Image Talk #2
Image Talk
Episode 2
Beginner
Hi, my name is Ben. You're watching Image Talk. This video is meant for English beginners. Today, I will be talking about five images. If you need, there are subtitles available and the entire transcript is on benslanguagelab.com. And make sure you subscribe for more videos like this one. All you need to do is watch, listen, and enjoy. Let's start with this image. This is a picture of a unicorn. This is a unicorn, a beautiful, lovely unicorn. We know that it's a unicorn because it has one horn. It has a horn coming out of its head. If it had two horns like this, it wouldn't be a unicorn because the word unicorn comes from that una which means one. Unicorn, one horn. Otherwise, if it didn't have a horn, it would just be a horse. This would be a horse. This is a unicorn. The unicorn is standing in a forest. It's standing in a forest with a bunch of trees, right? There's trees all around, there's bushes, there's flowers, and there's all sorts of living things around the unicorn. It's not a horse. The horse is, the unicorn is standing in a clearing. It's standing in a patch of dirt. This is dirt and these are plants or leaves or bushes. But this here is a clearing of dirt. We can also see that there are some sticks on the ground. So here are some sticks, right? The horse, the unicorn. Why do I keep saying horse? It's a unicorn. That the unicorn is standing on top of the sticks. This whole scene feels very fantastical or magical, right? Magic is what you do with a magic wand, right? Foo, foo, foo, foo, right? That's magical. Because unicorns aren't real. They don't exist. They're not real creatures. They're fantasy. They're make-believe. We think about them inside of our heads. They don't really exist. However, this picture looks very nice. It looks very beautiful and like the unicorn is happy. All right, that's enough for this image. Let's go to image number two. This is a very different picture. This is a very different image. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. So here's zooming in, zooming out. Let's zoom in a little bit so we can see a bit better. This looks to be like a living room, a living room where you might sit, right? Somebody might sit here on this cushion of some kind, and they might sit with a friend, right? Here's their friend. They might talk together, right? Hi. You can sit in a living room and have a conversation. This living room doesn't look very useful. This is not a table, there's just cushions. So this is a cushion, this is a pillow, pillow, pillow, pillow, this is another cushion, cushion. So it doesn't look very nice to be in. It does look cool, right? There's this rock on the, the walls are made of rock. There's light coming out from behind the rock. There's some plants here. And so it looks very interesting. However, it doesn't look very functional. It doesn't look very nice to use as a living room. Maybe it'd be cool to sleep, right? You could lay down here and you could sleep, right? Right, he's sleeping now. You can sleep in here or something like that. But to actually use as a living room, I'm not so sure. We also can see that the image has a bunch of the same colors. It's got one sort of plain color. It's this sort of tannish beige color. That's this color here. Let's see if we can find an example of it. It's sort of like... almost like this color, right? Yeah, this is sort of close. This sort of beige-ish washed out color that doesn't really have much color at all. It's everything is this color, right? The cushions, the rug, the walls, the ceiling is this color. Even the pillows are this color. Everything is the same sort of bland beige. Oh, here's a good version of it, right? This color, right? Can we pick, oh, we can even grab this color. Oh, that's cool. Now let's draw with it. Yeah, so this is the color I was talking about. This color here is very boring, right? It's kind of the color of me though, right? That's my color, almost. Anyways, so that's this modern living room that doesn't look very useful. Let's look at another image. So here we have a very colorful picture. It looks like it was painted with something, right? There's these spots or specks of paint, right? There's these dots all over the place. And so it looks like it was painted potentially. Even down here, we see the paint is sort of dripping down. It's sort of falling off of the page. The actual image looks like it's of a city. There's trees and you're looking down a road, right? So we're right here. We're standing here at this end of the road and we're looking this direction. We're looking into the city. I don't recognize the city. I don't know what city it is. But the buildings look very famous. They look very well known. And so this could be a city like Singapore or London or something like that. But I don't actually know. I'm not sure. But we see that there's lots of beautiful colors used. The trees have all sorts of different colors. There's reds, there's oranges, there's these yellows down here which look really nice. And then the buildings start to use some blues and some grays. Some purples are used in the background. This is a purple-y color. And so this looks like a really nice painting that you could put somewhere. Maybe you hang it up on a wall. I could put it on my wall here, and it would look nice. So this is a painting that looks sort of like a city, maybe in autumn, in fall, when the trees change color. This makes me feel like it's in autumn and not in the summer or winter. Anyways, let's go to the next image here. We have just a couple more today. And this picture looks a little more realistic. It looks like we're somewhere in Asia, maybe in Japan or Vietnam or Thailand, somewhere where there's these rice fields, right? So we see here there's a hill that's got a bunch of steps going upwards, right? So each of these are steps, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 steps or 11 steps, right? And this is very typical for rice fields where you grow rice. This, I don't see anything on here. It doesn't look like there's actually any rice on these. So it looks more like that. But the buildings also sort of have this design or this aesthetic that makes me think of Asia. The roofs have these little flares, when the roof goes up again at the end, that's sort of like a flare, or there's a little, almost like a horn, sort of like a unicorn. And then there's houses on stilts, right? So they're built up on sticks to raise the house a little bit off the ground, which is good for drainage or water. So if water comes through, right? Let's get some water here. Let's get a blue. So if water is sort of coming down the mountain, right? You don't want it to... try to destroy the house. And so it's nice for the water to be able to go through somewhere without ruining the rest of the house, right? So the water can come down here and then it can go through and then it can come out again and then keep going, right? And so that's useful in parts of the world where it's really rainy, right? Or it's very wet, right? Here it looks like there could be lots of rain or water and things like that. The actual image itself is a sort of a landscape, right? We're looking from up here. We're standing up here on the path. Oops, go away now. Thank you. So we're standing up here and we're looking this direction, right? We're looking out over this village. We can see over the entire village. And we are, so we're overlooking the village. We can see a bunch of houses here. There's some houses, one, two, three, four, five. There's also a bunch more behind everything, right? There's a bunch here and here. and it looks a little bit foggy, right? Fog is this, right? This sort of, it makes it hard to see and it's kind of got this like whitish, right, look to it. That's called fog. Fog is pretty typical in the morning or in the evening as there's more water in the air, right? So if there's water in the air, it can create fog and in fog it's maybe hard to see, or we end up with lots of moisture or liquid in the air, and so it's very wet. The air can sort of feel a bit wet, which is interesting. We're also on this path, right? So there's a path that we can follow down, and I don't know where it goes, right? We see that it goes around the mountain, but then, I don't know, it might continue right down around here, but we can see that there's a nice little path that we can walk down and go see the rest of the village. There's also another path here, which then disappears going this direction, which might come around. Maybe we come all the way up and around and we can go down this way again, potentially. I'm not really sure. This isn't a real place that we can go see. We also see a bunch of other hills in the background, right? So here's some big hills all around here. Some other places to maybe have rice fields to grow rice. And then the one last thing that I noticed is that it looks like there might be a cell tower or something back here. This looks like it might be for airplanes or for cell phones. So when you have your phone, it needs to connect to something, to a tower like this. And so this might be a tower to give you cell service. so that you can text on your phone when you see these lines, or it says LTE on your phone, that's to say, yep, you're good, you have service. And so if you didn't have this, you would not have any service. And so this might be there to give you wireless. Or maybe it's just 4G, or even 3G instead of LTE. Anyways, that's enough of this image. Let's go on to our final image for today. And this is, it is our final image, yes it is, okay. And this is an interesting image. This is an image of a giraffe in the shape of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is in Paris. is in France, and it's not a giraffe. It's actually made of metal, right? So it's not made of wood. This looks like it's made of wood, but the actual Eiffel Tower is sort of a more of a metallic color, right? It's built of metal, right? Not wood. But this looks like it's a wooden giraffe somewhere in a park. So we can see that there's trees here, there's a bunch of trees around, and it looks like we are in some sort of a park. There's some information back here, or information or maybe just a little building of some sort. I can't really see exactly what it is, but I think it's a park, somewhere where you go to relax and be, and to see this giant giraffe, right? Because this giraffe is really big, right? Wow, that's tall, right? A person maybe is this tall, right? Here's a person. There's me. Me. So that's me next to the giraffe. So the giraffe is really tall. That's a big, tall giraffe. I'm pretty tall. I'm almost two meters tall. Almost two meters. I'm actually a little bit shorter than that. I'm 194 centimeters. But this giraffe looks to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14 me's tall. So if we take 14 times 2 meters, give or take, that's 28 meters tall. Maybe. This is not scientific, but maybe this giraffe is really, really tall. It's also, like I said, in the style of the Empire State Building. No, the Eiffel Tower, not the Empire State Building. What am I talking about? It's in the style of the Eiffel Tower, which, like I said, is in Paris, France. It's one of the most famous structures in the world. And it looks like this. It has this shape, right, where it's this tower, and then it's got the different levels to connect it, and then there's the little top piece, which in this case is the giraffe head. This is the head of the giraffe, the giraffe's head. And this Eiffel Tower shape is actually really interesting because it's very efficient. It's very, very efficient because you could do something like this, right? You could build a square building, right? But all of this would be really heavy, right? And so you'd actually need to build a bigger base. So let's give an example, right? So this is the base, right? And this is supporting the top. And the goal is to build a tall, a really tall structure. And so having less material here, so there's less of it, right? It's smaller, right? There's only this amount. And then having more down at the bottom to support that weight is very efficient. Because if we just built a big box, right, like this, if it was built like this, it would just be too heavy, right? So we don't wanna actually do that. Here, let's make it back to this color. We don't wanna do that because it's not efficient. We'd much prefer this more efficient shape, right? Where there's this smaller part up here, a top piece, and then a larger base to support that heavy weight. Anyways, that's been this episode of Image Talk. I hope that you enjoyed. We talked about five interesting images today. We talked about a unicorn. We talked about a weird living room. We talked about an interesting painting. We talked about a landscape somewhere in Asia. And we talked about a giraffe shaped like the Eiffel Tower. So that's the end of this episode of Image Talk. I hope that you enjoyed this video and maybe learned a couple of new words. And remember, all the transcripts are available on benslanguagelab.com if you need. But I'll see you again for the next video. Bye bye.
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