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Voo
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Player Photo Anagrams by Voo

July 20th, 2008 9:04 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Anagram your username or player name using the Internet Anagram Generator (or better yet, do it yourself).

Choose at least one interesting anagram from the list and create a physical representation of it such as a photograph, movie, or sound recording. Share this representation with someone else, but do not tell them the anagram inspired it. Now ask them to give your work a title. Finally, anagram the title, and choose an anagram that might be used to describe your player photograph.

If none of these anagrams feel appropriate, make a physical representation of this second anagram, and repeat the process as many times as you choose - or as many times as it takes to end up with a good anagram for your player photo.

Anagrams. It had to be anagrams.

The problem with having an adorable 3-letter player name is that it only has three letters and therefore doesn't really lend itself to anagramming. I lucked out, man, seriously. Check it out:

"Voo" becomes "ovo," which is...

1) Latin for egg.

Latin Ovo


2) "Ovo" is also a soundtrack for the Millennium Dome Show in London that was composed by Peter Gabriel. It was released August 29, 2000 and features guest vocals by Neneh Cherry, Rosco, Richie Havens, Elizabeth Fraser and Paul Buchanan (of The Blue Nile). (From Wikipedia)


Peter Gabriel's




3) "Ovo" is also a prefix that describes a particular type of diet, "ovo-vegetarian" or "ovo-lacto-vegetarian" meaning someone who eats only vegetables and eggs or only vegetables, eggs, and milk (respectively). Not many vegetarians identify as simply "ovo-vegetarian" as you can see from this graph.

Graph

According to this survey (from blackvegetarians.org) ovo-vegetarians apparently make up 0% of polled vegetarians, but ovo-lacto-vegetarians are 32% of polled vegetarians.


So, what to create? I like meat far too much to create a new ovo-lacto-vegetarian in myself. And though I took piano for 10 years and guitar for 3 years, I don't think I could create a Peter Gabriel album.

I decided to create an origami egg. I found instructions online and created my egg. I then decorated it like an Easter egg just for kicks.


Origami Egg


I presented my handiwork to my husband and asked him to give it a title. He declared it to be "Toothy Egg."
Success! He recognized it as an egg!

Once he named it, I decided to crack open my egg and see what, if anything, was inside. Yes, I know it's just an origami egg that I folded out of paper...but don't you believe in magic? I do. So I grabbed a scissors and cut a jagged "cracked shell" edge across the middle of my egg.


Cracked Origami Egg


Behold! My egg had life inside it! It appears that my egg, if incubated and hatched properly, would have grown up to be....a large amount of confetti! See the small amount of confetti I found as evidence of the budding life inside the egg (which I snuffed out).

Confetti From Egg



Finally, the anagram of "Player Photo Anagrams" that is the title of my proof is....
*drumroll* A Phantasmal Porgy Roe!
(Phantasmal because of the ghost confetti. And porgy roe is a type of fish egg. Perfect!)



So..."Voo" may only lend itself to one lonely little anagram, but that little anagram has 3 kickass meanings! Ovo Power! And, as always, Voo Power!

[[Voo]]


- smaller

The Latin Ovo

The Latin Ovo

It's an egg, genius.


Peter Gabriel's "Ovo"

Peter Gabriel's "Ovo"

The album's cover.


Vegetarian Survey Breakdown

Vegetarian Survey Breakdown

Ovo-vegetarians apparently make up 0% of vegetarians, but ovo-lacto-vegetarians are 32% of vegetarians, according to this data.


Origami Easter Egg

Origami Easter Egg


Cracked Origami Egg

Cracked Origami Egg


Confetti Yolk!

Confetti Yolk!

The rich confetti yolk of my origami egg!



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posted by Haberley Mead on July 20th, 2008 9:17 AM

...snazzy, but where's the second half of the task?

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posted by Voo on July 20th, 2008 11:46 AM

WTF? I typed it all up and it's not there in my proof. Weird. I'll retype it. Thanks, good catch!

edited to add: There, I fixed it! I think I must have deleted those parts when I was adding the pictures of the origami egg. I usually write everything out then go back in and slip pics in where they belong best. Must have highlighted too much when I was replacing a picture placeholder with an image link. Thanks again!

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posted by Ink Tea on July 20th, 2008 2:00 PM

Who titled your egg/confetti, and what was it titled?

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posted by Voo on July 20th, 2008 2:07 PM

>>I presented my handiwork to my husband and asked him to give it a title. He declared it to be "Toothy Egg."


See above. You can find this bit of information directly under the first Origami Egg picture.

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posted by Ink Tea on July 20th, 2008 4:01 PM

Oh- missed that! Apologies- I think though, the second anagram was to be the anagram of the title awarded by your hubby!

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posted by Voo on July 20th, 2008 7:40 PM

Oh, sheesh. I'm thick.

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posted by rongo rongo on July 23rd, 2008 9:32 AM

Actually, I think your anagram of the task title came out very cool, though.

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posted by Voo on July 23rd, 2008 11:40 AM

Thanks!