Comments on: Predatoreidolia

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:52:09 +0000

Ah yes. I remember Baal the Magnificent, where women were payed a few coppers to offer up their new born FEMALE offspring to propitiate the god. It was the only birth control technique they had that actually worked(well, there WAS the Greek method).

Ah, the exigencies of ruling a vibrant, growing city-state. Will religion(and its adherents) never cease to amaze? or, for that matter, our ability to fool ourselves,,,

GAry 7

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:53:11 +0000

Look out they may have an alien hive some were in the house the predators bread the aliens for hunting its a right of passage thing also look out for the wrist nuke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:09:23 +0000

That’s one ugly mudda$%#$%.

By: Strangel

Strangel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:20 +0000

The little girl and her dad are creepier looking….

By: Mathamatical Mystery

Mathamatical Mystery — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:56:51 +0000

Looks like Frank to me as well!

By: Reader5000

Reader5000 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:22:32 +0000

Oh, come on. Isn’t it obvious? It’s Frank from “Donnie Darko”!

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:16:11 +0000

It should go without saying that it’s not just wood that works this way. If you can halve it and keep the two halves oriented around one hinge side the same effect is evident. Large pieces of Crazy Lace Agate work very nicely. Very.

Book matching is even more common; open a loaf of bread and remove two adjoining slices. Compare their adjoining faces. They are near mirror images, no? Then how come we never see two mirror images of Jesus on the Toast?! That’s might suspicious right there, innit?

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:03:57 +0000

The able duo Beryl and Mark beat me to it but, yes, this is book matched veneer and it’s a common and wonderful way to exploit the beauty of wood.

Take a wide board and cut it edge to edge across it’s thinnest section. Along the grain, of course. Open the board like you would open a book. Sand, polish, apply finish and presto! Stunning Graphics ™ with amazing symmetry!

Ok, not perfect because the cutting and sanding and all remove some of the wood that used to be between the final two surfaces but what is not perfect to the eye is conveniently, if misleadingly, made to appear so in the brain.

Also, when you first slice that wood open and look at it you are the only one in the entire universe that knows what it looks like. Makes me chuckle every time I do it. Small things bring great pleasure.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:11:42 +0000

Bill, I would go with the simple explanation. The image looks like it is of the center line of the door which is where you’d expect to see the division in the laminate. The reason they haven’t seen it before? Well, I think Phil covered the most likely reason. That, or it wasn’t “convenient” to notice it before then.
I think the family is safe though – at least until they start noticing a group of three red dots…

By: Beryl

Beryl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:39:21 +0000

Bill, “book-matching” veneer on doors and panels is common. This is done precisely to create symmetry in the grain. I was looking for the seam at the axis of symmetry, but the resolution isn’t high enough.

By: I'd rather be fishin'

I'd rather be fishin' — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:27:10 +0000

Many years ago, the design of the Canadian $1 bill had to be changed slightly. Apparently the hair-do of Her Majesty was such that some people saw the image of a devil in the Royal Coiffure.

Public pressure forced the Royal Canadian Mint to change the hair. Not a bad idea since the Tower of London is still officially a prision…

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:54:47 +0000

It actually looks much more a predator with its helmet on than one with its helmet off.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:41:56 +0000

I’m with dhtroy. The symmetry in the image is a tad too perfect. Either the photo has been manipulated or the wood is an artificial laminate so that each piece has the same grain patterns, and the ‘face’ is formed by the join of the grain patterns…but in mirror image.

By: Sam Wise

Sam Wise — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:25:24 +0000

Demon? Predator? Nonsense!

The marking on the door is obviously the image of Gene Simmons. The proof is here:

http://tinyurl.com/yle9n2u

By: jenn

jenn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:42:44 +0000

It looks more like a cuddly little owl to me. I wonder if the Halloween season primed him to see something “demonic.”

By: llewelly

llewelly — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:20:45 +0000

Umm…and we know what demons look like how, exactly?

We have many sculptures and drawings of the gods of competing religions.

By: Rory Kent

Rory Kent — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:15:37 +0000

GET TO THE CUPBOARD!

By: DennyMo

DennyMo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:09:34 +0000

I love how it’s from the town of “Erie”, IL. Coincidence? BTW, it’s a real town, “so small they have a town triangle instead of a town square”.

By: bigjohn756

bigjohn756 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:05:46 +0000

Bambi’s dad! Whimper, whimper…

By: JoeSmithCA

JoeSmithCA — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:55:57 +0000

Gotta love lighting and the human imagination. If you flip it upside down it looks like a barnicle.

By: llewelly

llewelly — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:44:06 +0000

It looks like the mean old lady who lived down the street from me when I was 5.

By: lawman

lawman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:37:36 +0000

I actually thought it was Gene Simmons

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:16:09 +0000

Looks kinda like Strong Bad…

By: dhtroy

dhtroy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:34 +0000

Emmm, kinda looks like … nah … couldn’t be … Whoppie?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:56:49 +0000

That looks a little too good to me. I’m calling ‘shopped.