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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

ALAN FRISWELL'S HOAX PICS #1 - The Surgeon's Photo

Hi Jon.

Here's the first of my hoax pix. We'll start off easily, with one that we're all familiar with; the famous surgeon's photo. I though that I would recreate it, primarily to see how difficult a job it would be, but also to test the CFZ blogger's powers of observation.
Can anyone guess how it's done, or where it was filmed? I will say that there is no digital imaging involved, and that the image is a true 35mm photo, but that's all you're getting. Over to you....

4 comments:

Gavin Lloyd Wilson said...

It looks like one of those plastic hooks that have an adhesive pas of the back of them and you can stick them to walls, doors, inside cupboard, etc, hand tea-towels or whatever on them, and come back later to find the whole lot on the floor because the adhesive isn't up to the job.

The yellow light would suggest that the photo was taken indoors. Is it in your kitchen sink, perhaps?

Oll Lewis said...

I can see it being a plastic hook, but it looks like the edge the water has to it is circular and smaller than a sink would be, I'd guess it was in a glass tumbler or something no bigger than a bowl. That is assuming what I think is the edge of the water actually is of course.

dinosaurman said...

Hi chaps.
It's not a plastic hook, and the area of the water is larger than either a bowl or kitchen sink.
But that's not to say that you're not on the right track, however...

Oll Lewis said...

Plasticine in a bath perhaps?