Cosmic Collective Creativity (thanks soozika)

It all started with this picture.

ED ED created the idea and photograph.

It occurred to me that I have a fish just about like this one. I gathered it up with a wine glass and some wine and headed for the garage.

Two hours of set up, two glasses of wine, 42 shots, 30 minutes in Photoshop, (another glass of wine) all for this laugh... I must be a clown…a clown with a lot of extra time.


Plagiarize, Let no one else's
work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please "research".

-Tom Lehrer (the Great)

dream, originally uploaded by ed ed.

I posted the results on Flickr and pretended it was just a coincidence.
Soon soozika notices the "mysterious coincidence" on Flickr and added her gorgeous version....

Fishin' wine., originally uploaded by anyjazz65. Then some other strange coincidences began popping up...	Here you go, anyjazz65 & ed ed ..., originally uploaded by soozika.
Lagavulin hanging out, originally uploaded by soozika. That whole bottle story is here, or around there someplace...	Only the finest..., originally uploaded by anyjazz65.
escapology, originally uploaded by ed ed.	Dumpster, originally uploaded by anyjazz65.
First ever photo to Flickr ..., originally uploaded by soozika.	the soozika project, originally uploaded by anyjazz65.
S5300105, originally uploaded by delilahphotography.	Mysterious coincidence, originally uploaded by anyjazz65.

Lobachevski
(Tom Lehrer)
If you have never heard this performed, you have my sincerest sympathy.

Who made me the genius I am today,
The mathematician that others all quote,
Who's the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.

One man deserves the credit,
One man deserves the blame,
and Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please "research".

And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same,
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...

I am never forget the day I am given first original paper to write. It
was on analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrization
of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold.
Bozhe moi!
This I know from nothing.
But I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea - haha!

I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.

And when his work is done -
Haha! - begins the fun.
From Dnepropetrovsk
To Petropavlovsk,
By way of Iliysk,
And Novorossiysk,
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!

And then I write
By morning, night,
And afternoon,
And pretty soon
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
When he finds out I published first!

And who made me a big success
And brought me wealth and fame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. Oy!
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobache...

I am never forget the day my first book is published.
Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
This book, this book was sensational!
Pravda - ah, Pravda - Pravda said: (Russian double-talk)
It stinks.
But Izvestia! Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk)
It stinks.
Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva bought the movie rights for six million rubles,
Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle',
With Ingrid Bergman playing part of hypotenuse.

And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Oy!

-- Tom Lehrer (the Great)