Saturday, March 16, 2013

Uninspiring Inspiration

I know, I know.  It has been a really long time since I've done anything on here and I feel like a lazy useless person for it.  Lately too many things going on to have any sort of time to sit down and write any sort of extended piece.  However, it only takes a few moments to make some pictures.

Lately, I've been noticing WAY TOO MANY of all of those super-generic-scenic-cliche "inspirational" pictures.  The basic formula is this:







  1. Find a picture of landscape or crowd of people
  2. Make up a cliche quote or steal one from a famous person
  3. Make sure that the picture and the words do not relate in any way whatsoever
  4. Combine in preferred photo-editing software
  5. Post to Facebook and get 10,000 likes from sheep people.
So like any responsible blogger/writer/aspiring comedy person, I've not been able to avoid the irony of everyone of them that I've seen.  I see 100 or more pictures everytime I log onto any social media site telling me how perfect I am, how I shouldn't regret anything, or how I'm not fat but rather beautiful.

I cannot imagine that anyone believes those things and when they read them they say, "Yeah, that's right.  I'm not going to diet now that I know I'm already perfect" or "Yeah, why should I ever look at any past mistakes in my life and learn from them?  The future is now."

As always I couldn't help but try to point this out.  So I made a few and if anyone else has some more I would love to see them.

 

And lastly, don't be afraid to follow your dreams....