WHOA

It's a good thing we didn't have the Internet back in the Sixties.

(Via Mr. James Lileks)

Comments

[Itsok]

That is just too fun. Next time try drugs.

[LMC]

That is EXTREMELY cool.

[elfbrains]

Okay, this one needs a warning. Not to be viewed when nursing a hangover.

[MOTW]

whoa.

[Graz]

Wow. He has a lot of twins.

[Jeff]

Why couldn't he have put a hot chick in the picture instead of himself? That's way too many of THAT guy.

[Katie Sue]

Oh, wow... do NOT view after eating a large, lemon-dressed salad.

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaa...

[Genevieve]

That is not exactly what I would consider a hypnotizing image.

[Garret]

I'm flyyyyyyyyyying.

[Garret]

Punky, make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!!!

[Garret]

And the Internet took away your permission slip, punky (according to your link). Now go to your room!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Acid flashback! Shit Dave, you really freaked me out there. For a second I could have sworn it was my brother Ken, but Ken has less hair.

Damn Punky, what did you have a craving for? I was FORBIDDEN to see it all 11 times.

[BMX3]

"Shadow and darkness, wisit me at night, here in the backroom of my mind. Shadow and darkness, wisit me at night, here in the backroom of my mind. Shadow and darkness, wisit me at night, here in the backroom of my mind. Shadow and darkness, wisit me at night, here in the backroom of my mind. Shadow and darkness, wisit me at night, here in the backroom of my mind."

[SMFTC]

Sorry to ask such a stupid question, but what was this image everybody's "whoaing" about? My computer said "swirl." And that's it. Descriptive Video please.

Sorry, images don't translate well for blind people, but I have sighted friends I might want to send it to, once I know what it is.

SMFTC

[Jeff Meyerson]

SMFTC: It's my brother Ken's lookalike (hippieish looking guy with a beard, t-shirt and jeans and glasses) kneeling on a rug holding a mirror (?) showing him holding a mirror showing him holding a mirror showing him, ad infinitum. Or maybe it's not a mirror, just a picture of him. Anyway, the picture gets closer and closer, then the picture inside gets closer. Then the picture inside that gets closer. Then, "shadow and darkness, wisit you at night..." Sorry about that.

I still want to know what Punky was craving.

[mudstuffin]

BMX3: Wisit?

[theresa]

It's... it's, well, hard to describe but I'll give it a short, SMFTC. It's a picture of a guy, holding what is presumably a mirror reflecting an image from ANOTHER mirror, such that it's unending reflections of the guy sitting there. But to make it more interesting, the whole thing swirls around, and the reflections come toward you, and it's very much like drugs.

[theresa]

whoops - jeff's description is better, SMFTC, in addition to beating me to the punch.

[SMFTC]

I think I sorta get it, in as much as a blind person who has never seen can get such things. I believe in the radio world we call that Feedback. For an audio version of this, try placing the ear piece of your cell phone against the mouth piece of your landline, then call one phone with the other and talk into it. That is, if you're bored and have nothing to do some time. I have to get back to my work--or my website--or something.

[Garret]

Hmm. Makes describing it rather tough when you realize you have no visual context for a picture or a mirror.

Every once in a while, something hits you in the head and humbles you.

[D'Artagnan]

LOL Punky, that takes the cake for multiple postings. Another first!

[Smoodle]

I love Lileks! This is great. It's like finding out two good friends already know each other so now you can all hang out. Of course I don't actually know either one of them.

Nevermind.

[lurker]

Who cares what games we choose?

Little to win & nothing to lose...

(cue guitar solo, lava lamp, strobe light on Silver Sufer poster, etc)

[Blogchik]

Brad, you should go back to calling yourself "Brad from SMFTC" instead of "SMFTC" because "SMFTC" is too doggone hard to remember.

I'm just sayin'...

Also, let me add my "WHOA!" to the general chorus. Wonder how that thing would go with alcohol.

[lurker]

SuRRRRRRRfer.

Silver SuRfer.

/hangs comic book geek head in shame.

[Con]

Brad: Audio feedback is a great analogy, buddy.

[Con]

Blogchik & pixie: A note for you on the Performance Art comments thread :)

[mudstuffin]

Many tanks. I guess I failed to wisit that site the first time.

[BMX3]

Audio Feedback WBAGNFARB!

[Bryce]

Looking at that makes me feel like puking. I'm not sure if it's because of the swirling effect or that guy.

[Ernie G]

Wonder how that thing would go with alcohol.
Posted by: Blogchik on May 6, 2004 02:38 PM
WHOA!

[evil little pixie]

Thanks Con!

[Momanon]

The effect is better if you hit F11 to make your screen bigger.

[Artistic Savant]

Just a clarification for folks who see that as a reflection-of-a-reflection (or portrait-of-a-portrait) visual feedback loop; it's much more clever than that. This guy is right up there with Escher for diddling with your brain and breaking the laws of perspective - see how the outer frame isn't just a single rectangle enclosing the whole picture, but it spirals inward so that the bottom edge of one picture angles inward to become the bottom edge of the next inner picture, and so on in one seamless continuous blend. For the life of me I can't figure oot how he does that. There must be some point at which the end of the film loop, as it were, matches the beginning but I can't see where that can happen... not with that frame flowing smoothly from one image to the next. Like, wow, eh.

[Artistic Savant]

The effect is better if you hit F11 to make your screen bigger.

Dang, I keep hitting F11 and my screen is still the same 17" it always was. Is this another one of those screen enlargement scams?

[nemo]

There is a discontinuity in the lower right corner and a smaller one in the upper left corner. I can kind of imagine how the frame must have been distorted. How he manages to get that trippy loop going still baffles me.

I am getting sleeeepy, veeeery sleeeepy. At the count of 3, I will remember nothing of of the bearded man's production secrets. 1.. 2.. 3..

Dang, now what was I posting about?

[Blogchik]

Con, I found it. Many thanks. :)

[FirstTimeCaller]

Good one Artistic Savant. Your comment had me LOL (and that doesn't happen often).

[alanboss]

Whoa! DO NOT veiw this while listening to Beatallica!

[BigMur]

Woof...we didn't need the internet back in the 60s...

[Eykis (self-annointed Dave Blog paralegal))]

Lileks is an old hippie....and glorious....NOT the Katie Sue from previous postings.....bet he's the Joni Mitchell album that's required... for old hippies~

[Eykis (self-annointed Dave Blog paralegal))]

*bet he's got the Miles of Aisles album...