# is this picture anything more than a mess? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978 "2000-03-19T04:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/1 "2000-03-19T04:29:00Z")
[http://members.home.net/cattywompus/images/vine.jpg](http://members.home.net/cattywompus/images/vine.jpg) * * * if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/2 "2000-03-19T04:31:00Z")
_gasp_ It’s Mother! * * * _God is my co-pilot. Blame Him._ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/3 "2000-03-19T05:13:00Z")
It’s a miraculous apparition of Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![froololly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/87869e/32.png) [@froololly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/froololly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/4 "2000-03-19T05:19:00Z")
i dunno… i kinda like it. partially because i love black and white photo, but also i like the starkness of the tangly branches, and the fuzzy not-quite-anythings inside the negative spaces… but i could be wrong. no one else on the planet has the same taste as me. so i guess this doesn’t help very much, does it!? * * * “…practice practice makes perfect perfect is a fault and fault lines change…i believe my shirt is wearing thin and change is what i believe in.” m.s. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/5 "2000-03-19T05:38:00Z")
I am torn between: 1. Extreme closeup of velcro 2. Willie Nelson’s hair brush ---
**Author:** ![Ophanim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8491ac/32.png) [@Ophanim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ophanim)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/6 "2000-03-19T05:43:00Z")
How’d you get a camera down my pants without me noticing? * * * Where’s my side of FUN!? Kisses! Ophy ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/7 "2000-03-19T13:00:00Z")
I think it’s interesting. The set of branches in the foreground form a box, almost a frame, in the middle of which there is a gap filled with some out-of-focus branches, forming another frame, in which there is a gap filled with some out-of focus, well, something that is too out-of focus to tell (but could be another frame). With it’s shallow depth of field and framed space in the middle, I think it is not a mess, but rather, it works. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/8 "2000-03-19T13:28:00Z")
Looks cool to me. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/9 "2000-03-19T15:01:00Z")
Yea, what Billdo said. I think it’s pretty cool. Where did you get this picture Roo? * * * “Life is hard…but God is good” ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/10 "2000-03-19T15:45:00Z")
You were that chic on Blair Witch, weren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/11 "2000-03-19T15:56:00Z")
I like it. (I’m an abstract kind of person) Put it in the right context & its a winner. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/12 "2000-03-19T15:59:00Z")
Really cool, in an abstract sorta way. I like it! * * * You sing in my consciousness like a counterpoint to my life. L.L. ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/13 "2000-03-19T16:15:00Z")
You get government funding for that, don’t you ? ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/14 "2000-03-19T16:18:00Z")
## I really like it too. I have done a similar project in highschool when working on my portfolio, it was a mangled old tree, and it to this day remains on of my most favorite works. Your picture reminded me of it 🙂 Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/15 "2000-03-19T16:19:00Z")
Oh, wow. There is a picture there. The first time the thread opened it was just empty space. Next time I make a smarta$$ reply I’m going to have to wait for everything to load. ---
**Author:** ![Sentinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sentinel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/16 "2000-03-19T16:21:00Z")
Weeds. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/17 "2000-03-19T17:33:00Z")
**Lexicon** , well no. BUT there is one scene where she looks a **lot** like me. 🙂 **Arg220** , i took the picture about six years ago. but only about a week ago did i get prints from the negatives. i’ve been debating whether or not to put it on my page, hence this thread. now i’m pretty sure that i will. thanks everybody. 🙂 * * * if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/18 "2000-03-19T19:59:00Z")
If you stare at it long and hard, and adjust your visual focus, a 3-D image of Michael Masterson appears… Very nice! Sweet Basil * * * Didn’t get voted for a damn thing! (thanks guys…) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/19 "2000-03-19T20:07:00Z")
I predict that Krispy Original will be able to locate in this photo either: A) A UFO; B)Bigfoot; or C) proof of a massive government conspiracy. Or maybe AgentMan will show up & explain it to us. 😃 * * * You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment."-Bill Hicks “You should tell the lies, live the truth and expose yourself.” - Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978/20 "2000-03-19T21:27:00Z")
It makes me think of sex. Of course, **everything** makes me think of sex. Besides sex, it makes me think about that time I was going sledding and I went further than everyone else and the only thing that saved me from plummeting into an icy cold stream was the very thick briar patch that brought me to a rather scratchy halt. And then there was this other time I went sledding and at the bottom of the hill was a giant briar patch (yes, we were stupid as children) and I went into it so that I was completely surrounded by the briars. Neat, but hard to get out of. Then there was this big hill in Virginia that we went sledding on that they bulldozed into flatness to build a house on and I was disappointed, but I used scrap lumber from that house to build a tree house, and there were lots of briars in those woods, and my brother had a treehouse that was really big and Mom didn’t like it because it was so tall and we had a zipline, too, and it went over a briar patch, and my knee itches. Um, yeah, it’s a thousand words, see? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-picture-anything-more-than-a-mess/14978.md?page=2)