by messerschmitt

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He's seen my tax assessment. I felt much the same about it.

by messerschmitt

Comment:
Cynophobia.

by messerschmitt

Comment:
crushed!

Openings
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Unsettling and yet soothing at once. The apparent wisdom of elephants is momentarily revealed via this lovely portal.

Offbeat bokeh? Turn to page 2.8
by bspurgeon

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Well! One moment I surprise myself by renewing my membership, and the very next I spot this witty wee bit of thumbnail edification crouching unaccountably down in second-to-last place. I look to see if this challenge results had been somehow inverted (as seemed likely when viewed from the other end) but no. I should have taken the secret new 'super-member' option by paying 250 bucks, and got myself the ten-votes-per-challenge that are part of that package. I'll upgrade now.

landscape
by tnun

Comment:
Well look at you sashayin' around in the limelight up in 15th place!

In spite of the high placing, I do like this elegant elegy. A visual fugue, it is. So very (pardon the pun) apt. Thank you.

Edit to add my paw print to that of Brother Posthumous. Unequivocally the best.

Message edited by author 2011-10-21 04:28:01.

Think No Evil
by mariuca

Comment:
I agree with the Dead Guy: this is also my choice for Best in Show.

Motivational posters tend to assume a good measure of mindlessness in the beholder, as nearly all of the most popular entries in this challenge attest. You broke the mould, as your 97/111 placing attests. Congratulations.

Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' redux
by rooum

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I like it a lot more than I do the Fuseli 'Nightmare'. Maybe it was just a sign of the times but I've always thought that Fuseli seriously over-egged the pudding.

I like the low-tech look of this because I'm in love with low-tech photographs, but there's lots more to it than just some stylish negligence. The infant communicates a very unnerving sense of knowing rather more than an infant should. And it's a squirmingly splendid composition too. Everything about this image is deeply unsettling, just as you intended. I'm not sure what it was that Fuseli intended.

dark and darker
by posthumous

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Darcy is magnificent. Darcy's associate is perhaps a hair short of that standard, but presentable nonetheless. Especially so in a low light situation like this.

oh
by bvy

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Alexander Bayliss, as a young man.

If you haven't read The Industry of Souls then may I give you the urge? Martin Booth is dead now, but I think you'd nominate the novel for the posthumous blue.