Altered Photography to Visualize a Topic

This photograph is relatable to my topic because I sometimes write about people using blogs as an outlet to interact technologically with others. While it could be a celebrity’s blog to respond to an event, or the audience’s thoughts on the event on a public site or also the stars personal comment, blogs are using throughout my topic to pass along the interaction. When people blog they can either use their cell phone, iTouch, a keyboard, or anything with a keypad and Internet to write their thoughts and comments.

This specific picture taken from IBM, Microsoft, LSI and Silicon Graphics “mini-blog” experiment shows a keyboard, which goes along with a computer. The experiment consisted of technology experts from each company agreeing to “blog’ live’ for four days only – a unique opportunity for the IT and data storage communities to join a dialogue w/business-critical technology providers.”

What jumped out at me about this picture is that the keyboard is not the standard keyboard. Instead the keyboard letters spell out “blog” instead of having the usual letters, “d, f, g, h” in their place. This picture is clearly altered to send a specific message to the viewer about their this picture is trying to convey. The use of a keyboard having the letters “blog” spelled out connects the two items to take a related topic. This picture is similar to the one discussed in class related to the “Medical Technology” picture. While that picture illustrated a laptop with a stethoscope coming out of the side, this picture is also clearly altered from its original form after the photograph was taken.

I think that this picture does a good job at illustrating what the creator(s) are trying to visualize. There is no confusion as to what this picture is trying to convey. At first glance it is clear that the picture is relating the using of a keyboard to blogging. As I said before, I believe this picture is an example of a visualization of my topic, as blogging is an outlet for audiences to technologically interact.