Some more nerdery! I kinda combined two pretty iconic incarnations of the Riddler, the classic from the old series and the version from TAS.
I like to pretend the Jim Carrey one never really happened!
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Harry Houdini, in addition to being one of the world's greatest magicians, spent a portion of his life exposing fraudulent psychics and bogus clairvoyants. Houdini showed that psychics were using tricks that he, himself, used in his magic act. This practice eventually broke up his friendship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a great believer in spiritualism.
Prior to his death in 1926, Houdini told his wife Bess (who was also his stage assistant), that if there was a way to send a message from "the other side", he would find that way. The devised a secret message. The message was based on both sentimentality and an old vaudeville mind-reading routine. The message was "Rosabelle- answer- tell- pray, answer- look- tell- answer, answer- tell". Bess' wedding band bore the inscription "Rosabelle", the name of the song she sang in her act when they first met. The other words correspond to a secret spelling code used to pass information between a magician and his assistant during a "mind-reading" act. Each word or word pair equals a letter. The word "answer" stood for the letter "B", for example. "Answer, answer" stood for the letter "V". Thus, the Houdinis' secret phrase spelled out the word "BELIEVE".
Bess held a yearly seance, on October 31 — the anniversary of her husband's death. In early 1929, a very ill Bess was approached by Reverend Arthur Ford, a young and eager medium. Within weeks, Ford triumphantly announced that he had successfully delivered the correct message to Houdini's widow. It did not take long for the press to discover that Ford's claim was a hoax; and that Bess had inadvertently revealed the message to several reporters a full year before.
The 1936 séance, atop the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood, was the last one that Bess conducted. Ten years was enough, and she admitted that she had never received the message from Houdini. (Actor William Frawley died in the lobby of the Knickerbocker in 1966. Read all about it HERE, in a previous post.)
Bess died in 1943 and was not permitted to be buried with her husband at Machpelah Cemetery because she was a gentile. Bess Houdini is interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.
(click on the illustration and look for the hidden messages.)

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This was from an exhibition I had a few years ago. It's a digital composition of other drawings and mixed media collages that were in the show. At that time I was interested in text generated automatically being used as a component of the paintings.
I used this site to generate the text The Postmodernism Generator which was then typeset and printed onto maps, and other translucent papers, and collaged together. I was more interested in people's readings of these, and their interpretations, than in what the text actually said. That text is gibberish by the way, except for the hand painted text which has (some) meaning. The postmodernism generator reminded me a lot of what I would hear in grad school studio crits, so it also serves as a bit of ironic parody. (Which sounds a bit like gibberish too).

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Hi there! Another oldiiiieeee! This is a spider web! lol.. A coloured one! And it has a hidden poem about the moon written on in in golden pen! which is almost unperceptable when it's not scanned hihi :) Anyone gonna make a hidden message in lemon? like those spies in the movies? that was cool!

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Norman wondered if his hidden message would get delivered on time...
(from a little project I'm working on) x. Honor

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I just marathoned season 3 of Lost in preparation for the beginning of Season 4!
Wow! Great show!
And let's be honest, if Lost doesn't have hidden messages, what does?

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I intend to do a new one for Hidden Message too, but thought this one was appropriate from something I painted way back in 1995. It was titled "Stretch".

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Is the hidden message for her or are they casually going about their own business?

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Hi there! I made this in 99, It's an oldie! I posted this for Poem on Illustration Friday, it's
really a poem hidden on the background of the nude on the right, but only If you know portuguese.. It's a coded message for those who don't read portuguese ihhihihi :)
I have a translation for this poem here If your interested http://aeneadellaluna.blogspot.com/search/label/poem%20translation..