John Morrison Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Our default activity, when nothing else is going on, is to gaze at a mobile phone: scrolling, tapping, swiping, waiting for something - anything - to happen. We take pictures of our food, our friends, ourselves, and upload them for all the world to see. This should surely be helping to make us more visually literate. Shouldn’t it? Yesterday, I pointed out to the landlord of my local pub that the juxtaposition of pictures on the pub’s Facebook page was, at the very least, unfortunate. A natural desire to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz had somehow got mixed up with the equally natural desire to publicise the pub’s ‘pie night’. In the arbitrary way that Facebook groups pix together, this is how the page looked yesterday. Even after I pointed out the obvious, the landlord couldn’t ‘see it’. Am I being overly sensitive, or ??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Spot on I'd say! But then visual literacy has to be learned just as any language does. Those of us who make our life in the visual arts need to be fluent. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 hour ago, John Morrison said: Even after I pointed out the obvious, the landlord couldn’t ‘see it’. Am I being overly sensitive, or ??? No, you're not. It's spectacularly insensitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 All that is missing is "Sweeney Todd". I post this at the risk of seeming even worse than the landlord. Paulette 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) It takes a lot to shock and offend me, but this is it. BAD BAD! On the lighter side, in the 90's the first Sushi restaurant in Moscow had a banner over the entrance that said "Fresh Fish, Flown in Weekly." Do understand that I am not making light of a very very serious act or post of beyond bad taste and offense. It also takes a lot to make me use an exclamation mark. Chuck P.S. don't know what this has to do with "Visual Literacy?" Edited January 25, 2020 by Chuck Nacke english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 I don't think visual literacy has anything to do with it in this case. It's pure insensitivity - the inability to recognise context. Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Find another pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Inchiquin said: I don't think visual literacy has anything to do with it in this case. It's pure insensitivity - the inability to recognise context. Alan Yes, it's more a problem with literacy in general, which might have something to do with too much time spent tapping, scrolling and snapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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