Because I dared to do something else!
Yes! Guilty as charged. I love to surf the net and anyone having the same craving knows that one thing leads to another and you almost can't get out of the web once caught in its link tentacles. While I was hopping from one website to the next I came across SIRDS images. I love those, even have physical books with SIRDS images, but had forgotten all about them. SIRDS stands for Single Image Random Dot Stereograms or HIS, Hidden Image Stereogram. In long, images made of random dots that mean absolutely nothing, but contain 3D objects when looked at in particular way. Now, if you are familiar with SIRDS images, I have included an image below for your viewing enjoyment. If you are not familiar with it, click on this link to learn how you can learn to see those 3D images. Believe me, it is worth it.
But now back to my friend's Bike Ride along the Danube, which is the theme of my FMT mosaic challenge. Here both my tiles for #179 with leading tangle Merryweather and #180 with leading tangle Cruffle. Not wanting to hold back the Bike Ride along the Danube map, present and future, I included an image of all 9 tiles together as well.
FMT #179
Patterns: Merryweather a la my style, Knightsbridge, Joki, Chicken Feet,
Jetties, Lined Balls, a part of G-Chi and left over from Vigne.
Jetties, Lined Balls, a part of G-Chi and left over from Vigne.
FMT #180
Patterns: Cruffle, Henna Drum, Printemps, Zinger heads,
another part of G-Chi and some more Lined Balls.
another part of G-Chi and some more Lined Balls.
And here the present and future Bike Ride along the Danube.
3 out of 9, 6 more to go
Animal Unlucky Days
Hurricane Harvey - pets and wildlife are caught up in the disaster, too.SIRDS
A quick tip: focus first on the image, then change focus of your eyes as if you want to look at something in the distance, behind the image. As aforementioned, if you can't see it, click here for detailed instructions. This image illustrates an international hand signal.
You have to click on the image to make it larger!!!
Enjoy!
I like your Bike Ride along the Danube very much. It seems to be very interesting and full of various changing views. Nature, romantic and also little exotic moments show us new sides of the old river and wonderful colors and patterns. I hope, the bike will be seen at tile 9, where the journey ends.
ReplyDeleteBut Margarete! The bike has already been introduced...on y first tile. You know, just between you and me, I am scared on how I am going to end this challenge. To fill tiles up to the rim is not at all my style! I'll keep you updated. 😛😛😛
DeleteSusie, I know this challenge is a bit coming out of your comfortzone but afterwards it will give you satisfaction. I like the results very much, this mosaïc is abslolutely wonderful and it is going to look as a drawing on an opus-tile, the first time for you, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteKeep on tangling, the way you do, it looks great!
Texas is a disaster but glad to know, people also help animals.
And about Sirds, I really am ashamed but I don't see what is especting to find behind... maybe in the following days all of sudden I will be surprised.
I would never ever do an Opus tile, believe you me, Ria!!! Yes, totally out of my comfort zone. Probably that is why I push tile #2 always to the back of the challenge pile. 6 more to go!!!! Ouch! Maybe they will become travelling tiles. 😛😛😛
DeleteDid you check out the link to the SIRDS 'seeing' instructions, Ria? Sometimes it takes a while because people keep focusing on the image and that it TOTALLY wrong. Only when you see the image blurred will the 3D object jump out at you like from nowhere. It is really amazing. Please keep trying, Ria.
I've had those time where I feel like I can't keep up with all the challenges - so many I want to do, not enough hours to do them. So I just wave and let them go by, only doing them when I want to and can.
ReplyDeleteYour Joey ensemble is looking stunning - I love that vivid colour you handle so well, so many tangles but never so it gets untidy. Wow. I can't wait to watch it continue to grow!
Thanks so much for your comment, RR. You are so correct about waving off challenges and once you waved off the first, the 2nd and 3rd are that much easier to dismiss. However, I WANT to do them, hence the hectic.
DeleteI think the colors help to keep those many many many tangles somewhat in order. Please, 6 weeks, be over soon!!!
Susie! I know what you mean. When I fell into the trap findong no zen I quit the challenges till I felt I could participate without feeling the pressure... Hope you find a way. I Love to follow your mosaic! It is great!😍
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind words, Anita. I thought a few times to skip some of the challenges, but then an inner voice chastised me for giving up and the pen was back in my fingers again.
Delete...and I follow your mosaic!
I can so relate about feeling pressured by the challenges. I have to dive in, then take a vacation, then pick one I think I can do without the pressure, then another vacation, etc. I didn't even feel I could tackle this huge Joey Challenge but you are doing it so beautifully. Love the way it's developing!
ReplyDeleteYou mean so far so good? Maybe I should follow your example and take a 6 weeks holiday!!!! But I will start dropping challenges and concentrate more on my own projects and challenges. I mean, it is not like I have none!
DeleteWow Susie that is looking so beautiful and the depth you had on the Cruffles was amazing! I don't have the patience anymore to try and focus. I did see one dog but got bored waiting to see if I could make a third show up 🙄
ReplyDeleteInternational hand signal, Trudi, international hand signal. Or are you talking about the rescued animals? Soon we are into tile 4 and I am already feeling that tangler's block creeping up.... I am off to the Robinson Crusoe island! See U all in 6 weeks again.
DeleteYour FMT tile are wonderful! In the end it will be a fantastic ensemble!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Annette. Your words in God's ears!! I myself am not so confident.
DeleteOh! I remember those magic eye books! I had a couple of them, my kids and I loved to gaze at them! But I love what you are doing with your Joey tiles. Just wonderful and the scruffle has so much depth and texture. Well done!
ReplyDeleteAh Heidi, thank you so much!!!!! You seem to be the first to be able to lock eye with the SIRDS image. I remember well when I first was introduced to them. We were a group of young expats sitting at the pool impatiently waiting for the books to make the round and hating those who said: "Oh!", "WOW!", "Wait till you see this!"!
DeleteOh, and thanks for the tiles' comment. I wished those 6 weeks were already over.
These are soooo beautiful. I'm always blown away by your compositions, but the colors on this are outstanding;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your kind comment, Michele. I realize now that I complicated my own life. Happens when you are still a somewhat newbie in this game. Never ventured outside the 9x9cm except for monotiles and never participated in Mosaic projects...it shows!
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