Photoshop. Lots of pictures floating about several years ago with many different items in/on the back of that truck. Not to say it hasn’t been done for real, but this one looks like it’s photoshop.
If it were real, the illusion would only work from that exact angle. Chances are that most people would be seeing it from a “wrong” perspective most of the time.
One of my favorite stories involves a Senate investigation into the Three Mile Island incident.
The testifying technician unpacks his Geiger counter and flips it on. Horrible screeching and much panic. Turns out he had it set to most sensitive.
So, he gets it calibrated and makes a few accurate measurements. Turns out there is a certain radioactive component in the marble used to build about every building in D.C. Quite natural and below the level considered hazardous. Every day, the congress critters are exposed to three times the total amount of radiation released at Three Mile Island.
This is, according to Google, an AI generated picture of a guitar that doesn’t exist.
I want to hate it, but it’s pretty.
I hate that AI copies artists’ work and twists it into “new” fake paintings and drawings, without crediting the people who invented those brushstrokes, colors and styles.
To use it, you can tell it to paint three cats on a fence in the style of Matisse, and it churns something out… not an actual painting, but a computer image. Then you can say, do it again with more blue. Oh, and add a robin. This to me is not art, it’s theft.
But what if you say “I want to see a guitar made of glass, with pink flowers in it”. A new idea. Somebody did design those flowers.
But is the whole thing theft, or a new way to create?
I still don’t like the idea, but I can’t decide whether I’m being a stick-in-the-mud, rejecting progress.
There actually was a plexiglass/lucite electric guitar made by Dan Armstrong in the late 60’s. Sadly it didn’t have flowers encased in it and possibly the reason it had dismal popularity.
The difference between this version and of the other “normal” version is quite striking. Very different emotional impacts sent and received. Both are beautifully done :: for this one, the Love Version, the sound mixtures are pronounced, impactful.
Thanks, Tigressy.
A caption I found for this says “1914: A J Hancock speeds past spectators in his Vauxhall I motor car during the Tourist Trophy Race for Cars, on the Isle of Man.”
I didn’t find anything so far explaining what the Tourist Trophy Race might be… but I’m kinda done for tonighzzzzz*zzzZZzz…
The ‘Isle of Man TT’ is an annual motorcycle race around the island. Obviously in times past it was also for cars. The speeds on the public roads are frightening.
The ‘TT’ bit in the ‘Isle of Man TT’ stands for ‘Tourist Trophy’.
From a TV show I’ve never seen… though a couple of the actors are familiar, from other work they’ve done.
I had to search the image to get the title and the other names…
The program is…
“BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP”
This is from episode 10, “Anyone for Suicide?”
The title was changed to “The Black Sheep Squadron” for its 2nd season.
The men are…
L to R: Jeff MacKay as Lt. Don French, Dirk Blocker as Lt. Jerry Bragg, Robert Conrad as Maj. Greg ‘Pappy’ Boyington, James Whitmore Jr. as Capt. James Gutterman, and Robert Ginty as Lt. T.J. Wiley
I also has to look up Dirk Blocker, to confirm that yes, he’s the son of Dan, Bonanza’s “Hoss”, because I thought he looked so much like his Dad.
I found conflicting information about this tortoise.
Several sites say that this is Jonathan the tortoise, who turned 193 in March, 2026. He is reportedly “the oldest land animal alive having outlived 40 U.S. presidents, and 8 British monarchs.”
No site denied the facts about Jonathan. This picture and his story ran in reputable newspapers in March, and he’s in the Guinness book of records.
He was born in the Seychelles, in 1832, and brought to St. Helena in 1882, where he still lives at Plantation House, the Governor’s residence. Named in the 1930s by Governor Sir Spencer Davis, Jonathan now shares his home with other tortoises—David, Emma, Myrtle, and Fredrika.
He can’t see or smell anymore, but he still recognizes his caretakers just by voice and touch. His hearing remains sharp, and he still eats cabbage, lettuce, carrots, bananas, and guavas. His image appears on St. Helena’s five-pence coin, and the island celebrates his birthday each year with special art, souvenirs, and stamps.
However, one site that claims to be a fact-checking site says that while the story is true, this picture is of a different tortoise.
They say it was published on the Australian Daily Telegraph news website in an article from April 2014 about the birth of two Galapagos tortoises at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in New South Wales, Australia.
They contacted that zoo, where a spokeswoman said the
photo shows the tiny pair of hatchlings next to a then three-year-old hatchling, and one of their adult males…. a Galapagos tortoise at the zoo known as ‘A11’, who is still alive, and in his 50s.
So this is either the world’s oldest tortoise… or one in his 50s.
I’m not very good at judging the age of tortoises in pictures.
I’ll leave it to you to decide what you’re seeing… the fact remains that a tortoise of this species turned 193 this spring.
I tried to Google both, and couldn’t really tell the difference in a close-up except for the fur.
The spikes on the tiger tongue didn’t look any bigger… but the animalis much bigger, and the proportions didn’t change, so of course, the spikes are much bigger too.
This was one of the pictures used to illustrate the tiger…. But it could probably be either… unless you have info I’m missing.
The photo is an old one of a domestic cat licking its paw, which had a similar caption, except it was about (Domestic) cat’s tongue. This version just has a different caption. When you look at the fur on the paw, if it were a tiger, the hair thickness would be massive.
This is in England, in 1961, after the Beatles returned from Hamburg.
Before Ringo, and right before Brian Epstein… Pete Best is drumming.
There was a mix-up, and the ads for their performance never made it into the newspaper, not did the other band make it to the gig.
A few paper posters like the one below were put up around town, but most were stolen or torn down.
So only a reported 18 people showed up, and that includes some that the promotor recruited from nearby clubs.
One thing that strikes me is that the audience .. or at least the dancers… appear to be older than the teenagers who would soon be mobbing them. They look like fans of the early rock ‘n roll the Beatles loved to play.
But even then, they would have had a much bigger audience in Liverpool, where they were becoming known.
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Rule No. 1: Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Rule No. 2: It’s all small stuff.
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Amazing perspective.
I bet there were some startled drivers on the road.
In fact, I’m not sure it’s safe to allow that kind of distraction… though you can probably see more quickly in real life that it’s just an image.
Say… You guys who know these things… would this be another example of peel-off vinyl truck art?
Photoshop. Lots of pictures floating about several years ago with many different items in/on the back of that truck. Not to say it hasn’t been done for real, but this one looks like it’s photoshop.
Oops.
Makes me want to drive by with a really big bottle opener and a stein.
If it were real, the illusion would only work from that exact angle. Chances are that most people would be seeing it from a “wrong” perspective most of the time.
True, but this seemed carefully designed.
It looked to me like the angle you’d see driving up in the next lane, from behind it… and that’s when a bottle neck sticking out would startle you.
It doesn’t matter from across the highway, or even three lanes away, that you don’t see it that way, cos it’s not about to hit your car.
That’s what I thought.
Why do you never see another photo from a different angle?
There was a billboard in town for fire safety. At night, looked like it was on fire. There were so many 911 calls they had to take it down.
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This is the second time in as many days that Jack Elam isn’t mentioned …tsk tsk .
Don’t Lorne Greene and Richard Boone rate a mention either?
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No dates??
You want a date? How about next Thursday?
You mean it would be a deadly man made disaster?
Oh… right….. I guess it would, when your wife found out.
Stealing a line from Robin Hood Men In Tights, said by the sheriff of Rottingham to Maid Marian.
Three Mile Island? Really?
One of my favorite stories involves a Senate investigation into the Three Mile Island incident.
The testifying technician unpacks his Geiger counter and flips it on. Horrible screeching and much panic. Turns out he had it set to most sensitive.
So, he gets it calibrated and makes a few accurate measurements. Turns out there is a certain radioactive component in the marble used to build about every building in D.C. Quite natural and below the level considered hazardous. Every day, the congress critters are exposed to three times the total amount of radiation released at Three Mile Island.
Hmm, that might explain a few things.
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This is, according to Google, an AI generated picture of a guitar that doesn’t exist.
I want to hate it, but it’s pretty.
I hate that AI copies artists’ work and twists it into “new” fake paintings and drawings, without crediting the people who invented those brushstrokes, colors and styles.
To use it, you can tell it to paint three cats on a fence in the style of Matisse, and it churns something out… not an actual painting, but a computer image. Then you can say, do it again with more blue. Oh, and add a robin. This to me is not art, it’s theft.
But what if you say “I want to see a guitar made of glass, with pink flowers in it”. A new idea. Somebody did design those flowers.
But is the whole thing theft, or a new way to create?
I still don’t like the idea, but I can’t decide whether I’m being a stick-in-the-mud, rejecting progress.
Anybody?
If a guitar and a banjo had a love-child…
I think of it as ornamental…
Seems to me you’re not going to get much sound out of a solid block of glass anyway.
I bet Jimi Hendrix would have.
Interesting. The right strings, the right pickups, electronic manipulation…now all you need is a robot playing it.
Yeah, I wouldn’t sound right not even close
There actually was a plexiglass/lucite electric guitar made by Dan Armstrong in the late 60’s. Sadly it didn’t have flowers encased in it and possibly the reason it had dismal popularity.
The difference between this version and of the other “normal” version is quite striking. Very different emotional impacts sent and received. Both are beautifully done :: for this one, the Love Version, the sound mixtures are pronounced, impactful.
Thanks, Tigressy.
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Go Pumba!!
What’s that thing in the back? I can’t sniff your butt to tell if it’s really you!
A license plate?
the Isle of Man-1914
A caption I found for this says “1914: A J Hancock speeds past spectators in his Vauxhall I motor car during the Tourist Trophy Race for Cars, on the Isle of Man.”
I didn’t find anything so far explaining what the Tourist Trophy Race might be… but I’m kinda done for tonighzzzzz*zzzZZzz…
The ‘Isle of Man TT’ is an annual motorcycle race around the island. Obviously in times past it was also for cars. The speeds on the public roads are frightening.
The ‘TT’ bit in the ‘Isle of Man TT’ stands for ‘Tourist Trophy’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
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On-board the Fastest EVER Lap of the Isle of Man TT | Peter Hickman – 136.358mph (Average speed, not Maximum)
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Thanks!
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From a TV show I’ve never seen… though a couple of the actors are familiar, from other work they’ve done.
I had to search the image to get the title and the other names…
This is from episode 10, “Anyone for Suicide?”
The title was changed to “The Black Sheep Squadron” for its 2nd season.
I also has to look up Dirk Blocker, to confirm that yes, he’s the son of Dan, Bonanza’s “Hoss”, because I thought he looked so much like his Dad.
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How many generations of the family is this?
I found conflicting information about this tortoise.
Several sites say that this is Jonathan the tortoise, who turned 193 in March, 2026. He is reportedly “the oldest land animal alive having outlived 40 U.S. presidents, and 8 British monarchs.”
No site denied the facts about Jonathan. This picture and his story ran in reputable newspapers in March, and he’s in the Guinness book of records.
He was born in the Seychelles, in 1832, and brought to St. Helena in 1882, where he still lives at Plantation House, the Governor’s residence. Named in the 1930s by Governor Sir Spencer Davis, Jonathan now shares his home with other tortoises—David, Emma, Myrtle, and Fredrika.
He can’t see or smell anymore, but he still recognizes his caretakers just by voice and touch. His hearing remains sharp, and he still eats cabbage, lettuce, carrots, bananas, and guavas. His image appears on St. Helena’s five-pence coin, and the island celebrates his birthday each year with special art, souvenirs, and stamps.
However, one site that claims to be a fact-checking site says that while the story is true, this picture is of a different tortoise.
They say it was published on the Australian Daily Telegraph news website in an article from April 2014 about the birth of two Galapagos tortoises at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in New South Wales, Australia.
They contacted that zoo, where a spokeswoman said the
photo shows the tiny pair of hatchlings next to a then three-year-old hatchling, and one of their adult males…. a Galapagos tortoise at the zoo known as ‘A11’, who is still alive, and in his 50s.
So this is either the world’s oldest tortoise… or one in his 50s.
I’m not very good at judging the age of tortoises in pictures.
I’ll leave it to you to decide what you’re seeing… the fact remains that a tortoise of this species turned 193 this spring.
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And that is a picture of a domestic cats tongue.
I tried to Google both, and couldn’t really tell the difference in a close-up except for the fur.
The spikes on the tiger tongue didn’t look any bigger… but the animal is much bigger, and the proportions didn’t change, so of course, the spikes are much bigger too.
This was one of the pictures used to illustrate the tiger…. But it could probably be either… unless you have info I’m missing.
The photo is an old one of a domestic cat licking its paw, which had a similar caption, except it was about (Domestic) cat’s tongue. This version just has a different caption. When you look at the fur on the paw, if it were a tiger, the hair thickness would be massive.
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I think I would just as soon leave that job to the dogs.
Got him!
This is all going downhill very quickly…
In more ways than one
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This is in England, in 1961, after the Beatles returned from Hamburg.
Before Ringo, and right before Brian Epstein… Pete Best is drumming.
There was a mix-up, and the ads for their performance never made it into the newspaper, not did the other band make it to the gig.
A few paper posters like the one below were put up around town, but most were stolen or torn down.
So only a reported 18 people showed up, and that includes some that the promotor recruited from nearby clubs.
One thing that strikes me is that the audience .. or at least the dancers… appear to be older than the teenagers who would soon be mobbing them. They look like fans of the early rock ‘n roll the Beatles loved to play.
But even then, they would have had a much bigger audience in Liverpool, where they were becoming known.
Sounds like they should have showed up. It would have been a fun tape.
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They’re very brave, aren’t they.
What do you think the entrees are for their teddy bear picnics? You really don’t want to be there!
Gasp!
But…but… whimper…
But teddy bears…
Eating monsters, of course.
Whew!
‘Iéna Bridge and Eiffel Tower in the Mist’, 1937 – By the French photographer and photojournalist Roger Schall (1904–1995).
Male House Finch.
How can the finches tell whether a house is male or female, so they can nest in the right one?
Looks kinda scraggly. He must have a great personality.
I was never able to tell a House Finch from a Purple Finch.
(No, they’re both pink…)
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