Wednesday, February 01, 2017

The Guts of the Beast

Perception is one thing, and yet, our experience cannot help but color perception in some ways. Is the photo below (generously manipulated) a view of an industrial park from some high perspective? Is it an architect's model of a future business development? Is it the cover of a science fiction book?  Does it remind you of something that you cannot quite put your "finger" on?  Please note that while the shapes and focus have been manipulated, the colors are pretty true from the original.



Done guessing? Below is the original before and after the cropping.




It is the guts of the beast that I smashed with a heavy mallet a few days ago.  It represents a few years of my life, a bit of which was saved and much which was not.

15 comments:

  1. I so hope you saved all your entries and photos.
    Liked your facebook post this morning.

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  2. Fabulous manipulation of photos and perspective! Blessings from Dalamory

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  3. I guessed computer guts!

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  4. I didn't know what it was. I hope you took great satisfaction in smashing it.

    Love,
    Janie

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  5. What I think of every time I fly over Silicon Valley.

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  6. Your feed has come back into my blog roll. My hope is that the parts you saved were the most important ones.

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  7. I hope you smashed it because you replaced it with new technology.

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  8. I hope the smashing brought catharsis and a sweet feeling of relief.

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  9. I had no idea what I was looking at. At least you're posting which means something is still alive in your computer life! :-)

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  10. Your blog is updating again on my blog roll. Happy days!

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  11. circuit board. I guessed it.

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  12. You are back where you are supposed to be. How did you do it? Hooray! Meanwhile love the altered photo:-)

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  13. Got it but it sure does look like a new development.

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  14. Gee... I thought it was an architectural drawing too.

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  15. Ha.. great manipulation! ;) I thought I was looking at a quickly-rendered drawing of a facility from overhead.

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