Comments on: Supertrampeidolia

By: Katelin

Katelin — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:39:34 +0000

Roger Hodgson is currently in the midst of a world tour. check out http://www.rogerhodgson.com to see the tour schedule. lol.

By: beware the slumpy - pareidolia

beware the slumpy - pareidolia — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:08:12 +0000

[...] other day, he compared a pareidolic image in a field to, well, go look for yourself. So. Damn. [...]

By: Non-Believer

Non-Believer — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:40:13 +0000

Why do you suppose Jesus and his mom like to place their images in such weird locales. Potato chips and the like. And now apparently in purple fields in Europe. Is there supposed to be some deeper significance?

I would have to wonder about why a god, who can apparently create something as super complex as the universe, doesn’t just send a clear message. And send it in person, so that there is no actual misunderstandings. Because there is clearly a Super Tramp variation on the purple field picture and if I were Jesus, that would kind of tick me off. I mean if you go to all the trouble of creating a self portrait in purple fields, its disheartening to have people think its just a pop singer.

By: Blue Bottle

Blue Bottle — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:00:02 +0000

Looks very like Veronica Lake to me.

By: fernando

fernando — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:20:30 +0000

this is a big issue for the farmer… should I start working on the chin ? may be the eyebrows ? Jizz I wonder if it is a sin to work on the hair first…

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:48:19 +0000

Must I point out that Supertramp has been around so long, it could be BOTH archaeological and Roger Hodgeson. Not that I’m complaining; Breakfast in America was one of the first albums I ever bought. Aaah, good memories!

Hey is Supertramp still playing together? I thought Roger struck out on his own…

By: Alezmendi

Alezmendi — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:58:09 +0000

If that’s some kind of heavenly depiction of Jesus vaguely implanted upon the surface of the earth for the occasional airline passenger to notice…. wouldn’t Jesus have his beard? Not often you see a heavenly depiction of Jesus where he’s clean shaven.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:29:31 +0000

I’m sorry, but your wrong Phil. It is obviously the likeness of Geddy Lee!! You may now bow down in reverence to my amazing visual skillz.

By: Pat Harris

Pat Harris — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:07:42 +0000

Go to the Googlemap page and zoom out a bit.

Just to the North West the series of old river beds looks an awful lot like the Flight Spagetti Monster (may you be touched by his noodely goodness) to me!

I think it is significant that the FSM’s image is much larger then Rodger Hodson’s.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:52:10 +0000

I thought it was the Mona Lisa.

By: Solitas

Solitas — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:43:18 +0000

Hm.

First thing I thought when I saw the picture was Jim Morrison…

By: Eric Goetz

Eric Goetz — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:36:39 +0000

Ha Condorman! I was thinking that it’s Weird Al Yankovic, during his Like a Surgeon video.

By: Mike from Tribeca

Mike from Tribeca — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:03:53 +0000

Obviously a late Picasso.

http://www.artloft.com/wpimages/picasso/v4ft.jpg

By: Aufwuch

Aufwuch — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:59:51 +0000

Nope, you are all wrong. There is a picture (photo?) of Jesus behind the pulpit in my church, and that’s not what he looks like. Proof? yes…so there!

Zappa? Could be and I wish.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:48:45 +0000

C’mon Phil… Give A Little Bit why don’t you? This just looks like someone’s Child of Vision if you ask me. Besides, some of these people aren’t Crazy, they’re just Dreamers.

Whenever subjects like this come up in Casual Conversations I try to keep my cool; if I didn’t I’d be Just Another Nervous Wreck.

From Now On, Phil, I’m Beggin’ You, instead of trying to put these people Bloody Well Right I think you should just Put on Your Old Brown Shoes and Take The Long Way Home.

Unless, of course, It’s Raining Again…

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:27:48 +0000

This is geting funny when Phill posts these.My favorte was the brilo pad that someone said look like Jesus but looked like Dr Eggman (aka Robotnik) form the Sonic the Hedghog games .For those who know nothing about the Sonic the Hedghog games ask your children or grandchildren

By: Condorman

Condorman — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:00:59 +0000

Bah! Its clearly Inigo Montoya.

How could you miss something that obvious?

By: sophia8

sophia8 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:34:43 +0000

Bob_In_Wales: Don’t forget, this is a Hungarian landscape with a nice, highly visible straight road running though it. Some of those markings could be WWII bomb cratering.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:23:29 +0000

I saw Nick Lowe. His first solo album was called "Jesus of Cool", although in the US it was released as "Pure Pop For Now People".

By: Paul Claessen

Paul Claessen — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:49:22 +0000

#26: “It could be an old fortification of some sort”

It also could be a fairly simple Photoshop job. Especially the light outline on the left side of the head is suspect. So are the very clear facial features.
Maybe there WAS some vague resemblance of a face there, but THIS picture is clearly doctored.

Update: maybe not. Now considering that you can find it with Google maps … hmmm.

By: Gábor Török

Gábor Török — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:31:43 +0000

Bob_In_Wales:
The patterns may be remains from old floods and riverbeds. There was a big river regulation program 19th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisza#Regulation) around Tisza River.

By: Bob_In_Wales

Bob_In_Wales — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:04:03 +0000

I assume it’s a widespread technique, but I know here in the UK we use ariel photograph a lot to find archaeological remains – the different depths of soil resulting from subsurface features such as foundations results in different rates of crop growth which show up from the air nicely. You can see complete plans of old roman forts and such quite clearly.

The outline on this figure spreads over several fields – I wonder if anyone is considering a dig of this site. It could be an old fortification of some sort. Anybody know what the topology or context is?

By: Michael Meadon

Michael Meadon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:17:57 +0000

I’m with the Hitler-thesis. Mustache!

By: The Ill Tempered Klavier

The Ill Tempered Klavier — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:12:33 +0000

Really looks like my sister in law in a halter top to me. I’m serious; no grin or wink smilies here. I know I have one of Amanda-panda in just that pose. I’m having a screaming fit digging through my photo collection trying to find it.

By: Bee

Bee — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:41:31 +0000

Unlike a toast though, it will be hard to sell on ebay. Some months ago, I wrote a blogpost on a paper that examined the tendencies of people to see “faces” in random noise see here.