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April 26, 2007 |
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First Contact
FOUND by Amber Dawn
in North Carolina
I found this half-mutilated photo negative on the floor of a warehouse about to be torn down. When I scanned it, it looked like an alien or a fetus was staring the guy right in the face, and he doesn't seem to mind it all that much.
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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...
That's the coolest find I've seen on this site!
This is neat!! Yay for alien fetus!!!
wow, this is pretty cool. It looks like this guy is about to walk into another world or another dimension -- somewhere not here. Where can I sign up for this?
that is crazy
Outside the compound in Waco...
A fetus with a cartoon duck in it's pouch !
Is Amber Dawn your stripper name?
Reminds me of an episode of South Park.
Come on! This has nothing to do with poop!
a fetus or an alien? Did you take embryology? I love that things like that can be so comparable and people don't 'believe' in evolution.
MY FAVORITE!!
Moe, I believe in evolution, I mean we TOTALLY came from aliens.....
it's the giant brain baby from the end of 2001 space oddyssey!
Moe, let me be the first to call you a judgenmental bitch.
if you magnifiy it you can see that the man is holding something... perhaps a peace offering to the alien?
To me it looks like an abstract cartoon guy eating his own fist, and some guy with a weird scarf and a huge coffee cake looking at him like, "Am I supposed to be impressed?"
This is definitely the best one in a while.
Wait a minute... isn't that Drew Carey about to be swallowed up by the alien fetus??
Dahlia, I believe you are right. Is the Bishop offering the alien fetus booze?
Or is it like "Field of Dreams" and Grampa is playing the part of Terence Mann?
That is insane-crazy-cool!
I love the look on the guy's face too.
I think he's offering the Alien a beer in a cozy. Didn't know they drank beer.
VERY cool find.
He's offering the alien fetus some poop.
It's weird, in the blow up he looks like he's wearing a religious "scarf" type thing around his neck (the colored bands). I was Catholic and priests wore different colored things around their necks all the time.
The thing in his hand I would call a coffee cup, but he is holding it like an offering, with his left hand flat under it like a tray.
WEIRD!
Moe-
Why do you have to take embryology to be able to notice that a shape resembles a fetus? And this fetus-alien comparison can't possibly be the first one you're heard, especially if you've taken embryology. If you've ever been around a group of people talking about a sonogram, that's usually something that comes up.
P.S. I suggest a few Communications classes, and an anthropology one, just so that you can learn that thinking a shape looks like an alien and belief or disbelief in evolution are not connected.
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Very cool find. I love how the picture doesn't directly focus on any single person or object. It's almost like they knew it would eventually become distorted like that.
It looks like something Salvador Dali would do if he had become a photographer. Either way, I would be very happy.
This is an awesome photograph!
Any photography peoples out there who know how this was done?
Man, that white thing keeps looking like different things. I can definitely see the fetus bit, no doubt there. But that mid section of detached white throws me. It could be the profile of a cyclops head, but then it could also be the headless form of a toddler in arabesque and wearing footie pajamas.
Quite ironic! Does anyone remember the ultrasound picture that appeared after each episode of the Drew Carey Show? (Mohawk Productions' Logo) Maybe the fetus is taking Drew's Grandpa as payback for all those years of being exploited. You know how child actors are!
i know i know. this happened to me before. i was developing a roll of film and when it had dried and i was cutting it, i found out that some of the emulsion had melted/smeared off of the film. the emulsion is the part of the film that is exposed whne you take a picture, thats what it looks like. it was such a pain in the ass when i found my whole roll had melted. but i love this find.
I think the guy is some kind of minister. The coloured scarf kind of looks like something i remember from my childhood, being forced to attend church. Maybe he's offering the alien fetus communion.
whoa, totally that embryonic thing from "2001 a space odyssey" that now is appearing in the hedges of the subburbs. Open the Weber Grill lid Hal, Hal open the Weber grill lid.
I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that.
My name is Officer Remose, I am an agent in the FBI. I am sorry to inform you, but NONE OF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS photo. Do you understand? YOU HAVE NOT seen this photo.
The reason you have not seen this photo is because this is photographic evidence of life on other planets. In fact, this was taken while my wife and I were on Q-ZR 7. A very interesting planet. They have no "streets" like we do (if you notice in the picture...) and the houses all have a creepy glow about them, though they look like ordinary brick. The oddest thing about Q-ZR 7 is that the moon is actually harnessed to the earth, you can see evidence of this in this photograph., which I accidentally dropped at lunch when I almost burned myself with that damn hot McDonald's coffee. Ouch.
Well, as I said, YOU DID NOT SEE THIS PICTURE.
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anyone else notice the weird arc of light in the magnification? maybe the mother ship?
Perhaps this man is a modern-day Moses? I agree it looks as though he has a stole on. and that may account for the way he is holding his coffee cup - as if it's communal...
The aliens have come togive us new knowledge! An audio-viratory physio-molecular transport device! Yes, Brad, we ourselves have been working on it...
but it seems our friend here has found a way of perfecting it...
a perfect vibrator!
ok, rant off.
so...yea - what ever happened to the two in the background?
awesome!
I saw the "duck" in the pouch right away, but it took me a bit longer to see the giant alien-fetus head, thoough now I see it there for sure. Ok psych majors, what's my problem?
Did anyone else manage to enlarge this picture? I did and I found the the picture is some guy in his backyard while his wife walks next to a kid. Then the film is all melty hence the alien fetus. The odd thing I dont understand is the mans need for a scarf. It looks as though it's pretty dandy out there.
That guy looks like Mr. Belvidere.
He isn't wearing a scarf its a white t-shirt with a colourful logo and a open black zip hoodie open.
The stripe-y thing is just his shirt underneath his windbreaker. See how his jacket's unzipped?
Great Find!
I see a big-headed alien threatening to poke a man in the eye with his penis.
i think that the way finder,amber, described the photo reflects a lot about our society. How issues like abortion can be over looked by so many people.
JQ, if that's his wife in the background, this picture must have been taken in Massachusetts. And I don't care what anyone says, I'm going to keep on pretending it's a scarf.
here's a question - what was the original point of the photograph? It looks like a panoramic shot but it's not centered on any one point.
And I'm only seeing drooping film - is there something wrong with me?
the guy looks more like mr. feeny than drew carey
I always wonder if people are ever reunited with their "lost" items on this website. Has anyone ever seen that happen?
Hey Janeene!
There's actually a section in News of the FOUND devoted to that! We call it "Hey! That's Me!" Check out the happy reunions here:
http://whatsup.foundmagazine.com/?cat=14
I love this. It is wicked cool.
Aylee, I think you need to look up the definition of the word "irony."
Moe, that made no sense whatsoever. In addition to a Communications and an Anthropology class, I'd recommend "Intro to Logic." Please, for all of our sakes.
Hey thanks Delani! That stinks about your pictures. I bet you could have some fun with this stuff. There doesn't seem to be any discoloration around the edges of the white, so you couldn't really use it as a burned out look. Ooo you know, the edges of the white are all clean and it doesn't look like there is much discoloration inside it either. If you could control this melting/smearing of the emulsifier you could get someone really arty to intersperse cartoon characters in your photos after you cleared an outline. All sorts of funky Roger Rabbit possibilities. Man I wish I knew darkroom techniques... and had access to a darkroom... and was arty and funkified... kind of a problem.
the point of the photograph.
i think it's beautifully composed. forground, middleground background are all interesting. the depth is there. the asymmetrical balance. Even without the alien fetus this was a nice picture.
i think someone is being artistic or maybe it's someone who doesn't know what they're doing and accidentally took a nice picture.
im still trying to figure out how it happened. i think i might have fixed the image too long, therefore causing the emulsion to melt. it would be cool if i could figure out how it happened and manipulate pictures that way. good idea. but i wouldnt have any control over how it appeared, which might be a good thing.
I probably won't take any communications courses or logic. Thanks for the suggestions, though. I think the evolution thing was on the mind, post-conversation regarding evolution with non-'believer'. Logic did exist in my mind, however wasn't expressed clearly. The essence of the meaning of the original comment was the comparison of embryos to aliens - the degree of change during development and unrecognizable attributes of our own offspring, including the presence of gill flaps. No judgmental bitch intents. Have a nice day!
infamous Moe: "curious" was wrong. you don't need schooling, you need to be institutionalized. Check yourself into the e-ward today.
those people in the backgrounda re running to save him from the fetus dimension he's about to be sucked into.
look at him, it's like he just realized what was going to happen.
i love how all the things and people in this picture are so indistinct.
except the two people running.
All right, smarty pants, what's that orange thing on the back of its neck?
I think the "fetus stomach" looks a bit like one of those Shakespearian half masks.
I think this photo is craaaaaaazy!
And cool that you found it.