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Please excuse my silence on the conversation that has been taking place on this pearl - je ne parlez francais (je suis Canadian, seulement Anglaise! ; >). Francois, please do take this pearl and add it to your "visites virtuelles" - I would then not get copied on all the messages between visitors - oiu? Meanwhile, I will continue to "scour" the www for gems, treasures and more food for the soul. Peace! by Feb 11
Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. - John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900 by Feb 9
I understand that more museums will absolutely be added; this is very new, almost beta, and knowing Google, it will only grow! Hurray! by Feb 4
When I first looked at the photos, I thought the “mirror man” was a sculpture. But I found this information from a photographer nicknamed SilverSky who took the pictures, he states “I was in LA and this guy shows up in a suit from head to toe made of glass. I thought it was pretty cool.” Update (September 21st, 2010) : Thanks to reader Fourfirearts for sending the following information: “ the ‘mirror man’ aka ‘ The Collector ‘ is by the artist Gustav Troger of San Francisco & Vienna. He is in North America now on another ‘The Collector’ tour. ” Notes about Gustav Troger (from Dorotheum ):
The Mysterious “Mirror Man” appears in L.A. — Illusion 360 - The World's most amazing Art, Design, Technology and Video
In 1992 I was just starting graduate school in visual perception. One of the things they showed us in our first days was this painting by Salvador Dali. The professor showed it on a slide projector, and asked us what it was. Of course, we all described the woman looking through the window. With a flourish, he spun the focus on the slide projector’s lens, and we suddenly saw something else – Abraham Lincoln as seen on the U.S. $5 bill. Today we’re used to seeing things like photomosaics that take lots of individual photographs, shrink them, and put them together to create a completely different picture.
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