Friday, July 24, 2009

If you could back to me quick that be great,

This is an actual email a friend mine got form her advisor.
From: ************
Date: July 24, 2009 8:43:03 AM EDT
To: ***********
Subject: Need Cartoons and Illustrative Photo's

Hi

I am doing a presentation in a few days and need simple
pictures/cartoons to help me make my points.

Can you get, from the internet, cartoons or pictures that transmit the
following throughts and visual impacts?

1) A Rube Goldberg apparatus, which is a machine that looks very
complicated and a lot of work to put together, but accomplishes
nothing useful to the layperson?

2) Something illustrative of a massive disney-esqe fairy tale with a
prince, princess and a castle in the picture.

3) Something that shows a guy in a car, or something, trying to go
somewhere impossible like driving the car to the peak of a mountain or
to the moon, and somebody telling them something in the caption like
"You can't get there from here" where it looks like the person saying
it is obviously correct.

4) Same as number 3, but where the guy saying "You can't get there
from here" is obviously incorrect, and just can't see an alternative
rout or an easy pass.

5) Same as number 3 and 4, but where the guy is saying "You can't get
there from here," and somehow, the picture can be construed to
indicate that you have already been there.

6) Some kind of cartoon or picture that says "be unique," or "I am
unique" which first shows maybe a colony of animals that we humans
cannot tell the different between. Maybe something like a huge colony
of ants, or a bunch of bats on a ceiling....the key point is to show a
crowd of animals that all look the same like that zebra herd in the
recent animated movie where Chris Rock was the zebra, and he could not
even find his best friend in the crowd of zebras.

7) Same as #5, but something showing an animal that is obviously and
completely different in a crowd of animals that are the same. Maybe
something like 1 kangaroo in a crowd of zebras. Something that says I
am different. Or be different.

8) Some kind of slide illustrating human persistence and dedication.

9) A picture or cartoon showing someone reading an enormous stack of
books in a quiet place like a library.

10) Some kind of picture like from "water for people," that
illustrates how children in developing countries, or better yet in
poor rural areas in the U.S., do not have access to clean water.

11) Some kind of picture that illustrated how new products transform
peoples lives in a good way. Maybe something illustrating the
drudgery of housework before electrical applicances in the 1940s,
compared to the relative ease of doing housework after washing
machines, toasters, etc....and with something focussed on emphasizing
how happy and easy life is with a new appliance.

Can you give e-mail me whatever you find by about 4 pm today, and also
include web-links to the photo's or cartoons so I can give credit for
the source in the presentation? Maybe spend up to 3 hours trying to
find representative things. Appreciate it!

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