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September 02, 2006 |
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Pinin' for the Fjords
FOUND by Jackie Meeks
in New York, New York
My husband found this Polaroid on the street. We're not sure if the objects surrounding the bird are candles, corks or perhaps wooden pegs.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
cigarette butts
It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.
Oh I miss Monty Python!
That isn't a parrot at all! It appears to be a very dead jay of some sort!
Btw, they are earplugs. I have the exact same ones.
I hate those grids. Horribly. I hate scaling and re-scaling and all for whaaaat?! To know how to re-scale an image. Thats what photoshop is there for. :)
I'm totally disturbed by this photograph.
This just SCREAMS Alfred Hitchcock!
you people are strange. anyone that has been a kid knows that those arent pegs or candles, they are battleship pieces. you know. the game. thats why the grid is there. battleship. the game. weirdos.
yeah, i'm pretty sure that's battleship
someone sank the battle-bird :(
Its a Catbird
i guess they do look like battleship pieces...although, if you look very closely, each "peg" seems to have a line in the middle: earplugs being reflected in a mirror or glass.
it looks like someone was going for a graphic, artistic look, but the dead bird really...well..."killed" it.
"B-12...HIT!"
if those were candles, then thats a pretty big bird. they are not battleship pieces, they are the wrong color. there is a grid on the photo but that doesn't mean its from the game. they do look like ear plugs however they are too skinny. best bet is they are pegs, perhaps wooden. why someone would take a picture of this, i don't know.
Mary: Fantastic! Others might want to Google "Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch."
What I want to know is how someone managed to get such an incredible visual effect with a Polaroid. How did that grid get there? Is there special Polaroid film that includes a grid?
Those look like cigarette filters to me...(stripped of the paper) not sure the significance of the bird though... Hummm
My first thought was that it was a lite brite.... but who knows? I like it......
Brian in NC: I'm with you; I think everyone is missing the fact that this is a POLAROID. They don't come with Photoshop last I saw. How in Holy Flubber does one do that with a Polaroid? Anyone know?
Haha Mary, I thought the same thing! That episode was on BBC not too long ago...
ummm, photoshop. People do not send in actual pics--- just pics of pics so any image can be created. Simply scan a polaroid of some family function then paste in the photoshop image you want and voila! Instant artsy image. Neat but this doesn't really count for found in my opinion. Folks should do that stuff over at Flickr.
beautiful photo.
GridFilm = http://www.amazon.co.uk/Polaroid-Image-GRID-Instant
Explanation of the picture = These are all the earplugs that the picture taker had used over time to avoid the chirps of the bird. He finally killed the bird and then set up a shrine of sorts using the old earplugs.
I'm just guessing, but that's what I would do.
I've actually rigged my Polaroid to take double exposures, and this is what they look like! This isn't just a random picture, some artist actually took this and composed a good shot with a modified camera.
It actually looks like a TRIPLE exposure where one shot was of the dead bird, another the grid from Battleship, then another of the pegs from Battleship. Also, the blob of non-exposed/over-exposed film at the top happens sometimes when you do more than one exposure to a single photo.
Great article on how it's done:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4700468_polaroid-doubl