The Cool Picture Thread

[Brian]

 

Wife & I walk around this lake. The sunlit series of crests is called The Seven Sisters (even though there are about a dozen) and the snowcapped ridge in the background is the Black Mountain range. The predominant one is Clingman's Peak and behind it to the right is Mt. Mitchell, which is the highest peak in Eastern North America.

 

(There's an interesting tale of intrigue and political skullduggery surrounding those two peaks and the men for whom they are currently named, but that's another story...)

Edited March 25, 2014 by Brian

[Marblehead]

Wife & I walk around this lake.

I wish I could still walk that great of a distance. I'd have to just sit on the dock (of the lake, not the bay).

[Brian]

It's 0.55 miles around.

 

About a mile from my house.

 

Sometimes, on Summer evenings, I'll sit on a bench and watch bats catch bugs over the water.

 

I sometimes do Gift of Tao qigong there but more often I do walking qigong or sitting stillness-movement.

Edited March 25, 2014 by Brian

[joeblast]

ROFL

 

[joeblast]

for some reason I thought of Taomeow when I saw this picture

 

[joeblast]

wish Hα filters werent so danged expensive!

 

Edited April 3, 2014 by joeblast

[MooNiNite]

 

this is cool. have you tried to make a transmitter?

[silent thunder]

...

Edited November 30, 2014 by silent thunder

[zerostao]

i wanted to show my appreciation for flautists

 

[ralis]

[CloudHands]

 

 

You bet I miss this place.

[Marblehead]

You bet I miss this place.

I'm sure you do but please tell me where those pictures are from?

[CloudHands]

It's all Hampi, India.

[Marblehead]

It's all Hampi, India.

Thanks. Those environments are so beautiful. I am unable to state how so with words.

[joeblast]

relaxation

 

[joeblast]

[Captain Mar-Vell]

...

That first pic reminds me of Vivec in Morrowind.

 

That was such a great game.

 

...

Edited April 22, 2014 by Captain Mar-Vell

[joeblast]

amazingly, this is supposedly not a photoshop creation but a spontaneous formation of birds...

 

[Marblehead]

amazingly, this is supposedly not a photoshop creation but a spontaneous formation of birds...

I've seen documentaries with such scenes. All real.

[joeblast]

“Socrates Among the Athenians”

– Louis Phillips, Academe, February 1979

 

[joeblast]

 

Pretend that you’ve never seen this before and that it’s an actual living person whose personality you’re trying to read. If you look directly at her face, she seems to hesitate, but if you look near it, say beyond her at the landscape, and try to sense her mood, she smiles at you.

 

In studying this systematically, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone found that “if you look at this painting so that your center of gaze falls on the background or her hands, Mona Lisa’s mouth — which is then seen by your peripheral, low-resolution, vision — appears much more cheerful than when you look directly at it, when it is seen by your fine-detail fovea.

 

“This explains its elusive quality — you literally can’t catch her smile by looking at it. Every time you look directly at her mouth, her smile disappears because your central vision does not perceive coarse image components very well. People don’t realize this because most of us are not aware of how we move our eyes around or that our peripheral vision is able to see some things better than our central vision. Mona Lisa smiles until you look at her mouth, and then her smile fades, like a dim star that disappears when you look directly at it.”

(From her book Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, 2002.)

[joeblast]

fine,

 

and coarse

 

[Brian]

[Marblehead]

Pretend that you’ve never seen this before and that it’s an actual living person whose personality you’re trying to read.

I have always seen her as smiling. And the eyes have always brought to my mind that she is watching some guy approach who she just knows is going to hit on her.

[GrandmasterP]

Constipation.

Sure t'be.

Poor lass.

Edited May 2, 2014 by GrandmasterP