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Words for a Kiss

It looks like the thing couldn’t get better… but it happened, live, suddenly, some tears… A KISS!

He made a mess of it.

For this image I have collected over 750 comments (in Spanish) about the kiss, made by the readers of 20minutos.es, and I counted the words most frequently used. Then I spread those words with sizes proportional to their repetition. They are all, without censorship on my part, the nice and not so nice ones.

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I know what happened … it passes through his head and probably thought “now or never”. I know because it happened to all of us  once in our live and still regret not having done so. He did … so thanks Iker for reminding us that we must seize the day.

For me it is a gift, a picture to remember … something simple becomes a symbol, a moment that will stay with us forever.

It remember me the famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, the sailor kissing a nurse at the end of World War II.

Iker said “it has been spontaneous”, but I would better say “it has been creative”.

In this second picture I posted two charts. The first shows 40 most used words evolution in groups of 10 comments, the second  table show all the words with the number of times they appears.

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One Response to “Words for a Kiss”

  1. A incrĂ­vel arte tipográfica de Juan Osborne « Kanis Design says:
    December 2, 2010 at 16:01

    […] O processo de produção começa com a seleção das palavras que vĂŁo compor a imagem, que vĂŁo desde uma letra de mĂşsica, um poema a um artigo do Wikipedia, por exemplo. E as imagens sĂŁo tambĂ©m muito variadas, como obras de arte, tipo ‘O grito’, ou ainda imagens histĂłricas, como a da Praça Celestial da Paz, ou de notĂ­cias, como o beijo de Casillas em Sara Carbonero. […]