Comments on: "Hold infinity in the palm of your hand..."

"Hold infinity in the palm of your hand..."

Gator — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:30:07 -0800

"There are chakrahs in our hands, Jesus had nail holes in his palms, and a sign of worship is to stand with your palms raised. Fortune tellers read palms. Handwriting is analyzed to expose deep secrets. Man's thumbs differentiate humans from lower species....We control our world with our hands, and our hands are shaped by our world." -- The Manual Project by Bill Westheimer. "Using 19th century collodion wet plate photography I photograph their dominant hand, then we work together to make a photogram of their palm print. Combining these two images together with the person's handwriting, I create one portrait of the subject. "

By: Gator

Gator — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:31:04 -0800

Also, also, previously.

By: slatternus

slatternus — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:50:41 -0800

Is it my imagination or are reposts ( even for excellent subjects such as this) becoming more common? It seems like the only part of the internet that's actually growing is the blogosphere. The rest is getting mined out. Anyway, don't forget the Gou'ald alien hand devices in Stargate that shoot energy from the equivalent of the hand chakrah. And the aliens in Atlantis have mouths in their hands - not a particularly original image, but an enduring and haunting one that's been a fixture of surrealist painting for almost a century. The upraised hand as the universal symbol of peace also springs to mind.

By: Gator

Gator — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:54:49 -0800

It's not a repost; I just like to include related threads, when I can. I should probably be more clear about that in future ("related" as opposed to "previously").

By: slatternus

slatternus — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:00:15 -0800

Ooops. That's probably me leaping to conclusions too. Well, I take it all back about the internet. It's an exponentially expanding universe of limitless novelty!

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:03:02 -0800

But Jesus didn't have nail holes through his palms...

By: Atreides

Atreides — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:31:12 -0800

I guess you can say, Jesus has been depicted with nail holes in his hands...

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:39:30 -0800

The hair on my palms shorted out my chakras.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:58:52 -0800

Do chimpanzees and apes have opposable thumbs?

By: matteo

matteo — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:27:11 -0800

good post, thanks

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:17:58 -0800

Feh. Those hand pictures would have been so much better if the photographer had bothered to use the Zone System.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:53:41 -0800

kind of, alumshabby, but the shapes of their fingers and the layout of their hands is much more suitable for grasping tree trunks and walking on them. Our thumbs are much more mobile, able to form an "o" with any other finger. This is kinda cool, but the pretense is unbearable. Who cares about a bunch of unrelated superstitions? The hands are important, but don't dress it up with mysticism.

By: Poagao

Poagao — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:30:44 -0800

The nails would have had to have gone through his wrists to hold his weight on the cross, nails through the hands wouldn't have done it.