested.  Both Photoshop and Lightroom moved to new releases, and plugins stopped 'plugging in'.   The original is below - itself an interesting image with a graceful composition.

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