Things That Hurt The Brain

Brutal Tiger Fail

2009-10-07T18:24:00.002-04:00

Srsly?
Why would anyone ever sneak into a tiger enclosure?
Why?
Why?
On purpose?

*sigh*

A commentary Dali - important then, important now

2009-05-17T00:14:00.005-04:00

Dedicated to Ruth

The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition
1934

Okay, just an explanation here.
(I'm sure that if you studied this piece for a while, you'd pick all this out yourself, but in the interest of saving time.....)

The piece that's missing from the woman is the cabinet (look at the bottom of the cut out and you'll see the shape of the cabinets legs.)

The piece that's missing from the cabinet is the littler cabinet with the bottle on top of it.
If you put all the pieces back into the woman, the bottle would be sitting right between when the woman's breasts would be (if she had like an actual body and not a cabinet) The little (baby) cabinet would be where her womb would be.

The bay is a white milky colour, that looks like, well, a bay of milk.

You can tell but the slump of the woman, and the fact that she needs to be supported by a stick crutch that she's not too happy that her womanly bits (womb and breasts) have been replaced by furniture.

Dali's reaction to the growing trend towards bottle feeding?

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmm"

Yet another commentary on Dali - Flaming what?

2009-05-16T11:50:00.007-04:00

Burning Giraffes

Finally a commentary on a work by Dali that actually does hurt my brain.

I have no problem with the "person" full of drawers.
(We're all full of drawers anyways right? Only our drawers are hidden!)
The "person" has a real zombiesque pose, arms out stretch and head back. You can almost hear the brain dead moaning. (And what's that other zombie got? A carrot? A stake? Well, what ever it is it's probably got something to do with the tree branch coiffe.) Not to mention the absence of facial features.
The "person" doesn't so much look like an actual person, more like something out of a nightmare.

Whoa. Creep zombie stick supported drawer person. Kinda cool.

The part of this that hurts my brain is the burning giraffe.
That flaming giraffe that looks very much like a real giraffe (the legs are the right length and everything!) and the title suggests that there is at least one more around somewhere.......

Why would that hurt my brain?
Well,
You see, if there are things depicted here that look just like real things in my world, and they are on fire (which is something I'd rather not think about) then maybe, just maybe, those creepy zombie stick supported drawer people were regular people once . And then someone came along and pulled all their hidden drawers out and erased their faces and planted trees in their heads and did all kinds of other horrible things to them. Painful things that turned them into the stumbling disfigured freaks you see.
But who would do such an awful thing you might ask?
Well, the same bastard that set the giraffes on fire obviously.

"Things that hurt the brain" blog format changed to hurt your brain less.

2009-05-15T23:16:00.003-04:00

Um, See title.
okthanxbye!

More commentary on Dali

2009-05-14T08:52:00.015-04:00

Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln By Dali.

This probably my favorite painting by Dali It was actually a little hard to find a good image of this to link too. (Meaning it wasn't on Wikipedia!) If you are not familiar with this painting, it's really worth it to try and view it from far away and appreciate the full effect. (Ohai Lincoln!)

One of the things Dali really loved to do was paint things that looked like other things.
The title of this one really spells it out for you so there is no surprise.
Still, I think it would be very cool if I were to see this from far away and think "Oh, it's just another Lincoln." and wander closer for a better look, and then think "Oh it's Gala!" (Just in case you didn't know, Gala was his wife/muse. This is a popular pose of her, although he also painted her balancing two lamb chops on her shoulder. Seriously!)

I really like the two little tiles at about leg level on the left side, showing the two images that the painting combines.

Now being the person I am, when I contemplate Gala's figure I don't admire Dali's skills. I wonder if her bum was actually ever that nice or if he added some enhancements. (Well, he was painting from memory after all )

Now if someone painted this today, I wouldn't be very impressed because of, you know, computers, which would make it very easy to do this sort of thing (planning and testing the concept I mean) but this was done in 1976, So I'm pretty impressed.

Dali would have made one heck of a pixel artist.

This doesn't actually hurt my brain very much. I'll get to the ones that actually do at some point in the future.....

Commentary on art that hurts the brain- Dali

2009-05-11T12:43:00.009-04:00

Can art hurt your brain?
You betcha! Can it ever.
And I'm not talking about BAD art either I'm talking about Good art!
Like classic stuff.

Specifically I'm talking about "The Temptation Of st. Anthon y" Dali's version,
(because it's been painted more than once naturally)
This is the one with St. Anthony about to get stomped by the white horse with wicked hooves, but wait, perhaps he won't get stomped after all because for some reason the horses forelegs are far far far shorter than his hind legs. Unless they are just, like, just about to grow as long as the back ones. That's one messed up horse! And right behind him are some messed up elephants. Well, they seem normal except for the legs.
But those legs on those elephants! Yikes! How are they even able to stand? Let alone hold up that heavy breast house? Well, I guess that's the devils work for ya!
To be honest I don't really find the caravan that temping but St. Anthony seems to think it's pretty bad, you can tell by the way he's fallen to his knees, and how he's holding up a cross to ward the "temptations" away. You can practically hear him "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
And just who does that skull belong to anyways?
I don't actually even find this one that brain painful.

You can find stuff to hurt your brian in the real world too.

2009-05-05T01:08:00.003-04:00

I recently went to the zoo.
Lots of cool animals to see there.
Also some animals that will make your brain hurt if you think about them for too long.

An anagram email fwd fwd fwd fwd I got (You probably seen it already)

2009-04-10T01:00:00.005-04:00

Nothing has hurt my brain since February 19? I don't believe that!
Got this in an e-mail.
My most favorite is definitely "The Morse code"
Those wacky anagrams!

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES: !
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE :
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

I have no words.....

2009-02-19T10:02:00.003-05:00

Just how ignorant are you?

2009-01-23T17:47:00.003-05:00

You probably don't want to know.
But in case you do, you can find out here.
Good luck.
And remember, cheating defeats the purpose.
Please feel free to post your results.
(I will post mine, if at least one other person does.)

Amazing Photographer!

2009-01-06T19:48:00.000-05:00

Carl Warner hurts my brain because he is so awesomely amazing.
This is just one example of his amazing work.
That's all food people, FOOD!

But why?

2009-01-03T11:55:00.001-05:00

You can go into a high end ladies fashion shop and buy designer pants for an insane amount of money.
Most of these pants have "fake" pockets. Meaning flaps or pouches that look like they are pockets but aren't.
According to the sales associate, real pockets that you could actually use to put stuff in spoil the line of the pant. Real pockets make pants look less "sleek".
You can go into a fashionable baby clothing store and buy pants for a baby age 0-3 months.
The pockets in those pants are real pockets.
For the new born babies to put all their stuff in.
(Because they don't worry about how sleek they look.)

Optical Illusions- Are we having a flash back?

2008-08-23T13:27:00.001-04:00

Look closely.
This is not an animation.
Your brain is doing the moving.
"It's moving but is not moving man!"
Trippy.

Optical illusions- Who is this guy and why does he have such staing power?

2008-08-23T13:22:00.001-04:00

Make this image big, (ie. click on it). Focus on the the four little black dots in the center for 30-40 seconds. Look at a flat colour wall for a few seconds. Blink your eyes a couple of time.
I have no idea how or why this works. This guy must be magical!

Optical illusions- These lines are straight.

2008-08-23T13:20:00.002-04:00

It looks like they are slanting up and down, but they really aren't. The placement of the squares makes them appear so.

Optical illusions- making circles move.

2008-08-23T13:13:00.001-04:00

Focus on the dot in the middle, then move you head towards the screen and away from the screen and the circles will move.
Eerie.

Optical Illusion- Too many legs?

2008-08-23T13:11:00.002-04:00

Elephants don't really have five legs. At least none of the elephants I know.

Optical illusion Black dots?

2008-08-23T11:56:00.001-04:00

It's really strange what you brain does all by itself. For example, there are no black dots. If you try to focus on them you will see they are not really there.

Stupid ball

2008-07-29T10:27:00.001-04:00

It's a ball on a "string"
CLICK ON THE BALL
( if you can ) AND IT CHANGES COLOR.
But that is all that will happen.

2008-07-25T22:30:00.001-04:00

Try this:
it will probably hurt your brain.
(a test for second graders).

2008-07-25T22:14:00.000-04:00

I received this photo in an email. The subject was:

Fw: The rise

of Satellite tv

I think this might be a fake photo.
I really really hope this is a fake photo.....

Some things that hurt the brain

2008-07-25T21:45:00.000-04:00

1. Not sleeping enough.
2. Not eating enough.
3. Not wearing a hat in prolonged direct sunlight.
4. Not drinking enough water.
5. Spending too much time in front of a screen (computer or TV).
6. Blunt force trauma.
7. Keeping your hair in a very tight pony tail all day long.
8. Wear prescription glasses (that are not your prescription) .
9. Excessive amount of alcohol (this takes time to have an effect.)
10. Falling and banging your head on the ground due to consuming an excessive amounts of alcohol (not water) on an empty stomach, in direct sunlight, while not wear a hat, after staying up all night in front of a screen, while wearing your hair in an extremely tight pony tail and someone else prescription glasses.