joeblast Posted May 10, 2014 (edited) this one's bad Edited May 11, 2014 by joeblast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted May 11, 2014 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.) When I went to the Louvre, I wasn't expecting much but the Mona Lisa was surprisingly captivating in person. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted May 11, 2014 When I went to the Louvre, I wasn't expecting much but the Mona Lisa was surprisingly captivating in person. You met her is person? WoW! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted May 12, 2014 When I went to the Louvre, I wasn't expecting much but the Mona Lisa was surprisingly captivating in person. ever seen the other mona lisa, that was done by the student? same, but not quite, not close. the smile, it does not captivate like that of the master's work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Posted May 23, 2014 This tree is named "Angel Oak" and it looks bigger in person. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted May 23, 2014 that thing's massive! got people in the shot for reference Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted May 23, 2014 (edited) Yeah. I would say that that is one big (***) tree. Edited May 24, 2014 by Marblehead Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted May 23, 2014 (edited) This tree is named "Angel Oak" and it looks bigger in person. How does it change into a person ? Do you have a pic of that? (Just going along with marbleheads Mona Lisa rib Edited May 23, 2014 by Nungali 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Posted May 24, 2014 Ever see how a Transformer changes? Like that only different... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted May 29, 2014 Well, I would click that I like that picture but doing so just wouldn't be right. Hehehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted June 2, 2014 http://www.boredpanda.com/fly-geyser-nevada/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted June 2, 2014 what an interesting accident 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted June 4, 2014 "To many area residents who suffered through one of the worst winters on record for the area, seeing the ice chunks on the lake every day is a continuing reminder of that wintry grip of Mother Nature, which still has yet to completely loosen," the paper noted on its website. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted June 4, 2014 I watched that a couple weeks ago (again). At the end of the movie they show him screwing up the first try at doing that. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted June 4, 2014 "To many area residents who suffered through one of the worst winters on record for the area, seeing the ice chunks on the lake every day is a continuing reminder of that wintry grip of Mother Nature, which still has yet to completely loosen," the paper noted on its website. Hard to believe it's still going on... I was just in Manistique, which is an hour south of Marquette and drove out in May during a full white out blizzard, figuring 'well this has to be the last one of the year'. All I can say is extreme. It's just so extreme this year. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted June 5, 2014 (edited) pic removed to make room to post more... Edited January 13, 2015 by silent thunder Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan Posted June 5, 2014 (edited) I can't share my image extensions... so i will try uploading :\Made by weavesilk or some such web page. Edited June 5, 2014 by Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted June 5, 2014 A lot of energy going on in those pics. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
