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12 July 2007

Ask Mecha: You Know That Escher? Am I going nuts or is there another version of this where the head is full frontal and the ribbons are tighter together? →[More:]I've just clicked through 24 pages of Google image results for Escher and not found one. Maybe somebody else can find it? Unless I'm imagining it. Which is possible, although I have a pretty good visual memory - former art history major - but then I also have an alarmingly visual imagination. Hmmm. If you can find it, please let me know! I neeeeeed it.

post by: mygothlaundry at: 12:31 | 9 comments

I think you may be imagining it. I have a pretty good visual memory too, and I can't remember anything other than the one you linked to...

posted by Specklet 12 July | 12:33

Argh. But look what else I found!

posted by mygothlaundry 12 July | 12:37

You're not thinking of this one are you? Heh, I have a poster of the one you linked up on my wall.

posted by moonshine 12 July | 12:39

≡ Click to see image ≡

On preview: yeah, the one moonshine links to.

posted by box 12 July | 12:43

Future tattoo, mgl?

Bond of Union, maybe? On preview...what moonshine said!

posted by iconomy 12 July | 12:45

No, it wasn't Bond of Union. I must have imagined it - or maybe somebody somewhere did it - an "after Escher" thing and I saw it and now it's etched forever in my brain. The reason is because I took this photo ≡ Click to see image ≡
last night and I can totally see a woman's head in the reflection (there's a note on the Flickr page) and it made me think of that painting. Or another more Italian Futurist one that's also similar which I can't find either. My brain is going, I swear. It would make a sweet tattoo, though, iconomy!

posted by mygothlaundry 12 July | 13:46

Oh gosh, seriously bad flashbacks.

Don't do drugs, kids.

posted by danostuporstar 12 July | 19:41

Dude, if it wasn't for flashbacks, middle age would be so boring.

posted by mygothlaundry 13 July | 08:20

You know, I can't totally rule it out just because it isn't on GIS. Escher often did numerous variations and iterations of his works. My parents have a big coffee-table Escher book somewhere, but I think that somewhere is in a box, so I don't think I can do that for you. But if this really bugs you I'd check your library. The similar stuff is often together in that type of book.

posted by stilicho 13 July | 23:15

← Hey... || Bad timing. →

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