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ColoradoPhonograf
 Post subject: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:09 pm 
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Hello,

I don't know if I'm just weird (or more than most), but sometimes when I see a Circassian Victrola I can see a face, or a bat or who knows what in the book matched veneer. I saw this oak machine recently and the knobs just looked like nostrils and I swear I see the Grinch from Dr. Seuss in the wood graining. Am I nut's or do see the faces of owls or bats, or faces in some of the machines book matched veneer you see occasionally? Do you have a face looking at you in a collection?

D.Edwards

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AmberolaAndy
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:40 pm 
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ColoradoPhonograf wrote:
Hello,

I don't know if I'm just weird (or more than most), but sometimes when I see a Circassian Victrola I can see a face, or a bat or who knows what in the book matched veneer. I saw this oak machine recently and the knobs just looked like nostrils and I swear I see the Grinch from Dr. Seuss in the wood graining. Am I nut's or do see the faces of owls or bats, or faces in some of the machines book matched veneer you see occasionally? Do you have a face looking at you in a collection?

D.Edwards

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I can see some sort of an owl’s face in that grain.
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Curt A
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:41 pm 
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That machine is possessed by some sort of demonic spirit... :roll: :? :lol:
"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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CarlosV
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:37 pm 
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It is the Grinch!
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victrola-console78
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:44 pm 
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I see it. Maybe Dr. Suess was inspired by something like this?
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soundgen
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:45 pm 
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We are primed to see faces in every corner of the visual world.

And it's the Cheshire Cat !

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2014 ... in-objects


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MTPhono
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:14 pm 
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My vote is LION. I look for faces in my hardwood floors - I find them all the time. But on a phono - that is cool!


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Inigo
 Post subject: Re: Faces in the wood
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In the apartment where I stay on summers, there's a tile floor with irregular scaled grey shapes, repetitive from one tile to the next, but with certain variations... It's the right place to see faces or persons, etc. I don't need to say in which room I stay seated for a while, looking at the floor... and starting to see faces everywhere! :D
Inigo
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bigshot
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PHONOMIKE
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:28 pm 
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Here's my circassian L-door. 2 eyes and a nose maybe??

Mike


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