To answer Susan’s question below, I took a screen snip at maximum zoom.
I think it is Campion’s own creation for this artwork.
I looked, but could not find any evidence of his having painted it as a separate work.
It is a measure of Campion’s talent and skill that the subject is easily identified.
This painting is oddly reminiscent of those “What’s wrong with this picture?” puzzles.
It’s full of oddities or anomalies. Some may just be artistic license, but once I noticed a couple, I couldn’t help seeing more.
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First thing I noticed is all the VHS tapes, and the fellow seems to be watching “ET”, but I see no player anywhere.
The artist has carefully drawn the wires for the TV and lamps, so I’d think we’d at least see the wire to a VHS player or VCR.
(Yeah, maybe he’s watching cable, but there’s no cable box, either…. and maybe he’s streaming it and we can’t see his remote… uh huh. But he has open tapes.)
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The TV is sitting on top of the radiator!
It appears to be snowing, unless those are very strangely placed stars outside the window.
If it’s cold, and the heat is on, that is probably not a good arrangement!
And the snow or stars are strangely arranged outside the bottom pane as if they’re trying to spell something.
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It also seems odd that the bathroom door opens right into the living room, and he’s lying on the floor with his head almost in it, and his TV tray right next to it.
The rack with the bath towel is squeezed into a tiny space between the sink and the wall.
Nitpicky, but I don’t think the lampshade fits, either, where the floor lamp is pushed into that little corner behind the tray.
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Anybody recognise the picture behind the lampshade?
– The player is built-in (just below the screen)
– Window sills don’t get really hot, and the heat from the TV plus player gets away via the cold window
– Or maybe the radiator isn’t turned on (or only on low), that person has just taken a shower (being in the jammies) and wants the warm, humid air to escape from the bathroom
– I don’t think that’s a tiny space – and that wall seems to be the door to the shower; the best place for the towel.
I’ll add to your list, Susan. Look at the height of the sink and compare it to the height of the tray table. Even accounting for parallax , that basin is twice as high off the ground as the table top.
most of us in the US have no idea because we’ve never heard of a “Trafficator arm”.
Pretty sure I’ve seen them in movies, and recognised them as turn signals, but they were mostly old black and white films, so I have no idea what color they’re supposed to be.
Don’t they stick out of the side you’re turning towards?
We just have red indicator lights in the rear, on the appropriate side.
This seems to be an English puzzle. The car has an English plate and is driving on the left side of the road, so the steering wheel should be on the right.
Another thought….
but probably insignificant…
The building on the corner across the street has no windows facing the street where the car is headed.
In any case Nighthawks may not have the answer… in which case, we’ll never know for sure.
Working your way from HERE to HERE You’ll come to the attachment below. The writer of the blog (since closed down) pretty much agrees with More_Cats_Than_Sense.
How accurate? It’s the internet.
Please just tell us your sources, instead of posting two links to long articles nobody’s got time to read, just to find unverified guessing, exactly like ours.
I’ve only seen a Piper Cherokee (what I think are on the poster) fly in formation once. It was a tight formation with the Cherokee leading a Beech Bonanza. It looked great until the Bonanza pilot decided to land in formation (something you won’t even see the Blue Angels try). The Cherokee touched down first and slowed; the Bonanza tried to hold his relative position while still in the air. He slowed too much, the nose dropped and he went crunch. From what I heard later, the passengers were fine, but the 60+ year old pilot suffered spine compression.
There are four illustrators’ short biographies in this video, and their works are all spectacular.
I’ll be watching it again later to read some of the pages the illustrations were made for, and to try to find some of the pulp magazine authors Hugh Joseph Ward (the last biography) illustrated.
I’ve finally finished rereading (read in 3 days / I kept putting it off through four renewals, and it’s now 6 days overdue ) “Day of The Triffids” by John Wyndham.
Written in 1951 (Sputnik was Friday, October 4, 1957) Wyndham wrote about satellite weapons in space, and genetic engineering.
It is well worth reading (or rereading) even today.
I read and re-read that book many times over the years—the most eerie scene was when our protagonist woke up in the hospital after the meteor shower and EVERYbody in the hospital (and most folks in the world) were sightless except for him,–all the now-blind folks in the hospital were all clamoring for help which never came
Aha! Much internet trouble tonight… among other things, after refreshing and refreshing, this page only partially opened, and wouldn’t give me a comment box to type in.
Not even clicking reply under the two or three pictures I could see opened a field to type in.
The spoiler boxes wouldn’t open, and I don’t think my “likes” worked either.
It was no better on my tablet or my phone, though other days, that’s been the solution.
…
Finally I closed my open windows and rebooted… and by only having ONE window open… voila! I can type. Let’s see whether I can post.
No wireless on my computer yesterday (the device was still there, but the driver missing after a slightly faulty kernel-update). Updates from the shell or the automatic updater – wireless, of course; and I have forgotten how to change that. No; restarting the system (that’s the first thing I did) didn’t do the trick. Not even after cutting off the power plus removing the batteries. Wired connections still worked.
Fortunately, the Synaptic Package Manager is user-friendly enough to let me change the preferences for internet-access to “manual” that I could reinstall the missing driver-package. Restart – and no internet at all. Sigh.
Reboots from an older version took forever and froze sooner or later (before and after), but finally, it all worked again. (Fingers crossed).
I use Windows, not Linux, so I don’t have a synaptic package manager.. and a lot of manual access has been lost over the years to automatic Windows processes.
Can be good or bad… easier if working, bad if you want to override it manually.
And my still “new” to me laptop (2021) has no ethernet port.
All internet access is wireless from my modem.
The modem does have wired output, so I could buy a usb ethernet adaptor and tie up my only currently free usb port.
The slowness isn’t between my computer and the modem, though, so I haven’t done that.
Gotta love that 14″ (give or take) Claude has no problem jumping up and down and yelling orders at 5’2″ (more or less) Clara, or even 15″ Cleo.
Yeah, yeah, it’s not drawn precisely to scale so I can’t be exact. It’s a comic strip… it has comic proportions!
In any case, he seems to think they need to listen and obey, instead of standing there looking amused.
…
He’s lucky Clara doesn’t just tuck him in her purse and take him home like that.
As Cleo says… aww, so cute.
…
Kinda reminds me of dogs I’ve known… like the little chihuahua who had no fear of any of the neighborhood ruffians… the canine ones, I mean.
She’d bark through the fence at the doberman next door and unsuccessfully demand his treats, and try to chase the Labrador she lived with to get him to play, which he ignored.
I would think that Claude’s lifespan might be increased due to his smaller size and therefore much lighter weight. on the other hand , it’s going to be tough to find a
doctor that treats geriatric little tiny folks
ah! it’s friday. do not push……… what a fun ending to our week!
i kinda like claude’s dilemma. he’s not really ‘in charge’, is he?
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
1 year ago
Going away again for the weekend. Won’t be back till late Monday or Tuesday. Behave yourselves. None of that nonsense that went on during my last weekend away (MLK).
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,
“Movie Night” By: Pascal Campion
To answer Susan’s question below, I took a screen snip at maximum zoom.
I think it is Campion’s own creation for this artwork.
I looked, but could not find any evidence of his having painted it as a separate work.
It is a measure of Campion’s talent and skill that the subject is easily identified.
Is it?
Could you identify it for me, please?
This painting is oddly reminiscent of those “What’s wrong with this picture?” puzzles.
It’s full of oddities or anomalies. Some may just be artistic license, but once I noticed a couple, I couldn’t help seeing more.
…
First thing I noticed is all the VHS tapes, and the fellow seems to be watching “ET”, but I see no player anywhere.
The artist has carefully drawn the wires for the TV and lamps, so I’d think we’d at least see the wire to a VHS player or VCR.
(Yeah, maybe he’s watching cable, but there’s no cable box, either…. and maybe he’s streaming it and we can’t see his remote… uh huh. But he has open tapes.)
…
The TV is sitting on top of the radiator!
It appears to be snowing, unless those are very strangely placed stars outside the window.
If it’s cold, and the heat is on, that is probably not a good arrangement!
And the snow or stars are strangely arranged outside the bottom pane as if they’re trying to spell something.
…
It also seems odd that the bathroom door opens right into the living room, and he’s lying on the floor with his head almost in it, and his TV tray right next to it.
The rack with the bath towel is squeezed into a tiny space between the sink and the wall.
Nitpicky, but I don’t think the lampshade fits, either, where the floor lamp is pushed into that little corner behind the tray.
…
Anybody recognise the picture behind the lampshade?
– The player is built-in (just below the screen)
– Window sills don’t get really hot, and the heat from the TV plus player gets away via the cold window
– Or maybe the radiator isn’t turned on (or only on low), that person has just taken a shower (being in the jammies) and wants the warm, humid air to escape from the bathroom
– I don’t think that’s a tiny space – and that wall seems to be the door to the shower; the best place for the towel.
I’m not worried about the window sill getting hot.
If it’s snowing, which of course it night not be, that radiator is HOT, and would melt the television.
You’re never supposed to put anything on top of a built in radiator.
In fact, in many small, old US apartments, the tenant has no control of the heat… The superintendent turns all the radiators on or off together.
The sill the TV is sitting on is above the radiator.
It looks like a map of Japan. That would explain the cramped apartment.
And, it might be one of those VCR playing TVs that started showing up just before the demise of the VCR.
Snow on a railing outside the window.
This might not bee a puzzle picture but it’s still fun. 🙂
Oh!
That explains the pattern in the snow… Porch railings.
Thanks.
This ones I’ve seen have a very thick, obvious player at the bottom, with a visible tape door and buttons…
They look like a tv sitting on a VCR.
That’s a map of Japan, if it shows here.
I wondered when I’d ever use that emoji!
i agree with all of you!
Vindication! 😀
I’ll add to your list, Susan. Look at the height of the sink and compare it to the height of the tray table. Even accounting for parallax , that basin is twice as high off the ground as the table top.
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It’s Nighthawks’s fault!
since I , as Susan speculated, have no answer , I am doubly at fault—
for post these old things and for not having a solution
That’s a UK’s 1950/60’s number plate on the car.
That’s the most plausible explanation to me.
That’s quite possibly right as well.
Pretty sure I’ve seen them in movies, and recognised them as turn signals, but they were mostly old black and white films, so I have no idea what color they’re supposed to be.
Don’t they stick out of the side you’re turning towards?
We just have red indicator lights in the rear, on the appropriate side.
Right…
Now I’m not sure… See Perkycat, below.
doesn’t the shadow beneath the car look a little ….off?
the shadow of the car onto the road wouldn’t fall the way it does here
Yeah, and the driver’s left eyebrow is crooked.
Of course it could be, but when you’re putting something off kilter into a puzzle, for people to find,
you’d usually contrast it with the ordinary, to highlight the difference, not with a rare exception to the rules.
There are tourists (lots of) and there are regulations to meet.
I found a couple of things, maybe.
My first thought is the same as Alexikakos’…
Another thought….
In any case Nighthawks may not have the answer… in which case, we’ll never know for sure.
Working your way from HERE to HERE You’ll come to the attachment below. The writer of the blog (since closed down) pretty much agrees with More_Cats_Than_Sense.
How accurate? It’s the internet.
Please just tell us your sources, instead of posting two links to long articles nobody’s got time to read, just to find unverified guessing, exactly like ours.
You may be the most correct!
I think Perkycat wins!
Perhaps sharing the prize with Liverlips:
Under no authority whatsoever, I grant the two of you, to be divided evenly….
One month of “Cleo and Company”, absolutely FREE!*
…..
*taxes, fees and gratuities not included. Sorry.
Wow! I’m so honored~!!!! Now what will I do with my savings for 1/2 a month of Cleo and Company……hmmmmmmm.
This is great. Now I can take that round-the-world cruise I’ve been looking at.
,
Gotta love Milou’s spacesuit.
Michelin Man space suits. 🙂
“We walked on the moon!”
Polish rocket (based on the paint scheme).
..
That poster has humans and airplanes of many sizes.
No wonder Bond defeats so many villains!
He’s a giant in their world!
I’ve only seen a Piper Cherokee (what I think are on the poster) fly in formation once. It was a tight formation with the Cherokee leading a Beech Bonanza. It looked great until the Bonanza pilot decided to land in formation (something you won’t even see the Blue Angels try). The Cherokee touched down first and slowed; the Bonanza tried to hold his relative position while still in the air. He slowed too much, the nose dropped and he went crunch. From what I heard later, the passengers were fine, but the 60+ year old pilot suffered spine compression.
I didn’t get a chance to finish it so be aware. My service is so damed slow tonight.
What i did see before i gave up was good.
There are four illustrators’ short biographies in this video, and their works are all spectacular.
I’ll be watching it again later to read some of the pages the illustrations were made for, and to try to find some of the pulp magazine authors Hugh Joseph Ward (the last biography) illustrated.
Push it good!
JANIS!!
Going back three months or so…..
I’ve finally finished rereading (read in 3 days / I kept putting it off through four renewals, and it’s now 6 days overdue ) “Day of The Triffids” by John Wyndham.
Written in 1951 (Sputnik was Friday, October 4, 1957) Wyndham wrote about satellite weapons in space, and genetic engineering.
It is well worth reading (or rereading) even today.
I read and re-read that book many times over the years—the most eerie scene was when our protagonist woke up in the hospital after the meteor shower and EVERYbody in the hospital (and most folks in the world) were sightless except for him,–all the now-blind folks in the hospital were all clamoring for help which never came
Attached to that same plot point; the despair of the first doctor he met.
Aha! Much internet trouble tonight… among other things, after refreshing and refreshing, this page only partially opened, and wouldn’t give me a comment box to type in.
Not even clicking reply under the two or three pictures I could see opened a field to type in.
The spoiler boxes wouldn’t open, and I don’t think my “likes” worked either.
It was no better on my tablet or my phone, though other days, that’s been the solution.
…
Finally I closed my open windows and rebooted… and by only having ONE window open… voila! I can type. Let’s see whether I can post.
No wireless on my computer yesterday (the device was still there, but the driver missing after a slightly faulty kernel-update). Updates from the shell or the automatic updater – wireless, of course; and I have forgotten how to change that. No; restarting the system (that’s the first thing I did) didn’t do the trick. Not even after cutting off the power plus removing the batteries. Wired connections still worked.
Fortunately, the Synaptic Package Manager is user-friendly enough to let me change the preferences for internet-access to “manual” that I could reinstall the missing driver-package. Restart – and no internet at all. Sigh.
Reboots from an older version took forever and froze sooner or later (before and after), but finally, it all worked again. (Fingers crossed).
Aren’t computers fun?
I use Windows, not Linux, so I don’t have a synaptic package manager.. and a lot of manual access has been lost over the years to automatic Windows processes.
Can be good or bad… easier if working, bad if you want to override it manually.
And my still “new” to me laptop (2021) has no ethernet port.
All internet access is wireless from my modem.
The modem does have wired output, so I could buy a usb ethernet adaptor and tie up my only currently free usb port.
The slowness isn’t between my computer and the modem, though, so I haven’t done that.
Gotta love that 14″ (give or take) Claude has no problem jumping up and down and yelling orders at 5’2″ (more or less) Clara, or even 15″ Cleo.
Yeah, yeah, it’s not drawn precisely to scale so I can’t be exact. It’s a comic strip… it has comic proportions!
In any case, he seems to think they need to listen and obey, instead of standing there looking amused.
…
He’s lucky Clara doesn’t just tuck him in her purse and take him home like that.
As Cleo says… aww, so cute.
…
Kinda reminds me of dogs I’ve known… like the little chihuahua who had no fear of any of the neighborhood ruffians… the canine ones, I mean.
She’d bark through the fence at the doberman next door and unsuccessfully demand his treats, and try to chase the Labrador she lived with to get him to play, which he ignored.
I would think that Claude’s lifespan might be increased due to his smaller size and therefore much lighter weight. on the other hand , it’s going to be tough to find a
doctor that treats geriatric little tiny folks
Wouldn’t he realize that if Clara pushes the button she might shrink to his size?? If that be the case, I don’t know what the solution would be.
Then Cleo pushes it, and shrinks too.
Now she’s short enough for Claude to climb on her back.
He then lifts Clara onto his shoulders… It’s like in the Grimm fairy tale, “The Musicians of Bremen”… so she can in that way reach the button.
It’s like a toggle switch… This time it makes them all tall again!
No double pushing!
You’re welcome.
That could work!
Poof!
Love that poof.
ah! it’s friday. do not push……… what a fun ending to our week!
i kinda like claude’s dilemma. he’s not really ‘in charge’, is he?
Going away again for the weekend. Won’t be back till late Monday or Tuesday. Behave yourselves. None of that nonsense that went on during my last weekend away (MLK).
I had to give a dislike. NOBODY’S gonna tell ME what to do!
🙂
😛
Us? Nonsense? Why, whatever do you mean….
That is the most adorable little tantrum ♥. Great animation guys.
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