[openbeos] Re: Logo -- no, itsa penguin
- From: "Daniel Reinhold" <danielr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:10:08 CDT
Hmmm... to me, it looks like a penguin on an ice float looking down at
a hole in the ice. We have an overhead view of said penguin whose
orange beak juts out across the circular hole. Inside this hole is
(clearly) the penguin's mate, whose beak is just poking out of the
water (straight on from our angle).
I mean, it's so obvious!
(wonder what freudian associations my penguin view demonstrates...)
>You know, I was a bit confused about where the phallicism was in the
>logo, too, but I believe he's referring to the orange drive-head arm
(or
>whatever you call it; I'm a *software* engineer, damnit! ;). And now
>that I look at it again, it really is a rather provocative image from
a
>Freudian perspective. Note how the arm points directly at the center
of
>the drive platter, which is abstractly labial in appearance. The
loaded
>sexual connotation of the image may explain its budding popularity.
>
>And I thought I liked it because of the spiffy blue gradient. =)
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>PS: Yes, my degree is in psychology. No, I'm not a Freudian
>(cognitive/Rogerian schools of thought are more my bag), but it's fun
to
>play with. ;)
>
>James Mayfield wrote:
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>>>>http://www.bug-br.org.br/openbfs/
>>>>
>>>>Ignore the page itself. It's just something to justify the logo. :)
>>>>
>>>Dare I say 'Phallic'
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>> Good god!! I dunno what it is with the beos community lately, but I
>> have heard the word phallic more times in the past 2 days
>> thank i have in the past 2 years. Get you minds out of the
proverbial
>> gutter. Some people need stop visiting porn site or
>> something, because if you're pulling 'phallic' out of any shape that
is
>> remotely rectangular then it is FAR from the fault of the
>> shape. I suppose what i am saying is, outside of an obvious
depiction
>> of a penis, the phallicness of the shape in in the mind of
>> the beholder. Hehehe...
>>
>> Sheesh.
>>
>> Anyway, phallic or not, I think it's a really good logo
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