Marc L. Latham's Blog, page 45

Cheryl Cole Tattoo Finds Michelle Keegan Agreeable

Hi, it’s Wolf Whitzer, intrepid newshound at the GGN Greenygrey News, in the style of Wolf Blitzer of CNN fame. This week saw Cheryl Tweedy‘s backside tattoo revealed, and the Greenygrey Quality Control team has now released its verdict after looking into it.

Cheryl Tweedy Tattoo Greenygreylicious

The Greenygrey Quality Control team reported: ‘While we don’t think such a big expensive tattoo is necessarily necessary it is: well crafted; a beautiful design; and most important of all, includes a sufficient amount of greenygrey to be classed as greenygrey.’

Michelle Keegan

Michelle Keegan is Very Agreeable 

The Greenygrey Quality Control Team has therefore found Michelle Keegan very agreeable, as Digital Spy reported from Now magazine (so this is third-hand news!) that the actress tweeted Tweedy (tweeting Tweedy is mine) that:

‘the tattoo as “striking” and that it is up to her what she does to her own body. When I saw the pic of Cheryl Cole’s new bum tattoo, I tweeted her as I thought it was so unusual and striking.’

Cheryl Tweedy has not yet revealed that the tattoo is dedicated to the joining of Greenygrey and Rose Tattoo in Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps.

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Semiotics, Britain, Norway, Helly Hansen, Poetry and Greenygrey

Hi, it’s Grey Greyvara, social conscience at the Greenygrey. The image of my human parallel Che Guevara became a cultural icon, so I’ve been chosen to present today’s blog on semiotics. My subject for the blog is Dr. Marc Latham, who studied semiotics for his PhD around 2000-2002, before adapting it to framing for his media analysis. Marc was a critical theorist, supporting more media freedom and social liberation. The Islamisation of the left sent him to the Greenygrey centre.

New Brands Theory, Brand New Poetry

Towards the end of Marc’s studies in 2005, branding became the new buzzword in Communications.

Many industries are still discovering branding,

five to seven years behind the Greenygrey.

Not because we searched words to say,

the theories just passed our way.

In 2012 Marc bought a Karrimor coat,

it had a British flag on its front.

In 2013 he wrapped it around a Norwegian tree,

reminding him of another Communications theory.

Helly Hansen, Karrimor and Greenygrey

Helly Hansen is a Norwegian clothing company with a HH logo, as the Greenygrey is GG.

Helly Hansen is proud to fly the Norwegian colours.

Helly Hansen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Karrimor is a British clothing company with a Union Jack logo.

While that may seem racist-nationalistic to multicultural fascists trying to eradicate any historical Britishness from Britain, the logo is black and white, as the Greenygrey is greenygrey.

When Helly Met Greeny, in Cultural Neutrality

In 2012 Marc Latham bought a new jacket. Having seen a greenygrey one in a store he thought about buying it, but when he looked online he found a Karrimor one much cheaper.

So the decision to buy Karrimor was based on greenygrey colours and price rather than its logo.

Travelling to Norway Marc had no qualms about wearing it, knowing that Norway and Britain have a good relationship, and especially since they were strong allies in World War Two.

Social Consciousness (Photo credit: Marisa | Food in Jars)

Cultural Meaning

So while to some people in the world, and increasingly in Britain (non-sporting Britain anyway, with British sportspeople of all races and colours proud to represent Britain) the British flag might symbolise nationalism and colonialism, in Norway it should represent the fight against Fascism and oppression.

Returning to semiotics and branding, that is how names and images start from human creation, and then grow to mean something in human culture; that meaning is dependent on the culture and individual.

Che Guevara and Winston Churchill are both heroes and villains depending on your political viewpoint, and what issues you focus on.

Communist Che Guevara helped topple an island’s corrupt dictatorship, but executed many people afterwards.

Conservative Winston Churchill helped save an island from corrupt dictatorship, but had presided over the shooting of demonstrating miners.

While their politics might have been different, they both became heroic historical icons to the majority of the people they represented.

Winston Churchill in Downing Street giving his famous ‘V’ sign. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Che Guevara t-shirt (Photo credit: Paul Stainthorp)

Mental Time Trap, Under Tree Top 

So what happened when Helly met Greeny? There are a lot of ways to interpret the tree and Karrimor jacket photo.

It could look like it was all planned, if Marc hadn’t seen Eidfjord trees wrapped in colourful knitting beforehand.

Marc might have thought nothing more,

but with time to spare,

in the Eidfjord forest,

he thought he’d copy

the knitted-kitted trees,

and create a greenygrey display.

Bringing us back to that other theory,

highlighted by Derren Brown cleverly,

of time-delay traps advertisers like to lay.

To show that we’re not rabid anti-capitalists and anti-advertising, and in line with the communist world’s embracing of some capitalism; and to try and sell some books (we’d much rather be working on a grant and giving them away for free, but might have to give up some of our freedom!) which have lots more information like that above, they’re available at Smashwords and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/author/marclatham).

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Eidfjord Forest and Waterfall Natural Escape Photo Article

Hi, it’s Jack Wolfpac, poetic travel correspondent at the Greenygrey. With the WWW three-week spectacular having taken precedence here, we’ve fallen behind with Marc Latham’s travel25years.wordpress.com website, which ended its Scandinavian journey on the same day as the WWW-3-week; by the way, we’d like a three-week working month at the Greenygrey; including a great greenygrey Stockholm fountain. My human parallel, Jack Kerouac, got a mention as well as Abba‘s Agnetha.

Eidfjord Greenygrey Journey

With a few hours to spare in the small town of Eidfjord, whose spectacular mountains were under thick cloud at the time, Marc walked a little up the mountain on a forest path.

Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA, Ekeberghallen, Oslo, Norway (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Leaving humanity behind, and unable to see the spectacular, Marc had time to appreciate the beauty of the natural world that is often overlooked; a natural world that is often greenygrey.

Marc said that in a land dominated by awesome natural beauty, it was a time of quiet contemplation and reflection amongst nature that is often passed without being noticed.

However, once the outside world was forgotten, and the mind absorbed into the quiet surroundings; hearing only rushing water, and seeing only nature, time passed quickly, and there was not time to see it all, or to go farther into the greenygrey void.

Here’s some photos; you can enlarge them by clicking on them. There’ll be a more human discussion deriving from Eidfjord tomorrow:

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Wolf Environment Week Ends with Werewolf of Oz

As we bring the curtain down

on wolf and environment week

at the Greenygrey,

it’s quite a timely one

with the badger cull under way in the U.K.

Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web – Opportunity, Challenge, Responsibility (Photo credit: Anna L. Schiller)

Hi, it’s Greenygrey. I hope you’ve enjoyed the WWW three-week festival of women, working-class and wolf. We end it with the best way we know how: an episode of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps.

This episode has some new places, literature greats, pigeon small talk wordplay, satirical laughs and Oz interest, as the travel quest quartet leave the pigeons of Cooma and reach the Badga State Forest for a badger-Deliverance themed story…

Chapter 102.  Goodbye Coo Pigeons, Hello Banjo Badgers

The Coomageons put on a fine feast for us. We thanked them with full contented stomachs that rumbled no more. They sensed our satisfaction, and said it was the least they could do, after I’d shown the Coorowgeons the utmost respect.

English: Draft of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We offered to do the dishes, but they would hear none of it. Patricia was eager to show us their library, which was open twenty-four hours a day. The Coomageons were very proud of the renowned local poet, Samuel Cooleridgeon, and one room was devoted entirely to his works. One of his most notable poems was called The Coomplaint of Ninathoma.

Tara to Cooma

At the end of the night, we were escorted to lofts they’d converted for us. They had done a grand job, and I couldn’t remember sleeping anywhere as coosy and coomfortable.

In the morning, they coooked us up a coolity local delicacy they call pigidge. It was oat so delicious. As we tucked in, I told Patricia how impressed I was with the loft. Her response was most humble; she said they had been working on them for many moons.

English: Old pigeon loft On the side of the track that links Oozewood Road, Royton to Bridge Road, Street Bridge, near Chadderton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yes, I suppose they had had a lot of time.

My mind split into two halves. One imagined the pigeons working on the lofts, and the other remembered notable events from our Ozyssey; times when I had never heard of Cooma, didn’t know where we were going, or if we’d survive.

Angry noticed I wasn’t eating and asked if I was alright. I thought it was a very perceptive use of his mind. I said, ‘Yes, Angry, never been better… as one half of the Greenygrey anyway.’ Angry laughed, and the others joined in.

Patricia said I had a ‘good sense of coomour.’ I laughed, and said she did too.

It was then time to say goodbye, and we left Cooma with a heavy heart and stomach. We could hear them cooing their farewells until we entered the Badja State Forest, and the chattering of badgers took over.

Deliverance Minimalist Movie Poster (Photo credit: Michael Branson Smith)

It was nice to walk through the thick forest at first, but then we reached a swamp, and it looked like it could get tricky. The dust sandy path was hardly visible at times, and we struggled to make much progress. I was contemplating asking the others if they could think of a quicker way through, when Angry said he could hear a banjo in the distance.

I thought he’d turned more crazy than angry for a minute, but it wasn’t long before we could all hear it. We followed the direction of the sound, and emerged into a clearing where we could see a badger picking at a banjo. Angry pulled out his bagpipes and started playing along, and they were soon raising the canopy with their badger blues beats.

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Notes

Tara – slang for goodbye.

Obscure pigeon words: coolity – quality. coomour – humour.

Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) was a Romantic writer and poet. The Complaint of Ninathoma was one of his poems.

Badja State Forest is a real place.

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Lady GG Presents British Wildlife Photo Awards Greenygrey Winners

I often wonder

struggling to support life

why its so difficult?

To preserve animals

and promote beauty.

Hi, it’s Lady GG, unique singing sensation at the Greenygrey, and probably most comparable to Lady GaGa in the human world, although we are of course both totally separate creations… both ourselves and GaGa.

Talking of twos,

on this morning’s news,

a Lady GaGa interview

followed great wildlife views,

so the Greenygrey combined

them together with you in mind.

British Wildlife Photo Awards

Although Britain doesn’t seem to have much wildlife left, what it does have is nice and well worth seeing… and quite often greenygrey.

So I was particularly pleased to see that George Karbus’s great greenygrey Bottlenose Dolphin photo won overall British Wildlife Photo of the Year:

A wagtail using greenygrey surroundings and folding wing-mirror to create a fantastic photo won the Animal Behaviour category:

And a greenygrey damselfly won runner-up in Hidden Britain:

That’s all the categories I’ve had time to look through at the moment, and I hope we’ll bring you more greenygrey award winners in the near future…

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HTC Advert Greenygrey Trolls – German Shepherd Howls to Wolves

Hi, it’s Harry Silhouetteof-Wolfhowlingonhill. Without animals and the environment there would be no trolls. Without trolls, there would be less greenygrey in the new HTC advert:

German Shepherd Howls with Wolves

Without wolves, there would be no dogs. In this Wimp.com/wolfhowling link a German Shepherd dog remembers its ancestry by howling after listening intently to a wolf howling.

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RSPB Advert Adaptation: Humans are Welcome

‘If you build it they will come…’ Wolf-lovers may have been wondering where are all the wolves for wolf week. Well, we’ve got good news for you: it’s wolf time… and human time…

RSPB Advert Promotes Wildlife Habitats

Hi, it’s Chris Packwolf, wildlife and environment correspondent at the Greenygrey, in the style of Chris Packham in the human world. I noticed the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has a nice advert promoting the making of wildlife habitats in gardens; it includes the above quote, which reminds me of the Field of Dreams 1980s movie.

I was thinking that it is similar to us building the Greenygrey website and blog in the human world, hoping that you would come and treat it as a virtual world. Here’s the advert:

Defenders of Wildlife Matching Donations

While the Greenygrey world is just a virtual world, and Britain doesn’t have many big wild animals left, the U.S.A. has lots (and lots more space of course). Defenders of Wildlife is at the forefront of defending animals and habitat both in North America and around the world.

Until tomorrow, August 31st, the Defenders hierarchy are willing to match donations up to $100,000. And here’s some of the wolves you’ll be helping protect, in a nice greenygrey image, with a link (http://www.defenders.org/) to the Defenders website embedded in the photo:

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Syria Vote and Badger Cull B4 Oz Werewolf Pigeon Pottiness

Hi, it’s Greenygrey. First of all, I’d like to congratulate the British parliament for voting against military action in Syria. It’s a sensible decision reflecting the will of the majority of the British people, showing democracy working well. I think Prime-Minister Cameron was rash in his calls for action, but magnanimous after the House of Commons defeat.

Badger’s Bane to Potty Pigeons 

Badger (Photo credit: Tatterdemalion!)

On a more environmental note in the U.K.,

for wolf – environmental week at the Greenygrey,

I also disagree with David Cameron‘s decision to cull badgers, but accept the government’s decision in line with our democracy; although it wasn’t put to a vote in parliament.

English: Nanny Goat Bronze Statue Nanny Goat Hill Cooma NSW (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anyway, enough of the serious stuff, here’s the next episode of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps. After the extended episodes epic Lord of the Rings themed story, this episode is another standalone breather like the last one in Berridale, as the travel quest quartet  reach Cooma for more pigeon and partridge pottiness.

Pigeon Partridge Potty Pranks

Yes, I did mean to write ‘more’ above, because this episode connects back to an earlier episode with pigeon pranks-a-plenty.

Yes, all the way back to chapter thirteen, when Grey was still a lone travelling werewolf in Western Australia, before it met Bonzo, Elle, Angry and Cathy; and got into trouble with the Monotonous Monotheists at Meekatharra before being helped out by the Mildly Monotonous Moby in chapter twenty.

Anyway, there’s links to the old chapter above, and here’s the new:

Chapter 101.  Coo ma, it’s the Pigeon Mothers of Cooma 

We didn’t know what Cooma could provide at the late hour we arrived. Our bellies were all berried out, and seemed to have been racing to rumble the roarest more than our legs had been spinning to speed the slickest. My hopes rose at the Cooma city limits when we were met by a pigeon in a pinafore that was quick to come to the fore.

Pigeon Mothers of Cooma 

The Partridge Family (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

She cooed a welcoome and introduced herself as Patricia. She said she was one of the many pigeon mothers of Cooma, although she’d been named after her grandmother, who was a member of The Partridge Family.

Patricia said they’d heard we were on our way from the pigeons in Coorow; the Coorowgeons had sent a carrier with a message about our journey. As time passed, they’d thought it must be literary nonsense, and Coorow had just wanted something to coo about; but our arrival meant it had not been nonsense after all. It had all turned out cooshty in the end.

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Notes

The not nonsense phrase was probably inspired by Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, which the author was reading at the time.

cooshty – cushty is slang for good.

The Partridge Family was a television series.

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Poetry, after Selfie Twerks Omit GG from Oxford Dictionary

Hi, it’s William Wolfsworth, poetry correspondent at the Greenygrey, with my closest human parallel the Romantic era poet William Wordsworth. I was disappointed that the day the world commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Washington I have a dream speech that the Oxford Online Dictionary didn’t fulfill our dream by including greenygrey in it. Instead we had twerking selfie!

No Place in Dictionary, On With the Poetry 

However, Marc Latham made up for the disappointment somewhat, by posting a new Folding Mirror poem. It’s about his travels through Norway, which is very proud of its natural beauty, and strong on environmentalism.

Marc Latham’s previous mirror poem was about the seasons, so it also fits nicely into environmental week at the Greenygrey.

Book containing 2000 letters, poems and drawings for the WWF Earth Hour.

In the style of WWF’s Earth Hour we’re having a lights out day at the Greenygrey tomorrow, so we won’t be posting anything, and hope you have a nice time doing other stuff.

Here’s the poems imported from the fmpoetry.wordpress.com website:

 

 

Highest Railway Line, A Beautiful Time

Riding fjord mountain roads

ferry keeps afloat

travelling Haugesund

to Bergen

by bus and boat.

Ruby Sunday snaking

east with Osteroy

across water

to north

Dale, Voss and Naeroy

lead to Flam – Myrdal, metres 1222 ascent at Finse

Orteren, Ustevatn and Rodungen

looking south

over snow

swallowed wide open

Hardangervidda plateau mouth

Forest and lake scenery

to Oslo

through Honefoss

waterfalls accompany descent

completing la vida loco.

Good Summer Season, Warmly Welcomes Autumn

summer meets autumn

after year apart

shaking windy branches

upturned leaves smile

exchanging colours

under changeable skies

warm greeting over, time for disclosure

my best season

summer beams

for many years

autumn changes mood

I worked overtime

winter was late

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Koala, Dolphin, Baboon Photos Follow Google+ Research

Hi, it’s Baron Wolfman, head honcho of Greenygrey arts in the absence of Andy Wolfhol, who is still awol (that’s an acronym for ‘absent without official leave‘, rather than an abbreviation of ‘a werewolf’). They say a picture tells a thousand words, and I think that’s especially true of the greenygrey environment.

Follow Us To Google+ 

So instead of writing any more, here’s some photos I collected from Marc Latham’s Google+ profile for wolf -environment week. By the way, you can now follow Marc on Google+ from the badge at the bottom of this blog page.

We don’t ask you for much at the Greenygrey,

such as asking you to pay,

for the innovative information,

and exciting entertainment,

we poetically send your way.

Instant Research

I just let a teabag fall into the last tea at the bottom of my mug after thinking it might happen. Did I do it because:

of stupidity?
I took a risk it wouldn’t happen?
I didn’t really care if the teabag dropped?
all three of the above?

Oops, got distracted from the photos with more words. No more. On with some greenygrey environment photos:

Koala shared by Alonzo Guerrero

Born to be Greenygrey. Baby dolphin’s first request is to greenygrey. Shared by Gurdeep Singh.

Chilled-out baboon kicks back and enjoys the sunshine. Published on the Metro website.

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