Can you see the young lady/old lady optical illusion in this photograph?
Yes, but it took a minute. The young lady's chin is the old lady's nose.
eta: I first saw it when I tilted my head to the side.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Aug 06, 2007 8:25:01 am PDT #2723 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
ChiKat - Aug 06, 2007 8:25:52 am PDT #2724 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Nope -- I think because in a real person, it's super-obvious that an ear is not an eye, frex.
Jesse is me.
askye - Aug 06, 2007 8:26:54 am PDT #2725 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I have to block out the pictures next to it (and the heading) so I can see the old woman in the drawing. For some reason seeing the words Young Woman kept me from seeing the old woman.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2007 8:27:14 am PDT #2726 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I flipped it, squinted, and looked back and forth between the photo and a drawing of the illusion. I think the main problem is that the young woman's neckline is way too low, making the old woman's chin too long. And then the eye is the second problem.
Cashmere - Aug 06, 2007 8:29:52 am PDT #2727 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I finally got the old lady.
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 8:32:20 am PDT #2728 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Anyone have any suggestions for this question I just got in my email?
It's a term for a kind of compulsion or tendency that a person has to repeat the same patterns in their lives, like seeking out the same relationships or whatnot, usually with a negative connotation. I think it might be a psychological term, in a noun form. Any ideas? "Neurosis" and "mania" keep popping into my head, but it's obviously not those.
Daisy Jane - Aug 06, 2007 8:33:32 am PDT #2729 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Wouldn't that be a compulsion?
sumi - Aug 06, 2007 8:36:28 am PDT #2730 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
obsessive compulsive?
lisah - Aug 06, 2007 8:38:16 am PDT #2731 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
ita, I can see it, but, very oddly, only if I close my left eye. With both eyes, or with the left but not the right, it's just the young woman.
That worked for me too! But only if I tilted my head a bit to the left. CRAZY!
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 8:39:17 am PDT #2732 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The best I have to far is probably pathological compulsion. But I think there is a word that my correspondent is looking for.