Does anyone recognize this fragment of an image of circling crows?

October 3, 2007 8:29 AM

Long shot: My friend is looking for a specific black and white image of crows flying in a spiral. I have a fragment of the image. Does anyone recognize it? Know where the full image is?

My friend wants to use this image for her next tattoo. She doesn't know where she got it, but it was her desktop background for a long time. She had it on a floppy disk, but the floppy got damaged or corrupted somehow. When I tried to copy the image off, I got a CRC error. I was able to view the image directly from the floppy, but it seems that only part of the data is intact.

Here's the fragment. Does this look familiar to anyone? Got a link to it? I paged through the entire Google Images output for "crows". The image name was "circlingcrows.bmp"

posted by agropyron to media & arts (8 comments total)

(Suggestions on recovering data from a busted floppy are welcome too.)
posted by agropyron at 8:30 AM on October 3, 2007

This Café Press store uses what looks to be that image on its shirts &c.
posted by mumkin at 8:48 AM on October 3, 2007

Wow, case closed. Amazing!
posted by agropyron at 8:50 AM on October 3, 2007

My dads a bird watcher with a large collection of bird books. This looks a lot like a plate from a field guide. They often have silhouettes to help the birder identify the bird at distance.

No idea which book but hope it helps in the search.
posted by Ness at 8:53 AM on October 3, 2007

If anyone can find a higher-resolution link please let me know, but I'm stunned at mumkin's speed.
posted by agropyron at 8:59 AM on October 3, 2007

Eh, don't be stunned. That's the 8th-ranked Google web search result for "circling crows." I can't figure out whose store it is, though, which is frustrating. Based on the name, I thought it might be related to this new age guy, but I'm not seeing it.

If you can't find a digital version, or discover who's responsible, well, you can always order a notecard from that store and scan it.
posted by mumkin at 9:26 AM on October 3, 2007

If you click a shirt, then click "view larger," then click "zoom in" you get an image that should be adequate for tattooing purposes.
(For me it's here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that will end up a dead link very soon.)
posted by Partial Law at 9:36 AM on October 3, 2007

To answer the other part of your question when I worked at a helpdesk students would come in all the time with corrupted floppies and we used BadCopy with about an 80% success rate.
posted by genial at 3:41 PM on October 3, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]