Now that Tripod's gone, a lot of images I posted for polls I conducted on the I Love Music message board are gone with it. I did save them on my hard-drive, though, so with the help of Google Photos, here are all the images for four different ILM polls (I didn't, unfortunately, save the images for a music-video poll I ran in 2022):
1) A World of Constant Strangers (Neil Young, 2012)
2) The Lights Are on at Shea (Yo La Tengo, 2015)
3) Getting Away from Things That Get Bad (road movies, 2017)
4) Certain Rules and Regulations and Procedures (political films, 2019)
The results of each poll are actually embedded in the images, and once I figured out how to move things around, they now function as ordered countdowns--you could also go to ILM or ILX for the results. (The Yo La Tengo poll was given a different name by the guy who helped me, one that followed ILM's weird obsession with poll titles constructed from awful puns on the world "poll." As was explained to me at one point, the puns are intentionally awful, that's the idea. Oh.) I never much cared about the results of any ILM/ILX poll; if it was someone else's, the interest was in putting my own ballot together, and if it was mine, the fun was in the images. If a movie poll, I'd look for the most evocative still I could find, avoiding as much as possible images that were overly familar; now and again, I'd take a screenshot from a YouTube clip if I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. Music polls were different, more conceptual. For Yo La Tengo, '70s baseball cards seemed like a perfect fit (if you know the band or at least the meaning of their name, that won't need any explanation). With Neil Young, it was more like "What does 'Cowgirl in the Sand' look like?" 100% intuition--and sometimes I went with a disconnect that made me laugh.
As I always loved pointing out, I used state-of-the-art software--Microsoft Paint--to lay the text onto the images. Microsoft Publisher will be disappearing this fall; I expect Paint will follow eventually.
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