Quite Literally

An occasional strip dedicated to that most priceless - and my favourite - of human communication strategies: hyperbole.
In particular the genre typified by such classsics as "That movie literally blew my mind" and "It was literally raining cats and dogs."

Life & Death, a tribute

I remember being gobsmacked way back in the nineteen eighties when my friend Nick, showed me a most fascinating drawing. When viewed one way, it said LIFE. But turn it over, and it reads DEATH.
So clever and such a 'comic book gothic' design. i hastly traced a copy of it onto a bit of old paper.
Years later that tatty old piece of paper turned up again while i was messing about learning some 3D animation, and i used it to make this very short animation.  I never knew exactly who designed the original.
[It is a crude and simple 20 second loop, the original 4 second clip I rendered was created feb 2007. Now I cannot find the animated mesh model file, so i can work on it no more.]

Just the other day i found the same design here: http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/matter-of-life-death_22.html
It is a great article and identifies the author of the piece, one Mr. C.E.Krausie. In the comments section below anonymous has linked to some other great web pages and comments, including the Author himself, and with more examples of what are known as AMBIGRAMS. Plus further related reading.


The speed with which links, pages and whole websites seem to come and go, i'd see these while you can.