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What is this, or what do you want it to be?
23 responses to “What’s That? (22)”
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Observations:
Photo was taken the day before your first Hawaiian photo, so it may have been during the time you were in Hawaii.
It’s not entirely organic, there are seams, although it may be constructed with organic materials.
It appears to be lit from within.
According to the EXIF data, you used the flash on the camera.
You took the photo at 11:34, Hawaiian time, so it wasn’t at night.
The patterns don’t look as though they would naturally occur like that (with the edges having so many ridges)It looks like a model of lava flow.
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Rocketeer has pioneered another spooky puzzle technique – EXIF analysis…. (kinda like your zipper inspection in the reflection puzzle =)
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Once quit hot!
Well, the first impression was organic, very cell like structure. Then there are some places where the "mix" isn’t well compartmented(right-down).
Makes me think of thin mineral plates. Two material mixed. The zip like spikes could be the product of crystallization during cold-down, once the mix done.
What would give such ordered structure? Convection currents in hot material could explain. -
A native´s hand-painted craft, a boat´s surface, or a wall. Eitherway I see rock art
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I thought it was a closeup of the rear of a curvaceous lady in a floral dress from the thumbnail. But the seams dent that idea.
hmmmm…
A beaten copper wall with light projected onto it? It might be curved as the top panels seem to receede slightly, though that could be a trick of the light.
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Very creative ideas…. Wow. Some are getting close… Given the array of gears in the last puzzle, I thought it would be nice to follow with the essence of something more organic.
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I keep thinking of fruit rinds with artistic treatment of gouges cut out where it is backlit, but when I see the seams, it doesn’t make sense. I like OldCola’s idea of turtle shells.
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It looks like candies in those little papers (like peanut butter cups) except the surface in the foreground seems flat, and vertical so I’ll guess its a photograph of boxes of chocolates whose cover illustration is a photograph of chocolates. Or maybe boxes of candy jigsaw puzzles.
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Welcome to all of the new participants! We made the Flickr Blog.
I will add bold face to the one embedded clue …
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I was posting the same!
blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2004/12/steve_jurvetson.html
Congratulations, Steve.
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Another guess: the remnants of barnacles on a metallic surface, barnacles removed. What is left is the "essence of something more organic".
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Bingo Rocketeer!, but it’s from Pakistan, not Indonesia. You are on a roll, dominating the recent puzzles!
It is the outside curve of a vase of polished coral fossil rock (a 2 foot tall version of something like this). There was a sunbeam shining down from a skylight into the mouth of the vase lighting it up from within. I noticed it as I was walking by, and took a close-up of the glowing part.
So the regular structures are the fossilized remains, and the straight lines are the cuts between curved squares of rock that are glued together to make a vase of this size.
The rock contains numerous marine fossils (solitary corals, gastropods, pulmonates and graptolites) estimated to be over 65 million years old. These plants and animals dwelled in the shallow warm waters that covered parts of Asia in the Paleocene Epoch. During this period, collisions between the Indian and Asian plates resulted in the rising of the ocean floor and the formation of the Himalayas.
This particular section looks like a close packed family picnic of gear heads. Anyone know the species?
Nell was correct out of the chute that it looks organic and like a lamp (which is curved like a vase).
Old Cola was correct in seeing the “thin mineral plates… the product of crystallization.” And he was close in thinking about turtle shells.
TroyWorks noted the sublime; it’s a prison for alien babies.
…prompting the Alieness to see rock art.
These contributions remind me of the book I am now reading, The Wisdom of Crowds.
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