By The Way...

Monday, April 24, 2006
4:26:00 PM EDT
Hearing It's Raining Again -- Supertramp
Last Friday, while discussing some of the features of the upcoming AOL Journals update, Journals Editor Joe discussed the "Mood" menu on the "Add an Entry" page, and had a bit of fun wandering through the AOL offices and having coworkers emulate one of the list's moods. Clearly he was having fun with it -- so much fun, in fact, that I am now shamlessly ripping him off:

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of yourself (or someone you know) reproducing one (or more!) of moods in the AOL Journals Mood Menu.

For those of you who don't want to have to look at the menu at the moment, the options are: Happy, Mischievous, Worried, Silly, Surprised, Flirtatious, Silly, Ecstatic, Frustrated, Loopy, Embarrassed, Hopeful, Anxious, Sad, Quiet and Chillin'. It's like all the dwarves that didn't make it into Snow White (well, and Happy, who was there, but has apparently decided to pop by).

I got a little arty for mine:



My moods? From the top left, going clockwise: Surprised, Thoughtful, Angry and Embarrassed.

For the record, my daughter saw me making all these faces and said, "You're silly, daddy." To which I said, "No, no, that's another picture entirely." Man, I'm a cut-up.

Grab a camera, choose a mood, upload the picture to your blog or journal, and come back here and leave a link. Let's get into the mood.

(Since there a likelihood of kids involved in these pictures, a reminder of AOL's standard disclaimer: Please be careful about posting pics of your kids, especially kids under 13. You shouldn't post personally identifying information (such as the name of their school), which could easily be used by people you don't know on the Internet to contact them. Also, it's against official policy to post photos of other people's under-13 kids (this includes relatives) without parental permission.)


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• #15 Comment from kaydeejay5449 
  4/27/06 9:17 PM | Permalink

  I just journaled about the MOOD list today without knowing you had blogged about it on the 24th.  I wish we could fill in the mood catagory ourselves instead of having to choose from the list.  It's so limited.  
  
  Kathy
• #14 Comment from teeisme57 
  4/26/06 3:44 PM | Permalink

  Here' mine:
  http://journals.aol.com/teeisme57/OhMyWord/entries/1769
• #13 Comment from thomasmarino11 
  4/26/06 12:20 PM | Permalink

  I am curious and a photographic artist and am  interested in doing the same how is this done? What link? How are the photos  manipulated?
  
  I'd really like to try this, can you help?
  
  Tom
• #12 Comment from plittle 
  4/25/06 11:18 PM | Permalink

  I guess my expressions could be called curious, surprised, panicked, and perturbed, but I didn't really label them as such.
  -Paul
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
  
• #11 Comment from monponsett 
  4/25/06 8:40 PM | Permalink

  You look like a Sleestack(/0 in the top left one.

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