People have often made fun of me because I use pictures so much. However, I think that using pictures to say something is a much better way to communicate. Consider this picture below (courtesy of morgue file and Jusben):
This picture is called time warp. Now I can give you scientific information about time warps but why bother when I can show you a picture. This is not necessarily a description of how it works. It’s just a representation. It’s up to you to fill in the details 
. Now for another example consider for a moment the power of this picture:
This is New York city. Need I say anymore? I have shown this picture to heaps of people and some people say, ‘Yuck what a horrible place,’ and others will say, ‘cool look at all those buildings!’ We can also use pictures to represent ourselves… this is simpsons me:
It represents me in cartoon form. It also says a few other things about me… I wear glasses and judging by the photo I am happy. There are many things you could read into this… probably best not to. So in a short space I have communicated ideas in a much richer way that I normally would have if I had not used pictures. Do you get the picture?
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