OMG… I didn’t expect what I found out about this photo.
It’s from 1905, and taken during a diphtheria epidemic, outside Ullevål hospital, in Norway.
The women were visiting hospitalized relatives, which might include their husbands or children, at the windows… and had to stay outside to avoid infection.
The sick were often hospitalized against their will, as a public health measure…. and held in quarantine until (if or when) they improved, as there was no known treatment for many diseases.
Photo: Andreas Wilse, The National Library of Norway
“The Last of the Merlot” …. Mark Bryan, oil on canvas, 2008
It tells a whole story, if I’m reading it right.
It’s hard to make out, but I think the label says “Le Fin du Monde Merlot, 2012″… Ie “End of the World Merlot.”
It was painted in 2008, so this shows a not-far-in-the-future invasion.
The closest robot is eyeing the now empty chair… Looks like the occupant fled, spilling the wine… possibly the last glass of it he’ll ever see, if the robots take over.
If the label is prophetic, it’s the last the world will ever see.
These two are only the advance guard, if the line of ships in the sky is any indication.
What use have robots for wine? Or cheese, or bread?
People are putting numbers out there with no explanation.
I can come up with several, depending on what I think the figure represents.
For instance….
The numbers on the blue & green triangle total the 90 on the center.
If the gold triangle is also supposed to total 90, then ?=20.
But that solution doesn’t please me… I think it much be something else.
I searched this, and now it’s all clear as… clam chowder?
It’s a bronze, called “The Passage”, by Norwegian sculptor Fredrick Raddum, whose work is in several museums.
That part is clear.
But on the sites where I saw this image, no two commenters seemed to see the same meaning in it.
Then I found an interview with the sculptor himself, in an Arabian magazine:
“Al Arabiya English: Tell us about the idea behind the sculpture the “Passage”, and the message you tried to deliver to the world?
Raddum: Trans ī re “The Passage” sculpture has a philosophical dimension. “Something was here now and it would leave sooner or later.”
In my last exhibition I presented the new beginnings we are looking for, for which we give up and leave everything, and run away to start a new life, on a journey to search for the Utopia.
This work of art is a reflects the case in which all issues and problems accumulate, but with a little help from the nature, it can create a new feeling to get rid of anxiety, stress and psychological disturbances, Furth more it helps to erase it; when the problems occur, you have to look at it from a wider perspective, this is what happens when resorting to the nature and seeing it with a narrow perspective.”
Rocket J. Squirrel, whom you may know by his stage name, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, feels compelled to remind you…
that while flying foxes are actually mis-named bats, Rocky and his ilk neither participate in, nor condone, this sort of deception.
He is a true squirrel, like all of his species, not a bat in a squirrel costume, and when you buy tickets to his performances, you can be assured that you are watching the genuine article.
Sugar gliders, as well, are not bats… they are marsupials.
Don’t be fooled.
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Lets raise a glass to Grandpa.
I do believe Ellen Henderson has a sense of humor 🙂
And a very cooperative hound.
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I think I see it… Not sure it’s hysterical.
I doubt the fellows in the picture thought it was, at least.
If what I see is what is meant.
?
I didn’t want to describe it or post a cropped image, because it’s…
Well, it’s just pareidolia, but nonetheless… um… NSFW.
It’s already there, in the image you posted, but it seems different, pointing it out.
nighthawks…
It’s the only thing that I can see, but, Yeah, Susan is correct, certainly not hysterical…
Yes, exactly.
I saw it immediately. What does that say about me……
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Darn those nosy neighbors!!
OMG… I didn’t expect what I found out about this photo.
It’s from 1905, and taken during a diphtheria epidemic, outside Ullevål hospital, in Norway.
The women were visiting hospitalized relatives, which might include their husbands or children, at the windows… and had to stay outside to avoid infection.
The sick were often hospitalized against their will, as a public health measure…. and held in quarantine until (if or when) they improved, as there was no known treatment for many diseases.
Photo: Andreas Wilse, The National Library of Norway
That’s still a major improvement over previous generations who didn’t understand the concept of quarantine.
Well yeah… At least fewer people died.
Still upsetting, if your children were in there, and you couldn’t touch them, and maybe never could.
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“A day without wine is like a day without Martian invaders…”
“The Last of the Merlot” …. Mark Bryan, oil on canvas, 2008
It tells a whole story, if I’m reading it right.
It’s hard to make out, but I think the label says “Le Fin du Monde Merlot, 2012″… Ie “End of the World Merlot.”
It was painted in 2008, so this shows a not-far-in-the-future invasion.
The closest robot is eyeing the now empty chair… Looks like the occupant fled, spilling the wine… possibly the last glass of it he’ll ever see, if the robots take over.
If the label is prophetic, it’s the last the world will ever see.
These two are only the advance guard, if the line of ships in the sky is any indication.
What use have robots for wine? Or cheese, or bread?
More tariffs?
Not after the humans are all gone…. sniffle.
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A tram in Calcutta (called Kolkata, since 2001) … taken by famed travel photographer Steve McCurry, in 1997.
I can’t imagine, driving a double length tram down that busy, crowded street… and in a city known for blisteringly hot weather.
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“Tide’s coming in! Punch it!”
Yeah – that my first thought too!
oops!
“I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!”
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A spectator sport in 1925… Motorcycle chariot racing.
what could POSSibly go wrong?
It seems like a lot of early 20th century so-called motorsports were invented before they understood what a car or a motorcycle could do to a human.
They somehow expected powerful inanimate objects to be as docile as horses, or to know, like a horse, to stop in time to avoid grave danger.
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I don’t see the North American cheetah. The reason that the pronghorn is so rediculy fast.
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It would take some chutzpah to cut him off.
Gif going too fast for me, yet again… I was trying to see where the engine might be.
The bottom platform looks so empty, but it doesn’t seem likely the motor would be inside the creature, cos where would the drive train be?
well, you can see exhaust headers coming out the front part of the monstrosity
just under he head.–I would think the motor is there
Correcto, nighthawks.
On my MAC, I am able to open the GIF into a single-image strip, 71 in total. Definitely shows the exhaust headers:
Thanks, both of you.
Meanwhile, looks like the exhaust is aimed straight up into the driver’s face… to say nothing of the poor dinosaur.
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Ook!
Ook ook!
Ook?
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Oooh!
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Florence!
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(Freefall)
Doggy!
My thought too. Pretty doggie.
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Don’t wake her up or she’ll realize what she’s doing, and fall!
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Not sure if this is the answer they’re looking for,
[spoiler title=”My answer”]
30?
People are putting numbers out there with no explanation.
I can come up with several, depending on what I think the figure represents.
If the gold triangle is also supposed to total 90, then ?=20.
But that solution doesn’t please me… I think it much be something else.
Not quite…
Oopsie… That was a late night typo!
I should not be allowed on a keyboard after midnight… Yet there I was, doing arithmetic at 1:30 in the morning.
Thought so.
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Title: Three Sheets to the Wind
How much do they pay the pigeon to perform?
Not enough.
Well… okay then… um… sort of.
I searched this, and now it’s all clear as… clam chowder?
It’s a bronze, called “The Passage”, by Norwegian sculptor Fredrick Raddum, whose work is in several museums.
That part is clear.
But on the sites where I saw this image, no two commenters seemed to see the same meaning in it.
Then I found an interview with the sculptor himself, in an Arabian magazine:
“Al Arabiya English: Tell us about the idea behind the sculpture the “Passage”, and the message you tried to deliver to the world?
Raddum: Trans ī re “The Passage” sculpture has a philosophical dimension. “Something was here now and it would leave sooner or later.”
In my last exhibition I presented the new beginnings we are looking for, for which we give up and leave everything, and run away to start a new life, on a journey to search for the Utopia.
This work of art is a reflects the case in which all issues and problems accumulate, but with a little help from the nature, it can create a new feeling to get rid of anxiety, stress and psychological disturbances, Furth more it helps to erase it; when the problems occur, you have to look at it from a wider perspective, this is what happens when resorting to the nature and seeing it with a narrow perspective.”
…..
So…. we’re clear on it now, right?
Shoulda tucked that thumb in the back, Mr. Wipple!
Mr. Whipple’s just not himself today
Falling apart. I know that feeling.
Well, I.kinda worry that he’s not all there any more.
He squeezed the Charmin once too often.
Hey! A non-Cleo Cleo!
Much as I miss our furry
miscreant,er… I mean friend. Of course… our furry friend … this is funny!Except for… you know… the dismembered thumb bit…
Okay, fine, I admit… it’s funny anyway.
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Flying Fox.
Rocket J. Squirrel, whom you may know by his stage name, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, feels compelled to remind you…
that while flying foxes are actually mis-named bats, Rocky and his ilk neither participate in, nor condone, this sort of deception.
He is a true squirrel, like all of his species, not a bat in a squirrel costume, and when you buy tickets to his performances, you can be assured that you are watching the genuine article.
Sugar gliders, as well, are not bats… they are marsupials.
Don’t be fooled.
Blue Tit.
Blaumeise.