the compound word project
I consider myself more of a visual person than a verbal one, but I love to play with words — I’m a huge fan of Scrabble and the Times Sunday crossword (anyone know a seven-letter word for ‘unknown’?)
So, I was very excited to come across the compound word project.
photos by gracia and kristen
The project is the brainchild of Shari; she picked compund words and then assigned each participant a single word from the compound. Not knowing their compound word, each participant took a photo to represent their single word. Then Shari matched up the photos, creating a dipytch for each compound word - and everyone tried to guess what the compound words were. Not only is it fun (and harder than it looks) to correctly guess the answers, it is pretty amazing to see how well these photos (that were taken independently of each other and by different people) complement one another.
Shari hopes to do another project beginning in November, so check the site for more details if you are interested. Oh, and think you know the answers? Check here to see if you’re right!
[Thanks to Shari and all the photographers for permission to show their work!]
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Shari’s Compound Word Project was such fun to play, both to photograph and guess. And I’m eagerly awaiting a second instalment.
see you, gracia
(P.S. The only seven letter word for ‘unknown’ which I can think of is S-T-R-A-N-G-E… happy crosswording and word playing to you.)
Comment left on October 3, 2006 @
happy to see shari´s project featured here
Comment left on October 3, 2006 @
Thanks to both of you! Oh, and the word was ‘x factor’ (my husband got it, damn him!)
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