April 1st 2022 - Fooled Me

 

I was trying out more of those Flexifly transformations on my photos.  And got a very strange result on one of theme - It made me think of the expression "You could have fooled me - I would never guess these two pictures are related".   The first picture is a triple in-camera exposure of a power chord against the wall which has shadows of the window blinds.  The second is the transformation in Flexifly - it looks like some ancient cave drawing.  This may be a lame version of April Fool's Day.  And maybe that's a good thing this year.  There are famous April Fool's Day Jokes that have been recorded.  To me the highlight is the spaghetti harvest done by the BBC in 1957 as a news hoax.  Swiss farmers harvested the strands of spaghetti from trees.  The call-ins for how to grow spaghetti got the response:  "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.  Here are the rest from Readers Digest. In France: According to Le Parisien, in 1986, the Eiffel Tower was going to be dismantled and rebuilt inside the new Euro Disney park. In Denmark: In 1965, a Copenhagen newspaper reported that Parliament had passed a law that all dogs be painted white to improve road safety because they could then be seen clearly at night. In Norway: In 1987, after reading that the government was planning to distribute 10,000 litres of wine confiscated from smugglers, hundreds of citizens turned up carrying empty bottles and buckets. In China: Claiming that it would reduce the need for foreign experts, the China Youth Daily joked in 1993 that the government had decided to exempt PhDs from the nation’s one-child-per-family policy. After foreign press picked up the hoax, the government condemned April Fools’ Day as a Western tradition. In Great Britain: In 1980, those serial pranksters at the BBC announced that Big Ben, London’s historic clock tower, would undergo a face-lift and become digital to keep up with the times. Enraged callers flooded the station with complaints. In Canada: In 2008, WestJet airlines advertised its overhead cabin bins as “among the most spacious of any airline” and said it would charge passengers an extra $12 to use these “sleeper cabins.” In Taiwan: In 2009, the Taipei Times claimed that “Taiwan-China relations were dealt a severe setback yesterday when it was found that the Taipei Zoo’s pandas are not what they seem.” The paper reported that the pandas, a gift from the Chinese government, were brown forest bears dyed to resemble pandas. Among the complaints sent to the paper was one from the zoo’s director. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca