Ambigrams

[Alice]

I'm teaching myself how to make ambigrams - word art that you can read rightside-up or upside-down.


First one:



Next one is my best friend Chip's name and Lena, his nickname for me:



Then the last one is a start of a tattoo for a friend who wanted one that says "free will" and "destiny".  It's still in progress, it needs to be fine tuned a bit, but this is it so far:

[meredith]

[BigDun]

Very interesting. I had never heard of them before.

[DownSouth]

Not getting the second one.

[Alice]

This is my favorite, no I did not do it:

[DownSouth]

If we got married could we talk like that?

[meredith]

This is my favorite, no I did not do it:

okay i'm having trouble reading this one.

[Alice]

'twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
all mimsy were the borogoves,
and the mome raths outgrabe.

[Jessie]

Are any of those real words?

[meredith]

Are any of those real words?

'twas, and, the, did, in, all, were 

[Alice]

Are any of those real words?

Its the beginning of the Jabberwocky.

[JJ]

'twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
all mimsy were the borogoves,
and the mome raths outgrabe.

Srill tothe an bargle felte!!!! RUZ!!!11

[Beefy]

Are any of those real words?

Its the beginning of the Jabberwocky.

I knew it and could read it.

[meredith]

Are any of those real words?

Its the beginning of the Jabberwocky.

I knew it and could read it.

The Jabberwocky isn't exactly in a fast-recall area of my memory.   That said, even with the words listed for comparison, I find that one to be unreadable.

[Beefy]

Are any of those real words?

Its the beginning of the Jabberwocky.

I knew it and could read it.

The Jabberwocky isn't exactly in a fast-recall area of my memory.   That said, even with the words listed for comparison, I find that one to be unreadable.

I used to have a bunch of The Jabberwocky memorized just from repeated reading and reciting.  Once I recognized it it made it easier to read.

[dazie]

I'm about to expose myself as an uneducated clod...

The Jabberwodky stuff always reminds me of Vogon poetry.

Move on.  Nothing to see here.

[Jessie]

I'm about to expose myself as an uneducated clod...

The Jabberwodky stuff always reminds me of Vogon poetry.

Move on.  Nothing to see here.

hahahahahah

I agree!

[Dry then Catch]

This is really clever and interesting.  The fartherest I got was spelling boobies on a calculator

[BigDun]

I got up to ShEEL.OIL on my calculator.

[Gamplayerx]

I got up to ShEEL.OIL on my calculator.

It's shell, you 9009!

Those are really neat, alice!