“A Step Behind” …..Shaun Tan 1997… gouache and pencil on paper
Creepy, if you ask me.
I know… right… nobody asked me.
I’m not judging the art, which seems well done. But considering the things going on in the world, I sure wouldn’t want to look at it on my wall every day. It’s chilling.
The hair, the arms, the body, all look male to me, and if it were a broom the person is holding, the “business end” would be one-sided, or at least lopsided, with a crook in it … and one hand would be on the straw.
I did find one site where one commenter was vociferously claiming, by responding to others’ comments, that it was AI.
Oh… not only AI, but a swan, not a goose.
I don’t think I’ll give his opinion a lot of weight.
Thatched Cottage in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1860s…
Wikipedia says Prospect Park opened in 1867, so this is a very early picture of it.
It was built as a fanciful structure for picnics and relaxation, and despite its thatched, wooden construction, lasted until 1937.
Prospect Park itself was designed by the same men who designed Central Park, and opened 10 years later….only slightly smaller, but a bit wilder and less urban.
I admit, I’d always thought it was the name of a neighborhood. I didn’t know it was an actual park.
When I search things, I often find out other surprising things
This time it was that Brooklyn, at that time, was not only a separate city, not yet a borough of New York City, but it was the third largest city in the whole United States, after New York City and then Philadelphia.
Gosh… I’d unresearch it for you, but I don’t know how.
I’m afraid I searched it long before I saw your comment… the longer it’s out of the bag, the harder it is to stuff back in. It’s kinda wiggly, and little facts keep poking out.
Maybe I could not research something else, to make it up to you? Let me know what you don’t want to know, ok?
Meanwhile, I agree about the uniform. I think one reason is that colonial forces just held onto older traditional styles longer than some other types… maybe to preserve an established look of authority in the places to which they were assigned.
So did London Bobbies, and, though it was in jest, the Keystone Kops.
And the landscape looks a bit barren, like some desolate outpost, or hot climate, because the park wasn’t fully landscaped yet, and trees were still young.
Wow…. it looks like some kind of doctored video, done as a joke..
But it’s real!
According to the Smithsonian Magazine website, which is one place that hosts this video, from CBC News…. “a man named Derek Burgoyne was surveying a patch of hardwood trees while working his job as a woods operations supervisor. As he maneuvered a drone through the forest in New Brunswick, Canada, he stumbled upon three moose in the snowy terrain.
Burgoyne followed one moose that was still equipped with both its antlers and started recording. The animal then shook its body to get rid of snow on its fur, causing its antlers—which measure 45 inches across—to fall to the ground.”
Apparently, every year, when the weather gets cold, blood flow to the antlers becomes restricted, then stops. This causes the tissue between the skull and the antler to dry up, and lose connection… till finally the antler loosens and falls off.
The new antler that grows when the weather warms up is usually bigger.
Antlers are not bone, but keratin like nails and hair. Once they’ve finished growing, they have no nerves and it doesn’t hurt to lose them
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Dogs are such happy people!
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“A Step Behind” …..Shaun Tan 1997… gouache and pencil on paper
Creepy, if you ask me.
I know… right… nobody asked me.
I’m not judging the art, which seems well done. But considering the things going on in the world, I sure wouldn’t want to look at it on my wall every day. It’s chilling.
Is he exercising his Second Amendment rights, or is she getting ready to fly off on her broomstick?
In my view, definitely the former.
The hair, the arms, the body, all look male to me, and if it were a broom the person is holding, the “business end” would be one-sided, or at least lopsided, with a crook in it … and one hand would be on the straw.
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Bunny! =:D
Bunny.
That’s a really cute one!
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Titled “A girl and her goose” or “A Girl Dancing with her Goose”… I saw it on lots of sites, but couldn’t find a date or a place.
Maybe tomorrow that will magically change, as sometimes happens with image search.
Sigh… It didn’t.
I did find one site where one commenter was vociferously claiming, by responding to others’ comments, that it was AI.
Oh… not only AI, but a swan, not a goose.
I don’t think I’ll give his opinion a lot of weight.
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Looks like fun! 😀
Montmartre, Paris…. Jacques Verroust, 1950s
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Cleveland-1910
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Looks like F1 racing.
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Dressed like that, he must be British…..
Looks like somewhere Colonial and hot.
Mad dogs and Englishmen, and all that……
Um… Not quite. 🙂
Thatched Cottage in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1860s…
Wikipedia says Prospect Park opened in 1867, so this is a very early picture of it.
It was built as a fanciful structure for picnics and relaxation, and despite its thatched, wooden construction, lasted until 1937.
Prospect Park itself was designed by the same men who designed Central Park, and opened 10 years later….only slightly smaller, but a bit wilder and less urban.
I admit, I’d always thought it was the name of a neighborhood. I didn’t know it was an actual park.
When I search things, I often find out other surprising things
This time it was that Brooklyn, at that time, was not only a separate city, not yet a borough of New York City, but it was the third largest city in the whole United States, after New York City and then Philadelphia.
Here you come along ruining my assumptions with your “Research!” 😉
In my defence, it does look like pictures from places like Sudan and India.
Gosh… I’d unresearch it for you, but I don’t know how.
I’m afraid I searched it long before I saw your comment… the longer it’s out of the bag, the harder it is to stuff back in. It’s kinda wiggly, and little facts keep poking out.
Maybe I could not research something else, to make it up to you? Let me know what you don’t want to know, ok?
Meanwhile, I agree about the uniform. I think one reason is that colonial forces just held onto older traditional styles longer than some other types… maybe to preserve an established look of authority in the places to which they were assigned.
So did London Bobbies, and, though it was in jest, the Keystone Kops.
And the landscape looks a bit barren, like some desolate outpost, or hot climate, because the park wasn’t fully landscaped yet, and trees were still young.
The real test is finding out if he’s wearing a bowler or a derby…
AFAIK, they’re the same thing… technically derby here, bowler across the pond.
I never know which in Canada, cos you guys use North American terms for some things, British for others.
But we also sometimes say bowler here, anyway, so I guess it’s moot.
It’s so tall, I thought he was wearing a “custodian helmet”, like a Bobby or some old colonial forces, but now I realize it has an upturned brim.
So I guess it’s a tall derby, probably reinforced, because it’s a police one.
It’s red.
I see a big red dot.
Yep. And I’ve got two of them.
Two?
Eyes.
Oh… Maybe you should see an opthalmologist!
Aye, aye.
Nighthawks… are you ever going to tell us if it was supposed to ask us a question, or give us instructions?
I only have questions….
I rarely have answers.
far as I can tell you guys all passed the test… it’s red and it’s round
It moves!
Where’s the dramamine???
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Not so horny now, are you?
Wow…. it looks like some kind of doctored video, done as a joke..
But it’s real!
According to the Smithsonian Magazine website, which is one place that hosts this video, from CBC News…. “a man named Derek Burgoyne was surveying a patch of hardwood trees while working his job as a woods operations supervisor. As he maneuvered a drone through the forest in New Brunswick, Canada, he stumbled upon three moose in the snowy terrain.
Burgoyne followed one moose that was still equipped with both its antlers and started recording. The animal then shook its body to get rid of snow on its fur, causing its antlers—which measure 45 inches across—to fall to the ground.”
Apparently, every year, when the weather gets cold, blood flow to the antlers becomes restricted, then stops. This causes the tissue between the skull and the antler to dry up, and lose connection… till finally the antler loosens and falls off.
The new antler that grows when the weather warms up is usually bigger.
Antlers are not bone, but keratin like nails and hair. Once they’ve finished growing, they have no nerves and it doesn’t hurt to lose them
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Not quite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antler
Oops… I got that backwards.
It’s horns that are keratin: antlers mostly spongy bone.
I should have remembered, cos I’ve handled horn objects.. what I really should have done is looked it up, instead of relying on my sleepy memory.
It’s still true about the disconnection.
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Sergio Ceccotti
“Interior, Night”…Sergio Ceccotti 2006
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Got it!
Me too!
He’s not the best hider in the world
… but it’s cute.
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“Drool Alert”
Yeah… I was about to say he’s going to wake up a mess.
Yes, you truly have an odd and eclectic mix of things to share.
That’s one of the more useful PSAs I’ve seen. Timely too.
Yeah… It’s almost elephant season.
Duck season! Wabbit season!
Black Gate, spire of St Nicholas Cathedral, and Dog Leap Stairs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1889.
Do we want to know about the Dog Leap Stairs?
Probably not 😉
Coincidentally,I looked them up last night. One of the things I didn’t get time to post cos the site went down.
Narrow stairs, just beyond this picture, on the left, squeezed between buildings, that lead.up to the cathedral.
A past landmark, now partially missing and partially rebuilt.
There are interesting stories about them, and they’re mentioned in a Dire Straits song.
Blue Dacnis.