Airplane Lav Self Portraits

[farrokh747]

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/04/lavatory-self-portraits/

[Hardy Heinlin]

Excellent, excellent!

There's the atmospheric link again between then and now.

You know, in a certain way, the feeling of traveling on a medieval ship from A to a not completely known point in the distant fog must be very similar to that of traveling on a modern airliner from A to a not completely known point in the distant fog. At least for the Captains and Officers. Adventure, navigation, being on the way, horizon, if you see what I mean ...

Great portraits! Not only the lady, also the positions of the light sources and the diffused light reminds of paintings of Vermeer.


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[Hardy Heinlin]

What a coincidence, what a coincidence!

She also makes navigational charts!

http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/maps/pathologies.php

[farrokh747]

Great portraits! Not only the lady, also the positions of the light sources and the diffused light reminds of paintings of Vermeer.

yes considering how unflattering and flat acft lav lighting is..   and didn't realise that toilet seat covers had such possibilities...

Someone long ago taught me the trick of having the subject look just an inch above or below the lens...  it creates a subtle dissonance while looking at the image...

[Hardy Heinlin]

Someone long ago taught me the trick of having the subject look just an inch above or below the lens... it creates a subtle dissonance while looking at the image...

Aha. I can imagine. Vice versa, this probably amplifies the "directness" when the model is looking directly at the lens in just one portrait inside a portrait collection where all other portraits show a look slightly above or below the lens. To create directness, create an environment of indirectness.


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[martin]

the trick of having the subject look just an inch above or below the lens...

Same trick when talking to (or being talked to by) your boss (substitute "head" for "lens").
Resulting dissonance perhaps less subtle, though.  

M

[Richard McDonald Woods]

... on the other hand, H takes the option of not looking in the direction of the camera at all in case someone recognises him!

[Matt Sheil]

I am sure this lady was in the toilet on my last flight...  30 Bloody minutes before she came out

[farrokh747]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiddleoak/

http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/

some more work here, by a 14 year old .....

[farrokh747]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2354526/Chicks-away-Chicks-away-Baby-chickens-stowaway-cargo-flight-Brazil-different-type-flying-lesson-cockpit.html

dont see this everyday.....

[Jeroen D]

New high in cuteness!

[Phil Bunch]

So what would happen if one decorated one's body in this style and then calmly walked back to your seat on the airliner???  Would they declare a flight terrorism emergency and turn you over to the authorities???  If detained, could one plead a mere fashion preference?  Would the other passengers attack you for having an unacceptable appearance???  Is there risk of being taken to Guantanamo for "questioning"?  

(insert friendly grins here)

[Hardy Heinlin]

Awww ... these baby chickens :-) Now that's something that even I find cute! I like them. I mean looking at them, not eating them.

This is one of the best cockpit stories I've ever read, and seen.


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Some cargo aircraft also carry elephants.

[farrokh747]

yes something about them....  they look completely at home

[Hardy Heinlin]

Somebody on that site commented: "Trampling all over important buttons and controls. ... safety risk".

I bet these light weighted feather balls couldn't move any of those heavy, stiff cockpit buttons. Not even if they would jump up and down.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

MD-11s don't have touch screens   :-D

[martin]

I bet these light weighted feather balls couldn't move any of those heavy, stiff cockpit buttons. Not even if they would jump up and down.

No, but my first reaction on seeing those fotos was, "Darn, now I wouldn't dare to move any levers let alone pedals any more before these guys have been cleared out".

Squashing a little feather ball with the TQ or the rudder pedal is not a nice feeling, I am sure...  :?

Martin

[Hardy Heinlin]

Good point.

Do you know tribbles?

[martin]

Now I do.  
[size=8]Before, I didn't, being pre-StarTrek ("Raumpatrouille Orion", to be precise...)[/size]

Cheers,
M.

[John H Watson]

Somebody on that site commented: "Trampling all over important buttons and controls. ... safety risk".

Their beaks may be strong enough to move those miniature (worm-like) toggle switches on things like the ATC panel, but I can't see the airplane falling out of the sky as a result.

Hmmm... Is that an extra zero on my weight and balance sheet... or bird poo?  :?