That's a fun looking car!
(As well as the 2-eyed Sprite on the photo posted by Frank.)
Actually, there was at least one 3-eyed car, I believe, in 60s.
I've seen one at one of the Smithonian museums (I believe it was
Smithsonian National Museum of American History) in DC back in 1995.
My vague recollection of it was that it was conteporary of JFK, but that
might be off by a few years.
The middle headlight was turning with the wheels.
I have a printed photograph of it, - but since that I was unable to trace
what model that car was (actually, I never tried hard). I suspect some
experts on this list might know that model.
(I am too tired at the moment to dig into the photo albums and scan that
photo.)
Igor
On December 4, 2015 1:44:39 PM EST, Mark C wrote:
I sometimes wonder if automobile designers are deliberately trying
anthropomorphize their products, but at the end of the day two head
lights ("eyes") and one grill ("mouth") will result in some resemblance
to a human or at least vertebrate face. Adding a third light would
change that -
http://forums.motortrend.com/70/6735296/the-artists-loft/the-return-of-tucker/index.html
I keep looking for alternate subjects other than insects and spiders,
but despite several test shoots I still have not found much that is
interesting at these magnifications.
Mark
On 12/3/2015 11:56 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Great work, as usual, Mark!
I do not find these insect particularly ugly or threatening.
In many (most?) cases those impressions both concepts are
experience-based.
Naturally, a human brain tends to like what we are used to, and
dislike (or even get threatened by) what is very disparate from
ourselves: we fear unknown.
I think it is very similar to the roots of xenophobia (and a few
other phobias). I also think a similar mechanism is responsible (at
least in part) for face recognition problems across races.
Mark, I see why you said this insect looks like a puppy.
It does a little bit.
By the way, this is actually a great example of that we tend to
relate
new objects to something that we are familiar with.
Very similarly, we find human-like features in cars (headlights ->
eyes,
grill -> face), and classify some grill features as friendly or
aggressive.
Igor
PS. I find it interesting that a few months ago I was shooting a
wasp,
thinking it was an ant queen. :-)
You might remember it: http://42graphy.org/misc/_IR27045.jpg
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Mark C wrote:
Since posting this I've learned that it is actually an ant queen,
and
not a
wasp, not that it makes much difference to the viewer. As nasty as
ti
looks,
the whole frame is covering less than 3mm of space, so the ant is
very tiny
indeed.
On 12/3/2015 12:19 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Certainly a creature one wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley :-).
On 12/3/2015 1:48, Mark C wrote:
Looks a little like a puppy to me:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/small-wasp-1
or on flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/markcassino/23370180022/
8x lifesized. Pentax K01 and K 24 f3.5, lots of extension and
flash.
Comments welcome!
Mark
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