I’m going with “massive-red-fangs” being in line with JP Steve’s “The heartbreak of arachnophobia…; .”
Massive being in the eye of the beholder.
By Wikipedia “(a faultless source of information, right??) ” the largest spider in Mexico is “about the size of a tarantula,” and the largest size tarantula is listed at 4.75 inches; a little short of a dinner plate…….. 😎
But my husband and I both saw the spider…
It wasn’t fuzzy like a tarantula.
We were n what is called a casa de huespedes, a guest house. They were where you stayed in small towns in Mexico, for a few pesos a night.
…
We were lying in a big wooden bed, in a very large, high ceilinged room, our toes pointed toward the wall where it climbed out from somewhere, and sat, or stood, or whatever spiders do when they hang out, a foot or so from the ceiling.
There was a large, dark wood wardrobe against that wall, with plenty of space to walk between it and the foot of the bed, so the room was at least 10 feet long, and the spider at least 10 feet from the ground… And it still looked enormous.
If it were 5″ wide we wouldn’t have been so terrified. It never moved, so we finally managed to fall asleep. I know people who probably couldn’t have, but we decided it wasn’t after us, and we’d been up for far too many hours.
…
Leaving in the morning, in my far from fluent Spanish, especially at this point, I tried to tell the proprietress about it, mimicking a spider with my fingers.
She laughed, and said in Spanish, yes, everybody knew the spider, and she told me his name, which I’ve forgotten.
I’ll grant that fear makes spiders bigger,, so maybe the dinner plate wasn’t the largest ever, but it wasn’t a saucer, either.
When we came back to that town, late at night on our way home, we had to go back to that casa… Seemingly the only one in town. Guess what room we got!
He was already out, so we just went to bed.
Funny thing… in the morning, saying goodbye to la senora… she asked in perfect English where we lived and whether we’d enjoyed Mexico.
I exclaimed that I didn’t know she spoke English… She said she’d lived in San Francisco for a few years… But she was enjoying my attempts at Spanish.
…
We remembered and talked about that spider for years, calling “him” by his name, which I wish I remembered.
Maybe he wasn’t a native spider… I know nothing about his provenance.
Maybe somebody brought him there on purpose or maybe he escaped from the circus, or arrived in a space ship from a far galaxy.
No one will ever convince me he was the size of an oatmeal cookie.
My guess is AI. To create this on photoshop you either need pictures you can combine, or a ton of time (there’s a lot of detail). If it’s a combination of two or three images, they must be pretty spectacular in their own right, why bother. The only clue I see that it isn’t real is the far left and far right first story windows don’t match and in fact the framing on the left one isn’t really in the style of any of the others.
As Strega points out, you have to have photos to Photoshop them.
Otherwise you’re just painting with it, and you’d have to be quite an artist to achieve this degree of fake realism.
The only way to make the waves ( which I was seeing as tentacles) at the bottom, or the decorative parts curving down from the top, would be to mold or form them from plaster or some kind of plastic, like making carrousels at Disneyland, costing hundreds of thousands.
But the decorations don’t look purposeful… Check out the bulbous “prongs” holding all the windows over the doorway. They don’t mimic natural forms or known flourishes. They’re very awkward and they don’t match.
No one would spend a million or two dollars on this and have such unfinished and unarticulated design in a prominent spot.
I found the same vaguely crab-like thing Alexikakos did…
But….
I couldn’t understand the top of it, or why there were hands sticking out.
So I’m wondering… Is there a frog sitting on the crab? And if so, where’s the frogs head?
Ok…. I made the (possible) frog green, but I don’t have many colors…
So…(sorry)… I made the crab pinkish.
They don’t turn that color till they’re… ulp… cooked.
happy³ is right.
If you look at the bird’s right leg / wing intersection you can clearly see the man’s leg extending below the bank’s edge.
Between the distance he is standing behind the bird and his elevation drop, I’d estimate the bird’s white ruff would come no higher than his waist.
Even with its neck fully extended. I doubt it would be as tall as the man if they were standing side by side.
According to Wikipedia (a faultless source of information, right??) although the South American, more commonly called the Andean, Condor is “generally considered to be the largest bird of prey in the world,” the male has an overall length of only about 4.3 feet.
I’m not sure how length corresponds to height, since that probably means head to tail, not to feet, but it certainly doesn’t look wildly taller than it is long.
Besides that, the male is longer than the female by about a foot, and this looks to be a female, as the male has a large, dark red comb covering its forehead.
One more thing… If this was taken in its native range whether a zoo or in the wild, and the man is a local, he probably isn’t over about 5’8″.
So it’s a nice trick of photography, making us think this bird is twice its actual size.
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Stare at my nose for 30 seconds and then fetch me the Kibble…
Peggy the Dog at an event for Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
That is one spectacular pooch.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jqlz2j9wzo
She’s such a sweetheart!
in case you missed this from yesterday
Sounds legit to me.
The heartbreak of arachnophobia…
Red fangs! LOL!
I understand arachnophobia… I’m not totally immune.
But this is paranoid hallucination!
Not in AUSTRALIA, where this company is located.
Creepy looking, but it says the largest are 35mm…. less than an inch and a half.
Not that I want to encounter one, of course… but not massive with red fangs.
The massive spider I wrote about previously, which perched on the wall of my room in Mexico overnight, was as big as a large dinner plate.
I’m going with “massive-red-fangs” being in line with JP Steve’s “The heartbreak of arachnophobia…; .”
Massive being in the eye of the beholder.
By Wikipedia “(a faultless source of information, right??) ” the largest spider in Mexico is “about the size of a tarantula,” and the largest size tarantula is listed at 4.75 inches; a little short of a dinner plate…….. 😎
I’ve read similar “facts”.
But my husband and I both saw the spider…
It wasn’t fuzzy like a tarantula.
We were n what is called a casa de huespedes, a guest house. They were where you stayed in small towns in Mexico, for a few pesos a night.
…
We were lying in a big wooden bed, in a very large, high ceilinged room, our toes pointed toward the wall where it climbed out from somewhere, and sat, or stood, or whatever spiders do when they hang out, a foot or so from the ceiling.
There was a large, dark wood wardrobe against that wall, with plenty of space to walk between it and the foot of the bed, so the room was at least 10 feet long, and the spider at least 10 feet from the ground… And it still looked enormous.
If it were 5″ wide we wouldn’t have been so terrified. It never moved, so we finally managed to fall asleep. I know people who probably couldn’t have, but we decided it wasn’t after us, and we’d been up for far too many hours.
…
Leaving in the morning, in my far from fluent Spanish, especially at this point, I tried to tell the proprietress about it, mimicking a spider with my fingers.
She laughed, and said in Spanish, yes, everybody knew the spider, and she told me his name, which I’ve forgotten.
I’ll grant that fear makes spiders bigger,, so maybe the dinner plate wasn’t the largest ever, but it wasn’t a saucer, either.
When we came back to that town, late at night on our way home, we had to go back to that casa… Seemingly the only one in town. Guess what room we got!
He was already out, so we just went to bed.
Funny thing… in the morning, saying goodbye to la senora… she asked in perfect English where we lived and whether we’d enjoyed Mexico.
I exclaimed that I didn’t know she spoke English… She said she’d lived in San Francisco for a few years… But she was enjoying my attempts at Spanish.
…
We remembered and talked about that spider for years, calling “him” by his name, which I wish I remembered.
Maybe he wasn’t a native spider… I know nothing about his provenance.
Maybe somebody brought him there on purpose or maybe he escaped from the circus, or arrived in a space ship from a far galaxy.
No one will ever convince me he was the size of an oatmeal cookie.
If he was that big he probably wasn’t a “he…”
Hilarious!!!!!!
My Dad could never have seen this ad or he would have rushed out and bought a De Soto…
Looking for a little action with Ginger?
His dream dance partner…
OMG… “I like action! And I get it in my DeSoto!”
Maybe that didn’t play the same in 1939… But it’s hard to believe no one saw it as a double entendre! (“and with such ease of handling.”..)
Maybe they just didn’t point it out to Ginger, cos they knew it would sell cars.
…
Aw! I was starting to identify the first row, then scrolled down and saw the names…
(No way those are Lucy and Marilyn, BTW!)
Funny, I recognize Lucy and Marilyn… Both look like they did in even younger pictures.
But I’m having trouble with Grace Kelly. That just doesn’t look like her, to me. But what do I know.
We had most of these ladies, but unidentified, and IIRC, in different order, and a larger group, a while back, that we tried to name.
Some were the same photos, but I think most are not.
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I like it but it’s too pink.
Not into Mad Scientist Barbie?
It looks a bit like a fancy, translucent octopus.
Photoshop–or not?
My guess is AI. To create this on photoshop you either need pictures you can combine, or a ton of time (there’s a lot of detail). If it’s a combination of two or three images, they must be pretty spectacular in their own right, why bother. The only clue I see that it isn’t real is the far left and far right first story windows don’t match and in fact the framing on the left one isn’t really in the style of any of the others.
Contemporary architects at work.
Very little matches.
Totally AI.
As Strega points out, you have to have photos to Photoshop them.
Otherwise you’re just painting with it, and you’d have to be quite an artist to achieve this degree of fake realism.
The only way to make the waves ( which I was seeing as tentacles) at the bottom, or the decorative parts curving down from the top, would be to mold or form them from plaster or some kind of plastic, like making carrousels at Disneyland, costing hundreds of thousands.
But the decorations don’t look purposeful… Check out the bulbous “prongs” holding all the windows over the doorway. They don’t mimic natural forms or known flourishes. They’re very awkward and they don’t match.
No one would spend a million or two dollars on this and have such unfinished and unarticulated design in a prominent spot.
….
It’s got me tonight.
I think i got it.
Got him! (cute frogs too!)
Same here.
I got that one too.
That’s the one!
I found the same vaguely crab-like thing Alexikakos did…
I couldn’t understand the top of it, or why there were hands sticking out.
So I’m wondering… Is there a frog sitting on the crab? And if so, where’s the frogs head?
Ok…. I made the (possible) frog green, but I don’t have many colors…
So…(sorry)… I made the crab pinkish.
They don’t turn that color till they’re… ulp… cooked.
Yes. Weird.
Limbo Frog!
getting a little personal are we!
,,
This is an aerial view of LAKE MACDONNELL , AUSTRALIA
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It’s not that big. I think that perspective is a little forced here. But they are very big.
happy³ is right.
If you look at the bird’s right leg / wing intersection you can clearly see the man’s leg extending below the bank’s edge.
Between the distance he is standing behind the bird and his elevation drop, I’d estimate the bird’s white ruff would come no higher than his waist.
Even with its neck fully extended. I doubt it would be as tall as the man if they were standing side by side.
According to Wikipedia (a faultless source of information, right??) although the South American, more commonly called the Andean, Condor is “generally considered to be the largest bird of prey in the world,” the male has an overall length of only about 4.3 feet.
I’m not sure how length corresponds to height, since that probably means head to tail, not to feet, but it certainly doesn’t look wildly taller than it is long.
Besides that, the male is longer than the female by about a foot, and this looks to be a female, as the male has a large, dark red comb covering its forehead.
One more thing… If this was taken in its native range whether a zoo or in the wild, and the man is a local, he probably isn’t over about 5’8″.
So it’s a nice trick of photography, making us think this bird is twice its actual size.
My take is that it’s photoshopped. The man has a distinct outline, the condor doesn’t.
Some good ol’ camera-tricks totally suffice.
Easy enough to do with the old tricks, but those don’t explain the mismatched JPEG distortion that outlines the man (if you enlarge it).
Note that the bird is a bit more distinct towards the center of his back, and the man’s face more blurry than the front of his shirt.
I would put this down to short depth of field rather than Photoshop.
A long lens, shot from farther away than it appears to be. As you know, that makes the focus targeted, the background blurry.
I don’t think it’s extreme telephoto… just far enough to have a bit of that effect.
There’s not much background to blur anyway… But look at the grass in the upper right corner.
I can only see a condor with a person standing some distance behind it. The person isn’t even in focus. Not very clever trick photography at all…
If your microwave is roaming outdoors, where it can use solar power, to the extent that it needs GPS….
I guess for the benefit of whoever is riding in it, smoking and listening to DVDs…
You need to get a grip.
Kick out the salesman (sic ‘im Cleo!) and then check the security of your kitchen.
If anybody you know is wanting to come over too often and microwave his Lean Cuisine, keep an eye on him!
Cup-holder for non-smokers.
Every microwave oven should have a GPS.
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