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.
Let me guess. We're in a hurry.
Inara ,'Serenity'
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.