Hot according to JpgMag, but are these "cool"?!
By Jayel
19 July 2008
(I guess my "Bycicles" photo leaped back to "cold"!!)
I was clueless. I had no clear idea what made these photos cross the line, suddenly leap from cold anonimity into the hot limelight. Some might think I offered apples to the cold/hot gatekeepers but I, categorically, did not!!. De-nied. I love apples, why would I part with them? Besides, bribery is definitely not cool (O, no, is it hot, instead?!)
Some say it's color, others BxW. Nonsense. Look again at my hotties. Have you ever heard sillier argument?
The truth of the matter is, hotness is physical, while coolness is a state of mind, insofar as 'keewl' is concerned. This is the cold, hard fact. And we feel warm just imagining cool, we get cold sweats feeling the heat.
Some wonder if it's a matter of _flavor_. Flavor of the month, flavor of the day, flavor of the moment... I don't know. Again, flavor is cool, but it doesn't matter if it's hot or cold, unless you're talking banana-splits. At least, why would a photograph leap boundaries from cold to hot just because of taste? Maybe a well connected individual tasted something misterious while glancing at them?
Ah, mistery!!! I think I'm getting hot, finally... Because, think about it, what's hot to some might be cool to others. Or to none. Or it might not even be hot, except for the misterious tingle of that moment...
Stay with me just a little more. Recently I traveled to a distant land. It was Fall. I experienced gentle cold days which warmed my heart and helped me take a few cool photographs. I felt warm there, all that serene beauty surrounding me, with everything new emanating friendship and warmth. I met warm and friendly people which melt my heart, some real cool! I was warm and confortable, but they were often cold!! Now, try and explain _that_ ...
But I finally got it. It was always there, right in front of us all the time, so simple it hurt. It was obvious!!
What nudges a photograph from cold to hot here is a M i s t e r y !! What could be plainer than that...
; )
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