Tag Archives: pareidolia
Sea Bunnies
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Currently doing the rounds of Japan’s Twittersphere – the adorable Jorunna parva sea slug whose rhinophores resemble the fluffy ears of bunnies.
Faceless, legless, mucus coated bunnies.
The best kind of bunnies.
A giraffe.
No wait. Papua New Guinea.
Niall O’Keefe tweetz:
Rocky island off the Kilkee cliff walk, Co. Clare
Representations of famous artworks spawned from the artificial neural network released earlier this month by Google in an attempt to show how computers ‘view’ the world by recognising and emphasising patterns in otherwise abstract shapes.
It’s a little like the human phenomenon of pareidolia except with more nightmare fuel.
It’s called ‘deepdream art’ and it’s all over the Twitter, the Tumblr and the Reddit, should you wish to delve deeper.
Dublin 26
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A ‘Dublin-flavoured topographical alphabet’ by.James Kelleher, inspired by Rhett Dashwood’s Google Maps Typography and Benedikt Groβ and Joey Lee’s Aerial Bold project.
Good luck naming them locations.
Dublin 26: A Google Maps Alphabet (Pilcrow)
(H/T: Rob Dalton)
Badum Tish
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This morning
Merrion Square park, Dublin 2.
Meanwhile…
John Horan tweetz:
…..angry tree cut down in Merrion Square …
Previously: An Puddleacht
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland, (New Island, €5)
(Thanks Terry Rickard)
Yowsah!
cairotango writes:
Ugly farming machine needs a hug :|
John O H writes:
As I was WhatsApping a couple of mates abroad about Martin McG’s unfortunate situation I noticed the steak I was about to slap onto the pan was shaped as the motherland herself, head and all…
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (€5, New Island)
The delphinidaean Gallo Lungo – one of the three privately owned islands of Li Galli or the Sirenusas (‘sirens’) off Italy’s Amalfi coast.
In 2011, all three went on sale for a mere €195 million.