A grey crowned crane… His crown is gold, but he’s a grey bird, as compared to the black crowned crane, a related, but darker bird, also with a gold crown.
I read someplace that if you take a photo of someones face and replace one side with the other side reversed it creates an uncanny valley image. So i shouldn’t be surprised that that works.
Not so much that it’s uncanny, from the ones I’ve seen online… But it’s startling to see how different the two sides are.
People have differing another of asymmetry in their face structure, but almost everybody has some.
Take a digital photo of yourself, and cut it in half with software. Make one image by doubling the left side of your face, the other with the right, and it may look like two different people.
You probably don’t realize one side of your face has a slightly higher eyebrow, rounder cheek, fuller lips, etc… till you see yourself with that feature on both sides.
This looks older, but my search says it’s from 1950.
A couple of results say “cover art by Roland Davies.” I can’t make out whether it says Davies on the grass at lower left.
If you’re thinking either of them stole anything from Batman, which pre-dates it by a decade, in case you’re wondering… I found a worse theft, IMHO.
Someone calling himself J. Long-Toothed has appropriated the cover, cleaning it up a bit, removing the publishing information, and calling it his own “digital art”.
He’s selling it online as prints, towels, shower curtains and anything else FineArtAmerica, which seems a rather disreputable site, can dream up
I never watched it… so I only recognize Maureen McCormick, top center, who played Marsha or Marcia Brady, and Florence Henderson, center, who played Carol Brady, the mom.
I tried to look it up, but the various results only named some of them, and out of order. I’ll let someone who knows them better say who they are
Terribly difficult to spiral it like that yourself.
It may be an “effect” available in some photo software… I don’t have anything fancy to check.
If you can click “spiralize” and the software does it, using your own photo, I guess we don’t call it AI, which requires bringing in outside (borrowed or stolen) images and techniques.
But it’s still artificial.
I don’t see any doubled or repeated bits, though, so I’m not sure which it is.
From the top you couldn’t tell the buildings are so tall.
It looked like a neighborhood of small, tile roofed houses… Instead they’re large office and apartment blocks… A big parking structure? A stadium?
They’re all stuffed into a grid that was laid out 150 years ago, and by law, can’t change any historical boundaries. So they’ve had to build upward for more space, not out.
Now that I’ve come back to post this, I see that Alexi already posted the solution.
I’m going to do it anyway, before I peek, cos I’m giving explanations.
Poor little penguins… I don’t think it’s nice to criticize their selections. There are a few that are dubious, but I only found three I’d say are incorrect… But do penguins know?
Some of the hats are hard to read…
but here’s what I’m thinking….
There are several with no dates, but I don’t think that’s wrong, nor is going hatless. The one with Roman numerals is correct.
But if I managed to read them correctly, the three I marked are dated 2024, 2020, and 2026. Which is wrong to a human… dunno whether it’s wrong to a penguin.
People, put your brain on hold and enjoy the movie.
It’s a movie in the “Mad Max” tradition (except with better acting if you can believe that / filmed in Poland) of a world destroyed by war (except on top of everything else there’s a werewolf a witch and demons).
The villains are villainous, the hero is heroic and the rabble is rabbly (to coin a word).
Virtually every character has an agenda and keeping them straight is half the fun (so is trying to keep from saying “What‽‽‽” every time something makes no sense / and there’s a fair bit of that).
A grey crowned crane… His crown is gold, but he’s a grey bird, as compared to the black crowned crane, a related, but darker bird, also with a gold crown.
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Double yellow line going on forever, and this guy’s doing 25mph (40kph). 🙂
Yeah, but you wouldn’t want to pass on those hills with zero visibility anyway.
I hope!
Remember… it’s the journey…. 😁
Hey, no hitting!
I get it. I live on highway 101.
“Last seen driving off the edge of the earth…”
By Z Z. Wei … I didn’t find a date.
From Instagram: “Z.Z. Wei (Born 1957) is active/lives in Washington / China. ZZ Wei is known for Nostalgic Northwest landscape.”
He’s done a lot of similar scenes. The carved out roadsides remind me of Grant Wood… but not the rest.
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Some of them look about right.
But even if they match, it doesn’t matter for a few I’ve never heard of.
Harry Van Gorkum??
Julia Roberts / Anne Hathaway
It’s almost like all humans come from the same genetic stock! 😉
I read someplace that if you take a photo of someones face and replace one side with the other side reversed it creates an uncanny valley image. So i shouldn’t be surprised that that works.
Not so much that it’s uncanny, from the ones I’ve seen online… But it’s startling to see how different the two sides are.
People have differing another of asymmetry in their face structure, but almost everybody has some.
Take a digital photo of yourself, and cut it in half with software. Make one image by doubling the left side of your face, the other with the right, and it may look like two different people.
You probably don’t realize one side of your face has a slightly higher eyebrow, rounder cheek, fuller lips, etc… till you see yourself with that feature on both sides.
,
,,
This looks older, but my search says it’s from 1950.
A couple of results say “cover art by Roland Davies.” I can’t make out whether it says Davies on the grass at lower left.
If you’re thinking either of them stole anything from Batman, which pre-dates it by a decade, in case you’re wondering… I found a worse theft, IMHO.
Someone calling himself J. Long-Toothed has appropriated the cover, cleaning it up a bit, removing the publishing information, and calling it his own “digital art”.
He’s selling it online as prints, towels, shower curtains and anything else FineArtAmerica, which seems a rather disreputable site, can dream up
,,,,
I never watched it… so I only recognize Maureen McCormick, top center, who played Marsha or Marcia Brady, and Florence Henderson, center, who played Carol Brady, the mom.
I tried to look it up, but the various results only named some of them, and out of order. I’ll let someone who knows them better say who they are
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Yeah yeah… no AI involved here….
True, but at least I don’t notice any inconsistencies.
Could be old fashioned photo manipulation. No A1 necessary.
Terribly difficult to spiral it like that yourself.
It may be an “effect” available in some photo software… I don’t have anything fancy to check.
If you can click “spiralize” and the software does it, using your own photo, I guess we don’t call it AI, which requires bringing in outside (borrowed or stolen) images and techniques.
But it’s still artificial.
I don’t see any doubled or repeated bits, though, so I’m not sure which it is.
Barcelona, a little closer this time
From the top you couldn’t tell the buildings are so tall.
It looked like a neighborhood of small, tile roofed houses… Instead they’re large office and apartment blocks… A big parking structure? A stadium?
They’re all stuffed into a grid that was laid out 150 years ago, and by law, can’t change any historical boundaries. So they’ve had to build upward for more space, not out.
And there is a lot more green than previous photos have shown.
The trees were there, but looked tiny and dark cos the image was so small.
How big will the next one be?
It just got even more mysterious.
“Betty Boop.s Trial” 1934
gif at 5:13
Obey Wan Kenobi?
you dare to make jokes about your god, human?
That’s “Puny human…”
find 3 wrong hats
Okay … Same ones I marked. Phew
Question: What makes a hat “wrong?”
The date on it.
Um… I just said that … But in a spoiler box.
Now that I’ve come back to post this, I see that Alexi already posted the solution.
I’m going to do it anyway, before I peek, cos I’m giving explanations.
Poor little penguins… I don’t think it’s nice to criticize their selections. There are a few that are dubious, but I only found three I’d say are incorrect… But do penguins know?
Some of the hats are hard to read…
There are several with no dates, but I don’t think that’s wrong, nor is going hatless. The one with Roman numerals is correct.
But if I managed to read them correctly, the three I marked are dated 2024, 2020, and 2026. Which is wrong to a human… dunno whether it’s wrong to a penguin.
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you are getting sleeeeepy…
And dreaming of red admirals…
Assuming that they are not Chinese naval officers, what are “red admirals?”
Some kinds of migrating butterflies.
A specific species… V. Allantis
Vanessa Atalanta.
And I was answering Liverlips’ question.
The common name of a species of butterfly….
And here was me thinking giving the scientific name of such a well-known butterfly was superfluous…
Knowledge is never superfluous.
Unless, you know… it’s just too much😁
I’m a great believer in “just right-fluous…”
Is this Floof from Fur Babies?
Fun strip!
It’s not what you might think at first glance.
You do it your way….
Very bright doggy!
People, put your brain on hold and enjoy the movie.
It’s a movie in the “Mad Max” tradition (except with better acting if you can believe that / filmed in Poland) of a world destroyed by war (except on top of everything else there’s a werewolf a witch and demons).
The villains are villainous, the hero is heroic and the rabble is rabbly (to coin a word).
Virtually every character has an agenda and keeping them straight is half the fun (so is trying to keep from saying “What‽‽‽” every time something makes no sense / and there’s a fair bit of that).
Here is the link to ‘IN THE LOST LANDS’
You’ll have to demonstrate that you’re noi a robot, but nothing onerous.
When the countdown finishes click on the title.
The second after the phrase “We’re nearly out of dog treats” was uttered…….
I understand their concern.
they have their priorities
Ailing memory… what I have.
Mailing memory… One kind I’ve lost. Good thing I pay my bills online.
Bewailing memory… the loss of it, anyway…. what I’m doing every day.
Again, i’m not seeing anything above the videos.
here’s today’s cartoon
Thank you. I don’t know what’s up with that.