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October 07, 2008 |
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Father and Son?
FOUND by Clara Roethe
in Krefeld, Germany
I found these two photographs on the street on my way home. They look like father and son, don't they? I wonder why someone would throw these away??
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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...
The guy on the right totally has jazz hands.
Opah! Don't be so serious, fellas! Let's dance!
The guy on the left, on the other hand (ha!), is bummed that he forgot his spare Hamlet at home.
I can't be the only one thinking this involves the Witness Relocation Program. Hold on, there are Federal agents at my door...
Clara left the leaves and yard debris on the photos before she scanned them. I wouldn't have thought of doing that.
Photoshopped much?
The clothing doesn't seem to go with the sepia tones and crinkle-edged prints. I sense an anachronism.
Looks like Sonny Boy was forced to have his picture taken by sleepy-eyed Dangerous Dad. A goodbye photo before being deported back to the Old Country? Or a headshot to send to a matchmaker?
One has scary starey eyes, the other has scary hairy 'tache.
The one on the right really looks like a cross between Steve Paikin (the Canadian leader's debate moderator) and Justin Trudeau. Weird!
This Find has got my imagination reeling...
Maybe it's the same person in each photo?
An actor, showing his range of age-acting ability?
A secret government operative in disguise?
A photograph taken only a few years apart, pre- and post-diabetes?
The Witness Protection/Relocation Program is another good possibility... Not bad, Geek!
I'd say they're from Greece. Mind you...the elder of the two, has a Hitler 'stache.
Er, LASH... The Finder IS from Germany... the 'stache... Haha.
But I'd say they look more Italian than Greek. Maybe the Finder's from southern Germany, which is right above Italy, I believe.
That old guy looks like a cross between Charlie Chaplin and Adolph Hitler.
The young guy has real pointy ears. Is he:
a) Vulcan
b) Elvish
c) a little devilish
d) computer geekish
If this father and son, then laddie has his mother's eyes. (What?!)
I get these kinds of pictures mailed to me all the time. Maybe because I belong to the "Eyebrows of the Month" club.
The older guy kind of looks like Alfred Molina. The younger one looks like thug #2 of the Russian mafia in some action flick.
Clover, I once Found a photograph that still had chunks of glass from the broken picture frame attached. I scanned it (and saved it in the Found Footlocker) shards of glass intact.
..., what makes you say it's 'Shopped?
Guy on left: Crowned Prince of Monaco
Guy on right: Most recent member of Menudo
Eyebrows of the Month Club? How can I join? (Eyebrows are endlessly interesting. So different, yet so similar. Always the first thing I notice.)
- Librarian -
Vulcan. No doubt about it.
I went on a date with a guy who had amazing eyebrows, so unbelievably pointed. He looked constantly surprised, talked about Harold Pinter, and took me to the aquarium. A nice date all told.
I googled eyebrow of the month, so hoping I'd find something, but it was all just comparing notes on how often one plucks. Dull dull dull.
* Fat, Bella Lugosi/Hitler hybrid on the left.
* Eddie Munster grows up and gets Extreme Makeover on the right.
Did anyone see the film Easter Promises? These two look like extras from that.
What era did they make crinkly cut photographs like this? Is it still used?
I meant Eastern Promises, not Easter. That would be a very different film
Guy on right: Needs a Poo Hat!!!!!
This find is awesome.
And Eastern Promises was fun, though seeing so many dangly bits on a giant screen was surprising enough that we laughed through the fight scene.
Immature? Yes. Fun? Yes.
Why does Jazz Hands look so scared?
and Father Jazz Hands needs to lighten up a bit! How bout a smile once in a while?
Jazz hands is scared because he is a figure skater, and his alternate lifestyle is about to be exposed by his frightening looking coach / sugar daddy.
Ah, in that case, scared he should be!
this looks so edited. someone has a lot of free time on their hands and serious photoshop skillzzzz
Nananananananananananananananana.....
TASHMAN!!
the young guy has hair over the tops of his ears. it's the angle that makes them look pointed.
i don't see any hands, jazz or otherwise.
what do you think is photoshopped?? they look like a couple of old pictures to me..
ever think it could be two pictures of the same person?
Yeah I get a slight feeling of Photoshop... mainly on the right picture. To me, that picture doesn't look like it is from the days of the ruffle cut edges. It's all very odd. Just an opinion.
I'd guess early 1950's on the serrated edges. My parents have/had photos from that era in albums. Come to think of it, they lived in England for a while during that time, and it could have been a British thing??
@ consciously ... clearly, he is combing his hair so that it LOOKS like it's the angle that makes his ears look pointed. Surely you don't think that Vulcans - having gone to the trouble to time travel back to 20th century Earth - would NOT disguise their pointed ears??
Young Mario Lemieux is irate when he learns that he's been paired with the "time to make the donuts" guy for the three-legged race event at the 2nd annual Low Level Celebrity Track & Field Day in 1985.
Err, A GIRL- Yes...I read that...sheesh!
Dad's mustache looks like it was drawn on with a marker.
They look Turkish. I hear many Turkish people have immigrated to Germany. The second photo looks like a passport photo. Not sure about the first one.
http://foundmagazine.com/find/537
Jazz hands, Dad, Jazz hands!
The one on the left looks like Babu from Seinfeld. "You are a very bad man! Very, very bad!" *wags finger*
3..2..1...smile!
or not.
....show me sultry
I can't believe I'm the only person who has mentioned the comb-over on the older man. I mean, WOW!
Jazz hands? Am I missing something?
Babu from Seinfeld... HAHAHA! I love it..
The serrated edges could simply be that someone cut them out with pinking shears...?
ooohh....HOTT
(just kidding)
I kinda agree with the Photoshop skeptics. Like, if they were real, how come you wouldn't bother to remove the leaf before you scanned it? Unless it's glued on there with street murp.
Or how come there's no background, as if the person had enough time to meticulously cut out the outline of each photo?
Seriously, though, that guy looks like he could win *any* staring contest.
Bring back moustaches!
"It's FrankenSHTEEN!"
Those are referred to as deckled edges. My family has quite a few '50's b&w pictures with this type of edging. It is very easy to find deckle blade scissors in craft stores, and in fact I've used them on reprints of photos from this era, not to fool anyone, but just because they always look undone with a straight white border. (Pinking shears would leave a zigzag edge.) Beyond that, I'm clueless about photoshop, and I certainly would not wish to malign Clara of Krefeld...
Axe murderers, the lot of them!
They look like mobsters.