Remember the odd “alien eyes” I blogged on a Sunday morning a little over a year ago? At the time, I couldn’t understand why reflected light from un-grilled windows across a parking lot showed up as gridded on this brick facade, but the mystery only added to the odd lights’ appeal. Several weeks later, I discovered that a building diagonal from the one with reflecting windows had window grills, so apparently the low-slanting morning light shone through one grill-windowed building, bounced off the non-gridded windows of a second, and landed in an exotic and intricate design on a third. Having figured the odd and angled trajectory of this alien eye-shine, I’m just as awed as ever.
Why do mention all this? Only because the aliens are back, this time in Central Square, Cambridge.
These Massachusetts alien eyes bear a much closer resemblance to praying mantises than our New Hampshire ones: perhaps they’re from different areas of the same exotic planet?
Nov 8, 2006 at 8:09 am
Hey! those photos are awesome. how incredible! who knows, maybe it is the aliens watching the human race through their light-filled eyes on the side of buildings? who’s to say huh?
hope all is well, take care
Rach
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Nov 10, 2006 at 8:50 am
Where can I find a word worthy of your photos? the only one that really seems to fit is “awesome” 🙂
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Nov 10, 2006 at 10:19 am
Light (photons) have incredible properties, and it’s fun to see how reflections and refractions work out. Whenever I see pictures like these, I think about our wonderful ability as humans to see light and make it into images in our brains.
Thanks for sharing these.
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