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[MacMcMacmac]

Small Antique Black and Decker Tin Toolbox with Original Display | Other | Ottawa | Kijiji

What a beautiful item that would be the perfect addition to your mancave or garage display! Want to use it as a toolbox? Go ahead, it's ready! - Delivery in Ottawa, $15 - Located in Bridlewood (Kanata South). - Porch Pick-up Preferred - Cash or etransfer accepted

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I hate it when they do that.

A Fixkit, with a liner with a picture of a Fixkit, with a liner with a picture of a Fixkit, with a liner with a picture of a Fixkit.......

 

[yatg]

Sort of like when the barbershop had mirrors on both walls and you could see yourself into infinity. That fascinated me as a kid.

 

[welder4956]

My grandmother had a coffee mug with a picture of a boy holding a coffee mug with a picture of a boy holding a coffee mug with a picture of a boy holding a coffee mug...

I think she used it to distract me from bothering her in the kitchen.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

A Fixkit, with a liner with a picture of a Fixkit, with a liner with a picture of a Fixkit, with a liner with a picture of a Fixkit.......

My grandmother had a coffee mug with a picture of a boy holding a coffee mug with a picture of a boy holding a coffee mug with a picture of a boy holding a coffee mug...

It's called the Droste effect, if anyone wants to look into it further (see what I did there?), because of a brand of Dutch cocoa, and was picked up on and used often by M.C. Escher, the Dutch artist. Mathematically, it's an illustration of recursiveness.

Best example I know of, or at least the one I am most familiar with from my youth (other than learning about it more academically later) is the cover to Pink Floyd's Ummagumma LP.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Quick add: You've got a bit of recursiveness going on in your user name, @MacMcMacmac.

 

[MacMcMacmac]

son-of-a-son-of-a-son-of-a......

This one always got me frustrated as a kid...

 

[four.cycle]

"Dali painting Gala" is a favorite.

 

[oldmachinenut]

Sort of like when the barbershop had mirrors on both walls and you could see yourself into infinity. That fascinated me as a kid.

I always wondered who all those goofy looking kids with the Moe Howard haircut staring at me were.

 

[Garcky]

Even better would be that box with everything in it, in like new condition. Still, the recursive image is pretty cool.