DEEP SEA HARDHAT DIVER #8 "NO EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH"
I can't recall why we thought this was a good picture! Possibly some pun about riding the waves?
Oddly enough, I never overheated in this costume, in spite of some of the beach picnic days being scorchers! Never got sunburnt either.
Apart from the pane in front, which I could open for extra ventilation the usual 'chimney flue effect' that I built into the helmet seemed to keep me cool. A vent in the top of the helmet (disguised as a pressure relief valve) lets warm out out, drawing cool air in through vents at the neck. I've taken advantage of this effect in several costumes, and only had to build electric fans into a couple of the more extreme ones.
Obviously I didn't take this piccy meself. I'm ninety percent sure that my friend Gail Adams probably did.
This picture was just published in a Dutch handbook where it was (I think!) used to illustrate a point about style errors or somesuch. What a hoot! It's also been used on the cover of a U.S American band's CD (Six Foot Model), and keeps popping up in other locations.
Here's a Science blog that embedded it (with permission) in a post about deep thinker Freeman Dyson....
www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/01/24/freeman-dyson-its-co...
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Comments and faves
Matt Stevens, Why Not Studios, flikr, dollseye, and 413 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Why Not Studios (75 months ago | reply)
What a wonderful surreal pic...!
zero g (75 months ago | reply)
Ta! Y'know, this explains all those sea-stories you hear about sharks' stomaches being opened after they're killed; and out tumbles a bicycle and a diving helmet!
I take credit for the cossie and the pose in this one..which I reckon is fair enough. I don't know which of five or so onlooking friends actually snapped the piccy. Possibly my partner Gail or mate, Ken.
flikr (74 months ago | reply)
lol, awesome. This just has that extra appeal. A good photo, and a great subject. Nice description also.
The stuff of legend.
zero g (74 months ago | reply)
Ta very much. Alternate Title: No Einstein On The Beach. (After the play!)
dollseye (74 months ago | reply)
This image gives me so many different connotations.. I love it.
zero g (74 months ago | reply)
Thanks again dollseye. Submersible Cycling, it's all the rage!
frasto (74 months ago | reply)
Surreal and funny!
zero g (74 months ago | reply)
And it was surreally fun on the day too!
Ta for the comment frast_rn, you're a maestro of the surreal yourself!
zero g (73 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave Atari, Grachina & Marco!
Paul Grand (72 months ago | reply)
Love your surreal work!
I think you should join my Man Ray group!
www.flickr.com/groups/man-ray/
zero g (72 months ago | reply)
Ta Grand Paul. Done and done!
zero g (72 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave mann8820!
zero g (72 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave peaseblossom1594
xenmate (72 months ago | reply)
Hi Zero G,
I've posted this here with attribution. As you can see it's the perfect picture for the article ;).
I hope this is ok with you.
Cheers!
zero g (72 months ago | reply)
No worries at all xenmate. That's an interesting article already! The pic does 'suit' it quite well. Great idea. Oh, and ta for the fave!
zero g (72 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave idogu
zero g (71 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the fave subtleangst!
Why Not Studios (71 months ago | reply)
Is this a pic of you STILL looking for new digs?
zero g (71 months ago | reply)
Heh heh!
We're home and air-hosed actually. After a humungous marathon of toting that barge and lifting that bale we are now in better, stronger, faster accomodation....though the new shed looks a lot like the warehouse at the end of Raider's Of The Lost Ark...boxes everywhere.... :)
Why Not Studios (71 months ago | reply)
Congrats zero... as long as there are gun ports
covering all approaches... and a fridge full of food
and drink... then home sweet home...
keep the compressor running!... cheers!
zero g (68 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave sinder falls!
nytram ydnew [deleted] (64 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called MASTER SWORD OF GREATNESS GROU - praise be to bob, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
This is worthy of the Master Sword of Greatness!
You must add your picture to the Master Sword of Greatness grou!
Master Sword of Greatness group!
zero g (64 months ago | reply)
Jeez, ta very much Wendy, your blood's worth bottling! (An old Aussie saying expressing extreme appreciation, no matter how it sounds!)
Barbara J H (64 months ago | reply)
LOL I love it!!!
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zero g (64 months ago | reply)
Ta Barbara, was a fun, and, bemusingly, typical day at the beach for me...
zero g (64 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave, er, pw poopoo gonzoid juju !
And that's about the most inexplicable avatar I've seen so far on Flickr...
zero g (64 months ago | reply)
Ta very much for the faves, daydream scream, evilcabeza and MacSmiley!
zero g (64 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave lieblingx!
lapsuskalamari (63 months ago | reply)
It's enough to frighten a fish on a bicycle
zero g (63 months ago | reply)
Well lapsuskalamari that's just the cycle of life... ;)
zero g (63 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave nichtigall!
@meli@ (63 months ago | reply)
dude where'd you find that sweet suit?
zero g (63 months ago | reply)
Well I turn my camera on..., the short answer is: made it.
The long answer can be found at the start of the photoset at:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N00/94293640/i n/set-720575...
Cheers!
zero g (63 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave Minny!
zero g (63 months ago | reply)
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zero g (62 months ago | reply)
paraisos ajenos, thanks for the fave!
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
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zero g (62 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the fave jim_dadburnit!
facebook.com/biketourist (62 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Anything on Wheels, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
No worries biketourist.org!
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave maloon1!
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave beaubeaver!
Kim Aubrey (62 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Australian Elite Images, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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Found in a search. (?)
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
No worries Kim, done and done!
JT INK (62 months ago | reply)
now i know how deep sea divers get to work
i always wondered....
awesome surrealism
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
Thank you kindly shutter eyes, bicycles make those 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea simply fly by!
Brufsup (62 months ago | reply)
As ridiculous as a goldfish riding a bicycle! : )
zero g (62 months ago | reply)
Hi praise brufsup100, ta indeed!
zero g (61 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave Free fall flow !
zero g (61 months ago | reply)
Ta for the fave Chase Hunter !