These are the Sentinels of Beauty. In order to get to the edge of this cliff and really take in all of the spectacular vista, you have to go through them.
A conundrum for certain!
My take:
The ENTRANCE is the entrance to another section of the complex.
The EXIT ONLY is to exit the complex entirely, they are heading out the door and on their way.
Do you realize that you can win a Darwin Award without dying?
All you have to do is remove yourself from the gene pool by doing something incredibly amazingly stupid.
The photo above illustrates how that can happen.
Had a friend, Dan, working with me putting new insulation in an attic. He mis-stepped…went through the ceiling, and straddled a door on the way down. Hope that doesn’t happen to this guy.
I was a kid there was a popular thing like this, where they said you can’t pat your head in one spot, while you rub your belly in a circle with your other hand… or vice versa.
I taught myself to do it, just to prove it wrong. It’s awkward, but not impossible, to make your “patting hand” not pat in a circle, and your “rubbing hand” not pat.
It’s easy to make one hand or foot circle clockwise and the other counterclockwise.
However, it really does seem impossible to make two limbs on the same side of your body circle in opposite directions.
Drawing a six is essentially circling counterclockwise, but even if you reverse the directions of both, you still can’t do it!
I wonder whether there are people with so much muscle control that they can… it feels like a nervous system thing you can’t fight.
Sigh…. Yes, of course…. cos the point of it isn’t getting the “6”, but moving your hand counterclockwise.
If you draw it from the bottom, you move your hand clockwise, negating the experiment…. but you’d surely be aware that you’re doing that on purpose, for that purpose, cos you wouldn’t do it naturally.
The writer should have said to draw a circle counterclockwise, or move your hand counterclockwise, to make people follow the instructions, and see the point, instead of looking for a way to “outwit” them. 🙄
Two eyes, splits into two circles, which keep shifting positions. No color.
Left eye only (better vision, non-dominant, which makes me crazy) stays one circle, nothing happens.
Right eye only (weaker vision)… eventually, a thin, patchy, yellowish mist over parts of what I’d call the “iris”, if this were an eyeball. No color strong enough to write home about.
Coming back, trying again….. I think I can see that, but only with my right eye alone…. very faint misty clouds, mixed with patches of yellow, and they change positions.
Probably wouldn’t, if I weren’t looking for it. Maybe I’m just suggestible 🙂
Arrested numerous times for indecency, when she was actually clothed, as she is more obviously in this movie, because the way she moved her fans made it look like she was hiding nudity.
I don’t think she was ever proven to be nude in her act, though she may have been, sometimes. She was coy about it.
She dated Charles Lindbergh early on…. learned to fly a plane.
Kept the pilot’s licence, not him…. and often flew herself to gigs in her little plane.
Love the opening railroad crossing animation for today’s episode!
The train headlight and signal lights work so well together.
A little more gets explained here about the Sherpa situation… but it turned out in real life that “Mr. G.C” was actually trying to keep Sherpa,… in fact he got fired.
It was a family fight in the syndicate that finally did it in… Which sounds worthy of another Sam Basset drama, till you find out it’s a publishing syndicate, not a crime syndicate.
The mystery will soon deepen… if anybody gets any thoughts about whodunnit, feel free to share!
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These are the Sentinels of Beauty. In order to get to the edge of this cliff and really take in all of the spectacular vista, you have to go through them.
One good scritch of the ears and chins, and they’ll let you pass.
Gasp!
You’re giving away the weaknesses in their security system!
Loose lips sink bassets, you know.
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Clearly a subway entrance, but I don’t know where.
Looks like they didn’t follow directions back then either.
Couldn’t find a lot about this photo…
Most sites in my search results just used it as illustration, without providing any information. I couldn’t find a date, a title or a location.
ONE site said it was taken by André Kertész, a Hungarian-American photographer known for his contributions to photograpy…
And maybe it was. But it was obviously taken in the 1920s, when he had emigrated to Paris, and the signs are in English.
So who knows. There was obviously no answer, either, to the question of why one person is leaving the entrance, and another entering the exit.
A conundrum for certain!
My take:
The ENTRANCE is the entrance to another section of the complex.
The EXIT ONLY is to exit the complex entirely, they are heading out the door and on their way.
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only one… Mary Poppins, in 1964
BTW… He’ll be 100 years old in December.
I read just this week that in a recent interview he said “Only two months! It’ll be funny if I don’t make it.”
Is he wearing Keds?
Definitely well-worn tennis shoes… a little hard to make out the brand!
But why not… It’s a rehearsal.
Good thing he didn’t have to wear crinolines and spats like his partner…
If I lifted my knee that high it’d take surgery to put it back down.
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Good balance. Strong door and everything connected with it.
Will Not, and Do Not Try This at Home.
An attempt to receive a Darwin Award.
Do you realize that you can win a Darwin Award without dying?
All you have to do is remove yourself from the gene pool by doing something incredibly amazingly stupid.
The photo above illustrates how that can happen.
Had a friend, Dan, working with me putting new insulation in an attic. He mis-stepped…went through the ceiling, and straddled a door on the way down. Hope that doesn’t happen to this guy.
Yeah, it’s a good thing door hinges are made to support 200 pounds… and that doors never move. Right?
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Yup. And now my eyes just checked out for the night.
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LOL… For a moment it looked as though he’s not only carrying a big screen TV, but the Valero sign is his tall backrest.
Another participant for the Darwin Award of the Year.!
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For heaven’s sake… It took me long enough!
LOL!
Me too, but I wasn’t gonna admit it.
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Wow, it’s true!
I was a kid there was a popular thing like this, where they said you can’t pat your head in one spot, while you rub your belly in a circle with your other hand… or vice versa.
I taught myself to do it, just to prove it wrong. It’s awkward, but not impossible, to make your “patting hand” not pat in a circle, and your “rubbing hand” not pat.
It’s easy to make one hand or foot circle clockwise and the other counterclockwise.
However, it really does seem impossible to make two limbs on the same side of your body circle in opposite directions.
Drawing a six is essentially circling counterclockwise, but even if you reverse the directions of both, you still can’t do it!
I wonder whether there are people with so much muscle control that they can… it feels like a nervous system thing you can’t fight.
If you draw the six backwards (from the bottom up) it’s easy.
Great minds…
Sigh…. Yes, of course…. cos the point of it isn’t getting the “6”, but moving your hand counterclockwise.
If you draw it from the bottom, you move your hand clockwise, negating the experiment…. but you’d surely be aware that you’re doing that on purpose, for that purpose, cos you wouldn’t do it naturally.
The writer should have said to draw a circle counterclockwise, or move your hand counterclockwise, to make people follow the instructions, and see the point, instead of looking for a way to “outwit” them. 🙄
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Gee whiz, I hope this is not the start of a sumo match.
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I believe our photographer has already gone down the rabbit hole.
Bunny!
White Rabbit relaxing in his study.
Now where have I seen that before?
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Okay. Now what?
Maybe it might, if it would stop jumping around.
I saw the redish spot in the corner out of the corner of my eye. But not the arrow.
Last night it just jumped around.
Today…
Two eyes, splits into two circles, which keep shifting positions. No color.
Left eye only (better vision, non-dominant, which makes me crazy) stays one circle, nothing happens.
Right eye only (weaker vision)… eventually, a thin, patchy, yellowish mist over parts of what I’d call the “iris”, if this were an eyeball. No color strong enough to write home about.
I see a light purple haze around the center
Coming back, trying again….. I think I can see that, but only with my right eye alone…. very faint misty clouds, mixed with patches of yellow, and they change positions.
Probably wouldn’t, if I weren’t looking for it. Maybe I’m just suggestible 🙂
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a real-life genuine monster
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Lost Colors, photograph by Ibrahim Canakci
Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background, so it must be an African elephant 🙂
She was quite a character.
Arrested numerous times for indecency, when she was actually clothed, as she is more obviously in this movie, because the way she moved her fans made it look like she was hiding nudity.
I don’t think she was ever proven to be nude in her act, though she may have been, sometimes. She was coy about it.
She dated Charles Lindbergh early on…. learned to fly a plane.
Kept the pilot’s licence, not him…. and often flew herself to gigs in her little plane.
Anyone know why she’s dancing to “Scheherazade” and not “Bolero?”
Love the opening railroad crossing animation for today’s episode!
The train headlight and signal lights work so well together.
A little more gets explained here about the Sherpa situation… but it turned out in real life that “Mr. G.C” was actually trying to keep Sherpa,… in fact he got fired.
It was a family fight in the syndicate that finally did it in… Which sounds worthy of another Sam Basset drama, till you find out it’s a publishing syndicate, not a crime syndicate.
The mystery will soon deepen… if anybody gets any thoughts about whodunnit, feel free to share!
‘Ghost’ Train?
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