Richard Arrowsmith on 3i/ATLAS

Over at Black Dog Star, in his first post in nearly a year, the inimitable Richard Arrowsmith takes a synchromystical look at "3i/ATLAS through the lens of Jennifer Lopez." Not an approach you're likely to see anywhere else.

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Notes added (November 13): Arrowsmith has his own sync-stream, quite distinct from my own, but there are some interesting overlaps.

On November 11, I posted "A ground sloth in Los Angeles" and included this image of ground sloths in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Arrowsmith brings up the movie Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. Although he's primarily interested in Jennifer Lopez's role as a female saber-toothed tiger, one of the images he includes shows only Sid, the ground sloth character (voiced by John Leguiziamo, who shares a birthday with sometime friend of the blog Bill Wright):

On October 29, I posted "Moving pictures on book covers and translations of Heidegger." I included this image from the "Free Will Paradox" music video because it bore a certain resemblance to a dream representation of Hermes Trismegistus:

I was interested in his turban, beard, and pipe (Hermes in the dream was smoking a pipe), but then Debbie emailed me some photos of a dress of hers, one of which resembled the above picture in other ways -- the blue-green color scheme and the wide-open eyes:

Notice that the pharaoh on Debbie's dress has blue skin and featureless eyes with no iris or pupil. Arrowsmith included several images of the Alan Moore character Dr. Manhattan, who also fits that description:

Debbie's "Pharaoh Manhattan" dress was included because of its resemblance to a flute-player. Arrowsmith notes that Billy Crudup (pictured above), who played Dr. Manhattan, also stars in the movie Alien Covenant:

He then ties the flute-player from that movie with the blue-skinned flautist Lord Krishna:

The above image, of Kirshna with a flute dancing on the head of a snake, is how Arrowsmith ends his post. It ties in with my January 26 post "Year of the Snake," which adapts the "Snake" poem Trump likes to recite and makes it about Krishna's victory over a demon snake.

Note added (November 13, 11 pm): Arrowsmith included this image of Dr. Manhattan on Mars:

Just now I checked /x/ and found a thread with this as the lead image:

That's Jay Greenspan (George Costanza) as Dr. Manhattan on Mars. If you look at the details of the Marscape, you'll find that it is identical to that seen in the lower panel of the comic Arrowsmith used, though the stars are different.

According to Know Your Meme, the exact quote in the meme above is not from Alan Moore's comic books but from the movie adaptation with Billy Crudup:

In December 1986, the issue of the comic Watchmen entitled "Chapter IV: Watchmaker" was published by DC Comics. In the comic, the character Doctor Manhattan wanders the planet Mars and reflects on his life on earth. He says, "I am tired of this world-these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."

On March 6th, 2009, a film adaptation of the book was released in the United States. In the film, Doctor Manhattan (portrayed by Billy Crudup) says, "I'm tired of Earth. These people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives" (shown below, left).

In both Arrowsmith's post and these notes, some of the sync links require Billy Crudup and not just comic-book Dr. Manhattan.