Mon 22 Sep 2008
A Matter of Historical Record
Posted by anaglyph under Art, Ephemera, Photography, True Fiction
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True Fiction
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Wed 17 Sep 2008
The Eye Hat
Posted by anaglyph under Ooky, True Fiction
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Thu 11 Sep 2008
The Hendersons
Posted by anaglyph under Spooky, True Fiction
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The Henderson’s house was always very dimly lit.
Wed 16 Jul 2008
Fine Print?
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Hokum, Religion, Skeptical Thinking, True Fiction, WooWoo
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These are the Scientology offices in Russell St, Melbourne. Whenever I walk past, I look in and often see the inhabitants industriously doing things. Some of these things make sense to me, like putting files in cabinets and drinking out of coffee cups. Other things seem odd and miserable, like the big bunch of sad-but-earnest-looking people listening to a guy talk while he points at a chart with diagrams like something out of a 1950s science fiction film. Or the young and impressionable kids barely out of school, filling in the ludicrous Scientology ‘Personality Tests’.*
Not so long back, Violet Towne, as part of her job†, was taking photographs in this general area, and some of the sad-but-earnest-looking people came out of the building and in a very paranoid manner demanded to know what was going on. One woman kind of just ‘stood’ wherever VT and her colleagues went, saying nothing, gazing blankly ahead of herself and exerting some kind of invisible unpleasantness. It was not what any sane person would consider normal behaviour. This building is in a very public place and VT & Co were well withing their legal rights to be doing what they were doing (which had absolutely nothing to do with Scientology, until the Scientologists appeared).
Quite coincidentally, later on the very same day as I took this photograph (Saturday July 12, 2008), the Melbourne Chapter of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous staged a protest outside the building.
I wonder if they got any pictures exactly like mine?
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*My use of quotes in this case (and in the image if you picked it up), is to indicate sarcasm. Unlike the perpetrators of last post’s efforts, I actually know how punctuation is supposed to work.
†I’ll leave that with you for speculation… suffice to say it’s not something that you or I would find in the least peculiar, offensive or even slightly unusual.
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Wed 28 May 2008
The Bear Facts!
Posted by anaglyph under True Fiction
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You might remember that I mentioned that NASA scientists had concluded that a white ‘speck’ on one of the first Phoenix lander photographs was ‘probably not a Polar Bear’. Well, the boffins at TCA Labs have had their digital photo enhancers on the case from the get-go (you know how these geeky types are!) and they tell me today that they beg to differ with the NASA boffins.
So here for your scrutiny is the latest hi-def enhancement from the NASA original, using the proprietary Tetherd Cow Ahead Laboratories ‘Deckard II’ Photographic Augmentation Scanner.*
C’mon NASA! Maybe the Cydonia ‘Face on Mars’ is just a rock formation (yeah, right!) but let’s see you deny this one!
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*TCA Labs has some very hush-hush high falutin’ technical wizardry out there in the barn…
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Fri 14 Mar 2008
Homunculus Watch
Posted by anaglyph under Ephemera, Spooky, True Fiction
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According to this this report from that pinnacle of reputable British journalism The Sun, a stunted, pointy-hat-wearing gnome is haunting a small South American town.
“Teenager Jose Alvarez – who filmed the gnome – yesterday told national newspaper El Tribuno that they caught the creature while larking about in their hometown of General Guemes, Argentina.
“One of my friends was so scared after seeing that thing that we had to take him to the hospital.—
The video footage is creepy in a ‘Blair Witch’ yeah-and-pull-the-other-one kinda way, but the real question must be: Hands up who’s seen Polanski and his midget sidekick lately?
(I really wish this had happened in the Emerald Isles. It would have given me the unparalleled opportunity to use the headline ‘Gnome Man is in Ireland’)
