Showing posts with label monkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monkey. Show all posts

Monday, 29 January 2024

No Hear...No Speak...No See

 


No info on the slide, other that "Nikko" and 1969, but many of the slides in that box had a definite "Japanese" look. It didn't take long to track it down to being the Toshogu Shrine.  The Shinkyu or Sacred Stable is relatively plain – probably the least adorned building in Tosho-gu. Yet it contains its most famous single carving, that of the Three Wise Monkeys:


Bonus - Pooky Park (AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park)

Sunday, 19 February 2017

Distant Cousins


I like this slide.

Just a nice little observed moment in time - distant relations considering each other.

Bonus -

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Worst Monkey Picture Ever


Tedious Tuesday trundles into view again, and I thought I'd hit paydirt with the most boring picture of a hedge. Ever.

But why would someone photograph it?  A closer look revealed that there might be a picture of a Capuchin monkey. (See enlarged section below.)

Or it might be a tree stump.

Bonus - Interesting Things Happen in Brighton.  Apparently