Pretty Damn Incredible
Posted on: November 21, 2008 - 8:08pm
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Pretty Damn Incredible
This elephant came from an abusive background and has been trained to do amazing things like this. Amazing memory and cognitive abilities!
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That is incredibly cute. I wonder how much of it was trained and how much is the elephant actually trying to make a likeness of an elephant. Clearly, due to the detail, it is attempting to make a likeness. I'm just wondering how much skill at art it needed to learn from humans. For instance, little kids can pretty much only make stick figures, but this elephant made an outline drawing. Can it draw other things than just elephants? Can it draw spontaneously?
Still, very amazing.
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That really is incredible. Who would have ever thought that an animal could be delicious and artistic!
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That elephant draws better than me!
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
The bidding for that painting should start at $1,000,000.
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I agree. I also agree with butterbattle in that it draws better than I do.
Now if I can only sell the art my puppy makes in her apparent attempts to represent lakes on the floor!
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
Save a tree, eat a vegetarian.
Sometimes " The Majority " only means that all the fools are on the same side.
I agree, and what's most amazing is that you're right, even if someone taught me how to do that I STILL couldn't do it that well!
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby