Painted bathroom floor photo circulating on internet; interesting facts re: genesis on snopes.com!

SNOPES.COM ^ | MAY 30, 2005 | Unknown

[CHARLITE]

Claim: Photograph shows a bathroom with an unusually painted floor.
Caption on photo making rounds on internet states:

This is a painted floor!!!!

I don't think I could even step into the room

Status:False

"IMAGINE . . . you are at a party.
You have to go to the bathroom.
There's only one at the house you're in.
This is the bathroom you enter."

Origins: The image shown above may qualify as a genuine artwork, but not of the type claimed (i.e., a bathroom with its floor painted to make it appear open to the sky from thousands of feet in the air). It's another entry from a Worth1000.com contest, this one asking participants to creatively manipulate a photograph of an ordinary bathroom. The "falling man" entry has proved to be an especially popular one, and the image has been forwarded around the Internet with its contextual information removed and misleading comments added by some of its forwarders.

Last updated: 27 April 2005

Link to Worth1000.com contest: http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=4040&display=photoshop

[weegee]

What about the Royal Flush?

http://www.mitchoconnell.com/htour.html

[neb52]

That reminds me of my trip to Scottland. Not only were there Bagpipers all over, but plenty of Chalk Artists. Just wonderfull art. I am not much for todays art since most is hard to deem as art, but most of the chalk artist are just so gifted.

[Alamo-Girl]

How bizarre. Thanks for the ping!