Posted on 08/19/2008 1:39:15 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
It's hard to be amazed by anything you see online, when you know any teenager with a computer and a pirated copy of Photoshop can cobble together a fake photograph in minutes.
Unfortunately this means there's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping pics that the internet declared "FAKE!" the moment they appeared. But as it turns out, some of the most baffling of them are, in fact, real.
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
Picture #11, the hovering word illusion, is actually an artistic style that is now being used as inexpensive art in many buildings. Ironically, it is not terribly difficult to make.
All you need is an overhead projector of the kind everyone was familiar with in school. Then you put a slide on the projector that shows an elaborate 2D image, either black and white, or in color. Then you project the image at an angle so that the light will cross different surfaces like an inside wall, and through an open doorway to the wall on the other side.
When leaving the projector on, you just trace the lines, then paint where the tracings show you where to paint.
Importantly, the 3D effect will only work from the point where the projector was sitting, so you want that point to be where people would normally stand.
Here are some examples of how the illusion is easily created:
http://tingilinde.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/illlusion.jpg
http://www.2loop.com/3d_room_01.jpg
http://www.hemmy.net/images/arts/3droom01.jpg
before:
http://www.2loop.com/3d_room_10.jpg
after:
http://www.2loop.com/3d_room_11.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/quazen/2008/04/26/150824_0.jpg
LOL,,,Looks like he’s playin’ “Dress Up”,,,
No Web Gear!!!(ammo load)...:0)
It is amazing the strength they have with their heads.
Maybe you should increase his corn ration.
Now Mountain lions, they are different, I spent several hours in the Gila River bottom, hearing one cry and wandering around saying “here kitty”, as to me, it sounded like a Siamese cat and I was sure one had been lost or abandoned in the river bottom.
We were at the spot the Oatman girls were kidnapped from the wagon train.
Then we went into the area of soft sand and found ‘cat’ tracks as big as dinner plates and decided we might be wise to leave the area.
As we left a Mountain Lion raced the truck, at about 25 to 35 miles an hour.
I'm anxious to learn anything I can about that photo.
They are unbelievably fast. We saw cat tracks nearly that big in the snow around our house this spring. Sure keeps you on your toes when outside and about.
That is my niece and while I’ve not seen this “kitty”, I have no doubt it is the real deal.
LOL.
That is an excellent photo.
They have a cry that can be heard for miles, so if there was anything to eat, it is long gone before they arrive.
There is or was a natural history museum out of Tucson.
It is a fantastic place to visit, all the ‘life’ of the desert and the setting is made as natural as can be.
When you visit, find the nursery/hospital building, it was off and higher than the main area.
We watched the Lady who took care of the animals for hours, she had a couple foxes, coyote and wolf, younger ones and as my memory goes a young mountain lion.
When she fed them, some buried their food in the sand boxes and tried to stop her from digging up the chicken parts that she fed them.
They were into every drawer and door she opened as she went about caring for them.
You would be wise to stay alert and out of danger.
All I have here are coyotes, they come to eat the cats.
The first book I ever read was in the first grade and it was entitled “Tawney”. It was about this mountain lion named Tawney. Not the girl from Whitesnake video fame. i loved that book....Not as much as the girl from Whitesnake video fame.
No magazine in the weapon. Presumably he was going to club the VC to death with it.
I see Schroedinger in the picture, but I can’t tell whether he’s alive or dead.
LOL,,,Prolly wouldn’t give that Dork no ammo...;0)
Maybe he was the Barney Fife of Vietnam - one cartridge, to be kept in his shirt pocket...
...;0)
Traffic driving by it definitely did a “double take” as the drivers slowed down to verify it was what they’d just seen...
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