Saturday, October 13, 2007
O Body Swayed to Music, O Brightening Glance...
Thanks - I think - to David Mackinder for sending me this. Apparently if you see the dancer spinning clockwise then the right side of your brain - feeling imagination etc - predominates; if you see her spinning anti-clockwise the the left side - logical, realistic - is on top. She span clockwise for me at first, then anti-clockwise, then clockwise again. The changes were so extreme that her movements were actually rigged. I must be confused. How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
that's strange because it was definitely spinning one way, then I remembered I had to watch the time as I have an appointment, and when I looked back it was spinning t'other way (clockwise), and I couldn't get it to change. what does it mean, professor?
ReplyDeleteah, for you too (I clicked before reading on). what a waste of time.
ReplyDeleteI can't make it go theother way. Proves that I am extremely logical, I guess. Either that or narrow-minded.
ReplyDeleteoh, now it's stopped altogether!
ReplyDeleteAnd here I'd been thinking I was so imaginative and big-picture oriented, then I looked at her: Anti-clockwise! Dag.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that I'm very clockwise unless I look at it out of the corner of my eye and then it just looked like Lord Jeff.
ReplyDeletePredictably and only clockwise for me. What's sad is that i couldn't make it go the other way, or even imagine how anyone could perceive it as anti-clockwise - which probably accounts for my stunning inability to get a non-temp job or tie my shoelaces so they stay tied.
ReplyDeleteI've found that looking only at the shadows for a moment helps you change the direction. Which side of the brain tries to cheat I wonder.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a rigged animated gif to me and nothing to do with the observer - a while one way, then an abrupt change to the other way, then back again, etc. I wonder which side of our brain we use when reading web pages, the credulous side or the sceptical side?
ReplyDeletei had it going clockwise...then tilted my head and it turned the other way - i thought it was good....but when i did it a few times my eyes felt a little dizzy!!
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