Monday, January 11, 2010

Jude Law

I think the new craze of word clouds is pretty cool. I use to like looking at pictures like this and I always wondered how people who had no experience with Photoshop could make such pictures. Since you brought up Wordle it answered that question for me. I like this kind of art, but I don't like how accessible it is. Nor do I like the fact that a five year-old can do it. It takes the cool out of it. Since a lot of people don't know about Wordle, I think it might not be used as much as it normally would. I'm sure if I showed the website to a bunch of people, I'm almost positive that a large majority of the group of people who will re-use the site would be thirteen to sixteen year-old girls who like these kinds of things. Did I mention that these girls know what love is? They also won't stop talking about Edward and Jacob. They also believe that those three things actually exist. Don't get me wrong, I think it's an awesome idea but doing it yourself on Photoshop gives you a chance to make the artwork more unique and you can make it look the way you want. You can also choose where you want your words to be. That's another thing, they don't let you change word sizes and you don't get to chosse where you want the words to be. I think that would be a good think if they added that feature. I give Wordle five screaming tweens out of twelve.

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