Pictures, art, logos, etc, that took you a long time to interpret correctly

also amazed by the secret meat shake. not sure whether or not i want to know...

the secret is PIG'S BLOOD

"We have lavender honey, orange blossom honey and some rather scrumptious carrion honey."

taste the secret

meat shake

What is that, the title to a porno?

village people, iirc

do the meat shake
the meat shake
do the shake

the problem with the WH Smith logo snoball posted a ways back is that it's so counter-intuitive with regard to standard reading patterns. in decoding english, the eye wants to go right to left, top to bottom, but that logo insists that we go bottom to top. the first thing we hit is that squared-off 'W', which looks more like an upside-down 'M' (a letter that's much more commonly squared like that), which makes me want to read it spinning clockwise, left to right: MSH.

smh

I need to lie down

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zmoEeqomXD4/SapaRu7-1oI/AAAAAAAABcs/UnF0OU-c5T4/s400/yamaha.jpg
Yamaha - three tuning forks

^ very timeless logo

I was like, wait don't they make motorcycles...and then ohhhh the music manufacturer lol

that's cool, I never noticed that

whoa had never noticed that yamaha thing

abbott's post about the brains is killing me btw

I never knew what the Batman logo was until Batman Returns came out. I always wondered what the hell a bumpy yellow oval had to do with Batman.

― franny glass, Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:26 AM (21 hours ago)

For a couple of months in the run up to the release of the 1989 Batman movie, there were billboards everywhere with just the logo, nothing else, no text, except maybe the date of the movie's release.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Batman_ver2.jpg
During that time, I kept wondering to myself WTF this mouthful of rotten yellow teeth was all about.

yeah, i'm told there's a vase in here somewhere:

http://nowscape.com/images/Illusion_Mex-Vase.jpg

Still can't interpret these correctly...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png

love magic eyes. shark!

hate those fuckin things

have never ever gotten a single one of those. my eyes are broken, I guess.

I have literally never been able to see one of those magic eye things ever.

years of failing colorblind dot tests in science class kinda ruined me for staring at that bullshit, lol

The question that had to be polled.
Magic Eye pictures - can you see them or not?

the animated version of that one is really cool
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark_Small.gif

It's like staring at a belt sander.

or a river of vomit

wau @ that animated shark. can hardly tell what i'm looking at, but it's trippy as hell. flickering canyons.

a belt sander or vom river with weird windows into other realms

Right now I can hear the screeching of cats mating outside, which is an oddly appropriate soundtrack.

looks like rolling over an 8-bit desert

*barf*

full resolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark.gif

you guys really can't see the swimming shark? he only wants to say hai to u.

swimmin along there, back and forth for all eternitys

xxxp isn't this what happens when a NES crashes?

I saw a real hammerhead shark at the aquarium on the weekend so magic eye shark can suck it

a cool thing to do with magic eyes, instead of staring off beyond the plane, is to fix your vision just short of it (i.e., looking at it sort of "crosseyed"). then you get a weird inversion of the image. instead of a happy lil bubblegum vomit shark swimming along above a bubblegum vomit river, it's a twitching, shark-shaped hole in the river's surface. trippy!

Ok, this thread, how do you not notice a desiccating lion corpse being consumed by flies??? It's right in the middle! It's kind of eye-catching imo because it's a DEAD FUCKIN LION.

the container is smallish, the decoration on the tin is kind of ornate, and...LOOOK I'M SORRY I'M JUST NOT ALWAYS THAT OBSERVANT

desiccating lion corpse being consumed by flies

Juan Carlos II Brand

xxp I'm English and we see this image so much that it's kind of like a non-image by the time we're six or seven years old. Kind of like how I imagine American kids see Ronald McDonald and think 'that's Ronald McDonald' and not 'urgh creepy clown dude'.

if he were a creepy clown corpse who was being consumed by flies (actually bees), then I think this would be a different story

abbott's post about the brains is killing me btw

― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:13 PM (52 minutes ago)

It made the Unabomber SO MUCH SCARIER. I thought, how come no one has caught this man? Just look for the man with the terrifying exposed brains.

They could put Ronald McDonald corpse honey on the McFlurries.

I'm probably the wrong U.S.er to talk about Ronald, who has always given me the weirds. I remember at age seven being at a 4th of July parade and when the float with Ronald came by, hearing the other kids cry out his name. "Ronald! Ronald!" not in fear. It was the first time being in a crowd and thinking, what is wrong with all these people? Am I the only sane one here?

Abbs between Ronald and Unabomber here you are on fire! :D

re batman logo, the halloween special covers are great for this:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Legends_of_the_Dark_Knight_Halloween_Special_Vol_1_1
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Legends_of_the_Dark_Knight_Halloween_Special_Vol_1_2
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Legends_of_the_Dark_Knight_Halloween_Special_Vol_1_3

I don't get where the "KKK" in a Marlboro pack is supposed to be, can someone explain?

they're referring to the red & white wedge/triangle design element, which occurs 3 times on the pack

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01252/speed_1252043c.jpg
I always see this chap as a bloodhound with circular ears.

maybe not circular ears then. but definitely as a hound of the basset/blood type. it looks fuck-all like a speed camera.