January 19th, 2009
The shape of things
So, The Watchmen is going to be released on schedule. That should make Alan Moore happy.
This means there will undoubtably be an increased interest in Rorschach inkblot tests… so I thought we should get ahead of the game and flex our collective mad-muscles on the following. Just sit back, take a deep breath and tell me what you see…
1.
2.
3.
See anything interesting in there?
#3 looks like a giant psychic cephalopod
I just got that… lol. Genius.
i dont know about you, but i see a frog, a butterfly, and for number 3 a (fairly incorrect) portrayal of the female reproductive system.
oh and by the way i LOVE that comic! made me giggle so much!
1. two beetles on top of each other.
2. diagram of the female pelvic region (top blots are the fallopian tubes, etc).
3. cow skull.
We have similar methods of interpretation. I thought beetles for 1 and cow skull for 3 as well. But for 2 I went with moth.
Concept art for another set of pokemon?
The ink blot tests are really both helpful and a bit useless; as there’s no right or wrong answer, yet it’s a good way of understanding trends in thought rather than a person’s psyche per se.
I actuall saw two crowns for the first, an eagle with its legs and wings outstretched for the second, and a wolf for the last. That probably means I’m power obsessed, feeling hunted, and, ummm, not in existance in the wilds of England anymore…
1) Corset or belt
2) Crouching gargoyle with wings outspread
3) Jackal head
Strange. I get teenage mutant ninja turtle, some kind of Pokemon, and angry Bun-bun (from Sluggy Freelance) wearing an apron.
#3 is a flying cowboy manta ray carrying a severed part of mothra
and my sister was standing behind me the whole time trying to get me to say some thing totally weird
oh, and happy american inauguration day.
the same to you
these are exciting times.
1. Open snake mouth
2. A face with angry eyebrows and extreme sideburns.*
3. Mothman, or other terrifying mythological creature with wings.
*Don’t humans tend to see faces, though…?
Yeah, anything with spots arranged in a pattern even remotely resembling eyes and a mouth looks like a face to the average human. I like to think I’m not average, but I see a lot of faces in things, too.
#3 doesn’t look like a scary moth monster to me… just a very realistic, ordinary moth, seen from behind, with the two back legs hanging down and the two upper wings spread at an angle where they’re almost perpendicular to the camera. Its abdomen is shaped and colored very similarly to some real moth abdomens. I can even see the genitals at the base of it. (I wonder what Freud would say to that…)
i wonder what he would say to all of us…
To the comic, or the conversations that follow?
All of the above, I’m sure.
Either, I think. Freud’s reaction to pretty much everything on this site is worth wondering about.
1) A boat with its reflection on the water
2) A face of a butterfly
3) Spaceship?
but all in all it could be nearly everything
1/ Tunnel
2/ Domisticated (if cartoony) dog
3/ Wolf
/b
Insects for all 3 – first one reminds me of a fly sat on a mirror, the other 2 look like bug faces.
1. Frogs
2. A rock person/golem type thing
3. A strange wolf
Hmmm…
1) two bats stacked atop each other
2) a psycho bunny-rabbit
3) a foxs’ head
PS. MY birthday was the 19th, woooooooot! Yeah, I’m… /shameless
Happy birth day for two days ago.
1) some kind of skelton with two swords in his hands
2) “A rock person/golem type thing” – Encifer but more golem and also wings
3) many things whice most of you saw but nothing define (by the way also right for 1 & 2 but mostly saw what I said)
1) a beetle
2) a rabbit
3) a fox
I’ve always liked to do this with multi colored paint and then try and add stuff to it to make it look more like the thing i saw.
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whats that look like?
Cthulhu.
Hahahahahaha! It does! Oh em gee.
Incidentally, I do the thing with coloured paints too. It’s really a neat way to get some very cool paintings. And you know what else is fun? Ink bots with WAX!
neat!
By Love Possessed?
That reminds me alot of the Book of Pressed Fairies.
Actually… it was! Hahhaa. You know, I’ve been showing collage and ‘blots and paintings and stuff with or on pages from that book for YEARS, and no one’s ever even asked me what it was.
May I ask, how did you enjoy the book?
I actually read it for a class, but it was a relatively enjoyable book. It was very deep…the character nuances, as well as the characters themselves. I enjoyed it, but it isn’t likely that I’d recommend it to a friend.
I can clearly see “Arthur Winner Junior” at the top of the page, not quite covered. That’s how I knew
That’s true… great depth to the characters, but I thought it was a bit… overly dense? That, combined with the dialogue’s lack of believability and the subtle misogyny/racism made me not like it overly much. But I can see what everyone else loved about it, and why it was such a hit at the time.
I couldn’t think of anything except for the third one, which looked very clearly like a moth to me. Strange; I usually have a better imagination when it comes to ink blots.
1. Boobs.
2. Boobs.
3. Boobs.
I never thought you posted that kind of smut!
Man…those would be some scary boobs!
Boobs are indeed good.
ben, i am not entirely sure you read that sentence correctly?
How could boobs be not good?
If I ever came across a pair like #3, I’m not entirely sure what my reaction would be, but fear and discomfort are safe bets.
What if they were just painted that way?
That would bring several more troubling questions to issue.
Image one is complex. It looks like the white parts are mantarays, the black parts are two men standing back to back, hands raised with weapons.
Image two could be human female internal sexual organs or an owl’s face. Maybe even a stylised drawing of a samuria mask.
Image three is clearly a flying insect carrying my dignity off in it’s evil clutches.
Why my dignity? Let me tell you a story about my day.
Funny story time. There I was in the bush, with a need to pee. So I wandered over to the first tree I see and whip out the tackle. I look down and right where I am aiming is a few angry looking hornets. I put my gear away and move to another tree. This one is covered in spiders and they don’t fly.
Unknown to me, the hornets followed me and were not impressed. Possibly I was pissing in their territory.
So as I am finishing up, about to pack up, I feel this incredible pain in my hand, which is holding some fragile things. Realising what is happening, I abandon the job and run from the bush. Parts of me are doing a fair imitation of a rabid dog running with a string of sausages in its mouth.
Thankfully, I escaped, family jewels intact, but I think the screaming will never be lived down.
I’m glad you didn’t get stung on your dangling bits. That said, the story was hilarious.
Great comic BTW.
1) Dancing skeleton, mirrored vertically
2) Angry moose, about to charge
3) Wile E. Coyote staring at me
1) something strange, maybe two beetles
2) could be a golem or something like this
3) a fox i guess
I’m gunna hove to agree with a lot of people here:
1) Frogs on top of each other
2) face! (Angry mask face, but look at those eyes!)
3) Moth.
Hilarious comic too, by the way.
New topic: what do you see in your user icon? I see pinwheels and swastikas in most of yours. But mine is an octagon getting stabbed from four sides by people annoyed at its edginess.
In mine?
Disco Tetris.
/b
Ninja stars!
Disco Tetris is going to be really big in 2010.
Andrew Lloyd Webber beat us to it in 1992.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Spin
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This is a fascinating piece of trivia, and made me smile. Thank you
So Mr Webber is creating our Eurovision entry this year… (sorry USians, you may not have a clue what this campfest is about).
We’re still going to do quite poorly, but at least the bar has been set quite low.
Actually, every now and then an actual swastika appears. i usually manually delete them for an alternative, since you don’t get to pick your picture it would be a little unfair to be labled with one.
Now that you mention it, mine looks like a swastika.
That would suit your family very well…..
But not you.
Of all the symbols in this thread, I think Lynda has the only one that in no way could be suggested to even remotely look like a swastika.
What are you hiding Lynda?
I’ve got Roy Orbision in my freezer, but how could you tell that just by looking at my icon? Now that you mention it…my last one was sort of iron-cross-like. Drats, foiled again. Or cling-filmed, in this case.
I saw a bat, pikachu (because pokemon will always be cool to my generation) and a wolf.
Seriously, google image pikachu and compare it to number two. It’s basically the same face.
pokemon ftw!
yay for the whole Watchmen thing… i seriously CAN’T wait for that movie to come out.
have you ever seen a real legit Rorschach inkblot tests? All the psychological profiling tests are so odd. I’ve had minimal training in most of them, and I definitely feel they are too subjective.. but man are Rorschach’s cool!
Back when I was a problem child, my psychiatrist used to scribble randomly with pen and paper and then ask me to make the scribbles into pictures (by drawing eyes, coloring in sections, doing whatever I could to expand on what I saw in the scribble). I guess it was a poor man’s Rorschach.
But if you really want to be psychoanalytical, the way the scribbles turned out looking in the first place might reflect the psychiatrist’s subconscious issues, as well. If I say the scribble looks like an evil king who wants to fry up peasants and eat them, is that because I’m afraid of people in positions of authority? Or is it because the scribble really DOES look like an evil king, because the psychiatrist was subconsciously thinking about George Bush when he scribbled it?
1) Could be a bat or something, maybe even two
2) Really could be pikachu, like Phillipa has said, but even a stone golem or sthg else
3)a wolf or a fox, or maybe a monster with an open mouth
All I saw was #3 as a wolf, which a lot of people got. I’n bad at this, i just seem them as blobs…although there’s a tiny pair of skulls hidden in #1
I like Franzy’s interpretation.
1. Two Bats
2. Elephant
3. Mephisto
should i be worried? i saw a frog, a skull and a demon?????
on the watchman note….AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *breathes* I’m so forking excited I might explode any moment!!!!!
the worst thing was my heart stopped last week at the cinema when I went to see australia [adm you may be the only one to understand all this] but before it began they trailed the new Xmen flick and Watchmen…any comic book geeks out there may think I’m one lucky lady and I am it was like a blue moon, that kind of thing just shouldn’t be allowed to happen
1. A bat over a frog
2. A sort of dinosaur
3. A bird. But then I thought I saw someone leaning on their elbows
I thought I’d be able to end with “You’re the one showing me all the dirty pictures!”
I guess I just did.
One, a bird skimming across water. Two a ballerina with a really big bow on her head and Three a bull skull. Lol I find it really hard to se images in inkblots, i really really have to look!!
I’m not all that excited about watchman tbh but it looks like i’ll b goin anyway with Hann-solo lol. S’pose i may read up on it :S
You are all clearly barking mad… except for Franzy, who correctly identified them all as ‘Boob’.
Ha!
Yay, I am mad
w00t w00t
1) a frog? idk could be even a bat
2) an elephant or something like that
3) maybe a bird
all in all, that’s really strange
i went to see Ben Bailey do stand-up last night, he is from the game show Cash Cab on the Discovery channel. Anyway… actually he didn’t make this joke… damn. Well his opening act was from San Francisco, and over here in Northern California, people say Hella. Like, “that shit is hella cool.” I dont understand it, nor do i like it. But anyway, he came up with Hellagon: a shape where you cannot quantify how many sides it has, ’cause it has hella sides.
Hellagon is brilliant. I might “borrow” that. I already use the term “fuckton” a lot. It is equivalent to 1000 kilofucks.
And I’m just dripping profanity all over in this comment.
I used to use “hella” heaps in my general speech.
I don’t any more because I use “mach/mached” and “fuckloads” to replace it.
wait, could you please use mach in a sentence that doesn’t refer to a plane or a Gillette brand razor blade. Maybe something that could speed 1000 kilofucks worth of hellagons past the soundbarrier?
MachTurtleneck?
HA.
Mach Pelican. Interesting band.
In a sentence….
“I was at that sick gig last night and got totally mached on shooters, then some fucktard glassed me and mached my face, but it was ok. my girl took me home and mached me”
(hint: “mach” is basically just “fuck”)
You can also talk about a car using the term “mach”. but it sounds weird.
This brings a whole new meaning to the Speed Racer universe.
Mach Turtleneck. Ha.
I love the word “mach.” And things that go faster than the speed of sound. Coincidentally, one recent strip of my comic dealt with the subject. Definitions are so open to loopholes…
I keep wanting to pronounce it Germanically, though, with the guttural “ch.” But when I do, people look at me funny.
1 flying squiral
2.clown
3.wolf
#1: Mutant Siamese bats
#2: Angry baboon
#3: Leaping frog with Manta ray fins and a bird’s tail.
1) A boat with its reflection on the water
2) A face of a butterfly or a wasp
3) A monster with its mouth wide open
1. 2 frogs, 2 bats, 2 pirate hats with skull and crossbones the openings together, a really elaborate napkin ring with an itsy napkin in it
2. Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, an armadillo, various insects, various flowers
3.a fox, an angel, a crucifix, a butterfly, a flower, an oil lamp, a man holding up something, an arrowhead, someone with their fingers tented under their chin
OK, I quit. I didn’t read the others before I did this. I actually was shown inkblots when I was a kid. I was told it was a kind of an intelligence test. The inkblots were a lot of colors.
1) A monster bat
2) clown maybe
3) looks like the face of the big monsters in the movie riddick
Monsters, Clowns, Vin Diesel? That’s a scary trio.
I see an MRI of Wonder Woman, starting with the costume.
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