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Principia Discordia => Bring and Brag => Topic started by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 05, 2012, 07:24:47 AM

Title: Shelly's "Oxymandias" juxtaposed against Temple of Abu-Simbul
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 05, 2012, 07:24:47 AM
I made this thing. It's Percy Bysshe Shelly's poem "Ozymandias" juxtaposed against an image that renders it totally meaningless.

(http://s16.postimage.org/6s5cksrz9/Ozymandias_b.jpg)


(http://s17.postimage.org/9h4a53y67/Ozymandias_C_Blatant_Version.jpg)


Ozymandias is the Greek name for the pharaoh Ramses the Great. The Abu-Simbel temple has FOUR enormous statues of Ramses, ONE of which is ruined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel#The_Great_Temple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel#The_Great_Temple)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)
Title: Re: Shelly's "Oxymandias" juxtaposed against Temple of Abu-Simbul
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 08, 2012, 05:25:06 AM
so, is there a reason the lettering is all weird?
Title: Re: Shelly's "Oxymandias" juxtaposed against Temple of Abu-Simbul
Post by: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 09, 2012, 06:21:45 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on May 08, 2012, 05:25:06 AM
so, is there a reason the lettering is all weird?

I made this in MS Paint and accidentally saved it as a jpeg (forgetting that this prevents effective use of the fill function) before finishing the editing (I suppose the sensible thing to do would have been either to fill in the background color first or to get a better image editing program). I almost scrapped it and started over, but on looking at it, I realized that the inconsistent background gave it an aged ad weathered look that sort of matched the subject matter.
Title: Re: Shelly's "Oxymandias" juxtaposed against Temple of Abu-Simbul
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 09, 2012, 03:04:05 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 05, 2012, 07:24:47 AM
I made this thing. It's Percy Bysshe Shelly's poem "Ozymandias" juxtaposed against an image that renders it totally meaningless.

(http://s16.postimage.org/6s5cksrz9/Ozymandias_b.jpg)


(http://s17.postimage.org/9h4a53y67/Ozymandias_C_Blatant_Version.jpg)


Ozymandias is the Greek name for the pharaoh Ramses the Great. The Abu-Simbel temple has FOUR enormous statues of Ramses, ONE of which is ruined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel#The_Great_Temple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel#The_Great_Temple)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)

Ramses II has more surviving monuments than any other pharoah.

Which means Shelley's Poem about failure is itself a failure.