all right eyes. can you flip the gif to make matching sets? picasso was here.
I second the matching pairs, but then make them blink at random intrvals! c'mon Tom, taki it to a whole. 'nutha. level.
I changed the image. Here is the one y'all were commenting on (thanks), for the sake of posterity:
reflecting eye GIF (artist unknown) X 18
The new version is beautiful.
Thanks--we have an especially limited Senator here, Santorum, who's been talking about the "eye of Mordor"--as in, "if the Eye is on Iraq it's not on us." So I'd like to dedicate this to his eventual brain and personality transplant.
you have probably seen this about Santorum:
www.villagevoice.com/people/0327,savage,45221,24.html
Yes. E-e-w. Also couldn't believe the story about how he passed around the corpse of his deceased child to his other kids to touch lovingly as some kind of made-up last rite. I mean to each his own, but what a controller of his family. It reminded me of a fundie Christian man I heard on Dallas NPR talking about how he sticks a thermometer in his wife's vagina and reads it as part of their personal "rhythm method" practices. Like Santorum, he describes it as an act of great intimacy but what I hear is complete domination of family members by crazy men. It's one step removed from that Marcus Wesson character who murdered all his children in Fresno, CA. And this guy is a US Senator. Hopefully not for long. America the Creepy.
I assume you are familiar with The Pledge?
Yes, uggh, what is it with these people and inventing new rituals? The old ones aren't good enough?
Actually, that bit about welcoming the dead baby into the family fold is a pretty old and pretty common ritual, played out in parallel to the we-must-never-mention-the-dead-baby-in-this-house-again ritual which causes all kinds of problems too.
Really? Is it sanctioned by the church? (I was Episcopalian and I never heard of anyone doing that.) Just curious.
It shouldn't have to be either-or. You could just have a funeral and bring the other kids.
That reminds me of these Victorian post mortem photos (via boingboing)
Most of them are sad rather than creepy.
Very sad--they're so dignified. Photos like that figured in the movie The Others, with Nicole Kidman, providing one of the film's eeriest moments.
really like the big single eye!!
Thanks, Guthrie.
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- tom moody 10-19-2006 5:41 pm
all right eyes. can you flip the gif to make matching sets? picasso was here.
- bill 10-19-2006 6:33 pm
I second the matching pairs, but then make them blink at random intrvals! c'mon Tom, taki it to a whole. 'nutha. level.
- adrien (guest) 10-20-2006 1:20 am
I changed the image. Here is the one y'all were commenting on (thanks), for the sake of posterity:
reflecting eye GIF (artist unknown) X 18
- tom moody 10-20-2006 2:31 am
The new version is beautiful.
- L.M. 10-20-2006 2:38 am
Thanks--we have an especially limited Senator here, Santorum, who's been talking about the "eye of Mordor"--as in, "if the Eye is on Iraq it's not on us." So I'd like to dedicate this to his eventual brain and personality transplant.
- tom moody 10-20-2006 2:50 am
you have probably seen this about Santorum:
www.villagevoice.com/people/0327,savage,45221,24.html
- Thor Johnson 10-20-2006 8:27 am
Yes. E-e-w. Also couldn't believe the story about how he passed around the corpse of his deceased child to his other kids to touch lovingly as some kind of made-up last rite. I mean to each his own, but what a controller of his family. It reminded me of a fundie Christian man I heard on Dallas NPR talking about how he sticks a thermometer in his wife's vagina and reads it as part of their personal "rhythm method" practices. Like Santorum, he describes it as an act of great intimacy but what I hear is complete domination of family members by crazy men. It's one step removed from that Marcus Wesson character who murdered all his children in Fresno, CA. And this guy is a US Senator. Hopefully not for long. America the Creepy.
- tom moody 10-20-2006 8:40 am
I assume you are familiar with The Pledge?
- sally mckay 10-20-2006 6:58 pm
Yes, uggh, what is it with these people and inventing new rituals? The old ones aren't good enough?
- tom moody 10-20-2006 7:30 pm
Actually, that bit about welcoming the dead baby into the family fold is a pretty old and pretty common ritual, played out in parallel to the we-must-never-mention-the-dead-baby-in-this-house-again ritual which causes all kinds of problems too.
- sally mckay 10-20-2006 8:01 pm
Really? Is it sanctioned by the church? (I was Episcopalian and I never heard of anyone doing that.) Just curious.
It shouldn't have to be either-or. You could just have a funeral and bring the other kids.
- tom moody 10-20-2006 8:18 pm
That reminds me of these Victorian post mortem photos (via boingboing)
Most of them are sad rather than creepy.
- L.M. 10-20-2006 8:52 pm
Very sad--they're so dignified. Photos like that figured in the movie The Others, with Nicole Kidman, providing one of the film's eeriest moments.
- tom moody 10-20-2006 8:55 pm
really like the big single eye!!
- guthrie (guest) 10-21-2006 3:55 am
Thanks, Guthrie.
- tom moody 10-21-2006 4:37 am