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10 April 2007

Is it just me or... →[More:] do the fortune teller's eyes move???? I swear, I'm minding my own business, reading MeCha, and over by the margin, I see the eyes move from straight ahead to toward the middle of the page. Am I going crazy, or is it some kind of optical illusion involving the black and white checkerboard effect??

AAAAHHHHHHHH!

It just did it AGAIN!

post by: Doohickie at: 22:12 | 16 comments

I solve the problem the same way I keep George Washington from giving me the evil eye from every dollar bill I spend: Just punch out the eyes with a paperclip. Works especially well on LCD monitors.

posted by paulsc 10 April | 22:23

Considering it's a jpeg and not a gif, it's just you.

posted by CitrusFreak12 10 April | 23:24

Really, CitrusFreak12? This is a jpeg:

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by GeckoDundee 11 April | 00:15

The frisbee girl, she keeps drinking!

She's still drinking!

Breathe frisbee girl, breathe! For the love of beer, breathe!

posted by mochicrunk 11 April | 00:59

It's the deep fried rabbit ears. They are thirsty making.

posted by ethylene 11 April | 01:10

GecoDundee: Indeed it is.

....

posted by CitrusFreak12 11 April | 01:11

Don't you see things moving in that jpeg, CitrusFreak12?

posted by GeckoDundee 11 April | 01:24

It's the deep fried rabbit ears.

Wow. The comments on that post are nuts, and the response is great.

posted by chrismear 11 April | 02:29

I think I figured it out writing the first post, and GeckoDundee's jpg confirms it in my mind.... when I get to a certain point on the page and my eye does the "carriage return" from the end of one line to the begining of the next, the black-and-white checkerboard gives the illusion of movement to my eye. Because my mind expects the checkerboard to be stationary, but eyes can move, my mind's eye extrapolates out to convince me the eyes moved.

And when I was writing that first post and wrote "AAAAHHHHHHHH!".... it really did happen to me right at that moment. ;-)

posted by Doohickie 11 April | 07:23

Ever use gimp? The eyes totally move on the splash screen. It's crazy-making.

posted by PaxDigita 11 April | 07:48

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by danostuporstar 11 April | 07:55

Dano, mate, you are always the voice of reason.

posted by GeckoDundee 11 April | 08:39

dano, that is The. Best. Thing. Evar. Even if it does make my head spin and my eyeballs fall out of my head, I love it so much.

posted by mygothlaundry 11 April | 09:49

Mochicrunk has made one comment and that one comment made me giggle. Welcome, mochicrunk!

And dano's picture makes me miss my college days.

posted by jrossi4r 11 April | 10:17

at the risk of overexplaining the joke that everyone is slyly running with:

jpegs do not support animation, whereas gifs do, and so the acknowledge perception of movement can be divorced from the possibility of actual sly animation in jpegs such as the one prompting this discussion. QE motherfuckin D.

posted by cortex 11 April | 13:21

Jif! He said "jif"! Haha! *points*.

posted by GeckoDundee 11 April | 17:55

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