O M G . I Recognized two of them!!!! The two men.
I knew Mickey was short, so I took a good look at the face and confirmed it. The other guy I just knew by the mustache (if he shaves, he’s anonymous).
OMG… I was about to say what a wonderful picture, with four of the most famous stars of the day (though Shirley was having a hard time finding a footing as she started to outgrow childhood.)
Hope I’m not the only one impressed!
I’m guessing this is right about 1940, when Shirley was about 12, and young adult Mickey and Judy were making teen musicals together (“and we can use the barn to put on a show!”)
Theater window card advertising the stage version of Bram Stokers novel Dracula to be shown on November 5 1928 at Fords Theatre in Baltimore MD The NY Herald tribune claiming the show to be Better than the Bat
It looks like a Cog Railway. They are typically short and steep. Rather than relying on friction, they use a toothed wheel (cog) to pull them up the inclines and keep from sliding going down.
It’s hard to see if there is a toothed track or not.
The cars didn’t seem to be equidistant from the stations (as required by a funicular system), but when I looked more carefully, I could see that my perspective was thrown off the combination of height and distance.
Given the run we’ve been on of AI-generated images, I expect this is another one. I did notice that the kid has six toes on his right foot, but that is not outside the realm of possibility.
I don’t think this one is even trying to look real.
Especially those bottles…. All different shapes and sizes, stretched and bent, joined together in inexplicable ways, with extra necks and bottoms.
Look at the ones on the ground… No two alike, and obviously unreal labels.
This kid has a plastics forming factory in his village?
Yes, he has that extra toe on his right foot, but look at his left. There’s a toe-like thing on the ground next to it. And the toes on the left foot are over twice the length of the teeny ones on the right.
And his head seems huge.
….
I’m starting to get not only creeped out, which has been ongoing, but bothered by the fact that these images seem exploitive of the “exoticism” of African children…
Like maybe we’ll accept all these oddities and malformations, and also not question how crazy their “artwork” is, because these are Black children in another culture…
So maybe it’s ok for them to have super long skinny arms, or six toes, or giant eyes, because they’re unfamiliar anyway.
All the AI giveaways already cited can, to some extent, be explained if you tried hard enough. The bent bottles could be formed over a fire by someone with great skill. What can’t be explained is the selective gravitational effect on the liquid in the various bottles..
I suppose…. but only, in my estimation, with “to some extent” being a pretty low percentage. 😁
And maybe the kid, while an expert plastic modeler, doesn’t know how many toes are on a bird.
But you’re right about the magical properties of the liquid.
I was going to say it could be painted inside the bottles… But that only works from the side. There are too many instances of seeing the top of it lying flat in there, not a hollow space.
Another thing that comes to mind is, in what sweltering impoverished country do people throw out all those full or half-
consumed Cokes?
I’ve seen dogs with that sort of gear… in videos mostly but there was a real one in my neighborhood for a while, too, though her “walker” was more home made.
They all wore it only when necessary, not 24/7.
Hopefully this little guy was just really sleepy and headed for a quick nap… then again, he appears to have no rear legs at all, so maybe he does live in this contraption.
No, this time I found them on my own, although I did (gasp…the shame the shame) make an error.
‘Word’ is actually ‘Words’.
The left end of the blue lines are at the first letter of each word.
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American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis. I always liked the Pine Siskin, Spinus pinus
They love black oil sunflower seeds.
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Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
Same picture without the watermark.
I did not recognize Shirley Temple!
I didn’t;t either. 😀
The other three look vaguely familiar.
O M G . I Recognized two of them!!!! The two men.
I knew Mickey was short, so I took a good look at the face and confirmed it. The other guy I just knew by the mustache (if he shaves, he’s anonymous).
OMG… I was about to say what a wonderful picture, with four of the most famous stars of the day (though Shirley was having a hard time finding a footing as she started to outgrow childhood.)
Hope I’m not the only one impressed!
I’m guessing this is right about 1940, when Shirley was about 12, and young adult Mickey and Judy were making teen musicals together (“and we can use the barn to put on a show!”)
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The description below comes from HERE.
Theater window card advertising the stage version of Bram Stokers novel Dracula to be shown on November 5 1928 at Fords Theatre in Baltimore MD The NY Herald tribune claiming the show to be Better than the Bat
Ah! Baltimore. The one in Washington was closed for a hundred years after that unpleasantness with Mr. Lincoln…
But aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Oh, I know.
But I had to.
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I haven’t heard that in years! !
I’ve always liked it from the first time I heard it.
🙂 🙂 🙂
“I went to NewFOUND Land…”?! He’s not Canadian, is he?
Cinncinnati 1915
That is a very interesting tram contraption, reminiscent of Pittsburgh, PA. I wonder if the Cincy version is still in operation.
It looks like a Cog Railway. They are typically short and steep. Rather than relying on friction, they use a toothed wheel (cog) to pull them up the inclines and keep from sliding going down.
It’s a ‘Funicular’, it’s cable operated, there’s no rack visible in the middle of the tracks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular
It’s hard to see if there is a toothed track or not.
The cars didn’t seem to be equidistant from the stations (as required by a funicular system), but when I looked more carefully, I could see that my perspective was thrown off the combination of height and distance.
Wait…. there are hills in Ohio?
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If the kid (or the bird) is wired up on all that coca-cola, don’t be surprised if he (or it) takes off.
Given the run we’ve been on of AI-generated images, I expect this is another one. I did notice that the kid has six toes on his right foot, but that is not outside the realm of possibility.
Six toes?
Yup. AI seems to have problems with hands and feet.
Was it Susan that pointed that out?
I never said that per se, though I’ve pointed out some of the flaws.
It’s true, though.
I don’t think this one is even trying to look real.
Especially those bottles…. All different shapes and sizes, stretched and bent, joined together in inexplicable ways, with extra necks and bottoms.
Look at the ones on the ground… No two alike, and obviously unreal labels.
This kid has a plastics forming factory in his village?
Yes, he has that extra toe on his right foot, but look at his left. There’s a toe-like thing on the ground next to it. And the toes on the left foot are over twice the length of the teeny ones on the right.
And his head seems huge.
….
I’m starting to get not only creeped out, which has been ongoing, but bothered by the fact that these images seem exploitive of the “exoticism” of African children…
Like maybe we’ll accept all these oddities and malformations, and also not question how crazy their “artwork” is, because these are Black children in another culture…
So maybe it’s ok for them to have super long skinny arms, or six toes, or giant eyes, because they’re unfamiliar anyway.
The way AI is “trained” seems endemic to perpetuating stereotypes.
All the AI giveaways already cited can, to some extent, be explained if you tried hard enough. The bent bottles could be formed over a fire by someone with great skill. What can’t be explained is the selective gravitational effect on the liquid in the various bottles..
I suppose…. but only, in my estimation, with “to some extent” being a pretty low percentage. 😁
And maybe the kid, while an expert plastic modeler, doesn’t know how many toes are on a bird.
But you’re right about the magical properties of the liquid.
I was going to say it could be painted inside the bottles… But that only works from the side. There are too many instances of seeing the top of it lying flat in there, not a hollow space.
Another thing that comes to mind is, in what sweltering impoverished country do people throw out all those full or half-
consumed Cokes?
,.,,
Awwww!
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
Someone special loves that dog.
I’ve seen dogs with that sort of gear… in videos mostly but there was a real one in my neighborhood for a while, too, though her “walker” was more home made.
They all wore it only when necessary, not 24/7.
Hopefully this little guy was just really sleepy and headed for a quick nap… then again, he appears to have no rear legs at all, so maybe he does live in this contraption.
Weird !
For me they come back as red flashes.
Les than three what? (I really do know what it means)
I guess I’d better give it a like, to make it work, cos it’s not doing much so far.
I briefly see some red rectangles, and a few yellow streaks… But the blue remained.
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What’s the deal with the fingernails?
The angle?
It looks weird but 3 detectors say it’s real.
That’sreal. Ive seen it somewhere before, before AI.
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word story novel page book read
No fair! There are hard ones today!
This is harder than the others like it that we’ve done.
There’s one that to me has two choices.
I see that Alexi posted the list…. and I’m guessing he looked up the solution, rather than it being his opinion… Alexi?
He’s got “book” in there, which is more apt for the theme, but I saw it as “look”.
Depends on whether your eyes find the too-large L or the too-small B.
Also the Y in “story” was hard to see, though I guessed it had to be there.
‘Word’ is actually ‘Words’.
The left end of the blue lines are at the first letter of each word.
Got them. These are getting harder.
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That’s just ducky.
From yesterday: Do you really believe somebody would fake a picture of those nice little old ladies?
I’m so glad they got to go to Disneyland.
Or Disney World. Or Euro Disney. It’s amazing where Photoshop will take you.
It was a dark period before punctuations came along. Early adopters were asterisk legibility to push their use.
Thanks for posting.
Why only a queen, Cleo?
I know she’s the most powerful…
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But you could have a whole set taped to various spots.
Or maybe you do.
There are all kind of hounds…. Sighthounds and scent hounds, including bloodhounds and dachshunds and.Afghan hounds.
Cleo is not only a basset hound and a scent hound and a chess hound… She’s a cheathound.
But you already knew that from her checkered past.
Yes… I never trust her.
I haven’t lost quite ALL my marbles.
She plays hide ‘n seek with the truth.
Sometimes I haven’t got a Clue™.
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