Revenki's photos with the keyword: Odd

A Little...Off

16 Mar 2025 55
In the collapse of Austro-Hungary and then the split of Czechoslovakia, the Slovaks seem to have been left with works by the lesser lights of historical portraiture. The unnatural posture/proportions here were another recurring theme of this trip (along with severed heads), with the Kastiel Betliar chock full of far more distorted portraits than this. Unless like the subjects in the Habsburg Family Reunion print these people actually looked like this, and the Slovaks inherited all the realistic portraits...

Continuing the Theme

16 Mar 2025 3
Another severed head, this one in the cellars of Spissky Hrad.

Questionable Portraiture

16 Mar 2025 1 13
In this motel, the mutant hybrid of Dick Clark and Nicolae Ceausescu looks down on you as you sleep.

Questionable Mermaid

30 Mar 2024 50
"Ariel was at first appalled to discover her drying tail turning not into legs, but a second head. Fortunately, the catchy musical number that followed more than made up for the paralyzing body horror." - The Making of Disney's "The Little Hydra"

Questionable Likeness

14 Mar 2024 65
Apparently a young woman with a gargantuan cranium.

Hmm...

14 Mar 2024 43
Salmiak chocolate, you say...?

Questionable Freudian Slip

14 Mar 2024 43
I don't think I could possibly answer "No" emphatically enough.

Questionable Instructions

04 Jun 2023 58
Lufthansa giving contradictory advice regarding water I would already have assumed by default was of dubious potability.

I Hate to Burst His Bubble, But...

04 Jun 2023 55
Poe's Law applies here.

Questionable Playlist

24 Apr 2022 91
Nothing says "relaxing" like being leered at by a Nordic axe murderer tarted up like Cleopatra.

Questionable Homeschoolery

19 Jan 2022 88
Reenacting the classics. In this case, "Highlander".

Questionable Souvenir

26 Jun 2021 51
From Monica Lewinsky's book signing, back in the day.

Capping Day

18 Jun 2021 57
John Christopher, call your office...

Questionable Fashions

18 Jun 2021 62
Bespoke Stehpinkelung (Context: this is a tiny detail of a men's fashion ad from the 1940s, framed and hung over a urinal at the Greenbrier Hotel)

Questionable Mural

16 Jun 2021 62
When the pow-wow chow isn't up to health code standards.

Questionable Instructions

10 Apr 2021 1 2 66
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here, Kitchenaid...

Questionable Child Seat

31 Jan 2021 80
"Trust me, anything that shuts them up while you're driving is worth it."

Questionable Mural

15 May 2020 1 81
No idea what's going on here. But having read the story of Loki and Svaðilfari, let's just say I got a puerile chuckle out of this.

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