Eerie Puzzle

[samountain]

* This was painted by a person with a rare and severe mental disorder. He was constantly seeing his own fantasies all around him. He also had a certain phobia (undisclosed).

* His (the poster

[Thom]

It's 2:30am and I'm on my own in the house. Way to scare me, jerk.

[Spectre]

So his Phobia is found thru the Painting. only i can thats different at first glance is that on the first and third groups of horses the last horse of each has it leg in a certain postion.

and i cant make out anything in the picture in the link.

Edited December 4, 2006 by UR-86

[CS]

Somethings I thought of while looking at it:

1. There are no doors on any of the houses.

2. Where is the light coming from?

3. The horses don't have any shadows but the houses do.

4. The right hand side of the painting is the same as the left, just a turned image.

Everyone is the picture is doing something with another person, no one is doing anything alone. My theory/guess is that he is afraid of being alone or lonelyness.

[jitz]

I'm not trying to be rude here, just wanted to stop you wasting your time.

1. There is a door, behind the couple with the pram.

2. The general lighting of the area even though it's dark? Look at every painting set at night, it's rarely ever dark.

3. The shadow from the house is incorrect, the light from the other building should stop the shadow being cast, vaguely like the house on the right hand side. Don't mistake bad artistry for insanity.

4. I've heard this a few places already, bu it's clearly not the case at all. The two sides are completely different. The two houses int he middle share the basic shape, but the features on it are completely different.

It's all bogus anyways.

[Aero]

is he afraid of snow and 3 headed, 8 legged horses?

[CanaMatt]

what the fuck, how would it be hell?

[Tychoma]

You're all stupid. The answer is: it's painted on the back of a corpse.

[kebongski]

Why did I come in this thread... now this is disturbing

[Niles Jansen The Third]

Hmm.. I'm gonna say he is taking the perspective of something falling, and is afraid of falling.

[Spectre]

How So Cj?? where do you see anything related to falling?

[Fozy]

Armageddon?

[Tychoma]

I really want to know the answer now, post some theories Hill.

[Nemo]

theres like, 2000 of them at digg, which is probably where sangay got the pic.

[kebongski]

It's either a skull or 2 dead dogs. I saw a skull in it

Death maybe? :>

Edited December 5, 2006 by kebongski

[scoot]

only thing i can think is that everyone on the picture looks bored to fuck

[crunk]

I bet it's one of those gay metaphorical things...

The phobia is probably a fear of being forgotten, so by making up some shit story involving this painting means that people like us think about it and not forget the person.

[Aero]

It's either a skull or 2 dead dogs. I saw a skull in it

Death maybe? :>

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i bet when doing the ink blot test, you see a whole story with of stuff in each picture, right? lol

where do you see these dogs and the scull?

[kebongski]

[LiLFLiP]

LOL NO ONE READS DIGG, RIGHT SANGAY?

The professor gave the clue to not pay attention to the most minor of details, but rather to the differences between the original and the reproduction. Also, the professor said to imagine what the painting would be like without any of the unnatural objects there (horses, people, etc.)

*Supposedly* the closest anyone has come to figuring out the final answer dealt with silence and perspective. If you look at the reproduction, nothing looks like it would really make any sound. The horses aren't touching the ground and kicking up snow, everyone's mouths are closed, and the accordion is completely expanded and yet to be 'blown'. The supposed 'frozen river' in the reproduction (lower left corner, in the original painting it's branches) wouldn't make any sound either. So the ocnclusion that a lot of people got to was a fear of going deaf. To deal with perspective, when compared to the original painting, the reproduction seems to have an unusually high vantage point. This couldn't have been painted by someone from eye-level, so it suggests that the painter is having an 'out-of-body' experience. The professor said that the patient also had a lot of fantasies and hallucinations.

A large stretch deals with the groups of threes that are abundant in the painting. If you look in the background, three kids are building an unusually tall snowman. It's pretty tall, so the kids couldn't have built it by themselves. Snowmen are in segments of three. It's possible that the painter has out of body experiences that involve him being a snowman...snowmen have no ears and thus can't hear. Snowmen also melt away. The painter might not have a phobia of becoming a literal snowman per se, but perhaps having an out of body experience and losing his ability to hear, eventually 'melting away' without being able to get his hearing back.

The professor was supposed to come online December 1st and post the answer in his livejournal, but people had tried to get the answers from him, extracted his personal info, and otherwise harrased him, so he took down all the things on his livejournal and will refuse to post the answer.

So there are new theories that the whole ordeal was a hoax, or that the painting is normal, but the professor is crazy because he sees something in it. It's dumb.

But more importantly, Sangay wants to start inline skating. lol what a fag, am i rite?

edit -- Supposedly, a former student of the professor came online and gave the real 'answer':

In this painting, we are Spring. You can see water, melting snow, in the lower left corner. The people are looking at us, afraid that their little world is about to melt down. They

Edited December 6, 2006 by LiLFLiP

[Mr Sparkle]

i reckon it shows hes afraid of everything hes just a mall scred child

[kebongski]

Wow. So my skull theory was waaaaaay off, lolol

[Mr Sparkle]

i really think it could be that hes scared of sound look at the original

http://www.veryrussian.net/wp-content/uplo...2/maslenica.jpg

and the remake

http://www.veryrussian.net/wp-content/uplo...nting-large.jpg

notice any thing the trees that might have rustled in the wind have become a frozen river hes tried to seal all the noise inside the houseby getting rid offthe doors where it might escape in the original in the back of two of the slays the are pepole playing accordions but no in the remake

well thats my theroy

[Big Bizang]

I'm sorry Flip but bollocks! I hate all this forced meaning from art, it probably doesn't mean a thing. Wanting to be a snowman? Fuck that.

[RingMaster2001]

i really think it could be that hes scared of sound look at the original

http://www.veryrussian.net/wp-content/uplo...2/maslenica.jpg

and the remake

http://www.veryrussian.net/wp-content/uplo...nting-large.jpg

notice any thing the trees that might have rustled in the wind have become a frozen river hes tried to seal all the noise inside the houseby getting rid offthe doors where it might escape in the original in the back of two of the slays the are pepole playing accordions but no in the remake

well thats my theroy

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The most intelligent post you have ever made. Well done.