Image and Text

I didn't quite grasp the nature of this Itap lecture and the purpose of this blog because....well i didn't go, I was sick and even worse, my computer has been dead for 2 weeks rendering me incapable of contact with the outside world, unless I *shudder* go outside.
I have read some other blogs and it seems to be about image and text in photography and how they compliment each other. In a lot of the blogs I read, people seem to know about a lot of photographers that do this.....I don't know any. To be honest photography doesn't interest me so I suppose I'm in a bit of a pickle....unless I do this blog on the one thing I do know that combines images and text.
                                    
                                        DE-MOTIVATIONAL POSTERS


                                  ...And random internet 'meme' pictures...


Now this is probably totally wrong, but...maybe if the tutors actually read this, they'll let me off because I'll probably find some funny ones.
Right I'm off to find some....

This one seemed relevant to me, especially since it took me 2 hours to start looking for pictures. (I hope you didn't think i meant the masturbation bit.)

Am I seriously going to try and analyse these? I guess so.
The purpose of de-motivational posters is to find images that are strange or slightly amusing and add text to make them funnier or ironic, this type of image usually uses text in a narrative way, as opposed to other images like the famous 'I can has cheezburger?' cats, where the text is  used to personify what the cat is thinking;

As you can see, internet jargon along with made up or phonetically spelt words are used in this example and in most other cases, with words like 'Noes,' 'Cheezburger,' and;

De-motivational posters usually have correct spelling and grammer as it suits the more narrative style.
Looking at the above de-motivational poster, without the text its just weird, but add in the text and its hilarious or at least to me it is. The thing about these posters is the internet jargon, slang and use of 'memes' that are usually relevant, they originated from an internet forum called 4chan, where the craziest, weirdest, stupidest and freakiest images are created, also 98% of them are un-politically correct so i'm trying to steer clear of those for this blog. Some of these images are simple and humorous to anyone, but there are types that are only relevant to people that go on sites like these and are familiar with 'memes', to anyone else they don't really make sense...

This meme is the 'forever alone' face, depicting an extremely depressed face usually along with some humorous text, in this case its been 'shopped' onto a game cover, 'Duke Nukem - Forever'  and the 'Alone' has been added. Quite a creative and funny idea..

These posters are for comedic purposes the majority of the time and shouldn't be taken seriously, they make fun of any and all subjects, because after all it's the internet and everything is anonymous, for good or bad.