Predictions for 2014

Saturday, December 28, 2013 1:56:49 PM

Predictions for 2014

More & More Babies will be born with 6 or 7 Fingers on each hand.

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A Well Established Media Whore will be Involved in a Scandal concerning Incest & An Unfamiliar Religion or Cult

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3D Printers will establish a New Level of Resolution that allow them print custom CPUs &/or Fully Functional Electronic Devices.

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The First Generation of PreCogitators will become available as a Hand Held Device that will largely supersede ‘Tablets’. These PreCogitators will becomes most people’s best friends & Civilization will begin to slide away from under us.

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A Large Commercial Airliner will plow through a Densely Populated City as The Result of Pilot Error.

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A Method of Generating Gravity Waves will be Disclosed; Then Debunked, then Resurrected with Uncertainty.

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A New ‘Steady State’ Movement of Young Professional Astronomers will Refute The Big Bang Conjecture.

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A New Kind of ‘Math’ will be revealed & will sweep through many Public Schools; Then removed along with many of its advocates.

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There will be New Irrefutable Evidence that The U.S. Government is actually a Autocratic Dictatorship & has been since 1951. All The Presidents, Congressmen, Senators & The Supreme Court have been Impotent puppets.

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Nudism will sweep through Europe.

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Africa will produce three new potentially pandemic diseases.

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Polygamy & Polyandry will be legalized in five states.

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Japan will start a New Movement to Remove all traces of Westernization from their Islands.

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A Perpetual Motion Machine that produces a startling amount of excess energy will be demonstrated in several venues, then mysteriously disappear without explanation.

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Hillbilly Chic will become amazingly popular, accompanied by their own Music, which will have substantially evolved from Traditional Folk Banjo Music.

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Cuba will discover a New Source of Fabulous Wealth & Buy Florida, Georgia & Louisiana, saving The US from Economic Collapse.

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Women ( lesbian couples ) will discover a way to make babies without men.

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Men ( Gay Couples ) will discover a ( Theoretical ) way to make babies without women, but The Method will be stymied by The required Necessity of a yet UnInvented Artificial Womb & The Illegality of Using Chicken Eggs to Host Their Human DNA.

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Flying Saucers will remain very mysterious.

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A Bigfoot will be Captured & discovered to have a very high Non-Linguistic Intelligence.

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Post Vegetarianism will begin with The Creation of A Very Nutritious CandyBar made entirely from Non-Organic Raw Materials.

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An UnSpecified Post Terrorist Group ( One Worlders ) will Sink an American AirCraft Carrier.

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Spain will Very Unexpectedly Land Men & Women on The Moon & remain there for several months.

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It will become clear that Australia will be the Next Principle World SuperPower within 10 years.

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The SuperCyclotron will almost destroy The World by creating a Black Hole that will ( mercifully ) pass through The entire Earth before flying off into space.

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Pluto will be reinstated as a planet.

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An Entirely New Kind of Artificial ‘Life’ will be Created Using DNA Bases Unlike Our ATCG’s.

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Scientists in South America will produce a Flying Penguin.

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A New Street Drug will make anyone ( permanently ? ) fall in love with you. The Drug works by ‘Impressing’ The Subject of their love on The First Person they see after taking The Drug. The Window of Impressing is opened for between 5 & 40 minutes of ingesting The Drug.

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Ugly People will Riot in The Streets demanding Social Equality.

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A Dog will be taught to Speak.

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A Ground Hog will be found that can paint recognizable images.

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A New Method of ‘Climbing’ Inclines will replace Stairs.

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A Disease which makes people smarter will threaten world civilization.

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Robots will become Ubiquitous.

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Electrical Cords & Overheard Power Lines will begin disappearing.

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Elevators ( Taxivators ) that move sideways will begin appearing.

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There will be multiple instances of live births of two headed babies.

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India will feature more anomalous phenomena.

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A Pod Blue Whales will beach Themselves somewhere ( ?

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The Winter of 2014 will be amazingly cold throughout North America & Europe.

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A Famous person will Spontaneously Combust.

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An Object that defies identification will fall to Earth in South America. It will be Reported in The First World Nations, but only as a Joke Story.

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It will be widely revealed that DNA is UnAccountable for Fetal Development. Intron Sequences will be used to explain The missing processes, but these will be shown to be specious, as will Morphic Fields & Maternal factors. A New theory of Parasitic Bacterium & Virus that Self Organize our Available DNA into Complex Structures will become The New Paradigm for Fetal Fabrication.

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Internet Crimes will become The New ( de-facto ) War on Terrorism, allowing The elimination of Airport Screening Stations & Domestic Spying.

This will also herald The Introduction of A New & Improved Internet that will be more like an On-Line Encyclopedia.

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Universal ID Numbers will Replace & Supersede Social Security Numbers, Driver’s License Numbers, Birth Certificates, Passports & Be Used as an All Purpose Phone Number & Email Address. Since The System will then Track you everywhere you go, it will also replace your home address & be used to deliver mail to you wherever you are. These Numbers will be Biogenetically Bound to Each Individual, making Identity Theft ( Nearly ) Impossible.

Adults that wish to Opt-Out of this system can do so; But they become essentially non-Citizens & forfeit their ability to use money, The Internet or own any electronic devices.

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Prisons will begin to be replaced with Ner’er-do-well towns, where Career Criminals, Sociopaths & Scoff-Laws will be sent to live Permanently. These will be quite ordinary towns in most respects, but The level of supervision & isolation from The ‘Real’ world will make them subtly different.

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License Plates on Cars will disappear as each car will soon possess a unique electronic identity that will reveal it’s location & activity at all times.

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Regional Security will become so pervasive that many people will stop locking their doors again.

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Some Public Schools & Parents will stop teaching children to read.

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A New Method of Dry-Organic Data Manipulation will begin replacing Electronics.

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A New Theory of Matter will make The Table of Elements Obsolete.

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The Reason why The Speed of Light is The Speed of Light will Revolutionize & Revitalize Physics, Throwing Quantum Mechanics & Special Relativity out The Window.

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The Reason why we didn’t establish Moon Colonies will be revealed, Horrifying nearly everyone.

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Young People will start a new fad of surgically adding a third eye to The foreheads.

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An International League of Gentleman Warriors will begin Policing The World, eliminating regional & national Armies & Navies.

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ElectroMagnetic Pollution will finally be found responsible for The Growing Numbers of Autistic Children.

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The Principle cause of Adult Mortality will be Brain Tumors.

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Faery Folk, Human Like Skeletons of Ancient Giants & Remote Viewing will be recognized as real.

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Homelessness will become a viable intercity lifestyle.

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Doors will begin disappearing as they will be replaced with Venetian Walls.

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TransSexuals will be The New Gay.

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A Stilt-Like Pogo-Stick Legs Device will replace Bicycles.

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Air Travel will Plummet as Proximal Tourism & Proximal Business Communications will make Meeting People & Seeing Things Obsolete.

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Virtual Fantasy Vacations will replace Travel Vacations.

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The Bed-Ridden Elderly will become Robot Sentries that will tirelessly patrol our cities.

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Amorphous Spots of Light on The Wall will replace dogs & cats as pets.

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Ant Poison will be The New LSD.

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National & International News Organizations will Disappear with The Advent of Tiered Hierarchal Gossip Apps, Resulting in many long standing Conspiracies finally being exposed.

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Ink & Graphite Industries will collapse, marking a shift in economic foundations to transparent materials for all industrial & manufacturing applications.

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The New Catch Phrase will become; “Don’t force me to use magic on you!”

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Bugs will be observed to becoming bigger.

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States that still Execute Prisoners will switch from Lethal Injection to Publicly held Raves with Burnings at The Stake.

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The Republican & Democratic Parties will be replaced by The Juniper Raspberry Coalition & The Six-Legged Muskrat Amalgamation of JarHeads.

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Helium Balloons will be outlawed, Siting a More Urgent Need for Helium, but this Reason will not be disclosed.

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The American Flag will be changed to A Design that has Left-Right Symmetry so that it can’t be ‘Reversed’.

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Another Strange Sensations or Phenomena Listing

Saturday, December 28, 2013 4:03:50 PM

Another Strange Sensations or Phenomena Listing

i was telling my Doctor about this weird sensation that i experience on my foot a few times ( 3 or 4 times ) in which i would get up from a nap & my left foot would feel like i’d stepped on something, causing it to swell up in The instep, But an examination of The Foot would yield no such injury.

My Doctor thought that it sounded like somekind of Nerve Pinching thinger, but that didn’t sound exactly right to me. ( ? )

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Every once in awhile, Maybe at least once a week, i will be sure that a television or radio News-head will grossly mispronounce a common word ( ? )

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i got up from a nap The Other day, & this has occurred a few times before that i can recall; & that is; i will notice that The Peep Cover on my door will be askew, allowing light to come through.

Because i’m natureally very paranoid, i will invariably go over & right it, But The Odd Bit is that when i try to replicate The effect by moving The cover to one side, it will always fall back to the closed position. i have never been able to get it to move & stay in The askew position on purpose ( ? ) !

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This is certainly more a defective Technical Issue; But my new Cell Phone will occasionally refuse to make outgoing calls. This effect is accompanied by The Key strokes not producing any feedback tones. So it may be that The Sound speaker is somehow defective, because when i try to make a call by selecting a stored number, it will apparently go through, but i can’t hear anything that accompanies a normal call.

This is remedied by turning The phone off & back on, but it certainly is annoying.

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i dropped a 1 ½ inch screw a few days ago, & watched it fall to The floor in exactly a certain spot, but when i went to pick it up, it had completely disappeared ! A thorough search of that entire area would not reveal its position.

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My MacBook HardDrive went bad a few weeks ago; So i replaced it with a New HardDrive that is about 3x as big for less than $100. It seems to be working fine, & Amazingly ( ! ) i didn’t lose any Data, But when i perform a routine Systems Diagnostic on it, it seems to pass all The Tests, But The Disk Utility Routine fails to report that it’s fine. Instead it just stops where it usually ends, without The ‘Everything Seems OK’ message. ( ? )

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i sent out 22 Z-Mass Zynes this Solstice Season, but only got 3 cards back !!! i am inclined to believe that someone is stealing my mail, but i don’t know how i would report or investigate this, as i have only vague suspicions.

The other alternative explanation is that my sister is spreading crazy rumors about me, which is causing everyone in The Family to Snub me ( ! ) ( ??? )

Everyone is usually mad at me about something, but i really expected a few more cards from some of The ‘Usual’ relatives.

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Plus all The Usual Synchronous Events; Such as mentioning Car Keys falling down a Street Grate in my Z-Mass Zyne, & a day later seeing this phenomena in a Television show. This actually happened to me ( Approximately ) but i have never witnessed it happening to someone else.

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From quite awhile ago :

February 23rd 2011

As i'm having this Dream for The Box, ( a documented dream that is irrelevant for this venue ) i woke up at about 5am and noticed on my ceiling a flashing white light. i get up and look out the window and see a van, or SUV, very darkly colored. It does not appear to be any sort of official vehicle that i'm familiar with. Not a police or fire truck. And it has a Flashing White Strobe on it's top, with the headlights on. There is only one person in the area, and he is wearing what appears to be a space suit ( !!! ) without the helmet. It is very dark out, and the strobe is not really illuminating things very well, although it is very bright. The suited figure is walking along the street towards the dark van, gets in and the vehicle speeds off towards Monroe. i apparently was able to only witness the last few moments of whatever it was doing in the neighborhood.

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As an irrelevant side note : i at least once before caught the last few seconds of what may have been a very improbable situation. i was a street person in Hawai`i around 1986, and was sleeping on the porch of a wooden shack that may have at one time been some primitive office buildings, as this was in the middle of the downtown area. It was around ( ? ) 3:00a when i woke up for some reason and noticed a police car parked on the lawn in front of these buildings. There were 3 or 4 of these buildings in a row, with a large open area in front of them, and on several of the porches, there were other street people sleeping there. The last little bit of what i then witnessed was this police officer, that i remembered from a previous run in with him, when he was apparently acting very agitated and may have been high on drugs. In this previous situation that i knew him from, he was hassling me for sitting on some benches in front of a little used public museum. Although he came around and told me to leave, he then left before i did. He was acting so strangely that for some reason, i followed him around the building and asked him what in the hell he was doing, and then later filed a complaint against him. This was a few months before i saw him again in front of the shacks. That morning in front of the shacks, he was apparently ‘dressing’ himself, and put his gun belt back on, and then got in the police car, then drove away. i got up and went over to one of the other street people that was on the adjacent porch and asked him what had just happened, but he was just waking up and didn’t know anything. There was a sense of ‘Dream Time or Oz Effect’ and rather than go over to the next porch and pursue this, i just went back to sleep. ( ? )

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As a Side Side note to that last account; i used that porch on the end several times to sleep on, but preferred a large cement drainage pipe near by, that i did’t always use ( for some reason ( it may have been that that area rank of sour pee on several of the nights ( ? ) ) ) So anways, One night when i got there, i noticed that the porch was covered with some kind of grit and when i pulled out my flashlight to examine this material, i discovered that the whole porch was covered with insect wings ! i tried to brush them off, but they were stuck to the porch, which may have been a little sticky on it’s own ( ? ) .

Analysis of The Morgan Freeman Finger Painting by Kyle Lambert

A Superficial Analysis of The Morgan Freeman Portrait
Allegedly ‘Finger Painted’ by Kyle Lambert with The Apple iPad App; ProCreate

A Short Introduction & Spoiler !

i have been tinkering this together for The Past Few Days, & every moment that i consider my participation in this, It fills me with painful befuddlement; Because it all seems so entirely pointless.

Even The Most superficial examination of this Claim that The Finger Painting of Morgan Freeman by Kyle Lambert was created with The iPad App ProCreate, Must Necessarily result in The Conclusion that it is Fraudulent !

This is InControvertibly a very Shallow Hoax; But The most curious part of this Fiasco is that there is so very little awareness or acknowledgment that it is A Hoax ! ( ! )

Such that The True Mystery behind this ( Is; Why or How are so many Media Whores & Television Personalities so Willingly Hoodwinked by this Ridiculous Declaration ( ? )
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i have claimed in previous Blog Rants that The Entire Interweb is a Hoax or at The Very Least, Presented to us as something very different from what it is. And The Thing which it more closely resembles is A Repository of Articles & Artifacts, Not from Nearly Billions of Correspondents; But Rather; By perhaps only a few Thousand.

It is further my belief that Very Few People; Less than 2% of The Population, Actually knows how to use a Computer. And Those that Do; Use their Computational Machine for The Basest Functions. The Most Recently Created Computers are Still so Frustrating to Use & become Productive with, That most purchased computers are abandoned with a few weeks or months & Never again used for anything.

The Two Most Salient ‘Proofs’ for this Crazy Idea is The Broad Range of ‘Shallow’ Reports on The Internet like this Kyle Lambert Hoax; And Secondly, Hand Made Signs. i still see in Private & Professional Venues, Hand Made Signs where one should reasonably expect one made with a Computer Printer. But We Don’t See The Clever Computer Made Signs because The Innumerable Owners of The Computers that make these Hand Made Signs, Don’t know how to use their Computer ! ( !!! )

Such that The Reason that there are so very few critical Examinations of this hoax, Is that there is a De Facto Conspiracy to Promote it, & There just aren’t enough Internet Users to Contradict this. ( ?

That may sound Impossible or Ridiculous itself, But What is The Alternative Solution ( ? )

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The Original Source Story :
The Original Story ( or Thereabouts ) from ABC News

The ‘Drawing’ took 200_hours, which works out to;
Very Roughly; 1.2 Pixels per second.

i mention this because The ‘Painting’ is a Virtual Duplicate of The Source Photograph, Precisely Matching The Pixelation of The Original in Many Places,

While curiously deviating from The Photographic Reproduction in others.

An Indirect ( ? ) Access to the Video

The Accompanying Video which purportedly shows The ‘Illustration’ being created makes it clear that The ‘Artwork’ was Created in a Very Non-Intuitive Manner that is Starkly Different from The Way that Other ‘Realist’, ‘SuperRealist’ or ‘PhotoRealist’ Painters Create their Paintings.

This Working Process by Kyle Lambert is Missing any Preliminary Sketches, Reference Grids, or UnderSketching. The Method seems to show that he simply began blobbing it in, Refining Each Level of Details as he Went, Adding more & more, Finer & Finer Painstaking Elements until he reached A Finished Work.

i am Not suggesting that this couldn’t be done, But there are many aspects to this ‘Illustration’, Considering that it was Said to have been done with a ‘Finger Painting’ Method, that arises Suspicions ( ! )

Again; i am perfectly willing to accept that many very skilled draftsmyn are able to create very detailed portraits or illustrations in a Digital Medium, But they are invariably Stylized when examined in detail. The Paintings of Chuck Close, James Rosenquist,  Mel Ramos, The Old Masters, Many Contemporary Super-Realists ( Which is ‘More’ Realistic than Photo-Realism ) as Well as Many Digital Artists; Are Clearly & Unmistakably Illustrations by An Artist’s Hand when even Superficially Examined on a Museum Wall or Enlarged on a Computer Screen.

This work ( ? ) by Kyle Lambert is very different. The Illustration has all The Qualities of The Source Photograph at all Levels of Examination. A Careful Comparison makes it clear that The Illustration is Merely A Photograph; Either The Source Photograph that has been slightly modified, or Entirely Different Photograph, Taken a Moment Later.

When i first glanced at it; The Precise Duplication of Very Fine Details in The Hairs made me immediately suspicious. There have been a lot of ‘Hoaxes’ on The Interweb lately & straightaway i surmised that this was one of them.

i would have been perfectly inclined to then dismiss any further interest in this;

Except that there has been an Enormous ( ? ) Volume of Web & Television Chatter that heralds this ‘Painting’ as ‘Real’ & Almost no Criticism that it may be a Fake ( ! ) & All of The WebSites that Do Suggest that it is Fake, Do so in A Feeble & Inconclusive Manner.

So i thought that i’d contribute my own smattering of horn honking on this topic.
There is One Other Very Odd Aspect to this Debate;

And that is; The Illustration, when Released, was Presented along side The Alleged Source Photograph;

But it’s been ( Observed or Suggested ) that when you Cross your Eyes while Viewing these Two Images; A 3D Rendering will Appear between them.

This Manner of 3D Viewing is Well Established & when you use this method on these two images, A 3D Rendering does Appear.

This Element of The Prank is A Significant Clue as to The Method of Where The Second ‘Painting’ came from ( ? )

 Click on the image to enlarge it ( them )

As you can See; The Level of Detail is ‘Remarkable’ !

But beyound that; The Method Used to Produce The Illustration was Allegedly performed on an Apple iPad with Finger Strokes.

And using his Method; Lambert has produced Not Only A Remarkable Likeness;
But gotten each Tiny Glistening Sweat Bead Precisely Right.

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He’s even duplicated The Precise Coloration of Blurs & Translucent Effects of Pixel Smearing. This may be expected, As with a Chuck Close Painting, But within these Swatches, There are Virtually No Artistic Variance at all.

This Level of Detail in The Weave of The Jacket requires an additional level of ones Suspension of Disbelief.

These Two Sets of Images show some Equivalencies & Divergences that are Explained in The Next Paragraph.

Concerning The Differences; My Initial Accounting of The Most Subtle Distortions appeared to be The Result of The Source Image being Enlarged or Reduced in which The Computer must ‘Re-Visualize’ The Source Material, Particularly when Reducing is Requested.

But this Doesn’t Explain some of The Bigger Disparities.

While Examining these Two Images i came across a remarkable Discovery !

The Reason that The Two Images are Different in some Remarkable Ways is That The Second ( Right ) Head of Morgan Freeman is Rotated 12± Degrees Counter Clockwise from The Image on The Left !

This explains The Differences, The 3D Effect & The Precisely Matching Details.

Presumably The Two Photographs were taken with a handheld Camera taking a burst of photographs without a Flash.

Was it Lambert’s thinking that if The Two Images; The Source Photograph & His ‘Illustration’ were ‘Obviously’ Different in many subtle & gross ways, He could claim that it is clearly Not simply a Duplication of the Source Photograph !

The Remaining Question is : Why were so many people successfully Hoaxed ?

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Before i decided that The ‘Illustration’ is merely a Second Photograph;

i was toying with An Idea that would more fully account for The Video, which was undoubtedly Created in a purely conventional manner on an iPad with An Illustration App— with only a very slight Sleight of Hand. A more thorough examination of The Process will no doubt yield more evidence that much of The ‘Painting’ is fraudulent in a Variety of way(s.

It’s been suggested that The Painting for The Video was Filmed or Shown ‘Backwards’, But i Initially had some Reservations of this Explanation; As Removing Fine Details is Actually Very Tedious & Has many of its own problems. But Then i watched an Analysis Video of The Original that was promoting this Method, & it began to seem more plausible, The Removal of Details in these Slowed Down & Enlarged Details, Seemed to Show Exactly what i would expect from this Technique. ? !

The Alternative Method that i was entertaining; Was that A Hand Written ( Hobby Project ) Computer Program simply took The Source Image & Reduced it down to a very coarse Pixelation, Then Inserted ‘Brush Strokes’ from Approximately 80% of The Surface’s Randomly Selected Points. This would Account for The Full Rendering, High Detail & Anomalous Differences.

This Process would continue again & Again, Each Layer drawn from a Finer Resolution, until it came to The Single Pixel Level, resulting in The Highest Reproduction of Details.

Gradation Sampling ( for Exposition )

The Program would begin with The First Image, Fawning Broad Strokes at First, Then with each Reduction in Pixelation, The Brush Strokes would become finer & Finer.

This Theory greatly appealed to me because it seems like a delightful way to automate a portraiture, & It appears to be exactly The way The Video shows The Illustration being made !

My 2013 Z-Mass Zyne ( The Elements of Z-Mass )

I have a Chrstmsa ( Z-Mass ) Zyne ( Second Edition ) ! that is Ready for Viewing !

It is in PDF form and you can access it Here.

 

Unfortunately ( ? ) it is Too Big for Viewing on The Google PDF Reader,

So you'll have to Download it to See it ( !!! )

 

It's Around 30_Mb due to Each Page having a PaperTextured BackGround ( !!! )

X-Mass Trees are Bad !

X-Mass Trees, a photo by chrstphre on Flickr.

From The Obscure Old Testament Bible Book : Jeremiah 10:1-6 & 8-16

The False Jujus and The True Will of Gravity / Christmas Trees are Bad !

Jeremiah 10 : 1 - 6 ( Tiny Wanda’s Translation )

Let me Tell you The Law Given to The Damp Masses by The Irresistible Force of Gravity; & ElectroMagnetism Speaks its Truth as Well; Abstain from The Lessons of Liberal Arts Majors that are Ignorant of The Ways of The Universe; Whose Truth is Irrefutable !
Do Not become Confused by The Subtleties of Falling Stars, Frogs or Car Keys down Street Grates. These are All Things Natureal to The Eyes of The Moon & Befuddle The Guitar Street Musicians that See The World through The Tines of Salad Forks.
The Mores & Rituals of These Painters & Craftsmyn are for The Exultation & Jubilation of Worthless Vanities; One Rite Consists of Using an Axe to Cut A Tree from The Forest, Then Working it with The Hands of Guileful Cunning.
They Then Decorate Their Handiwork with Silver & Gold, Then Fasten it with A Hammer & Nails to Keep it from Wandering Off or Tipping Over.
It is Then Upright like A Topiary Penguin, GreenMyn or Refrigerator with an Ice Dispenser; But it Does Not Speak Any Human Language, Squeak Like a Mouse or Growl like A Old Tractor. The Tree must be Watered by The Children because it lacks The means to lunge at Cats & Feast on their Blood. Thus; Do Not Fear these Standing Trees, They are Harmless ( Unless they Catch Fire ) & Can Not Perform Evil by their Own Will, Likewise they Can Do No Good, Provide Luck, Protect Your Family from Disease or Scare away Burglars.
Be Mindful of The Warm Glow of The Never Resting Pull of Gravity or Tingling from Magnets.
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It’s been suggested that this ‘Process’ of cutting down a Tree with an Axe & ‘The Work of The Hands of The Workman’ refers to The Making of an Idol, but this Passage seems to go a long way around to avoid The Term Idol or Revealing how or What The Tree was being shaped into ( ? ) Certainly — This passage was written long before The Tradition of Christmas Trees was brought into Popular Usage; But it is Not Specifically about Christmas Trees, It’s an Admonition against Worshiping False Idols that are Made, Carved, Decorated or Presented for Veneration — And if A Christmas Tree isn’t an Idol, Symbolic Totem of Veneration; which is Specifically Forbidden in The 2nd Commandment; Then— What is going on here.
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Decorations are Also Bad !
Vanities, Boastfulness, Arrogance & Foolishness are Found Amoung those that Worship The Festival of Lights, Roof-Top Decorations & Ostentatious Knitted Sweaters !

Jeremiah 10 : 8 - 16 ( Tiny Wanda’s Translation )

When They ( The Liberal Arts Majors ) Gather together; They Express their Brutish Nature & Foolishness; Their Stock is in The Doctrine of Vanities. They Coat their Plates with Silver from The QuasiMythical Land of Tarshish, Gold from The Faeryland of Uphaz, Then Work Their Creations to A Fine Cunning with Cyan & Fuchsia Fabrics.
But The Force of Gravity will Know The Impotence of their Labors, Great is The Electricity of Spinning Electrons.
Thus we shall Reveal unto The Heathens; Their Efforts are Dust & will Wash Away with a Spring Rain.
The Will of Gravity, The Structure of Quarks & The Light Wind of Leptons are The Foundation of The Heavens; Not The Shiny Gleam of Gold or Silver !
When The Winds of Gravity Shout through The Earth, When Magnets Stick forever to Refrigerators, When Tireless Atoms keep your Rubberbands Snugly around your book Report; This is The Voice of The Universe Ringing in your Ears.
All that The Heathen knows is like a speck of Chocolate in The Eye of a Flea compared to The Wisdom of One Red Giant SuperNova that Blasts away An Entire Solar System.
All that they Strive for will be like a damp napkin discarded with UnOpened Packages of Soy Sauce & Grains of Hard Rice picked from between The Teeth of The Righteous Myn.
All that is Great is Held True by The Sticky Gum of Gravities Desire for Yellow Suns Burning The Breath of The Universe.