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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:17:46 -0600, A Muzi <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>>> "Tim McTeague" wrote: (clip) While I don't believe in ANY Gods or
>>>>> Easter bunnies I did find a picture of Jesus on a bike.
>
>>>> Leo Lichtman writes:
>>>>> I have a similar picture of Albert Einstein on a bike. Is it
>>>>> possible they were the same person. That might explain how Einstein
>>>>> was able to think of things that others did not.
>
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Just the same Wikipedia would have rejected his writings because he
>>>> could cite no sources, and beyond that, he didn't do the research for
>>>> e=mc^2, it was obvious to him, just as riding a bicycle, something he
>>>> rarely did.
>
>> A Muzi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I wondered about that.
>>> In the famous photo he doesn't appear graceful or comfortable on the bike.
>
>[email protected] wrote:
>> Hmmm . . . Here's the picture:
>> http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/imagine/einstein.jpg
>> Hundreds of copies can be found on Google Images.
>> Try to look at it without any preconceptions.
>> A smiling man with white hair is riding a commuter-style bicycle in
>> what looks like a courtyard and turning to avoid the camera.
>> How would anyone look more graceful or comfortable? He's probably
>> turning at low speed and posing for the camera.
>> The picture was taken "at the home of Ben Meyer in Santa Barbara,
>> California, on February 18, 1933."
>> http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/sitecredits.php
>-snip extraneous-
>
>Carl, I'm very familiar. A tenant hung that picture in my living room
>for 4 years. I thought he looked odd on the bike when I first saw it and
>I still think he looks odd on the bike. YMMV.
Dear Andrew,
I'll buy odd, but saying that he doesn't look graceful or comfortable
seems a little different.
Of course, you may have high standards for what someone should look
like on such bicycles.
To illustrate things, notice anything odd about this smiling fashion
model bicyclist? She's wearing a red cap tipped well back to show her
carefully teased bangs, her arched eyebrows, faint blue eye-shadow,
dimpled apple-cheeks, and bee-stung lower lip:
http://i17.tinypic.com/2qsp7aa.jpg
Take a good look before scrolling down. Is there anything odd about
her?
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
Here's the full picture of the fashion model bicyclist:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/sports.html
When a commercial illustrator spends most of his time drawing pictures
of pretty girls smiling, sometimes it's hard to stop drawing them,
even when it looks a little odd.
I'm not sure that I'd say that he/she doesn't look comfortable.
But I agree--if Einstein looks odd, graceless, or uncomfortable on
that bike to you, that's how he looks.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
wrote:
>>>>> "Tim McTeague" wrote: (clip) While I don't believe in ANY Gods or
>>>>> Easter bunnies I did find a picture of Jesus on a bike.
>
>>>> Leo Lichtman writes:
>>>>> I have a similar picture of Albert Einstein on a bike. Is it
>>>>> possible they were the same person. That might explain how Einstein
>>>>> was able to think of things that others did not.
>
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Just the same Wikipedia would have rejected his writings because he
>>>> could cite no sources, and beyond that, he didn't do the research for
>>>> e=mc^2, it was obvious to him, just as riding a bicycle, something he
>>>> rarely did.
>
>> A Muzi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I wondered about that.
>>> In the famous photo he doesn't appear graceful or comfortable on the bike.
>
>[email protected] wrote:
>> Hmmm . . . Here's the picture:
>> http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/imagine/einstein.jpg
>> Hundreds of copies can be found on Google Images.
>> Try to look at it without any preconceptions.
>> A smiling man with white hair is riding a commuter-style bicycle in
>> what looks like a courtyard and turning to avoid the camera.
>> How would anyone look more graceful or comfortable? He's probably
>> turning at low speed and posing for the camera.
>> The picture was taken "at the home of Ben Meyer in Santa Barbara,
>> California, on February 18, 1933."
>> http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/sitecredits.php
>-snip extraneous-
>
>Carl, I'm very familiar. A tenant hung that picture in my living room
>for 4 years. I thought he looked odd on the bike when I first saw it and
>I still think he looks odd on the bike. YMMV.
Dear Andrew,
I'll buy odd, but saying that he doesn't look graceful or comfortable
seems a little different.
Of course, you may have high standards for what someone should look
like on such bicycles.
To illustrate things, notice anything odd about this smiling fashion
model bicyclist? She's wearing a red cap tipped well back to show her
carefully teased bangs, her arched eyebrows, faint blue eye-shadow,
dimpled apple-cheeks, and bee-stung lower lip:
http://i17.tinypic.com/2qsp7aa.jpg
Take a good look before scrolling down. Is there anything odd about
her?
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
Here's the full picture of the fashion model bicyclist:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/sports.html
When a commercial illustrator spends most of his time drawing pictures
of pretty girls smiling, sometimes it's hard to stop drawing them,
even when it looks a little odd.
I'm not sure that I'd say that he/she doesn't look comfortable.
But I agree--if Einstein looks odd, graceless, or uncomfortable on
that bike to you, that's how he looks.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
