Comments on: Turn and face

By: Davey

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:31:16 +0000

I started in the early millions of BCs and am working my way up. Chu-grobpak the Lesser drew the finest woolly yak in woolly yak blood you may never see.

By: Roo

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:23:55 +0000

Nice. Let me know what you think of it. And when you’re done, you’ll get the pun. What fun!

By: Roo

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:23:21 +0000

Yup, that’s definitely me too.

By: Seraphine

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:26:02 +0000

There are some of us, myself included,
that see only what we expect to see.
If don’t expect to see you in a given
situation, I’d likely not notice you.
Others say about me: “Sera’s in her
own world” and I guess that’s true.

By: Roo

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:41:29 +0000

Yeah… that’s about the way I’ve done it, though I’ve skipped back and forth the styles and art I really like, impressionism is high on the list. But Surrealism’s higher.

By: justine

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:38 +0000

i have mirrors in my house for that!

By: Adam

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:55:38 +0000

Not yet, it is on my list though. Ms Em is by far the better fiction reader out of the two of us. Her library is full of such novels which I occasionally dip into.

I’ll try to read it over the coming weekend (it looks short enough).

Right now, I am reading an extended dissertation on classical mythology… starting with the Greeks. It’s all incest, castration and one-hundred armed offspring… the birth of western civilisation.

By: Adam

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:52:09 +0000

Monet is the only one I know of… but my art history is sadly lacking… and since I’m teaching myself I started at the modern day and have been working backwards… not got to the impressionists yet, still fumbling around in the 20th century.

I like that, that Mr Van Gogh’s physical limitations enabled him to paint in a particular style in a completely honest fashion.

By: Roo

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:32:20 +0000

“…or if it is some way of us preparing for the day when our clones wander about in the same town as us…”

Ever read Never Let Me Go? Any thing’s possible!

By: Roo

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:30:37 +0000

Didn’t a number of the Impressionists have cataracts, causing the world to look, to them, much the way it did in their paintings? I’m sure I read that some where. And near-sightedness has been used to explain Van Gogh’s representation of stars in starry night.

By: Adam

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:39:27 +0000

Wow, way to be harsh on yourself…

Though I’m sure most people react this way when confronted with their own image.

I can’t take photographs… and by that I mean I look horrible in them, distorted, almost ‘Ring’ style (Why do so many Japanese horror films invove missing faces?). It’s one of the reasons I don’t bother putting a photograph on my site, there’s no point in giving out a misleading image.

Still, it makes those days when you look in the mirror and go, ‘looking pretty fine today’ all the more worth it.

By: Adam

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:24:19 +0000

Good show sir. I really couldn’t find that one out. Pareidolia.

Ahh, I see (or not as it happens) you’re from the Monet school of vision…

Reminds me, I should do a post about artists with visual disabilities, or differences. I know a few that are colourblind as well as a blind painter…

“There’s a medical term for everything” – mediencyclophilia.

By: Adam

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:21:15 +0000

Would you ever consider doing a look-a-like gig?

Steve, a friend of mine has recently grown a beard of epic status… and with a cap and cigar is the spitting image of Castro. I can’t convince him to do anything though… I want to shoot some grainy footage of Castro playing golf, but he’s not up for it.

Looking at your blog picture and one of Mr easton, I’d say you’re not too far off, you’d have to wear some sort of nose prosthesis though.

Tell you what, if you do, I’ll don a black wig and go on a brief starvation diet to appear as Ric Ocasek.

*now has the song ‘Just what I Needed’ playing in head*

By: Adam

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:14:11 +0000

Most likely…

Nice use of the quote there too, I think that’s the first time a commenter has used that.

By: Philippa

Wed, 07 May 2008 06:31:49 +0000

I often see a reflection of myself in a window or a mirror in a crowded room and think;
“…They’re a bit ugly…”
And they I realise it is me.

And I laugh

By: Rian Baso

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:32:00 +0000

There’s a medical term for everything. Seeing faces in objects is called Pareidolia. Now if those faces start talking to you, you’ve got something else entirely…

I also have bad bad eyesight, only for me it’s less of a ’soft focus’ and more of a ‘random splattering of color vaguely resembling a geometric object.’

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:10:14 +0000

I don’t know if Rowan Atkinson was the best choice for that exercise. He’s just funny looking.

I do a pretty accurate self portrait, noting that I can’t draw worth a damn so the results have to be graded on kind of a curve anyway.

I was looking at the back of an album cover the other day and I noticed that my face is very similar in structure to Elliot Easton from The Cars. At least the bottom part, the eyes and forehead are mostly obscured by his sunglasses.

By: Paul Raven

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:58:52 +0000

“… on the other side we have people that see faces everywhere. I’m not sure there’s a medical term for this, perhaps we should invent one.”

Acid-heads?