Pictures, mirages, timeless, cameras

[squirmelia]

I still look for stereograms in the most normal-looking of pictures. While I learn to drive, I get to see more mirages on the road, shimmer after shimmer. I bought some paint called "timeless".

Sometimes the whole world looks so beautiful it hurts to look at it. A building next to a tree seen from a train; a glistening ringpull; a strange looking mushroom; a "fireman's switch"; a girl wearing bright pink tights; and so on, for a few seconds at a time. I try to blink it away, but then think of the photos that some people take (such as xgray), how they capture a world that always seems to look pretty, and wonder if caffeine is my equivalent to having a camera.

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[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

i look at regular patterns, esp. small floor tiles, as though they were stereograms sometimes. Basically it makes the floor seem closer to you/farther from you, depending on which way you alter focus.

"You're so beautiful it hurts to look at you" -my favourite line from My So-Called Life

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Floor tile designers may purposefully put stereograms into their patterns, thinking that no-one will ever realize what the pictures really are of. TV schedulers may do the same, so that there are hidden pictures in the TV guides. Road-sweepers may ignore stray leaves in strategic stereogramesque patterns.

MSCL quote- Yep, I was trying to use that line to describe the world. :)