07 August 2006

any idea what this says?

13 comments:

JM said...

life is cruel

Michael LeVan said...

all I can see is "life is curl" or "life is cure."

Scrivener said...

Life is Art. The crossbar of the t is faint but it's there.

Anonymous said...

Life is cool.
It's that, I'd put my life on it. I do my "o"'s like that when I'm rushing. Definitely, definitely.

Pilgrim/Heretic said...

I'm pretty sure it's "Life is Art," but my first impression was "Like is Curl." Besides, if it's Life is Art, that helps explain the challenging read. (or is that taking it too far?)

Pilgrim/Heretic said...

Come to think of it, that's kind of a cool Rorschach test...

Ianqui said...

My first impression was "Lile is Are", but I'm probably wrong.

PG said...

Very nice pictures ~ I think it says life is art

Anonymous said...

it's so not life is art. It's life is cool - how can no one see it?!
Eh, it's like the word verification thing, innit?

JM said...

i'll buy "art". I see "cruel" because I personally write really crappily and often forget important parts of letters.

Scrivener said...

Clare, what you see as a C is the big circle of a capital script A, and what you see as the first o is the loop on the capital A and the left part of lowercase r. My first thought was "Cool" too, but it clearly says Art. What kind of graffito would it be to say "Life is Cool"? You think Dr MMmmMMmMmMMMmMmMMMMmmm is the sort to post graffiti arguing against global warming or something? ;)

Michael LeVan said...

I think Clare is onto something: Whoever made this stencil probably also works for the word verification folks. And the first thing I saw was the same as Ianqui suggested. I'm not sure about the T that everyone sees. It looks like a smudge. I can't figure out how the t cross could be so faint while the little loop at the top of that letter is so clear. Maybe it says Life is œuvre.

Anonymous said...

Like JM, I saw, "Life is Cruel."

Huh.