Today people all around the world will be celebrating the genius that was Martin Gardner. Go here to see if there is an event in your area. I will be staging a short Gathering for Gardner event in Edinburgh tonight, just prior to Edinburgh Skeptics in the Pub at 7.30. Venue details here.
Here are three lovely examples of our amazing ability to see nonexistent faces and bodies in stuff …..
What do you think? Which is your favourite?
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October 21, 2010 at 5:36 am |
Wow! Cool photos- I’ll have to start looking for life’s little subliminal messages in a broader spectrum.
October 21, 2010 at 5:38 am |
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October 21, 2010 at 5:40 am |
Surely that last one has been photoshopped!
October 21, 2010 at 5:45 am |
My fave is the 3rd, because I haven’t seen it b4. And it looks like someone crucified, almost similar to a medieval triptych vision of Jesus’ execution.
The first 2 are from a cool site that pictures faces in everyday objects, a subject touched upon quite perfectly in the early pages of Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World”.
October 21, 2010 at 5:46 am |
The second one – “I wish, I were a washing machine, not just a sink”
October 21, 2010 at 6:00 am |
Sure the 3rd one isn’t photoshopped?
October 21, 2010 at 6:03 am |
I like the third one… big body of a woman with some kind of demon crawling out of her crotch.
October 21, 2010 at 6:04 am |
Very good photos. It is easy to see a face in almost anything. I really like the Tree Trunk look like a very elegant lady.
October 21, 2010 at 6:05 am |
I like the second one, it makes you want to cheer it up!
October 21, 2010 at 6:47 am |
middle
October 21, 2010 at 6:57 am |
Love the roof looking sinister! »You just come home, young lady …«
#3 is a little over the top; I like them better un-shopped.
October 21, 2010 at 7:23 am |
Favourite? Of course the third one! It is naked girl!
But I think it is photoshoped. There are brush marks on the hip.
October 21, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Yikes! After reading your comment, I was compelled to look again. Her left breast seems so perfectly formed, nipple and all, I now agree with you. What a bummer!
October 21, 2010 at 7:23 am |
Second one looks really sad
October 21, 2010 at 7:38 am |
The tree without a doubt is literally mother nature at her best…
October 21, 2010 at 8:03 am |
Although faces are hard to resist, I found the Jesus-like tree form the most convincing, even though the face was less clear.
October 21, 2010 at 8:08 am |
Many more of this sort of thing to be found here http://www.flickr.com/groups/facesinplaces/ Like this third one best and I don’t think it’s ‘shopped other than with a bit of cropping and contrast adjustment
Regularly take these sort of pics myself
October 21, 2010 at 8:28 am |
The second one is adorable, no wonder it raised a small cheer at TAM London
October 21, 2010 at 9:28 am |
Someone get onto Treebeard.
We’ve found a female ent! Call a moot.
October 21, 2010 at 11:25 am |
My favorite is the second one.
http://happychairishappy.com/
October 21, 2010 at 2:42 pm |
The third one, it’s a dancing tree.
October 21, 2010 at 3:00 pm |
The third seems to bee photoshoped, so the second one is my favorite!
October 21, 2010 at 3:25 pm |
I think the bathtub face is the most whimsical.
October 21, 2010 at 3:54 pm |
I like all three, for different reasons.
Interesting that some people immediately see Jesus in the third one. I see Athena, or possibly Helen of Troy.
October 21, 2010 at 8:10 pm |
The roof is #1-the girl is #2
October 21, 2010 at 11:56 pm |
I love, love, love, the tree lady! I am always finding faces in nature and love stumbling across them and photographing them.
October 22, 2010 at 12:21 am |
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October 22, 2010 at 2:06 am |
Oh come on! Some people even see something in this:
October 22, 2010 at 2:07 am |
Well, that didn’t work. How about this?
October 22, 2010 at 11:00 am
Love the dancer tree from Martha. Better than the photoshopped effort. My favourite is definitely the tap-face. Poor thing!
October 22, 2010 at 12:32 pm |
In the third picture, I can clearly see a woman with bodypaint or tree-outfit (probably a combination of the two).
October 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm |
BTW, when I was little I was notorious for finding scary faces in everyday places. This included an evil tiki lurking in a painting on my bedroom wall. It frightened me so
much that I actually got a sore neck from constantly sleeping with my
head facing the opposite direction.
October 23, 2010 at 10:27 pm |
I like all three 1} the flirty roof 2} the surprised plumbing 3} the zombie tree!
October 26, 2010 at 11:30 am |
i like the eyes on the roof!
November 2, 2010 at 8:25 pm |
I like the tree lady because it reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU91POX33aE
November 4, 2010 at 11:50 pm |
unusual example http://tinypic.com/r/2qur81i/7
November 6, 2010 at 6:44 pm |
I love the tree
November 11, 2010 at 7:02 pm |
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November 15, 2010 at 8:25 am |
brush marks? i don’t think so
December 29, 2010 at 8:03 am |
1st one cuz more ppl can see it n it seems intentional..
January 26, 2012 at 3:48 pm |
luv the second one..superb picx