Human beings are wonderful and fun when we've got our heads screwed on right.
Posted by: jim | Mar 26, 2009 9:33:31 AM
Abbas, you have been LED astray - the producers of this masterpiece inserted computer generated imagery between the video shots of actual sheep.
There's just no way that sheep could have painted the Mona Lisa. Even Dutton knows that.
Now I really don't believe the Flying Nun from your last post.
Posted by: aguy109 | Mar 26, 2009 10:19:57 AM
I absolutely love bored/strange people with too much time on their hands!
Posted by: Rosalind | Apr 5, 2009 5:07:05 AM
Actually, there is no reason - in theory - why you cannot use sheep to 'paint' the Mona Lisa. You would need to work out the light patterns in advance but, after that, it is only a matter of cutting the right sheep into the correct patterns.
Don't believe the sheep dogs could do it? There used to be a TV programme in the UK called 'One Man And His Dog' where shepherds competed to perform various herding exercises using a 'foreign' flock of sheep (.i.e., sheep they had never handled before) and their own dogs. What they could achieve with just a whistle or a shouted 'come by' had to be seen to be believed.
I have no idea whether trickery was used for this video but the underlying premise is entirely feasible even if somewhat labour-intensive.
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Human beings are wonderful and fun when we've got our heads screwed on right.
Posted by: jim | Mar 26, 2009 9:33:31 AM
Abbas, you have been LED astray - the producers of this masterpiece inserted computer generated imagery between the video shots of actual sheep.
There's just no way that sheep could have painted the Mona Lisa. Even Dutton knows that.
Now I really don't believe the Flying Nun from your last post.
Posted by: aguy109 | Mar 26, 2009 10:19:57 AM
I absolutely love bored/strange people with too much time on their hands!
Posted by: Rosalind | Apr 5, 2009 5:07:05 AM
Actually, there is no reason - in theory - why you cannot use sheep to 'paint' the Mona Lisa. You would need to work out the light patterns in advance but, after that, it is only a matter of cutting the right sheep into the correct patterns.
Don't believe the sheep dogs could do it? There used to be a TV programme in the UK called 'One Man And His Dog' where shepherds competed to perform various herding exercises using a 'foreign' flock of sheep (.i.e., sheep they had never handled before) and their own dogs. What they could achieve with just a whistle or a shouted 'come by' had to be seen to be believed.
I have no idea whether trickery was used for this video but the underlying premise is entirely feasible even if somewhat labour-intensive.
Posted by: Thomas | Apr 16, 2009 1:02:01 PM
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