10 years on: The Fog Has Not Lifted #327
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Note: This post is in reference to a previous issue #4
Alternate Title: Bicep Emoji: Art or Just Mere Convenience?
Good evening.
It's raining again, much like that day in 2015 when we first discussed the bodybuilder logo (#4). I was reminded of this earlier as I sipped my tea, while reviewing vintage cinema—the symbolism of silent films still fascinates me. A memory deeply repressed within my fraying psyche was unfortunately brought back to the surface, pulling me away from the present and into a dark introspective look at the past. I vividly recalled the bodybuilder project and the bicep emoji. I had to know if things had changed.
Lately, I've pondered how time should ideally clarify things. And yet, here we stand... a decade later, with clarity still cloaked in mist. The current emoji-derived logo, delightful though it might be to emoji enthusiasts, leaves me unsettled. Has it aged gracefully, like Cary Grant in a Hitchcock film? Or has it become stale, like a tea bag steeped one minute too long?
Mulling this over, I've once again dusted off my beloved Book of GIMP, which, though comprehensive -- is still irritatingly incomplete. To complicate things further, there has been many new versions of GIMP and a prior relationship I was in that strained the mental barriers of my very sanity (my partner was a Krita consumer). Armed anew, I contemplate revisiting logo design, still haunted by @flamango’s old request for forum graphics (how fares your forum, dear flamango?). Would the community here finally be ready for a logo less literal, more lyrical -something mysterious, but still distinctly masculine, evocative of muscle yet wrapped in metaphorical fog?
Perhaps ten years is long enough to reconsider. It may again be time for serious contemplation and perhaps another journey into the smoky depths of GIMP.