Needless to say, it just stopped working – I was a bit upset……. Bits of plastic and glass exploded around me, and the memory card I was using skated away. We all took lots of images, and during the course of the session I sadly dropped my Pixelstick tool smack on the hard tarmac of a car park. Last Autumn I ran a light painting night at a camera club in Lincolnshire. We’ve said it all, or we’ve photographed it all, and in the end analysis, three, just works……. This whole sense of it is its completeness, an end to a list, a finish. (and the answer of course is always 42!)Īnd that’s the important bit, the ‘good, bad and ugly’ of it all, we’ll just have to ‘eat, drink and be merry’. You can’t stop half way through, there’s no meaning. Of course, that’s not always the case… in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there’s the great question about ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’. Two words send you in one direction, and the third breaks it. With a tricolon you can set up a pattern and then break it… ‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’ is a good example. Think of these “Wine, Women and Song”, “Veni Vidi, Vici”, “Eat Drink and be Merry”. Two elements get you going in one direction, but the third introduces something unexpected. It can be a good device for humour… for example “Three ……… walk into a bar”. (A series of three words, phrases or sentences that are parallel in structure, length and/or rhythm.) not so with three, not always.Īdd another word and it becomes in English Language a Tricolon. You can always, ALWAYS, connect two dots with a straight line…. Think big and small, one is dominant, and one isn’t. (See I used three examples there – so much more comfortable to read eh?)Įven if there isn’t an immediate connection we can find something that links them – Pride and Prejudice Death in Venice Heart of Darkness (three examples again)… so even if we can’t find a connection in the words, our brain fills in the relevant gaps. When people see two things written together, you can usually see a connection – for example solid and liquid, left and right, up and down. I ask myself sometimes why is two of anything boring, but three much more fun? It’s one of only 9 single digits (discounting 0) – but is it a designers dream? Does it drive photography, design and literature? Three is the magic number – or so the song would have us believe.
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