The face in vehicle design

Second in a series of two 

In the film “Space Odyssey: 2001”, which I have seen about six times, the technology facades have human faces  faces, which was relevant for the narrative.  Those who design the appearances of vehicles may be including the human visage unconsciously.

“Don’t you think these tattoos below my eyes are sexy?”

 

“This is unbelievable!  Never seen anything like this.”

 

“Don’t you just love my new mascara?”

 

“Aaa!  Why do you scare me like that?”

 

“Heh, heh … You thought you were going to get away with it again.”

 

“The tears I shed are not for you.”

 

“Ugh!  That’s bitter.”

 

©  Will

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

December, 2021

 

My photographs 

The face in vehicle design

First in a series of two

Art therapists and Rorshach experts will have something to say about these posts, not particularly about the images but what my mind is saying about them.  It comes from my child, I suspect, when, looking that the huge taillights of the 1950s petrol guzzlers, I saw the eyes of angry woman.

The idea hasn’t left me.  Instead, it has grown through the years.  Those who design the appearances of vehicles will have it that two lights are more practical than one Cyclops light.  I wonder about that.  The design doesn’t stop with “eyes”.  There is too, the “mouth” and in some cases, the “nose”.  More than that:  these “faces” on the front of a car or its back suggests – to me – personalities.  All right, you can say it, He’s mad.  But have a look at the images and see what comment there is.  I’ve chosen to put the comment into utterance.  So if this has meaning for you then perhaps we are both mad.

“The modern world is too much for me.  I can’t cope.  Everything is so fast.”

 

“Mom, can I go play with the next door kids?”

 

“Come and give your old dad a little hug.”

 

“Ah, you blighter!  Got you at last.”

 

“Okay, everybody, are you ready for the picnic?”

 

“What can I do?  The girls all find me boring.”

 

“I’m evil all the way through.  You can’t measure that.”

 

©  Will

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

December, 2021

 

My photographs 

 

The jackpot in France

The time I’ve spent in France has made me question some of the mythology about the place. I feel critical about the way in which the jackpot is run. The person who wins now (December, 2020) will win €200 million. When I last looked (Oct 2020) the exchange rate for the South African rand was €1 = R22. That is, one million Euros = R22 million in South Africa. Multiply that by 22. You’ll spend some time getting the naughts down. There is a grotesque contradiction in all of this for me.

For a country in which rivers of blood flowed for the principle of Egalité, I find this a form of madness where one person suddenly gets €200 million, money that probably creates hysteria in people, is not properly utilized in one lifetime and becomes a kind of cul de sac.  It is known that winners of such vast sums undergo therapy to live with the complex reality that their lives acquire.  Suddenly legions of family members, friends and acquaintances descend, scrounging bucks.  The queue of charity organisations stretches into the distance.  All of this is not without problem and easily goes into crisis.  The media stand ready to issue mean criticism of such a person and are part of the general ensuing estrangement which such vast change brings.  

France is addicted to political debate.  The TV channels are flooded with disputing circles.  But nowhere is there a single word about the way in which the jackpot is run.  It would seem that everyone nourishes the delicious thought of winning that money him/herself.  

If 20 winners could be chosen, each with ten million Euros, such money could be put to good use, giving more participants a chance of winning.  And you don’t confer madness on a single winner.

Egalité, indeed.

©  Will

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

Written/scheduled 12.12.20.  Posted for 12.12.21

 

Sources of images lost 

 

 

Fish as art

Second in a series of two

So, yes, I’ll get through one more day in confinement by sharing the few pics of fish that were reasonably successful. (I am curious though as to what I would have experienced by the time this post appears in December of 2021.)

 

 

 

 

©  Will

http://www.willwilltravel.wordpress.com

Les Semboules, Antibes

December, 2021

 

My photographs, published by RotsWolk Publishers