Friday, May 26, 2006

Interesting Problem

I read somewhere that if you present most people with a picture of a room with a painting that's obviously crooked on the wall, and a chair near the painting, they will imagine themselves moving the chair over and straightening the painting. I know I did, when I saw the picture.

So what comes to mind when you see this?

(Incidentally, I found the picture in a collection of similar ones, here.)

2 comments:

Sweeti said...

That wasn't just a pickle they got themselves into that was a Holy Crap momment!

There's some awesome picture on this site.

Cerulean Bill said...

Sometimes I will play a mind game with myself -- if I were in charge there, what would I do? What would be my first move? In that case, I think I'd get a boat near them -- but not too close, lest the hook snap -- and have the crewmen jump (not eject; same reason). Then I'd use another boat to run chains and whatnot down around and back up, and try to secure it to the deck. And only then -- if then -- would I try to haul it back up.

You're right about the photographs.