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Cinnamon Girl
February 2nd, 2003, 07:58 PM
For those of you who claim that modern art is painful to look at, there may be something to that viewpoint:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,882943,00.html

Haedis
February 2nd, 2003, 08:25 PM
That is by far the coolest thing I've seen all week. I want my room to be like that!

Djiril
February 3rd, 2003, 10:29 AM
Originally posted by Haedis
That is by far the coolest thing I've seen all week. I want my room to be like that! :crazy:

Theres
February 3rd, 2003, 11:42 PM
this reminds me of some of the 'Dazzle' camoflage schemes of WW1.
these were based on the idea of making the eye unable to perceive the proper shape or even course of ships rather than actually trying to hide them. the thinking was that the brain would be incapable of interpreting the visual data correctly. it met with moderate success.