This video is too amazing for words. At first I assumed that the elephant was merely taught to paint that, which if true, would still be amazing (and amazingly difficult I would have thought); but the use of overlap to depict perspective (the legs farther away are interrupted by both the body mass and the legs closer to the viewer, and the final flourish of the trunk wrapping around the flower) is an extremely sophisticated optical device and it seems stunningly clear that the elephant is completely in control and operating with intention. Just the whole sense of pictorial abstraction completely blows me away.
This totally knocks me on my ass. Thanks, Rick, this is absolutely amazing. Jai Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Video of an elephant painting. It's amazing. If the long link below doesn't > work, use the tiny url. > > HYPERLINK > "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk&eurl=http://lj- toys.com/?journal > id=2456484&moduleid=18&auth_token=sessionless:1206568800:embedcontent :245648 > 4%252"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk&eurl=http://lj- toys.com/?jo > urnalid=2456484&moduleid=18&auth_token=sessionless:1206568800:embedco ntent:2 > 456484%252 > > HYPERLINK "http://tinyurl.com/2pfnn7"http://tinyurl.com/2pfnn7 > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1/1348 - Release Date: 3/28/2008 > 10:58 AM >
