Loegography

I was driving home from my Pilates session today when I heard a story on NPR about Legos and the Lego Movie which, despite all expectations, is still going strong in this country. It has a catchy theme song, "It's Awesome", popular with seven year olds, and with a tendency to get stuck in the heads of adults, especially parents of said seven year olds.

The story got me thinking about Legos, and the many ways they have wormed their way into our lives, especially those of us who ever had a seven year old. My brother refers to them as "gdi's", short for "goddammits". Anyone who has ever stepped on one of these sharp little bricks in the middle of the night will appreciate the appropriateness of the acronym.

The Lego story on the radio was about Andrew Whyte, who quit his boring job, found one of his son's Lego figures which fit perfectly into the small pocket of his five pocket jeans, and began a new career traveling the world and including his little figure in every picture he took. He referred to it as "legography".

On a trip through the American Southwest with Lady Findhorn and His Lordship, we bought a stuffed howling coyote in the gift shop at the Grand Canyon, and included him in every picture we took. None of us can remember his name, although he definitely had one, and he was far too big to fit in any pocket of our jeans, but he added a lot to our trip, and to the photographic record of it.*

Sounds like a good project for a blipper who has grown uninspired.Something so entrenched in the national consciousness as to inspire a blockbuster movie, would have to find its way into our blips. A two week challenge perhaps?

*Does anyone recall the movie, "Amalie"?