Andrew Gold's 32 Wrong Things

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What you see here is an LP cover from Andrew Gold's album. There are 32 things wrong about this picture, even though everything appears normal. I haven't found all of them by far! Some of the most obvious ones are the drapes moving in front of the closed window, the horizon is different in the two windows, not all legs of his chair touch the ground ... Now it's your turn! Can you find them all? If you do please post one at the time, so others can post their findings too!

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  1. Anonymous Hannah 

    Woohoo! I found 1!!!
    The wine in the bottle is white but the wine in the glass is red,.

  2. Anonymous Rhiannon 

    The curtians at the closed window appear to be blowing but the ones at the open window are still.

  3. Anonymous joe 

    the guitar on the floor is connected to the phone chord

  4. Anonymous Krysty 

    I think i found one: if you followthe cable from the guitar on the floor, it leas to the telephone on the little table by the door!

  5. Anonymous alli 

    there is no soil in the plant thing. i could be wrong though.

    and is there a chair in front of the door?

  6. Anonymous thunder 

    the blinds on the closed window are blowing while the blinds on the open window are not.

  7. Anonymous Boran 

    Cool..

  8. Anonymous napoleon 

    cool!.................i acually get this one!

  9. Anonymous geoff 

    the telephone is plugged into the guitar on the ground

  10. Anonymous nope 

    the electric guitar is plugged into the phone line

  11. Anonymous The Rog 

    The phone is connected to the guitar, I think...

  12. Anonymous Tom Marcelino 

    The level of the sea is wrong.

  13. Anonymous Kristin 

    wow. i'm way stumped.

  14. Anonymous Miffe 

    The horizon is at a different level in each window.

  15. Anonymous Heather 

    so it is, the electric guitars plugged into the fone aswell, and the guy isnt actually looking at the tv, that might not be rong but its odd

  16. Anonymous Bippy 

    i think the coat is on a stand in the picture but a hook in the mirror. maybe?

  17. Anonymous SHARSTEVIE 

    THE LEFT HAND WINDOW IS CLOSED ALTHOUGH THE CURTAINS ARE MOVING AS IF WITH A BREESE.
    THERE SEEMS TO BE NO DIAL OR BUTTONS ON THE TELEPHONE.

  18. Anonymous bluethen 

    One of the curtains are blowing as if there were wind... but the other curtains on the other window aren't.

  19. Anonymous joshua 

    telephone plugged to the guitar?

  20. Anonymous The Rog 

    The door doesn't have a doorknob!

  21. Anonymous Me 

    hotdog in a hamburger bun

  22. Anonymous joshua 

    there is a hand comming out of the floor

  23. Anonymous Rucifel 

    Do any of you actually read what others post?!?!?

  24. Anonymous joshua 

    one of the guy's legs is longer/bigger than the other

    window frames are different width

  25. Anonymous Josh 

    The picture on the wall above the two smaller ones has an odd frame. It's small on the bottom.

  26. Anonymous that guy 

    maybe that the whole room is lit, but thats probably not one of them

  27. Anonymous Lilangel 

    The guitar the guy is holding has no top end bit 2 it.

  28. Anonymous Patrik 

    Wrong shoe at wrong foot

  29. Anonymous Matt 

    He has on 2 left shoes. Also, that's not a hand coming out of the floor... that's the cover of another of his albums...

  30. Anonymous Sam 

    the glass of wine has red wine in it, but the bottle is white wine

  31. Anonymous Evad 

    One on the legs of Andrew's Chair dissappear before reaching the floor, and same for two of the legs on the other chair.

  32. Anonymous fts 

    he's watching a computer...

  33. Anonymous Jmlaxerer25 

    the glass of wine is red and the bottle of wine is white

  34. Anonymous Josh 

    The chair next to the coat has round back, but the shadow is square.

  35. Anonymous Josh 

    Also, the wall taxture seems to change from rough to smooth.

  36. Anonymous ryan 

    the hand coming out of the floor is the album cover behind the table. he also seems to have siipped and wedged some old vinyl wedged in his back.

  37. Anonymous puto 

    backside of the tv has a wrong perspective, picture-frame on the leftside sinks into the wall, and some other wrong perspectives, i cannot express due to bad english

  38. Anonymous _rob 

    the chair in front of the door is floating off the floor a bit.

  39. Anonymous Moni 

    His shoe is right shoe is laced from the top down, instead of bottom up.

  40. Anonymous Moni 

    The picture isn't hung in the center of the wall.

  41. Anonymous Steve 

    The chair by the door is floating.

  42. Anonymous Spença 

    I'll tell you what's wrong: he just left his Les Paul lying there on the ground! That must be a criminal offense.

  43. Anonymous bobby 

    the top left part of the doorpost has an extra extension, the door only has one hinge and its in the middle, the chair by the door is floating, the one he is sitting on, legs dont all touch the ground, the guitar pluggs into the telephone, ITS NOT UNLEVEL HORIZON IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY ITS JUST WAVES, the wine in the bottle is white, the wine in the glass is red. ther is a hand coming out of the floor, and the drapes by the left window are blowing even thought the window is closed

  44. Anonymous Macavity 

    There is no reflection of the chair in the mirror

  45. Anonymous Name 

    the swell of the ocean in the left window is up, while it is calm in the other window.

  46. Anonymous Mat 

    How about you all say exactly the same things as the people above you?

    ...oh wait

  47. Anonymous V 

    1 The curtains in front of the closed window are blowing in the wind, while those in front of the open window are hanging straight.
    2 The horizon visible through the left window is higher than that visible through the right one.
    3 The waves visible through the left window cannot be seen through the right one.
    4 The door frame is not square. The top piece extends too far to the left.
    5 The legs on the chair next to the door are not touching the floor.
    6 The cord leading from the electric guitar on the floor runs to the telephone instead of a wall jack.
    7 The wine glass contains red wine, while the wine bottle contains white wine.
    8 The left front leg of the guitarist's chair doesn't touch the floor.
    9 The open window sashes are upside down.
    10 The white candle beneath the mirror is "melting" dark wax.

  48. Anonymous V 

    11 The calendar in front of the candle shows the date as November 31; but November only contains 30 days.
    12 The wall plug on the wall next to the "floating chair" has a plug with no wire connected to it.
    13 The guitarist's right shoelace is tied just above his toes rather than next to his ankle.
    14 The game board beneath the open window has chessmen lined up on the left side, and checkers on the right.
    15 The reel to reel tape deck in front of the closed window has a 45 rpm record instead of a reel of tape.
    16 The turntable beneath the closed window contains a reel of tape instead of a 33 rpm record.
    17 The mirrored reflection of the hanging coat shows the initials AG, but they should appear as a "mirror image".

  49. Anonymous V 

    18 In addition to an orange and two apples, the fruit bowl on the bottom shelf of the table containing the wine appears to hold a softball.
    19 The unused coat hook on the wall next to the door is mounted upside down.
    20 The hamburger bun between the wine glass and the wine bottle contains a hotdog.
    21 The doorbell is on the interior door frame rather than outside the room.
    22 The walls of the room appear to be covered with exterior rather than interior plaster.
    23 The palm-like plant to the left of the "wine" table does not appear to be planted in the pot beneath it.
    24 The "shade" on the floor lamp in front of the open window appears to either be upside down or a bowl.
    25 There appear to be odd things on top of the stereo receiver.

  50. Anonymous V 

    26 The antenna sitting on top of the TV does not appear to be connected to the antenna wire attached to the upper left back corner of the TV set. That wire appears to lead into a leaf on the plant.
    27 A filtered cigarette is sticking out of the crumpled pack of Camel unfiltered cigarettes lying next to the wine bottle.
    28 There does not appear to be a door knob on the door. The top hinge is visible on its left side, so a door knob should be just to the left and below the spot where the doorbell is shown.
    29 Given the apparent lighting in the room, the shadow of the chair next to the door may not be right.
    30 The floor looks to be sub flooring that should be covered with carpet or hardwood strips.

  51. Anonymous V 

    31 I'm not sure why there is a double-barreled shotgun propped up in the corner between the door and the mirror.
    32 The apparent deck of cards sitting next to the TV set might have a problem.
    33 The photo on the cover of Andrew Gold's previous album (visible on the floor leaning against the music bench) might not look as it actually did when sold in stores. Ditto for the cover on the issue of People Magazine that is lying on the floor beneath the TV set. In fact, I'm not sure that Andrew Gold ever appeared on a People Magazine cover.

  52. Anonymous Swish 

    his shoes are opposite colors, coat is black in reflection but really brown, plant closest to us doesn't have a trunk supporting the top sprout-that's the chair, something appears to be hanging on the chair obstructing the door but the shadow on the wall makes it appear as if nothing is hung on the chair, can't see the window frame through the 2nd curtain from the left, tv antenna is floating on some book or something between the tv and table, right window lock is under the pane, ...

  53. Anonymous Lasiurus 

    My god ! First, please read what others post !!! Second, you people wrote a lot of things clearly NOT wrong on the picture.
    I'll add my non-sense idea. Can you see the trunk of the plant ? Or does the leaves float ?..

  54. Anonymous GACHO 

    If only you FOOLS could TRULY See...The Small rock is placed on top a plate.


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    AND... Number 32... The Finale...

    Whats wrong with this picture? He'S GAY!!!

  55. Anonymous person 

    there should be a plant in the mirror

  56. Anonymous JB 

    Far door frame missing.

  57. Anonymous levi 

    It looks like the plant on the right is disconnected towards the top and then moved a little and re attached. (it doesnt go straight up, its like putting a pencil in water and it looks like is is disconnected and moved)

  58. Anonymous Sean 

    with the coat by the door, there are two hooks and in the mirror theres only one hook

    and if you find something and somebodys already said it dont say it again

  59. Anonymous sam 

    the book by the phone has a page sticking up

  60. Anonymous Me 

    his left shoes untied, neither one of the guitars look stringed up, the chair by the door is NOT floating the bottom of the legs just match the floor, the coat hook inside and outside of the mirror are two different ones, the outlet by the door looks like its got a plug to nowhere or it only has one outlet, the top of the door frame goes longer one way than the other

  61. Anonymous Onno Feringa 

    The jacket seen in the mirror is different from the jacket in tje room.

  62. Anonymous Aston 

    Is there really 32 wrong things with this picture...?

  63. Anonymous Ralph 

    The shadow on his right leg is wrong,
    the door has 2 frames inside, but in the mirror only 1

  64. Anonymous Ed 

    The standing lamp behind the tv is growing leaves

  65. Anonymous Ralph 

    The coat in the mirror is black - should be grey

  66. Anonymous Bobert 

    the table the TV is on doesn't look right. the legs are positioned underneath like it is round, but TV sits on it like it is oval.

    extra bit to the top of the doorframe

    no strings on the electric guitar?

  67. Anonymous Leah 

    the door really has no hinges if you look at it.

  68. Anonymous Euan 

    PLEASE read everyone elses comments before posting, saying the same thing over and over is pointless!!!! (to re-iterate Rucifel's point)

  69. Anonymous d-_-b 

    cool !
    ok for the strange horizon, but also, the sea in left window's not calm as right window.
    maybe, there a part of a tape recorder on the wall (left win.)
    for the rest... What's wrong with ME ???
    ;)
    (sorry for bad english...)

  70. Anonymous Graddles 

    The coat in the mirror reflection appears a to be a lot darker than the actual coat

  71. Anonymous illusionlover 

    On the far left, therre's something plugged into the wall outlet, but the cord doesn't lead anywhere?

  72. Anonymous pudgalicious 

    The chair has no reflection in the mirror, and appears to be levatating when looking at the legs. The Trim on top of the door is uneven, and the trim on top of the windows are not the same.

  73. Anonymous dnoyes 

    The window lock on the right window appears to be upside down.

    Good one! This is a real challenge.

  74. Anonymous A.W.K. 

    coat in mirror diff color than actual coat color

  75. Anonymous Angel 

    The TV should be on the floor. It is placed by the side of the table, no its center. And the table its a tripod, theres no balance.

  76. Anonymous Katie 

    The lock on the window to the right is on the underside instead of the top.

  77. Anonymous Angel 

    Whats that on the floor behind the lamp?

  78. Anonymous Angel 

    The lintel of the door is wrong, the nearest extreme is longer.

  79. Anonymous joe 

    I found two! The chair in front of the door is floating, none of the legs are touching the ground. And the plant does not appear on the mirror

  80. Anonymous Dan 

    The door has only 1 hinge on it...

  81. Anonymous Mike 

    All the above... (twice or more) :/
    Plus;
    The legs of the chair by the door do not touch the ground either.
    The latch (or whatever it is) that is attached to the door frame, but there is not knob or latch on the door itself.
    The reflection of the coat in the mirror looks shorter than the real coat..? (but its difficult to tell with the 'soil-less' plant in the way!), plus the reflection of the coat appears to show the breast pocket on the left hand side (should be the left hand side of the coat, so the reflection should show it on the right)..?

    Its a shame the picture isnt better resolution or larger format... its gona be hard to find 32 on this one!

  82. Anonymous The Carefull Eye 

    On top of the door the ledge is longer than the door.
    And in the mirror, the coat is black not grey.

  83. Anonymous The Carefull Eye 

    The Ledge on the top of the door is bigger than the door itself.
    And in the mirror the coat is grey, not black

  84. Anonymous freddy 

    V, way to cheat and look up all of those answers up! There is no way you could see/make out half the things you pointed out.

    Sean, you might want to follow your own advice before complaining about others posting things that have already been mentioned.

  85. Anonymous MissDiab 

    well i agree with most of u, am not sure if anyone mentioned the plant to the right hand side.. but there is something wrong about it, assuming that it is the same kind as the one on the left, its leaves are not uniform like the left one, it doesnt have a stem, which is explainable if u consider it out of the margin of the picture however, if u look closely, there is a bunch of leaves that look like they shud have a stem, they seem to be hanging out in the air..

    well.. hope am not wrong :S

  86. Anonymous -dragon- 

    For those of you complaining about people not reading to see what's posted first, remember that the comments have to be approved before they are actually posted. Therefore, it is possible that someone see's something obvious, and posts it. And as the comment hasn't actually been posted to the site yet, someone else can come along, see the same thing, and likewise post it.

    And would have to agree, there is no way that half the things can be seen in this photo, as it is too small. (google image search showed that that was the biggest size, though,) so there is not hi-res to verify, though can sorta make some of it out. For instance, saw the cigarette, but no way to tell that it's filterless. However, should he happen to have the original cover, would be able to see easily, though more than likely looked them up.

  87. Anonymous Rusty Rivers 

    The man has only three fingers on his right hand and ther is no celing in his room.
    Also the right window seems further away.

    I have to add. This is a lot os fun,
    LOL

  88. Anonymous Eman 

    His clothes are WAY out of style!

    OK, it's fine that some people post the same thing (overlap happens!), but posting things that were already in the description, now THAT sucks.

    Dude, that lamp shade is correct, it's not upside down. It's one of those that reflects off the ceiling.

  89. Anonymous Griff 

    Hey V?
    smarten up!
    the title of the illusion is the 32 things.
    you wrote 33.
    so you can find out everything wrong with the picture but you cant count?
    something's a bit off here...

  90. Anonymous Thomas 

    His Right Leg is a Female Leg

  91. Anonymous Anonymous 

    THERE IS A HAND IN THE BOTTOM SHELF LEFT FROM THE GUITAR

  92. Anonymous Laura 

    I found something! the wine in te glass is white and the wine in the bottle is red!!

  93. Anonymous GX3 

    ok i think only i found this. the pages in the phone book next to the phone are standing upp you realy can see it from that picture but if you enlarge it you can see it

  94. Anonymous Anonymous 

    THERE IS A HAND ON THE FLOOR UNDER THE WINDOW CLOSEST TO TTHE LEFT CORNER!

  95. Anonymous Anonymous 

    hey i got one he dunt got hair in his arms..... an hes hairy all over.......

  96. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the speaker is cut n half in that window to the left. NO one has mentioned this. ha ha
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    John - That cover for the second album "What's wrong With This Picture" was very interesting.

    Andrew - Ethan Russel came up with that. He had a lot of covers that looked kind of the same. Where there was kind of a set and a full person on the cover and there would be very little special effects. Of course special effects were not as easy as they are now. For the cover we set up this set of just two walls and a floor with fake windows and posters of the sea behind them. That's one of the things wrong with it the sea levels were deliberately different in both windows. The window that's closed is blowing the curtain and the window that's open has a curtain hanging straight so there all kinds of stuff working on that cover.

    John - Yeah, deliberate continuity craziness.

    Andrew - Yeah, we did every little tiny thing that we could think of and I think at the end there was thirty-three or thirty-four things wrong with the picture. I brought in a coat with the letters A.G. you know my initials on the coat arm and we had them sewn on backwards and they were facing backwards but in the mirror you see A.G. the right way. So anyway those kinds of things were really fun to do. Most of the ideals were Ethan's. We had a contest around that cover that was quite popular actually and the test was to find all the things wrong with the cover then you get a date with Andrew Gold. (Laughing) I don't remember what the prize was but anyway someone wrote in and said, "There's nothing wrong with the front cover but on the back that shirt doesn't match that jacket. (laughing)
    www.smoothjazznow.com/interview_andrew_gold.htm

  97. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i found sum

    wind is blowing bt no window is open
    wine is white in the bottle but red in the glass
    in one window the sea is high and the other window the sea is lower

  98. Anonymous Aaron 

    The wall up towards the ceiling appears to be white and smooth, but it's different down towards the floor.

  99. Anonymous Anonymous 

    What's that thing on the table next to the bottle and the glass?

  100. Blogger molly 

    the light behind the telly dosent have a light bulb

  101. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the reflection of the door in the mirror is closer to the corner than the actual length between the door and the corner

  102. Anonymous Anonymous 

    curtain rods are at different heights

  103. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Why are the same things being posted a lot of times? Read the comments, people. Post information that hasn't been found yet.

  104. Anonymous Anonymous 

    there is a shadow of a shelf behind the coat and the mirror to the right of the door has a reflection of the door and the coat even though the mirror isn't facing them (reflecting a strange angle).

  105. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the wine in the bottle is red, it's just very low, however look betwene the bottle and the glass...also the wine in the glass apears to be leaning,

    the guitar on the floor has no strings the guitar in his hand only has one.

  106. Blogger Rob 

    the laces on his shoes are backwards

    the mirror is reflecting correctly according to the angle of the viewer however the chair by the door has no back yet there's a shadow of it on the wall.

  107. Anonymous Anonymous 

    lets see theres a hot dog in the bagel, the chair he is sitting on ismissing a leg the guitar is plugged to the phone, the window is closed and it moving and then thew other window is open and the curtains not moving, the door does not have a door knob and i think the antenna is not conected to the tv, i might be wrong

  108. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Theres a mirror at the left with the door and a coat reflecting in it...but theres no coat on the other side of the door where it should be.

  109. Blogger Olly 

    http://www.classroomtools.com/wronglst.htm

    that give's a list, with enlargements.

  110. Anonymous MMJ 

    the curtain rod is higher on the right window

  111. Anonymous Anonymous 

    in the mirror, shouldn't it show the plant?? i see the jacket and the door but no plant. I could be wrong though... the jacket might be covering the plat but i doubt that

  112. Blogger constanza 

    i find more than one!!!
    the level of the sea in the windows are difernt
    one of the courtains is flowing but thje windows is close
    the guitar is conected to the phone
    and....
    thas all

    very cool

  113. Anonymous Anonymous 

    The image quality is crap
    I assume the image on the record is of much better quality.

  114. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I read all the comments and no one wrote this: the body of the person is of a woman (the whole body) and the head of a man. someone said tht the leg is of a woman and another person said he has no hair.
    ITS A WOMAN!w/head of a man

  115. Anonymous Anonymous 

    There isn't a hand coming out of the floor. It's an album cover. You can see a face near it, too.