{"id":216,"date":"2008-08-15T20:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-08-15T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T19:27:12","slug":"word-association-becomes-image-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Word association &#8211; becomes image association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an image this afternoon while browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\" target=\"_blank\">iStock<\/a> which spoke to me and (effectively) said &#8220;I&#8217;m your new website background&#8221;. It feels lovely and calm, although the colours were fairly vibrant, and a version of teal which I&#8217;m pretty into at the moment. It&#8217;s light and airy, and although not a work of art, makes for a better site than the orgy of dark colours I was using before. So I re-worked the site (the wonders of css, by the time I&#8217;d re-sized the image, it took about 5 minutes. That, and my site has pretty much no content. Check it out. Honestly.) and showed it to Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Go and look at what he saw <a href=\"http:\/\/jude.hanlon.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Don&#8217;t read any more until you&#8217;ve looked.<\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s first comment was &#8220;what that needs is blood spattered on the walls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>See how this immediately changes it from a relaxing, uplifting image (although, on reflection, maybe an image that evokes the thought &#8220;go up into the light&#8221; might not be as positive as I first thought) to a vaguely sinister one.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; what does it say to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an image this afternoon while browsing iStock which spoke to me and (effectively) said &#8220;I&#8217;m your new website background&#8221;. It feels lovely and calm, although the colours were fairly vibrant, and a version of teal which I&#8217;m pretty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jude-the-obscure","category-work-related-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}