© 2014 Michael Fiveson
Frank Zappa? Albert Einstein? Che Guevara? A face, formed by the elements and found on a wall. I confess, I see faces everywhere. I see dumb people too, but that’s another story.
Pareidolia
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.
The word comes from the Greek words para (παρά, “beside, alongside, instead”) in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidōlon (εἴδωλον “image, form, shape”) the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.
It looks like Gene Shalit, the movie reviewer 🙂
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Oh sure it does, and I know who he is. At least you see it.
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Phantom of the opera?
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Very well could be. Phantom of the wall, at the very least.
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You get those flashbacks too huh Mike, LOL ?
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Only when I blog.
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LOL
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I reckon its OK to see Einstein as long as you don’t listen to him!
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We share a birthday, he and I. If he talks, I listen.
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Of course, of course!
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Dennis the Menace?
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Stoned.
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I’ve looked at this image a couple of times now and I continue to see a strangely shaped hand print!
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And no face?
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Definitely! Looks like the mask from Phantom of the Opera! 🙂
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That is 2 for the phantom! Me, I’m going with Che.
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knew there was something different about you…sharing a birthday with Einstein…you don’t look that old………..chuckle…
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What, you smartin me? I’m not THAT old, but pretty damn old in my own right. I’m also good with numbers. Go figure.
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not at all……….you look great for your advanced age…just kidding……..and besides…with Einstein on your side…who could be against you…………
(funny the ‘go figure’)
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Einstein is one of my heroes. You might be another, but then I have NO idea who you are. But I do like your work.
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funny…..Einstein is staring right at me at this very
moment. I keep his image near by to remember that knowledge is learned from the mind out…what you can image…exists…even if we can not prove it at the moment.
Now you know something about me…
and thanks for ‘liking’ my work…I ‘like’ yours too………
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You are a wise one, grasshopper.
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really…who is the one that presented a blotch on a rock and called it something else…who was the one that stimulated a discussion about pareidolia…
I ask you that………………….
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Yes, well, OK. If you are suggesting that I too am a wise one, it would serve only to make my point, that you are a wise one, grasshopper.
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now who is the grasshopper………….ha.
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I see dead people.
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Loved that movie. What up, Ba.
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My first instinct was to go with Einstein 🙂
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A good instinct, and a wise choice.
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🙂 if only he had his tongue sticking out too…
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He was an interesting man.
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Another Einstein vote here. 🙂
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Roger that, Robin.
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I’m thinking Nietzsche
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That would certainly qualify you as a thinking person 😉
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…Therefore, I am?
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Great images
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Thanks
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Reblogged this on City of Sydney Narratives Project and commented:
Great collection of images
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“I see dumb people” LOL, sounds like a good working title for a script.
I’m going with Zappa 😀
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Good call. It may well be Zappa.
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Einstein absolutely. Freaky actually.
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Freaky was my thought as well. As in WTF freaky.
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I just see a big stained spot. 🙂
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And hence you are not afflicted.
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Alien!
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And why not. Makes as much sense as anything, The Lady Apronhead.
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It was a Sigorney Weaver moment.
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Those were some scary movies! Have you seen Prometheus?
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No, good? I mean scary? I mean gross? 🙂 Anything popping out of chests?
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It’s good and is another sequel in the Alien series. Not as nasty as previous versions, and more intelligent, perhaps.
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See the good thing about getting older is that you can have watched a movie and then totally forget –then watch it again and not know what’s coming. I checked IMBD and am pretty sure I’ve seen it, but I forget how it ends. 🙂
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Yes! It’s true! Everything is new again, over and over. I so hear that Lilly.
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🙂
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I’m so very behind on visiting other’s blogs! So glad I didn’t miss this one! I see Frank Zappa! And this wall art was definitely not an “Over-Nite Sensation”.
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Nor a 1 night stand. Frank Zappa leaving his mark in a small town in Eastern Colorado. Obscure and quiet.
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i say Albert!
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I say you may be right. If anyone could have figured out how to come back and leave a trace, it is Albert.
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Hi Mike,
thanks for sharing the photos.They are magnificent!
regards
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That is a very generous comment and I thank you very much.
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