{"id":3359,"date":"2018-10-12T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2018-10-12T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:10:19","slug":"onomastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"onomastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(a fancy word for naming)<\/p>\n<p>\nImages often announce their identities, sometimes quite a while after their first appearances. Here&#8217;s a case of two framings of one bit of rock, and my different readings of their essence after a couple of days of looking at them on Flickr.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/44505782524\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"MP10x1815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1912\/44505782524_c3f454451d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"MP10x1815\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/30319262237\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"dreams of a demented baboon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1901\/30319262237_0e116be31c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"dreams of a demented baboon\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The lower obviously (!) depicts the dreams of a demented baboon, or so my onomastic intuition informed me. The baboon is in the lower center, two eyes and a brownish snout surrounded by a cascading chaos of curves and emergent figures. When I (somewhat later) explored the upper image it seemed to present the same face in a different setting, more of a whirlwind that brought to mind a Shinto spirit (<i>kami<\/i>) such as those one can experience in Miyazaki&#8217;s wonderful film <i><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ByXuk9QqQkk\">Spirited Away<\/i><\/a> (in Japanese: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KFbqrwpm-js\"><i>Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi<\/i><\/a>), a sense of swirling motion in the curves below the face.<\/p>\n<p>\nThese readings are utterly idiosyncratic, and it&#8217;s unlikely that anybody else would have seen those different versions without my prompting, but they seem more plausible and obvious each time I look at them. This happens a lot out our way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a fancy word for naming) Images often announce their identities, sometimes quite a while after their first appearances. Here&#8217;s a case of two framings of one bit of rock, and my different readings of their essence after a couple of days of looking at them on Flickr. The lower obviously (!) depicts the dreams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}