All the world's a bubble

I stumbled on this photo, and many more like it, via BoingBoing yesterday.

Photographer Jason Tozer was commissioned by Sony to show off its schmancy new camera line, in a stunningly beautiful collusion of art and commercialism.

These brought to mind a question I ponder on about a fortnightly basis: does everything really look the same, or do we just see it that way because we understand our perceptions in our own lived contexts? Do soap bubbles look like planets, or beer bottles like the human form? Is there an underlying, a priori pattern governing the shape of things, or is it an a posteriori imposition of our own narcissistic brains?

In any case, I want to live on this planet.