h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, some of the images on Google were obviously meant to look like things. Amongst the things I've seen on the Google 'Rorschach Test' are:

Two dwarfs (could be garden gnomes)
Two T. Rexes falling off large beach balls
A strange hair-do above small oriental eyes
Two people waist deep in water outside a cave entrance
A man with a very bushy beard
A man with strange hair and a bushy moustache

There were a few where I just thought 'blob'. I wonder what a psychologist would make of all this.

Apart from the ones which are 'faked' (the garden gnomes, dinosaurs and the cat with the butterfly) I seem to see mostly animals, plants and circus clowns or jugglers.

I am mostly reminded of animal skin rugs. Some with eyes, some without.

Yeah! There's one there that has to be a huge bear skin rug.

The official raw-shock test has 10 standardised images and I
suspect these are now fully trademarked and copywritten. This
is likely why Google had to create their own versions.

I have been tested so I have seen them all and there were several
that were already familiar. They were often seen a half century ago
but now that we're thinking about it I've become conscious that they
are not seen much publicly anymore. People would have developed
their own pre-conceived opinions about what they were 'supposed'
to see and this would spoil test results.

Because the original images were so striking they'd been commonly
used in pop culture environments like book covers, magazine illustrations,
film and TV, album covers, etc The spread-legged bat on a motorbike
is likely the most familiar.


~jwf~

Oh, yes. They've always been very protective of images themselves. When they do allow them to be reproduced, they rarely allow them to be dispayed in colour. Most people assume they're all black and white like on the doodle.

What do you see

a bloke drawing I think on a notepad sitting on a wonky cahair

two pictures of google in the back round to left and right

two other pictures, can't make them out on the left, view obscured, clouds in frames?

two massive hands and well sketched holding up blobs, apparently, meaningful ones

looks like paintings you folded in half and opened,

I keep seeing co-joined animals in varying states of co-joiness, don't know what that says about me

there is a window, backround right, not sash but that kind of opening, with a curtain 'drawn across to open', very stylised,

Plant on table, I hope it ok there, would it prefer more light, hope that it looked after well, not just well window dressing

sorry but google said share what you see, not being on google, facebook, the twittr

I did it here

Take Hermann Rorschach's Original Rorschach Test (1921)
- - - I feel that in today's world we may see somethings differently than in 1921 - -- --- ………….. . . . .. …
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/14237d1ceb2ab2bf

That link very strangely opens MY gmail inbox,
with a notice that 'the conversation no longer exists'
while also closing the h2g2 convo thread.

I'd really like to take the original test again.

~jwf~

Here's a link to all ten of the original
below a 20 sec clip from Woody Allen's parody from 1969
"I see two elephants making love to a men's glee club"

http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/take-hermann-rorschachs-original-rorschach-test-1921.html


~jwf~

, ? darn, Sorry. ? ~ jwf ~ I'm glad you were able to put up what I intended to do. .. ...

Because of this iconic image from the classic film, The Trouble With Harry,


http://sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Trouble-With-harry2.jpg


I can't help but associate Rorschach image 4 with a man laying down from a small child's point of view... with a large bit extra.

Yup, #4 is the classic bat with vagina on a motorbike.

I'd forgotten about all the coloured ones...
#10 looks like a garden in front of the Eiffel Tower.


~jwf~

Not an actual doodle, but we do have a little blue flower underneath the search buttons on Google France for 11th November.

Ooh, yes, we have a poppy in the UK.

Mol

It's not there now - or perhaps they've just suppressed them when it's run over German servers.

No poppy on Google uk visible here either.

I tried Google UK, and it didn't have one, then I clicked on the bit that says "this is available in English", and there it was.

In the US (.com) we have the oo's replaced by a parade float carrying veterens.

F S

Canada.ca just has a small red poppy below the search box.
The 'francais' option also has it.

~jwf~

Well done, SF - I found it now! The French one is a corn flower (bleuet) and the co.uk has the poppy. Both flowers that would have been abundant in those killing fields in the 14-18 war.