[Guest post by DRJ]
Look at the photo of Barack Obama (scroll down) in this Michelle Malkin post and tell me what it makes you think of.
There’s no right or wrong answer. I’m curious if anyone else had the same reaction I did.
UPDATE: Triptych Messiah.
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Walking on air? He IS the Messiah!!!
Stashiu3 (460dc1) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:23 pmBingo.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:24 pmWhy is he blocking the stairs to the loo?
Perfect Sense (9d1b08) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:24 pmThe Ascention?
http://www.christislord.us/artwork/TheAscention%5B1%5D.jpg
Brett (41eda7) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:25 pmLike a puppet being held up by strings.
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:26 pmThat’s a really weird picture. Looks all Scientology-like, or otherwise alien. Or operatic.
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:29 pmLet’s use it in t.v. ads!
. . . and so “out of this world.” There’s a selling point.
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:31 pmWhere’s Gort?
Taj (f97223) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:34 pmIt’s a great shot. Kudos to the fotog.
gp (78ea4b) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:36 pmHe’s obviously in the Cone of Silence! Which explains why nobody in the audience can hear him.
Hey DRJ – I think my comment is stuck in the filter of the VFW post. Go figure.
Apogee (366e8b) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:40 pmI’ll check. Everything is stuck today. There were 154 comments in the filter this morning.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:42 pmHot Air continues the Messiah theme. It also reminds me of the Ascension as Brett said above.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:42 pmI’m one who usually debunks the fear mongering of the Left re Church & State….but, this makes me very un-comfortable.
Another Drew (813962) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:47 pmWe are so close to a Cult of Personality problem it is scary.
OT: Speaking of Soros, has anyone heard or read anything from him re the Russian invasion of Georgia?
SteveMG (dca196) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:48 pmAD,
Isn’t that the bubble the McCain campaign has tried to burst with the Celebrity ads? Of course, it won’t work with the true believers but it seemed effective with moderates.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:50 pmIt didn’t strike me as anything in particular.
ON the other hand, I am not a visual person. I read, I don’t watch, and to be honest, I disregard any visual image that is presented to me as being factual, because I’ve watched too much tv. I know that all images can be falsified.
Jack (d9cbc5) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:51 pm#14:
OT: Speaking of Soros, has anyone heard or read anything from him re the Russian invasion of Georgia?
He’s probably underwriting it.
Bill M (5e9a70) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:51 pm#17
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:53 pmlolza!
It is just kind of creepy.
JD (5f0e11) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:54 pmThe pyramidal composition connotes strength. Wide angle thrusts BHO into the foreground. Lighting from above with cloudlike ceiling to left suggest a heaven above. Strange verticals create a triptych.
gp (78ea4b) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:57 pmI thought he looked like a TV evangelist at a Mega-CHurch…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 8/20/2008 @ 4:58 pmSteveMG,
You raised his name so I’m sure you knew George Soros funded the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and that puts him on the side of the Bush Administration. That probably causes everyone indigestion.
In any event, I haven’t seen a statement from Soros but Russia blames the US.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:04 pmgp #20: “Strange verticals create a triptych.”
Close examination shows that it IS a triptych.
Ira (28a423) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:05 pmgp,
Yes, but the ears are strictly Alfred E. Neuman.
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:05 pmgp and Ira,
Please elaborate on that for people like me who are architecturally-challenged.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:10 pmDitto #21. Ditto #24. Altogether creepy…and telling.
Dana (084de8) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:11 pmOkay, Triptych. You’re right.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:12 pm#20 gp
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:12 pmArt history major, eh?
Well, screwed that up the first time — but I found it right here.
Altadenablog (28a938) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:14 pm“tell me what it makes you think of”
ET talking about his trip home?
Rick Ballard (0a8990) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:14 pmIra, is it 3 photos fused, or is the triptych an accident of the interiors, like glass panels? I can’t tell. It’s one of those pix that’s so good, I’m jealous I didn’t take it. I daresay it’s the best photo of a wealth-confiscating radical leftist I’ve ever seen.
gp (78ea4b) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:16 pm“Art history major, eh?” Nope, code-slinger and amateur shutterbug. 🙂
gp (78ea4b) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:18 pmIf I knew how to do it here, I would put the Michelle Malkin photo on one side of the screen and the reverse image of Altadenablog’s triptych on the other. They are amazingly similar, including the Messiah figure with one arm raised with the adoring fans on one side and the almost reverential pose by George Soros on the other.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:23 pmDoes this tryptich count? It’s a view from the war room. Obama For President.
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:27 pm#32 gp
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:33 pmWhoa! Maybe the shutterbugging is tapping into heretofore repressed vistas.
Looks like higher taxes and less freedom.
Icy Truth (b55029) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:34 pmWe’re all repressed here in Bush’s Amerikkka. Hope for Change!
gp (78ea4b) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:38 pmUpdate after the *MORE* link.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:40 pmDRJ
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:41 pmOr maybe this. That’s Soros there at the right.
DRJ – since it’s a reversal of the triptych, does that imply that Obama is the Anti-Christ?
Apogee (366e8b) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:44 pmm,
Yes, and the fact he’s surrounded by disciples.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:44 pmI’m not going there, Apogee. I’m getting uncomfortable enough with this as it is, but it’s striking.
DRJ (a5243f) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:45 pmThis weirdly reminded me just a little of The Last Supper – his supporters doth creepeth me out.
Dmac (874677) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:47 pmWow, you already beat me to it, DRJ. Kudos.
Dmac (874677) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:48 pm#40 Apogee
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:50 pmDRJ – since it’s a reversal of the triptych, does that imply that Obama is the Anti-Christ?
[Not DRJ but] yes. Yes, it does.
My impression precisely. The Savior is here!
Hallelujah!
We’re not worthy of The Lightworker!
Bradley J. Fikes (3d6bca) — 8/20/2008 @ 5:58 pm#1 Stashiu3
Walking on air? He IS the Messiah!!!
Got it in one.
Iiiiii I’m walking on air
Head in the clouds
Oh woh oh oh oh
Iiiiii I’m walking on air
I’m walking on air
Above the crowd
I’m walking
I’m walking
Head in the clouds
Because of you boy…
m (fbf320) — 8/20/2008 @ 6:00 pmAll the Egyptian painting showed the Pharaoh or the gods as much taller than the common people. Note the three sizes in this example. Obama, Michelle and the rest of us.
Mike K (2cf494) — 8/20/2008 @ 6:01 pmTelevangelist on the stairway to heaven. Also, he looks remarkably taller than life. He’s standing on steps maybe 2′ off the floor but looks at least 4′ higher than anyone around him. Has he been photo-stretched for effect? The ceiling over his right shoulder looks like heavenly light, and the two ceiling lights over his left shoulder look like doves.
This puts Huck’s Christmas bookshelf cross to shame.
ManlyDad (75cbfe) — 8/20/2008 @ 6:04 pmHave you ever noticed that these photos are always taken when Obama is looking slightly skyward where there is absolutely nothing to look at? Somehow that is supposed to make people want to vote for him.
I remember catching on to this kind of crap when Buchanan was running. The Daily Show had a moment of zen with Buchanan surrounded by dozens of photographers and Democrat media journalists, walking in a field and suddenly he stops walking, raises his head about 35 degrees skyward and then he lifts his arm up as if to point to something or grasp some invisible hand. All the photogs started snapping like mad. It must have been an awesomely presidential pose.
The other one they like to use is the hand out in front with the elbow slightly bent like he’s doing a karate chop. Maybe that one is supposed to convey “fairness”.
j curtis (c84b9e) — 8/20/2008 @ 6:10 pmA marionette?
Curtis (e21caf) — 8/20/2008 @ 6:10 pmIn answer to your query
Uh, yeah.
Creepy.
EW1(SG) (9525a4) — 8/20/2008 @ 6:11 pmIt looks like Soros is operating some kind of lever with his right hand and pulling it to the desired setting. Either that or Obama looks like a lab specimen on a giant glass microscope slide.
M. Jacques du Klompus (b796b4) — 8/20/2008 @ 7:08 pmThat photo is very surreal as it is so obviously carefully posed to look like that. It is no accident.
SPQR (26be8b) — 8/20/2008 @ 7:36 pmInstant impression? I thought he looked like a game show host.
Lesley (c36902) — 8/20/2008 @ 7:40 pmAbsolute first impression: “Marionette”
mjn1957 (6e1275) — 8/20/2008 @ 8:04 pmAS an actual art history major, I would say yes, it’s evocative of any number of paintings. I always thought it reminded of the Raphael’s School of Athens.
After all, Obama is the new sage of Western civilization, isn’t he?
Patricia (f56a97) — 8/20/2008 @ 8:29 pmI thought he was the new Oregano.
Icy Truth (b55029) — 8/20/2008 @ 8:37 pmDr. Robert!
Joe M. (6034f5) — 8/20/2008 @ 8:38 pmit reminds me of Elvis Costello on one of his early album photos, but without the talent or charisma.
redc1c4 (ae7a64) — 8/20/2008 @ 9:11 pmReminded me of the Pope in his Pope-mobile. Same wave too.
roy (78d4a2) — 8/20/2008 @ 9:12 pmIt’s actually reducable to a normal situation. Speakers often try to find a position that is somewhat more elevated than the rest of the room so everyone can see them (that’s where pulpits come from, after all), and groups do tend to look at a speaker when he’s speaking. In this case, the stairs supplied the elevation. Obama himself reminds me of nothing more than your run of the mill preacher emoting something particularly interesting; waving arms are just another bit of body language that people often don’t even notice when they are doing it. (That’s why people flail their arms around when talking over the cell phone.)
kishnevi (0e4d32) — 8/20/2008 @ 9:44 pmThe only creepy portion of the picture is the reverential awe on the faces of the people closest to Obama. They seem to think he’s about to give them the Secret of the Universe or something.
I don’t have time to drill down and find the artist, but it reminds me of a painting of the Ascension.
In thirty-five years of religious study, I have come with only three hard, incontrovertible truths: there is a God, I’m not Him, and neither is OHB.(Apologies to Fr Cavanaugh and whoever the screenwriter of “Rudy” was)
Stephen Cobbs (9008df) — 8/20/2008 @ 9:45 pmPsst… look at the feet kishnevi. Look at the shadows his shoes cast. That was the first odd thing I noticed anyway.
Stashiu3 (460dc1) — 8/20/2008 @ 9:48 pmWithout reading the comments, I see an elevated Bambi preaching to the choir from within the cone of omniscience.
Ropelight (4a83c9) — 8/20/2008 @ 10:15 pmOr they’re just sleepy. All those no-host cocktails and meager appetizers.
Patricia (f56a97) — 8/20/2008 @ 10:40 pmThe left out the Angelic Choir singing
HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dan Kauffman (b31cae) — 8/21/2008 @ 2:12 amChrist in Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement at the Sistine Chapel: the light above, the cynosure of sanctity. Mind you, this Obama photo has no God . . . .
goldeneagle (4e9369) — 8/21/2008 @ 3:57 amIf the Messiah of Menlo Park is speaking to the crowd, why is his back towards them?
Rob Crawford (6c262f) — 8/21/2008 @ 4:58 amI am an Architect, and when I looked at the photo I found myself wondering what the layout of the rest of the room is. Who is Senator Obama looking at while he is talking? Are there any people in that part of the room or just a camera?
Whatever, Obama raised his children in a racist church. Some people like that. I don’t.
tyree (943a27) — 8/21/2008 @ 6:47 amI had a similar reaction – I was thinking of Fred Astaire, singing and tapping his way down the stairs. An entertainer.
carlitos (39ff54) — 8/21/2008 @ 6:59 amTravelling revival preacher was the first thing that leapt to mind.
Dodd (fbfada) — 8/21/2008 @ 7:14 amTelevangelist. i.e. scam artist.
Bar Sinister (b50c99) — 8/21/2008 @ 8:49 amThis was my morning project: combining the triptychs together:
Triptych
Altadenablog (28a938) — 8/21/2008 @ 10:11 amA-blog, it looks great.
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/21/2008 @ 10:15 amI have no comment about Obama’s pic, but what I did see as I was scrolling down was right wing trashy blog site akin to huffington post.
Oiram (983921) — 8/21/2008 @ 11:19 am^ Give this Arianna gal of yours a break!
It’s not easy being married to a cross-dresser. She worked her buns off trying to be his Nancy, his Hillary… The guy was supposed to help her become a big political power broker. Now she’s a blogger, up for scrutiny from her own kind!
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/21/2008 @ 11:54 amThat’s Benito Mussolini.
Do I win a prize?
DAN MCNEIL (ffb546) — 8/21/2008 @ 4:11 pm#78 – That’s Benito Mussolini.
Not yet.
Apogee (366e8b) — 8/21/2008 @ 4:26 pmAn accurate, and fitting, portrayal of El Duce, would have BHO hanging by his feet.
Another Drew (b53d17) — 8/21/2008 @ 4:46 pm