Right, another Kevin’s Corner.
I don’t know. A weird one? A weird one, or a normal one? Not weird, abstract.
It’s got to be funny. Funny weird not clever weird. Always, always the cleverer it is the more shit it is.
Oh god Verb. They haven’t got the context. All the new Croud people as well. It’s weirder for them. I’ve talked to people. Have I talked to the women more? I’ve talked to the men. I’ve forgotten how to socialise.
What about one where they can hear me thinking? Funny, and not, at the same time. Could do one about mental health. I think about that quite a lot. Bit boring.
No, okay, first idea is normally the one. Keep it going, talk it through. You can hear me thinking. You can hear me writing it.
Don’t do that thing where Luke or Pri says, over to you Kevin, but you don’t say anything for a few seconds. Didn’t use to do that, don’t know where that came from. Used to say, “Thank you Pri,” and then start. But I don’t need to write that down. I’m writing it, not saying it. So…. Right, another Kevin’s Corner.
I don’t know. A weird one? A weird one, or a normal one? Not weird, abstract. Actually that reminds me about the Isle of Wight. We went to that village that had a model village. It was right in the middle of the village, under the shadow of the church spire - and when you go in, right in the middle of the model village, there’s a model of a model village. Stand right in the middle of the model village, and look up to the sky and you can see the church spire looming over you. Look down, and you see the model of the church spire at your feet. Then look down into the model village and you’ll see it has a model village, right under the spire of the model church. The model model village is in the model village, under the model church spire, at your feet, where you stand under the church spire. Of course, the model model village has a model village but beyond that, you can’t make out any more detail.
What’s that called? When you put two mirrors in front of one another, when you share your screenshare on a video call, and when you put a model of the village in a model village. Well, I’ll tell you. With two mirrors, that’s just called an Infinity Mirror, or the Infinity effect. When you have an image with an image of itself in it, that’s called the Droste effect. It’s named after a Dutch brand of cocoa whose packaging in 1904 featured a picture of a nurse holding a tray with a tin of Droste cocoa on it, the very same tin as the one that has the picture of the tin on it. I guess the cocoa is good for you and makes you feel better, because it has a nurse on the tin and she's put acid in it.
The effect was first anticipated in mediaeval art and has since appeared in all sorts of artwork, including for advertising. The model village at Bourton-on-the-Water in England has a model village in the model in the model, and it may have been created before the one at Godshill in the Isle of Wight; however, I believe the image resolution is lower in both directions. Looking up at the spire above you in Godshill, you’re left wondering whether there might not be much difference between you and the model figures at your feet. If someone had paid £6.50 to stand over you, peer down and think about whether any of this has any meaning, would you know - and would it matter?
Is that the end? Normally something makes it feel like it’s the end. Just end it. Just say, have a good weekend.
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