Re: (TV) Re: 'Hypno-eye'

[postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>]

Haha...exactly...Hitchcock.  The weird thing is, while I was starring at that
image of the MM back cover and trying to look up 'hypno-eye' on the internet I
looked up at the TV right then and there was almost the exact image from some
movie.  And it was a spiral staircase shot from below to give it that twirling
effect.  But the movie wasn't Vertigo, it was some foreign movie from 1955
called 'A Generation', it had to do w/ WWII and the resistance fighters in
Poland.  It was just kind of a weird coincidence to look up and see that
image.



--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com> wrote:

From: Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>
Subject: Re: (TV) Re: 'Hypno-eye'
To: tv@obbard.com
Cc: "Joe Hartley" <jh@brainiac.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 12:59 PM

I've never thought about this too much but the image always reminded me
of Hitchcock's Vertigo, (maybe anchored by Torn Curtain).

Graham

On 17/05/2011 20:34, Joe Hartley wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
> Jesse Hochstadt<jesseh58@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> I never thought of a Hypno-coin. The MM back cover was always suggestive to
me
>> of a time-lapse photograph of stars swirling around a fixed star in the
center.
>> Can't you get that with the North Star, astronomer Joe Hartley?
> If you point a camera at the celestial north pole (just ->  <- this
> far away from the north star) and open the camera for a very long exposure,
> you indeed get star trails:
>     http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap961201.html
>
> The back cover also resembles some spiral galaxies, like M81 in the Big
Dipper:
> http://geology.com/nasa/nasa-universe-pictures.shtml
>
> But it also resembles rifling in a gun barrel, like you see at the start
> of James Bond movies:
> http://physics.info/rotational-kinematics/rifle-bond.jpg
>
> I also see how it could be a moon reflected in a puddle:
> http://www.123rf.com/photo_5384676_water-puddles-on-a-dark-night.html
>
> I'm not necessarily inclined to take anything Tom says in an interview
> as hard truth.  I can see him saying stuff that just pops into his head
> to make things more interesting.
>
> I wonder if we can track down Billy Lobo, who did the back cover, and get
> his take on this.
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