I co-host a podcast focused on superhero movies. Over breaks (summer and winter holidays) we’ll typically do something different than our usual. This past summer we did a Jeff Bridges sci-fi double feature - Tron (the original) and Starman.
For this holiday season we just recorded an od pairing that I think could be called “what random VHS tapes did you grow up with?” The movies? Roadhouse and The Pirates of Penzance!
It was a direct to VHS release called “Berenstein Bears visit Sinbad in Shazam!”. This was pretty close to Irontown. My mom said I had such an imagination with it and it was all static.
(Verse 1) Oh, the tale of a cat girl bold, With fur as black as the night’s cold. Sailed the seas in search of glee, But scurvy struck her, a cruel decree.
(Chorus) Meow me hearties, sing it loud, A cat girl’s plight on the ocean shroud. With a feline grace and scurvy’s sting, She danced on decks, a sailor’s fling.
(Verse 2) Her whiskers twitched, under the pirate moon, A sailor’s life, a rollicking tune. Scurvy’s grip, a relentless foe, Yet she purred defiance, letting it go.
(Chorus) Meow me hearties, sing with glee, For a cat girl’s spirit, wild and free. Through storms and scurvy, she sailed the sea, A feline mariner, forever to be.
(Bridge) In the salty breeze, her tail unfurls, Singing shanties with the ocean’s pearls. Cat eyes gleaming in the moonlit night, A scurvy-stricken kitty, yet a brave delight.
(Verse 3) Climbed the rigging with a nimble leap, Defying scurvy, in the vast deep. With a purr that echoed through the mast, She vowed to sail, while scurvy’s cast.
(Chorus) Meow me hearties, a cat girl’s tale, Through scurvy storms, she set sail. A sea shanty for the brave and free, The cat girl’s spirit, on the endless sea.
Stare at the squared one at the bottom right and thing about it as face down. Then you can move to the others and see them face down, but you may need several tries.
I have tried some of the “tricks” in the comments and none work for me. Try as I might, I can only see them as face up and nothing else. It doesn’t make sense to me that they could ever appear face down because the lighting wouldn’t make sense.
I got to see them upside down for a moment and it does not look correct. They are actually face up in the picture but it is possible to trick yourself into seeing them as upside down but they don’t look like they would if they really were
It all looked like pills to me until I read the text. Couldn’t even see plates for a while.
Anyway, I noticed that the top right rectangular one doesn’t match the perspective when seen as face down. All the other ones are round, so they don’t insinuate a perspective at all. That’s why that plate is the key.
Shadow says its face up though. There should be a thicker bright line down the side if it was flipped over. The shadow should not have the same depth as all the other dishes.
Sort of. This plate sticks out because in order to create a shadow and light this way when facing down it would have to be angled in a way that doesn’t match with the others when also assuming that they’re all placed on the same surface. It only looks right with the others when seen as face up. The trick here is that we normally assume light to come from the top when given no other clues, but this assumption doesn’t match with our assumption of placement. The text also suggests the wrong way first.
If the picture had been presented upside down, it might have been difficult to even ee it any other way than the correct one.
They all started as face up to me as well. The one that stood out to me though was the rectangular plate in the top right. That plate looked face down to me which then triggered all the plates to look face down.
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