I’ve seen this painting before…
Maybe here, maybe not…. but I remember thinking it was AI.
I just started reading about it tonight…. I thought I’d do a quick image search, post that it was AI… and that would be that.
Instead I fell down one of those Internet rabbit holes, and discovered an interesting (IMHO) connection to Edward Hopper, or at least, to his most famous painting.
Did you know about it, Nighthawks?
…
This turns out to be an actual painting… “Destiny Highway”, by an artist named Chris Consani, who has done a whole series featuring Elvis Presley, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
One strange thing…. searching for info, I found another version without Bogey, and one without any of them. I haven’t seen one with Elvis in it… But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I never saw it explained, so i have no idea.
….
But the inspiration for the series came from another artist, Gottfried Helnwein, who painted a version, I guess you could say a parody, of Hopper’s Nighthawks, featuring those same four celebrities, in 1985.
It’s called “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, and became very popular as a print.
But he went on to more serious works, and didn’t want to paint anything else related to that.
….
Consani is a serious movie buff. He shared the same publisher as Helnwein, and pitched the idea of the series, if the other artist didn’t mind… which he didn’t.
This is from that series. He has also painted them in a movie theater, playing pool, playing poker, in a diner…. I think there are eleven in all… before he, too, went on to other work.
Several news sites, and some others, confirm that this image is real.
The following is from Snopes.com, which investigates such tales….
“Origins: The startling picture displayed above was taken by Detroit News
photographer Steve Perez on 12 July 2009. On that date, a Navy F/A-18 Hornet from Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia made a scheduled flyover above Detroit to entertain crowds gathered along the Detroit River to watch the American Power Boat Association Gold Cup powerboat races. Just as the jet turned sideways and zoomed past a high-rise apartment complex, Perez snapped the remarkable photo shown here.
Although the photographer’s vantage point and the flattening effect of a two-dimensional telephoto lens make the jet appear to be very close to the apartment building, according to the military “the jet was actually about 200 to 300 feet away from the shoreline” and “no one on the ground or in a building was ever at any risk.””
Those little boards are actually made of plywood.
I’ll see if I can find a video of someone using one.
One year i was with Richard at the wayside at Gleneden watching the waves and a couple of guys showed with a couple of those boards. They also had a small engine and pulley set up with a tow rope. They would stretch the rope out and while one guy ran the engine the other guy would surf/ski hanging on to the tow rope.
There just aren’t enough numbers for sufficient examples to set up either of those proposed solutions.
You can’t discern a pattern, much less a proof, from one instance.
In fact I don’t even think it’s possible to solve it, given the low number of possible repetitions in that tiny sampling, unless it were something simpler, repeated each time, or at least twice, which I can’t find.
Taking numbers at angles or in groups lessens the possibility.
Even doing the same thing at one angle, then another, is only one repetition. You have to do that again to display the pattern.
I was thinking “printed” was the wrong word…. but then I realized they probably really meant printed…. then held up to the camera.
They had a way to transmit some words, for titles and simple graphics… But the idea of composing a newspaper directly for transmission may not have occurred to anyone.
Seems a waste of a medium that can show live newscasts. They already did that on radio, so I don’t think that was unknown.
I can also imagine the station manager sitting there reading the paper aloud.
Oh! That reminds me of Mayor La Guardia (of New York City) reading the comics on the radio during a newspaper strike! LOL.
As these two have just retired after a final show this weekend just gone.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1979 ages 20 and 21 when he was a serving police officer. He quit the following year to focus on his skating career. I think it was probably the correct choice.
Strangely, it did work for me, even though links to Facebook usually don’t.
I could even access her other posts.
I love her humor…. I used to send a lot of her birthday and Christmas cards, in the 70s, but now they look a bit dated, and everyone has already seen them.
Still, things like “Happy Birdie two Ewe” are classics!
My kitten is kittening all over the house.
As i am typing this she is running across the back of the loveseat, back and forth, to the two windows freaking out at the little songbirds. 😀
Actually, here. My computer has been in the shop because the first Hard drive was defective and had to be returned. I took it in last Monday when I got a new one to install and there have been issues with updating Drivers and the program that should have automatically updated everything wouldn’t do that for some reason. The tech wants to attempt to do it manually but he’s basically running the store until the Manager gets back next week. There is an added complication with a Windows program I have called Visio where the license is connected to my computer in a way that changing the Hard drive might affect my ability to use it without prior authorization, so I have to clear that first if it’s needed.
So I have my computer back with the original Hard drive for the next few weeks so I can take care of issues. I have been monitoring the site on my wife’s computer so I haven’t really been gone, just incommunicado.
WOW! I got through that last word without misspelling it!
Lol… My autocorrect be happy to correct it for you, if you misspelled it, as long as you didn’t mind it being “corrected” into “miscommunication”… or “incongruity” …. or “Icelandic”.
The Siamese air force?
Heh. Nope. Blue Angels…they’re not quite joined at the wingtip. Saw them at an airshow in San Francisco one year. Absolutely awesome.
We have the Snowbirds — equally awesome!
“Boy, it’s getting crowded in this closet.”
.
There is something odd about that to me. Something is out of balance.
Got it. The car is way to small. It makes everything look wonky to me.
Odd perspective?
I’ve seen this painting before…
Maybe here, maybe not…. but I remember thinking it was AI.
I just started reading about it tonight…. I thought I’d do a quick image search, post that it was AI… and that would be that.
Instead I fell down one of those Internet rabbit holes, and discovered an interesting (IMHO) connection to Edward Hopper, or at least, to his most famous painting.
Did you know about it, Nighthawks?
…
This turns out to be an actual painting… “Destiny Highway”, by an artist named Chris Consani, who has done a whole series featuring Elvis Presley, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
One strange thing…. searching for info, I found another version without Bogey, and one without any of them. I haven’t seen one with Elvis in it… But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I never saw it explained, so i have no idea.
….
But the inspiration for the series came from another artist, Gottfried Helnwein, who painted a version, I guess you could say a parody, of Hopper’s Nighthawks, featuring those same four celebrities, in 1985.
It’s called “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, and became very popular as a print.
But he went on to more serious works, and didn’t want to paint anything else related to that.
….
Consani is a serious movie buff. He shared the same publisher as Helnwein, and pitched the idea of the series, if the other artist didn’t mind… which he didn’t.
This is from that series. He has also painted them in a movie theater, playing pool, playing poker, in a diner…. I think there are eleven in all… before he, too, went on to other work.
yes, I’m very familiar with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” but was unaware there was a series of similar paintings
Well, a series in that Helnwein painted Boulevard, which I attached, but it was Cosani who took his theme and ran with it.
And both cite Hopper and his portrayals of loneliness as influences….
Though I also read a quote from Hopper saying he didn’t mean to portray loneliness, which I’m not sure anybody believes.
he also said he just like to paint sunlight on a wall—and though he did just that—there’s more to him than that
I caught the Nighthawks similarity, but thought I’d been hitting that meme a bit hard lately.
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Those parts look oddly specific in shape to be just some random parts.
I wonder if the artist took apart a toaster to find out.
That’s me at that age.
But I would have unplugged the appliance first.
😀
BTDT…
Me too, but it was a clock.
I was 10… It had stopped working.
My dad said okay.
When I put it back together, there were some bits left over.
Including, maybe, whatever makes clocks run.
Cos it didn’t, not ever again.
Then Dad tried…. but the extra parts pile only grew.
Luckily, he never really expected that we’d fix it.
Then I graduated to birds and bugs — same result!
Leftover parts 😯?
I call shenanigans. The roar of the engines would shatter all that glass, and the guy on the balcony would be ON the balcony.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Lots wrong here. 😀
Several news sites, and some others, confirm that this image is real.
The following is from Snopes.com, which investigates such tales….
“Origins: The startling picture displayed above was taken by Detroit News
photographer Steve Perez on 12 July 2009. On that date, a Navy F/A-18 Hornet from Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia made a scheduled flyover above Detroit to entertain crowds gathered along the Detroit River to watch the American Power Boat Association Gold Cup powerboat races. Just as the jet turned sideways and zoomed past a high-rise apartment complex, Perez snapped the remarkable photo shown here.
Although the photographer’s vantage point and the flattening effect of a two-dimensional telephoto lens make the jet appear to be very close to the apartment building, according to the military “the jet was actually about 200 to 300 feet away from the shoreline” and “no one on the ground or in a building was ever at any risk.””
WoW !!!
Thank you.
I was sure it was old fashioned photoshop.
I hate when that happens…
And his rival did NOT slice halfway through that bungee cord!
you’ve been watching too much CSI
Dang! Great add for the sport.
I hope the water was deep enough!
The good thing is that he only effectively fell about ten feet into the water as he was mostly halted when the cord snapped.
I’d still ask for my money back…
,.
That too!
No way a body should be able to twist and turn like that!
Any body can twist and turn like that, but only probably once…..
Russian rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva.
She’s actually performing a routine with a hula hoop.
Oh, well. That explains everything…
Hey, I just reports ’em… I doesn’t always explain ’em.
Someone didn’t read the assembly directions before putting her together.
,..
Yup. Got em all!
Seems like an unlikely pairing… Well, double pairing.
I’m probably totally wrong here.
Yes.
Wow! Score one for me! I’m astonished.
Well … I… goofed a little….
You’re welcome to keep the score and the astonishment …. especially since this may be what you meant anyway…
But I didn’t notice last night
Whoops! Yes I did. DOH! I think I was actually meaning to type ‘Jon’ for some reason. I’ve made a slight addition to the spoiler….
I have this group as
Stop reading the news.
Now!
Take two aspirin and stream 3 episodes of Gilligan’s Island.
If you can’t take Gilligan’s Island (I myself am allergic), substitute 5 episodes of I Love Lucy.
Half a season of F Troop.
As long as there’s nothing too military.
That sounds like F Troop. 😀
Find a corn cob?
Peel apart the roll?
That would be my vote.
Put on a full roll? Or – if there isn’t one: Use a different stall?
Wow.
And for the OCD, those two orange boats on the right aren’t lined up right!!!
He coulda brought it back!
That was my first thought.
If he gets to surf, he should be responsible…. surfboards don’t grow on trees, you know.
Yeah! They probably grow on styrofoam bushes!
Those little boards are actually made of plywood.
I’ll see if I can find a video of someone using one.
One year i was with Richard at the wayside at Gleneden watching the waves and a couple of guys showed with a couple of those boards. They also had a small engine and pulley set up with a tow rope. They would stretch the rope out and while one guy ran the engine the other guy would surf/ski hanging on to the tow rope.
LOL! I once asked a student “Do you think clothes pegs grow on trees!.” (Long story.) He was so traumatized I had to apologize!
“Again, daddy!”
Here is a delightful little tutorial on how to skimboard.
My oldest sister ended up in A&E when she tried to do this when we were on holiday one year….
see the number?
No.
I see something, but it wont focus beyond that.
The number of what? Blades of grass?
Every time I think I do, it disappears.
A six in the center.
I’m getting something
I think I can see the 738. Couldn’t see it last night, but now that you mentioned it….
?
Yes! Yes it is!
I’m thinking that, if you treat it as fractions.
I can think of several patterns that come up with a number, but so far they all result in 6!
I’m thinking it’s a trick question.
That works. Good eye!
I got “4”.
From
1/2 + 3/4 = 5/4
That works.
Sorry… but my brain is resisting.
There just aren’t enough numbers for sufficient examples to set up either of those proposed solutions.
You can’t discern a pattern, much less a proof, from one instance.
In fact I don’t even think it’s possible to solve it, given the low number of possible repetitions in that tiny sampling, unless it were something simpler, repeated each time, or at least twice, which I can’t find.
Taking numbers at angles or in groups lessens the possibility.
Even doing the same thing at one angle, then another, is only one repetition. You have to do that again to display the pattern.
You mean I got it right???!!!
Well, you didn’t post a reply.
But if your answer would have been “I dunno” or “this is impossible”…I’d say yes!
Hah! Everyone knows the answer is 42!
😀
I suppose this is part of “everything.”
..,.
Looks moist. And grey.
No way!
Try lining the bottom of the budgie’s cage with that!!
I was thinking “printed” was the wrong word…. but then I realized they probably really meant printed…. then held up to the camera.
They had a way to transmit some words, for titles and simple graphics… But the idea of composing a newspaper directly for transmission may not have occurred to anyone.
Seems a waste of a medium that can show live newscasts. They already did that on radio, so I don’t think that was unknown.
I can also imagine the station manager sitting there reading the paper aloud.
Oh! That reminds me of Mayor La Guardia (of New York City) reading the comics on the radio during a newspaper strike! LOL.
I found a video….
And just who gave her the keys?
As these two have just retired after a final show this weekend just gone.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1979 ages 20 and 21 when he was a serving police officer. He quit the following year to focus on his skating career. I think it was probably the correct choice.
Loved watching them push the envelope of what was acceptable in the sport then.
Dirty Skating?
🙂
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19PovjM7Sn/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I hope that this works for everyone.
Strangely, it did work for me, even though links to Facebook usually don’t.
I could even access her other posts.
I love her humor…. I used to send a lot of her birthday and Christmas cards, in the 70s, but now they look a bit dated, and everyone has already seen them.
Still, things like “Happy Birdie two Ewe” are classics!
Thank you!
Beautiful!
More:
I got another rabbit hole. I gotta check all of those out! 😀
https://www.youtube.com/@SandraBoynton
http://www.youtube.com/@frogtroublemusic
Well – it’s your own fault! ;-p
LOL!!
My kitten is kittening all over the house.
As i am typing this she is running across the back of the loveseat, back and forth, to the two windows freaking out at the little songbirds. 😀
And the little songbirds are probably freaking out at her.
I just had to make the 100th comment
Where have I been?
Actually, here. My computer has been in the shop because the first Hard drive was defective and had to be returned. I took it in last Monday when I got a new one to install and there have been issues with updating Drivers and the program that should have automatically updated everything wouldn’t do that for some reason. The tech wants to attempt to do it manually but he’s basically running the store until the Manager gets back next week. There is an added complication with a Windows program I have called Visio where the license is connected to my computer in a way that changing the Hard drive might affect my ability to use it without prior authorization, so I have to clear that first if it’s needed.
So I have my computer back with the original Hard drive for the next few weeks so I can take care of issues. I have been monitoring the site on my wife’s computer so I haven’t really been gone, just incommunicado.
WOW! I got through that last word without misspelling it!
Lol… My autocorrect be happy to correct it for you, if you misspelled it, as long as you didn’t mind it being “corrected” into “miscommunication”… or “incongruity” …. or “Icelandic”.