Upside-Down Artist

Why? I suppose if I cared enough to go to her web site I would see what rationale she provided. But I don't, so I didn't.

When I was a kid, the Gum Shoe in a detective novel got a clue from reading an upside-down letter. It was on a the suspect's desk when he visited his office.

So I practiced. The only use I have for it is odd looks I get when I read a magazine in public.

It may have been in Chuck's NotW where a $1,000,000.00 or so painting hung upside-down in the museum for a year before it was corrected. :red:

Well, I can read upside down, sideways, mirrored, whatever, basically as fast as right side up. It's just the way my brain's wired. I can remember credit card numbers, VINs, etc with little effort, but someone's name, and, out of context their face, are outside my bandwidth. I'd had numerous conversations with my next door neighbor, and fantasized doing wrong things with/to her, but when she showed up as a cow orker, I had this twilight zone thing of thinking I'd seen her before but no idea where or who she was. I still can't remember her family's names. My wife will mention someone by name, and I usually ask who it is. She'll tell me something they've done or been, or a relationship, and I'm ok. If this chick is comfortable upside down, it doesn't confront me. It's just a brain thing.

I learned the trick a long time ago of using a mirror to look at own's drawing while they're in progress. It's amazing how distortions go completely unnoticed when looking at the picture right way round. But look at it's reflection in the mirror and they jump right out. It's a great tool for improving one's artwork.

I'm of the same mind as Mr. Evilwrench - orientation of material, be it art, written material or machinery I can process without much trouble. I can keep the process of dismantling / mantling various parts of an automobile in my mind as a picture. It has always amazed my brother, so I swing the wrench on his vintage cars for him.

Faces are not generally a problem but names will escape me and I can be speaking with someone for probably a full minute before the name comes to the fore.

However, I took one art course at university and only because it was a required subject. I'm actually a total disaster using brush on paper. I just don't have a sense of proportion for the subject.

I wonder if she can do this while SHE is upside down. I often write backward with my left hand when taking notes or making lists for myself as fast as I can write forward with my dominant right hand, and can read backward and upside down as easily as forward. I never tried writing upside down, but now I am intrigued and will try it with both hands.

I thought she was gonna be upside down painting, but no. When I was in first grade I showed signs of being ambidextorous but I wrote left to right with my right hand and right to left (with perfectly backwards letters). That just made sense to me so instead of TEACHING me they forced me to use only my right hand. My manual dexterity has been crappy all my life and I blame it on that. When my daughter turned out to be a lefty I was dilligent to make sure no one tried to force her into righthandedness.

Now patty ... you are pretty good upside down, on your back, or using either hand.

For patty...If you are looking for a lost nimrod in the bush, they always circle:
-A dexter will go counter-clockwise.
-A sinistre will go clockwise. 😊 ❓

Painting & copying material upside-down is an old forger's trick and looking at your art work upside-down or in a mirror is an old artist's trick to catch the oddball stuff.

@Patty: My mom went ballistic on the school when they started in on my left handed brother.

For patty also~~~ The best sword fight in cinima:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6dgtBU6Gs

Sorry, I've got to say that this swordfight HAS GOT to be the best.

I have a similar problem with names and faces, except the other way around: I do fine with names, but recognizing faces is more difficult. Reading upside-down is no problem at all. I'm also somewhat ambidextrous; some of that came from my mother who was not so much ambidextrous as having her right hand dominant for most things, and her left hand dominant for others; the rest of it came from fracturing my right elbow when I was about 6, and having my right arm in plaster from armpit to knuckles for what seemed like forever. I can write with my left hand, but, due to lack of practice, it still looks like a first-grader!

As for the sword fights, I'm torn. Maybe Catherine Zeta-Jones could give lessons on the preferred method of sheathing one's sword?

Best swordfight? Oh, please.

This is the iconic one --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

Monty over Zeta, Phideaux????

The Zeta version is a mishmash of drama, humor, and sex, and in my book, it doesn't carry off any of them particularly well. For me, take it serious or make it insane.

The iconic serious one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10fR31jC1w

Sorry, I'm just not getting that tingling-all-over feeling on that one like when Zeta's clothes fall off.

I only get the tingly feeling when the goody bits are shown.

Another iconic type of swordfight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o&feature=youtu.be

I watched an interview with him where he said that this scene was suposed to be some really elaborate duel but he had the flu, was feeling really bad and did this on a whim. It worked!