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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time Travel????
First Nicolas Cage, now John Travolta: Is this a photo of the Grease star in 1860? (Scientologists do believe in reincarnation)
From the Mail online.
He is a member of the Church of Scientology, which believes in reincarnation and asks some members to sign one billion year contracts of service.
And one photograph collector in Ontario, Canada, claims he has found a picture of John Travolta from a previous incarnation in 1860.
The 150-year-old photo of a man who looks remarkably like Travolta has been put up for sale on eBay.
Lookalike: The 1860 photo of John Travolta looks very similar to a shot taken of the Grease star in 1980
'I've had this interesting photograph for years and I've been unable to part with it,' the seller said on the auction site.
'When you look at it and into the eyes of the sitter you will see what I mean!
'I believe this is the photograph of a very young John Travolta taken around 1860... This is a ruby glass ambrotype photograph and it is one of a kind.
'It hasn't been changed, tampered with or altered in anyway. It is clear and is as nice as the day it was taken roughly 151 years ago.
The photo is listed at $50,000 or nearest offer, and while it has a large price tag comes with free shipping and gift wrapping.
On sale: The photo has been listed at $50,000 or nearest offer
Genuine: The photograph collector selling the picture says it has not been tampered with
The listings comes after another antique dealer joked that he has a photo that is proof Nicolas Cage is more than just an a-list actor - he’s also a vampire who lived during the American Civil War.
The eBay seller claims to have a 4” by 2.5” carte de visite photo from around 1870 of a man who looks exactly like the 47-year-old star of Con Air, Ghost Rider and The Rock.
The seller, who has put the starting price at $1million, says the photo is 100 per cent genuine and was taken of a man who lived in Bristol, Tennessee, around the time of the Civil War.
The man who put the photo on eBay is Jack Mörd, of Seattle, Washington, whose Facebook page says he is originally from Los Angeles, California, and owns ‘The Thanatos Archive’.
'My theory is that he allows himself to age to a certain point, maybe 70, 80 or so, then the actor “Nicolas Cage” will “die”,’ Mr Mörd joked.
Lookalike: An eBay seller claims to have a 4” by 2.5” carte de visite photo, right, from around 1870 of a man who looks exactly like the 47-year-old star of Con Air, Ghost Rider and The Rock, Nicolas Cage, left in 2006
Listing: The seller, who has put the starting price at $1million, says the photo is 100 per cent genuine and was taken of a man from Bristol, Tennessee, around the time of the Civil War
How the real Mr Cage is not immortal...
The photo comparison may suggest Nicolas Cage could have lived forever.
But the actor's radically-changing appearance over the years suggests he's as vulnerable to the ravages of time as the rest of us.
The 47-year-old Californian has clearly aged since his appearances in Con Air in 1997, top right, and then Adaptation in 2002, right.
Mr Cage's wife Alice Kim is around half his age at 27.
But hair transplants have seemingly helped maintain a youthful look.
‘But in reality, the undead vampire “Nicolas Cage” will have rejuvenated himself and appeared in some other part of the world, young again, and ready to start all over.’
The picture was found in the back of an album that contained many unusual death portraits from the Civil War era - but the Nicolas Cage lookalike was not identified by name, Mr Mörd said.
He has a 100 per cent positive feedback rating on eBay and his profile says he is interested in collecting and selling Victorian Era post-mortem photography, as well as other vintage pictures.
The eBay product description for ‘Nicolas Cage is a Vampire / Photo from 1870 / Tennessee’ says: ‘Original c.1870 carte de visit showing a man who looks exactly like Nick Cage.
‘This is not a trick photo of any kind and has not been manipulated in Photoshop or any other graphics program.
'It's an original photo of a man who lived in Bristol, TN, sometime around the Civil War.'
It is believed the photo was taken by a confederate Civil War prisoner of war photographer called Professor G.B. Smith.
Mr Mörd joked that Nicolas Cage could be a walking undead man who reinvents himself once every 75 years - and might be looking at going into politics or talk show hosting next.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
WoW , Just WOW!!!!!
A bug's life: Photographer captures flies in exquisite detail by snapping each one 687 times through a microscope
If you are scared of creepy crawlies you might want to look away now.
These are the remarkable close-up photographs of flies composed by stitching together up to 687 separate images taken through a microscope.
Tomas Rak photographs a tiny area of the fly under a microscope before moving it a mere five hundredth of a millimetre and taking another snap.
It can take a staggering 687 movements and 'micro-photographs' to capture every part of the fly in such stunning detail.
Close up: The head of dung beetle, which is a type of earth-boring dung beetle. Its entire body is only 10mm long
Flying head-on: The photos are the result of an ingenious photography technique using a microscope. Pictured is the head of a wasp
Are you looking at me? The Ichneumon wasp close-up which has a body size of just 3mm. The bulging eyes are clearly visible
He then uploads the images to a computer and 'stitches' them together to create a larger whole.
They show the furry insects' bizarre facial expressions, bright colours and bulging eyes in an extraordinary new way.
Tomas, from Wandsworth, South West London, said: 'I put the flies on a special microslider which can be moved as little as one five hundredth of a millimetre.
'I then place this under a camera and microscope and take a photo.
'I get a really sharp picture but over a small area so I move the microslider across a tiny bit and take another shot.
Zooming in: The sawfly which has a body size of just 3mm. Even the hairs on its antenna are visible
No need for widescreen: A metallic wasp, measuring just 2mm. The insect can be seen in exquisite detail in the close up shot
High definition: Common fruit fly, left, showing it's actual size. The ruler is in millimetres, so this tiny insect measures just three mm in length. Right is the sawfly beside a normal match head
'This has to be repeated many times before I have photographed the whole fly. My record is 687 shots to make up a single insect.
'I look for insects everywhere, I always have a pot with me in case I see something interesting.
'Most of my insect are not larger than 3mm so I have to look very carefully for small black 'dots' on walls.'
Mr Rak, 29, added: 'Microphotography can teach other people what these insects really look like.
'My photos are pretty artistic. I particularly like to take shots of insects because I like their shape and they have so many invisible details which you don't usually see.'
'I have had a very positive reaction to the these images. People who see them keep asking me how photos on a scale such as this could even be possible!'
The vivid backgrounds in Tomas' images are real flowers which are then carefully boosted by the editing software.
Tomas has only been doing microphotography for eight months.
He had previously become a dab hand at macrophotography, a technique which also examines the smallest of objects, but not to a microscopic level.
He said: 'Microphotography is more difficult and more time consuming than macrophotography because with such huge magnifications, the depth of field has to be very small.
'It is actually the computer editing which is the most time consuming part.'
Creepy: The Ichneumon wasp, which has a body size of 3mm Mr Rak said microphotography can teach other people what these insects really look like
Side view: The common fruit fly. Photographer Tomas Rak uploads the images to a computer and 'stitches' them together to create a larger whole
Full frontal: The common fruit fly. Tomas Rak said it can take a staggering 687 movements and 'micro-photographs' to capture every part of the fly in such stunning detail