It was a story I had some history with.
When in college, I took a road trip with some friends to visit the Grand Canyon and Tucson, Arizona. It was a great and fun trip. After passing the Grand Canyon we stopped in a Northern Arizona tourist shop. There was a display of some posters that featured the Crimson Cliffs of that area. They're so magnificent. The display said on a card: how many faces can you find hidden in the cliffs. There were some initials and numbers, the highest indicated one person saw or felt they saw 47 faces hidden.
The Red Cliffs of Sedona, Arizona.
Someday, I'll locate the original poster, from decades back.
Now, as a child, I grew up with this in the Sunday Newspaper Funnies. I always loved those sections of the large colored Sunday cartoon section that featured the "How many can you find in this picture". Hidden were a dozen rabbits in the graphic or eleven ships hidden in some backyard scene. Usually, mom, getting up early, had circled some, but always missed a couple.
So, things are hidden in photos?
for a collection of "land form faces", see:
http://astro.wsu.edu/worthey/astro/html/im-indian-heads/indian.html
The problem is, once you start finding faces in things, it never stops. I'm sure that facial recognition is a brain and survival mechanism in us, the primates, and cats and dogs: we are geared from day one to recognize and gravitate to faces for our survival. And, I have always seen this in my pets as they cue into my face, and particular, eyes. Kittens and puppies gravitate to their own kind, and so interesting as we evolved with these animals, the faces of humans. They see us as just as safe as their mom. That's why taking a box of your kittens to the store parking lot helps you "pass them out", because the kittens or puppies struggle to get to surrounding people.
But, then this ability for me took and odd and for me, troubling direction. Being an amateur rockhound, I had long collected the scenic or picture jaspers, where a landscape image is found in the rock.
Do you find it?
Then, I ran across a new rockhound book of jaspers and agates to add to my collection. I'd actually read the book a couple times and didn't notice, but one day it sprang out at me: hey, there's hidden faces in EACH of the 200 jaspers and agates displayed.
Then, I began to count and circle the faces. But, this was not ordinary, or a fun trick posed in a couple photos. This was massive:
each photo had dozens of very complex photos hidden in the detail of each rock. Some sort of blending or morphing of the graphics had been done, and since the photos were so small, they weren't clearly noticeable. I scoured the Internet to see if there was any documentation of this. I looked back at 20 other gem and mineral guide books, and yes, there were hidden faces, but not of this complexity:
there was a whole Mormon choir, complete with their pipe organ in the background
there were rows of cats and dogs
old pioneer scenes depicted men in a saloon and other situations
and it went on and on
I went to the library in town. The staff were reluctant to let me talk directly with the librarian with a master's degree in library science, but I pushed my way through. She was irritated with that, and didn't respond to my inquiry for help: are there real scenes hidden here, is this a scam or prank, and does this exist in books and history. I did find that hidden images are a part of art, as both artist prank and as a way to hide secret information.
But, a whole choir, a lady sitting before a mirror?
I wrote to the author several times, and finally caught up with her on Facebook. I asked, "Did your photographer helper do this creativity?"
Well, as an author of books in a dying hobby field, she needs to keep her credibility and royalties going, so what else could she say in any response? "The faces are just inherent to the photos".
It isn't there.
It didn't happen.
You're likely making this up.
Doubt yourself.
In the meantime, the situation and books became so perplexing to me, that I threw them out. I'll get my rock and gem photos only online.....
Is there a daily gaslighting?
No, you're imaging things.
When in college, I took a road trip with some friends to visit the Grand Canyon and Tucson, Arizona. It was a great and fun trip. After passing the Grand Canyon we stopped in a Northern Arizona tourist shop. There was a display of some posters that featured the Crimson Cliffs of that area. They're so magnificent. The display said on a card: how many faces can you find hidden in the cliffs. There were some initials and numbers, the highest indicated one person saw or felt they saw 47 faces hidden.
The Red Cliffs of Sedona, Arizona.
Someday, I'll locate the original poster, from decades back.
Now, as a child, I grew up with this in the Sunday Newspaper Funnies. I always loved those sections of the large colored Sunday cartoon section that featured the "How many can you find in this picture". Hidden were a dozen rabbits in the graphic or eleven ships hidden in some backyard scene. Usually, mom, getting up early, had circled some, but always missed a couple.
So, things are hidden in photos?
for a collection of "land form faces", see:
http://astro.wsu.edu/worthey/astro/html/im-indian-heads/indian.html
The problem is, once you start finding faces in things, it never stops. I'm sure that facial recognition is a brain and survival mechanism in us, the primates, and cats and dogs: we are geared from day one to recognize and gravitate to faces for our survival. And, I have always seen this in my pets as they cue into my face, and particular, eyes. Kittens and puppies gravitate to their own kind, and so interesting as we evolved with these animals, the faces of humans. They see us as just as safe as their mom. That's why taking a box of your kittens to the store parking lot helps you "pass them out", because the kittens or puppies struggle to get to surrounding people.
But, then this ability for me took and odd and for me, troubling direction. Being an amateur rockhound, I had long collected the scenic or picture jaspers, where a landscape image is found in the rock.
Do you find it?
Then, I ran across a new rockhound book of jaspers and agates to add to my collection. I'd actually read the book a couple times and didn't notice, but one day it sprang out at me: hey, there's hidden faces in EACH of the 200 jaspers and agates displayed.
Then, I began to count and circle the faces. But, this was not ordinary, or a fun trick posed in a couple photos. This was massive:
each photo had dozens of very complex photos hidden in the detail of each rock. Some sort of blending or morphing of the graphics had been done, and since the photos were so small, they weren't clearly noticeable. I scoured the Internet to see if there was any documentation of this. I looked back at 20 other gem and mineral guide books, and yes, there were hidden faces, but not of this complexity:
there was a whole Mormon choir, complete with their pipe organ in the background
there were rows of cats and dogs
old pioneer scenes depicted men in a saloon and other situations
and it went on and on
I went to the library in town. The staff were reluctant to let me talk directly with the librarian with a master's degree in library science, but I pushed my way through. She was irritated with that, and didn't respond to my inquiry for help: are there real scenes hidden here, is this a scam or prank, and does this exist in books and history. I did find that hidden images are a part of art, as both artist prank and as a way to hide secret information.
But, a whole choir, a lady sitting before a mirror?
I wrote to the author several times, and finally caught up with her on Facebook. I asked, "Did your photographer helper do this creativity?"
Well, as an author of books in a dying hobby field, she needs to keep her credibility and royalties going, so what else could she say in any response? "The faces are just inherent to the photos".
It isn't there.
It didn't happen.
You're likely making this up.
Doubt yourself.
In the meantime, the situation and books became so perplexing to me, that I threw them out. I'll get my rock and gem photos only online.....
Is there a daily gaslighting?
No, you're imaging things.
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