Similar to "Post your funny pictures here!!!" except this thread is for the awe-inspiring stuff. It can be pictures of space, gods, dragons, whatever. If it invokes your wow factor, put it here. I'll start.
(https://cdn3.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/001/898/743/large/klaus-pillon-klauspillon-dragons-sightseeing-final.jpg?1454412535)
Excellent idea.
(http://5stars.website/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3-hour-epic-fantasy-mega-mix-bes.jpg)
(http://fanaru.com/fantasy-art/image/147890-fantasy-art-nine-headed-dragon.jpg)
Is this art you guys do yourself, or is it stuff you found?
Quote from: SGOS on March 09, 2016, 05:18:56 AM
Is this art you guys do yourself, or is it stuff you found?
Stuff we found. Like I said, it's in the same vain as "post your funny pictures here."
If this isn't the right place for it, then a mod can move it.
I'm a fan of Kirsty Mitchell's photography.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B3Go4iTmZDc/UaWuaiFL3wI/AAAAAAAAVaw/_6GMwD_DMeQ/s1600/Kirsty+Mitchell012.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/17/article-2145760-13220E21000005DC-335_964x630.jpg)
(http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/8/wonderland-km-09.jpg)
(http://webcheck-test.eharcourtschool.com/hspfw/review-hspmy/http/ss/hr07/g4_0153433167/student/images/SXECA07ASE4X_248p.jpg)
Jedediah Smith
(https://www.gunsamerica.com/userimages/94173/905776826/wm_1528683.jpg)
.54 flintlock rifle
(http://picturearchive.gunauction.com/4241203238/11687914/img_3687.jpg_thumbnail0.jpg)
My Thompson/Center .54 Percussion rifle. Sold it, sadly, going to build another.
(https://cdn1.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/001/980/029/large/mark-johnson-thefallenandtheguardians.jpg)
I did a google search for "Awesome wow-inspiring pictures"
This is the first result:
(http://puu.sh/nADpU.jpg)
*stickied*
Awesome idea for a thread!
(http://www.imgion.com/images/01/awesome-fire-cat.jpg)
(http://www.photographyblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Victor-Enrich-03.jpg)
Frost flowers:
(http://cdn.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/15-natural-effects-that-are-strange-yet-awesome-8.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/maMttXU.jpg)
(http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/godzilla_hawaii-HD.jpg)
(http://cfile10.uf.tistory.com/original/155C044D5091ED0E1CBCE9)
Monet always kinda spoke to me.
(https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/waterlilies/monet.wl-green.jpg)
This baby is in the Met in NYC.
(http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_20.33.jpg)
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160310/74e3fdd949ec1ae343e0a47f9cc0f516.jpg)
The truck I drove before they put me in a newer model. This was taken in a warehouse parking lot at sunrise with my phone.
(http://www.theonlinecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/15-of-the-Most-Stunning-and-Amazing-Photos-of-Wild-Birds.jpg)
This is where I want to live!
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/amazing-hotels-33.jpg)
(http://doshtosh.com/wp-content/uploads/amazing/amazing%20wallpapers%205.jpeg)
(http://www.funnyhits.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amaze-08.jpg)
(http://s.ngm.com/2012/02/vermilion-cliffs/img/navajo-bridge-615.jpg)
Vermilion Cliffs in Arizona
(http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/221624.jpg)
Grand Staircase National Monument Escalante, Utah
The Cliffs of Insanity:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8OsMqB28AA0/To7juI5cO7I/AAAAAAAAJFo/2e-FmIQ5KYI/s1600/PrincessBride_085Pyxurz.jpg)
It seems that someone is watching us...
(http://worth1000.s3.amazonaws.com/submissions/327000/327455_733f_1024x2000.jpg)
Here's Laneakea, the largest structure in the known universe (we're where the red dot is):
(http://www.space.com/images/i/000/041/823/original/laniakea-galaxy-supercluster-art.jpg)
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AS-tIzu09tU/maxresdefault.jpg)
(http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images%202/051010-010..jpg)
Great Basin National Park. Taken from the road up Wheeler Peak. I know because I have a similar picture.
Quote from: Hydra009 on March 18, 2016, 07:50:05 PM
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AS-tIzu09tU/maxresdefault.jpg)
Kinda reminds me of Flaagrah from Metroid Prime.
Thanks. It's a Sliver Hivelord from MTG. These beasties get stronger in the presence of their kin. And it's not a linear improvement, we're talking exponents squared. This guy makes them indestructible. Literally.
A personal favorite artist of mine, Peter Gric.
(http://www.vagallery.com/uploads/2/5/9/7/2597378/785449_orig.jpg?414)
(http://cdn11.overnature.net/1920/539-snowstorm-in-the-woods-redwoods.jpg)
The other one disappeared. I am putting this one.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/50/e8/29/50e829ef1f55f0be826328896c51a764.jpg)
I want to live here.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9b/aa/f0/9baaf0f7e06ddf8ee322df22ae2a5651.jpg)
Quote from: drunkenshoe on March 26, 2016, 05:12:02 PM
I want to live here.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9b/aa/f0/9baaf0f7e06ddf8ee322df22ae2a5651.jpg)
I don't know many people who wouldn't want a simple cottage, secluded in the snow wilderness; as long as it has decent internet service. ;)
(http://wallpapers.wallhaven.cc/wallpapers/full/wallhaven-115362.jpg)
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on March 26, 2016, 05:33:19 PM
I don't know many people who wouldn't want a simple cottage, secluded in the snow wilderness; as long as it has decent internet service. ;)
I guarantee you I would use it faaaaar less, if there is a man I can sleep on in it in front of a river stone fireplace. And as you informed we'll lose power a lot. :biggrin:
I mean look at this. I don't think there is power there.
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tiny-house-fairytale-nature-landscape-photography-25__880.jpg)
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tiny-house-fairytale-nature-landscape-photography-19__880.jpg)
(http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/m-c-escher/eye.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/zD7eUzu.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/xfTcO2N.jpg)
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--r2c8amJS--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/h18vnn5ulkgera20cbdl.jpg)
"Hey, who turned out the lights?"
Let's see if I can get this to work.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 03, 2016, 07:18:36 AM
Let's see if I can get this to work.
The [img] tags work better.
It's online, yeah. But that was from my HDD.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 03, 2016, 10:44:57 AM
It's online, yeah. But that was from my HDD.
Google images -> search by image (click the camera icon) -> upload the pic -> click all sizes and it'll show you a gallery of online images that match the one you uploaded. And just link one of them with the [img] tag. That's how I do it.
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 03, 2016, 11:41:30 AM
Google images -> search by image (click the camera icon) -> upload the pic -> click all sizes and it'll show you a gallery of online images that match the one you uploaded. And just link one of them with the [img] tag. That's how I do it.
I do that sometimes, too.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 03, 2016, 07:18:36 AM
Let's see if I can get this to work.
Never trust the fae folk, they'll screw you over every time.
Quote from: Jack89 on April 03, 2016, 02:36:21 PM
Never trust the fae folk, they'll screw you over every time.
I put milk out ever night.
(http://images5.aplus.com/uc-up/13e7893f-c8e6-4a03-8f9c-8ae1284ba85d/13e7893f-c8e6-4a03-8f9c-8ae1284ba85d.crop_646x341_6,0.resize_1200x630.format_jpeg.inline_yes.jpg)
THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE
(http://dailynewsdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Amazing-Surreal-Digital-Art-By-Photoshop-Training-Expert-1.jpg)
(http://36.media.tumblr.com/568dc5bb3df44499ee6013757a333ba4/tumblr_o495n1jp6c1u8rtwro5_r1_1280.jpg)
"I have a yin for your yang."
The Amity Affliction Chromed Logo Wallpaper I made. Everything in this wallpaper was done by me:
(http://img00.deviantart.net/acae/i/2016/038/b/6/retro_amity_affliction_hd_wallpaper__by_akirathefighter24-d9qwd7h.jpg)
Kummakivi: Mind-Boggling Giant Rock Naturally Finds Balance (http://www.mereja.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=50789)
(http://api.ning.com/files/PRnwm8mU8VqzGoiyhHK1XWo7YD*EDMs3Y4vkuUge0-Z-*iL4LM4LYFcX-Po3ZPF9F*FMeMw5H*5OzuOQFzTx0OJiOpe4UzMs/kummakivi6.jpeg)
(http://slodive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/egor-savchenko/chess-parrot-man-graphics.jpg)
Look at this picture from far away, then look at it up close:
(https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e15/11111279_406158926211458_370997663_n.jpg)
What do you see?
(http://cdn.picturecorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/special-effects-photo6.jpg)
Explain, please.
(http://freetopwallpaper.com/wp-content/gallery/deep-sea/deep-sea-wallpaper-hd-50.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 21, 2016, 05:51:56 PM
Look at this picture from far away, then look at it up close:
(https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e15/11111279_406158926211458_370997663_n.jpg)
What do you see?
It didn't work for me fully, but I made her. Is that Marylin?
(http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesign.com/modern-artists/?images/digital-art/the-santuary.jpg)
(http://orig12.deviantart.net/325a/f/2011/193/1/3/pirate_island_by_swissada-d3ne28o.jpg)
(http://orig00.deviantart.net/4ba0/f/2014/018/1/a/mattepainting9_by_zulusplitter-d72nxka.jpg)
Quote from: drunkenshoe on April 27, 2016, 01:48:21 PM
It didn't work for me fully, but I made her. Is that Marylin?
Yeah, amazing, huh?
(https://fsmedia.imgix.net/14/05/62/e3/4084/488b/a51f/f6ea5830bae1/supercomputer-visualization-of-the-toroidal-magnetic-field-in-a-collapsed-massive-star.png?rect=0,815,3072,1536&w=1024&dpr=1&auto=format&q=75)
(http://i.imgur.com/kqBG4.jpeg)
....
(http://pre00.deviantart.net/35c0/th/pre/f/2012/241/c/3/c3b01a4de6c26947fdf332250e97f7fc-d5ccriw.jpg)
(http://res.cloudinary.com/spartz/image/upload/c_lfill,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_60,w_806/v1/prod/images/2bc535d1d9f6dc7ca52ad236901a5b8e.jpeg)
(http://i.imgur.com/th5HAbh.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/EliF2S8.jpg)
(http://www.trbimg.com/img-529f48a1/turbine/la-sea-sponge-mauricio-handler-20130927/800/800x450)
(http://soak-blog.andrewkelsalldes.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mind-blowing-video.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/L0IY1uP.jpg?1)
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160509/421e456143f736f492c2130f9e3606dc.jpg)
Some of the stuff I got after doing the convention. It was a pretty shitty convention and no one made any sales, but I met a lot of awesome people and made a lot of friends. We traded artwork at the end. It meant more that someone I endured that show with and befriended took it home than for me to bring home dead merchandise that I'll probably never use again.
-Sent from your mom
The House of Pancake.
(http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-vermilion-cliffs-national-monument-arizona-32004913.jpg)
These are houses built around rocks found at the Vermilion Cliffs Southeast of the Grand Canyon.
(http://m2.i.pbase.com/o6/43/815143/1/142935982.lp7uPPsz.ChinleForm_mentAZ.jpg)
As I recall you can see these cliffs from the main road.
(http://i.imgur.com/uP0Rm9G.jpg)
(http://img13.deviantart.net/226e/i/2012/152/a/8/07_g_rex_by_ldn_rdnt-d51vde5.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ey2xVvV4gGM/StiN3pj7XvI/AAAAAAAAABY/w1I_fh9w9hU/s800/horse-or-what-optical-illusions.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4v0ENOb1duc/UUCnfF_7ktI/AAAAAAAAEKA/i4O7xT1M6rQ/s1600/Optical-Illusion-Art-17t.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VTbZKWGrmWg/TzG3HDMTlII/AAAAAAAAE1g/u1C07Vls52U/s640/a20.jpg)
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8821/27806320123_60e5fa694b_h.jpg)
Dead Horse Point in Utah, South of Moab in the Canyonlands area.
This is the shit that I go traveling for.
(https://i.imgur.com/WBJo21w.jpg)
Philippine Eagle
Quote from: stromboli on May 12, 2016, 09:17:17 PM
(http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-vermilion-cliffs-national-monument-arizona-32004913.jpg)
These are houses built around rocks found at the Vermilion Cliffs Southeast of the Grand Canyon.
What an interesting part of nature. I never witnessed floating text in real life. It must be magical to see in person
(http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/fantasy-art-2818846.jpeg)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6Yzxa48f4dA/T0d4CUtE9XI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Wku9c2wK5x0/s9000/alien%2Bplanet%2Bhd%2Bwallpaper.jpg)
Guthix, God of Balance.
(http://puu.sh/qop89.png)
Quote from: stromboli on July 20, 2016, 03:36:30 PM
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8821/27806320123_60e5fa694b_h.jpg)
Dead Horse Point in Utah, South of Moab in the Canyonlands area.
This is the shit that I go traveling for.
This is a great picture. I will be lucky enough to be able to spend a week in Sept in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Def going to check this out.
(http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/colourful-animal-logos-golden-ratio-7.jpg)(https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/ea773f16129389.562a5c4a0e39e.jpg)(https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/disp/a5ca4816129389.562a5c36c9901.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7c/3a/c0/7c3ac0bb1a0bf2553e1f7d383d61917d.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O1KDMgOYJgE/UjdZDDdOYiI/AAAAAAAAAbI/kAj_nDwf8zs/s1600/196170_548073045218584_1876775523_n.jpg)
(http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af15/quadraptor/ATT2.jpg)
I love Peacocks... enough to get part of the tail design on my first tattoo. Awesome birds!
(http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s750x750/sh0.08/e35/13248953_1615891885394141_276436722_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTI1Mjc3NDcxODk0MjEyODY0MQ%3D%3D.2)
I love fractals! This one's especially nice.
(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1432988/thumbs/o-177172001-900.jpg?1)
(http://veriy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/experience-the-natural-beauty-and-power-of-the-ocean-through-these-impressive-images__880.jpg)
Some really cool clouds:
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/unusual-strange-clouds/unusual-strange-clouds-2-1.jpg)
(http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/yukawanet/imgs/9/d/9d9b7c36.jpg)
(https://d.justpo.st/media/images/2013/12/d2c0c08dbce99ba19c61c6044e2f52e2.jpg)
Here's a fractal flower:
(http://www.gregorybenford.com/wp-content/uploads/Beauty-of-Math-Illustrated1.jpg)
(http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/animal-5.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ee/4a/fc/ee4afced151a7963ba20b495656b51fc.jpg)
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/9/13/1379077435950/The-amazing-diversity-of--003.jpg?w=700&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=43515b731ddf9566b4f8f3dc365d555e)
(https://i.imgur.com/aTYbZJl.jpg)
(http://www.bajiroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/awesome-beautiful-landscapes-high-quality-wallpaper.jpg)
This is what the super rich can afford, super yachts!
must be nice...
(http://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5272/d364/e8e4/4e88/a000/073f/newsletter/ZHA_B_V_Birdseye_view_128m.jpg?1383256855)
(http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160302150721-tetrahedron-super-yacht-10-super-169.jpg)
(http://icdn5.digitaltrends.com/image/shaddai-superyacht-1-16x9-970x546-c.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/kMXDQAT.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 29, 2016, 07:43:15 PM
This is what the super rich can afford, super yachts!
must be nice...
(http://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5272/d364/e8e4/4e88/a000/073f/newsletter/ZHA_B_V_Birdseye_view_128m.jpg?1383256855)
(http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160302150721-tetrahedron-super-yacht-10-super-169.jpg)
(http://icdn5.digitaltrends.com/image/shaddai-superyacht-1-16x9-970x546-c.jpg)
I'll take one of each please. Charge it Trump or I will take my business to Mehico mon!
(https://www.zenivers.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Lupta-dintre-Bine-%C8%99i-R%C4%83u-%E2%80%93-Arhanghelul-Mihail-vs.-Lucifer.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on December 07, 2016, 08:13:23 PM
(https://www.zenivers.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Lupta-dintre-Bine-%C8%99i-R%C4%83u-%E2%80%93-Arhanghelul-Mihail-vs.-Lucifer.jpg)
Touch rules apply...
(http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1612/LightningStorm_Randall_5184.jpg)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1612/LightningStorm_Randall_5184.jpg
For full awesomeness, open in a new tab and let it explode.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bd42PIZdC_s/maxresdefault.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/7ixhA2B.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/7vpl15F.jpg)
Iceland.
(https://www.nordicvisitor.com/images/iceland/winter/northern-lights-lake-thingvellir-national-park-iceland.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 09, 2016, 03:29:04 PM
(http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1612/LightningStorm_Randall_5184.jpg)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1612/LightningStorm_Randall_5184.jpg
For full awesomeness, open in a new tab and let it explode.
That's so fucking beautiful. I wish I could here its 'voice'.
(http://images.dailydawdle.com/awesome-bizarre-body-art-by-johannes-stotter5.jpg)
(https://iso.500px.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/5-2.jpg)
(http://autumn0sunrise.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/0/13502675/535634508.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/P5F5EAU.jpg)
This might just seem like nothing to anyone else, but for me, its kind of special. Back in the 80s, this was how the local area looked like when I walked to school, a row of shops on the right, and the path coming towards the camera was the way I walked to school. These days, this whole area was knocked down, all accept for the block of flats in the background, so just felt nice when I came across this image.
I just love getting to see places I remember from years ago, even if its all changed having a photo of video of from back then.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nS5C-SUiuPA/TT-qf6IoZPI/AAAAAAAAAco/qjH7L2hSSOE/s1600/giraffe.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/da/de/ec/dadeec488badcf2d9ff2d3cfa74bfae8.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3a/a1/87/3aa18758a2bcf894c1ac5d350b2b1d77.jpg)
That guy needs to invest in a saddle.
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 22, 2017, 06:48:05 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3a/a1/87/3aa18758a2bcf894c1ac5d350b2b1d77.jpg)
That guy needs to invest in a saddle.
Jesus Christ, that's not a dog it's a fucking warg.
(http://obrazky.4ever.sk/data/download/kreslene/anime-a-fantasy/fantasy-krajina-227772.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on February 22, 2017, 08:38:10 PM
(http://obrazky.4ever.sk/data/download/kreslene/anime-a-fantasy/fantasy-krajina-227772.jpg)
Reminds me of Morrowind.
Just a couple more days, and I'll have a computer ready that can mod the shit out of its graphics.
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on February 22, 2017, 08:23:05 PM
Jesus Christ, that's not a dog it's a fucking warg.
Nope, just forced perspective.
(http://i.imgur.com/qRiljDI.jpg)
Its a shame that erotic artists don't get as much recognition for their works as non-erotic ones. I'm a part time furry, and seeing some of the artists on furry fan sites, I've realized how much effort some of them out into their artwork, but it just get regulated down to 'smut' or 'furry fan fiction'.
The real reason why I'm drawn to sites like these is more because of the freedom of expression artists have to drawing what they want, without ridicule from the mainstream would have for what their drawing.
(http://d.facdn.net/art/dreamandnightmare/1408485905/1408485905.dreamandnightmare_ready_to_deploy.jpg)
(http://d.facdn.net/art/alpha0/1318822926/1318822926.alpha0_censored_full.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/IMneaj2.jpg)
(uncensored version here http://d.facdn.net/art/captaingerbear/1442540226/1442540226.captaingerbear_cgb_ifyouwant_web.jpg)
I just find it a shame that when people have talent, and express it how they wish, society at large won't accept it due to prudish rhetoric. Obviously I can understand it also, because if art and images of nudity and eroticism were to be more publicly regarded, whats to stop more disturbing artwork from being shown.
Its kind of why despite loving seeing naked guys and artists capturing them, I lock my bedroom door when my have my nephews round.
But anyway I suppose the point I'm making is, I grew up appreciating artwork from comic book artists and animators, revered the world over for their talent, and making it timeless, from hayao miyazaki to don bluth, from Alex Ross to Jim Lee. They are revered for their works. And yet artists as good as them remain just on internet sites as fan works or erotic art only held in a small market, which is a shame.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEZKAOJCIAArFo4.jpg)
ARGH, GINGER!! *gets out cross* ITS NOT WORKING!!
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 15, 2017, 07:09:18 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEZKAOJCIAArFo4.jpg)
Is that yon great bear yer mother, lassie?
Not really painting or drawing, but I'm finding the idea of using perler/hama beads to create pixel art an enjoyable concept.
(http://i.imgur.com/H4VdszM.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mQRtaq0ZTylualYnmeCJx4IrrCajXCmbvuMqNirH9gKradmURpKbzQOuQDqJGFX3foyW4_svQbcuHzaDpkrW53rUl4CdUeF01vVPZuMzFIq-xJF5rYf6I5Wid0Fr2UbATMX8GFsx)
Am surprised some of the works people make with this.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BTTKAmXdY7g/maxresdefault.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2d/ec/6f/2dec6f7a84b1524fad451da7d38581bf.jpg)
something about pixel art brings me back to the good old days of my gaming youth.
(http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/David-Mach-Coathanger-Art-Jesus1.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 22, 2017, 09:14:14 PM
(http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/David-Mach-Coathanger-Art-Jesus1.jpg)
Bolted it!
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 22, 2017, 09:14:14 PM
(http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/David-Mach-Coathanger-Art-Jeus1.jpg)
See, Mr Pinhead, there's being creepy, like in your original films, and then there's going overboard to sillytown, like Rob zombies Michael Myers
(http://img.ibxk.com.br/2016/03/21/21171811369815.jpg)
This image looks really awesome. Thanks.
Quote from: Hydra009 on March 27, 2017, 12:49:54 PM
(http://img.ibxk.com.br/2016/03/21/21171811369815.jpg)
AT-AT at at a a lake lake.
I made a sans and papy
(http://i.imgur.com/tVY5AzN.jpg)
(http://www.theboredmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/unusual-cloud-formation-fist-hand-of-god-portugal-3-1.jpg?x93797)
Get ready for some smiting!
(http://i.imgur.com/irnHCMF.jpg)
Do you know where that is?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 20, 2017, 09:23:26 PM
Do you know where that is?
No, but google does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Park_of_Penyal_d%27Ifac
The picture appears to have been taken from the big rock near the coast. Good ol' forced perspective makes it look taller than it actually is.
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 20, 2017, 09:31:34 PM
No, but google does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Park_of_Penyal_d%27Ifac
The picture appears to have been taken from the big rock near the coast. Good ol' forced perspective makes it look taller than it actually is.
Done some time in Spain but never there.
Van Deuser forest in Oregon. around 7AM the sun is just comin over the mountain. all the branches are covered with moss and a little wet
(http://www.thewesterlysun.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=WBjeR2nQUW1JHI7VAubT9M$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYt68TQdPctwzKm5lRSUlD5$WCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg%5D)
(https://i.imgur.com/22B8qw5.jpg)
My idea of heaven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanus)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Nova_Fractal_zoom_at_-0.5610029695%2C_-0.78403.PNG)
Nice words to live by. Rich is more a state of mind far more than your bank account statement.
(http://i1160.photobucket.com/albums/q490/atheola/werich.jpg)
(http://i63.tinypic.com/29wld12.jpg)
Loch Lomond at sunset.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on May 11, 2017, 07:32:14 PM
Nice words to live by. Rich is more a state of mind far more than your bank account statement.
(http://i1160.photobucket.com/albums/q490/atheola/werich.jpg)
Baby Ramen?
Here's awesome if awesomely stupid counts. He lost a bet over a basketball game.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSPKlqkjKWn/
My phone won't let me download the file.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on May 14, 2017, 02:46:36 PM
Here's awesome if awesomely stupid counts. He lost a bet over a basketball game.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSPKlqkjKWn/
My phone won't let me download the file.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/70/a6/6e70a6e4143a4b4d68de3ad7100a0dc4.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/17/71/51/177151c59cd1f10d85e2b035b3b161ef.jpg)
(https://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2013/05/tourist-wave-arizona.jpg.838x0_q80.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/6d/85/6d6d859473410e347ad82a398a627399.jpg)
(http://wallpaper-gallery.net/images/skyrim-wallpaper/skyrim-wallpaper-13.jpg)
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/surreal-strange-business-landscape-spider-mechanical-robot-stalks-businessman-metaphor-65878449.jpg)
Is this the god of chess, or a new super villain?
(http://www.laughspark.info/thumbfiles/705X705/funny-chess-board-photo-manipulation-635767639335127425-15857.jpg)
Great parenting.
Who needs lanterns?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on June 01, 2017, 08:00:47 PM
Great parenting.
Yeah, gotta raise those kids to love shooting stuff and killing stuff!
For some reason, this bug reminds me of Jimmy Durante!
(http://thereptilereport.com/assets/arachno-04oct-bizarrebug-hibludij.jpg)
(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/58000/People-Climbing-a-Chess-Board--58349.jpg)
Damn, I miss the '60s.
I'd post an awesome pic, but unfortunately the site doesn't allow me to post my nudes so you'll have to settle for this picture:
(https://www.nowyouknowfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/WWI-18.jpg)
For some reason colorized WW1 photos mesmerize me.
(http://images.techtimes.com/data/images/full/92148/alien.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on June 01, 2017, 08:04:46 PM
Who needs lanterns?
I found another really cool aurora picture:
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/ea/cf/d1eacf9dadbef00f651ba0ea08119bad.jpg)
But then, I can't recall seeing one that
wasn't really cool!
(https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1404/volcano_stefnisson_960.jpg)
A lighthouse in Lake Michigan:
(http://media2.wptv.com//photo/2013/04/02/Tom_Gill_lighthouse_(10)_20130402133133_640_480.JPG)
(http://files.namnak.com/images/fun/other/92010/ice4%20%5B1600x1200%5D_pics/%DB%8C%D8%AE.jpg)
(https://s.w-x.co/003twcicelighthouses_0.jpg)
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/frozen-lighthouse-st-joseph-north-pier-lake-michigan/frozen-lighthouse-st-joseph-north-pier-lake-michigan-1.jpg)
Looks like Skyrim!
Quote from: Mike Cl on July 06, 2017, 07:44:44 PM
Looks like Skyrim!
Or a Great Lakes lighthouse after a storm blows through.
Quick, name all 3...
Quote from: Sal1981 on July 11, 2017, 10:22:09 AM
Puff, Paff, Rumpelstiltskin.
I've seen worse guesses, but it may take a while to remember when, LOL!
It's been a little rainy around these parts...
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4309/35154910434_4dd79dcf48_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/35154910434/)
Quote from: trdsf on July 21, 2017, 12:32:50 PM
It's been a little rainy around these parts...
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4 309/35154910434_4dd79dcf48_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/35154910434/)
They all float down here..
(http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/unbelievable-places/unbelievable-places-8.jpg)
OK, here are a few...
(//)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4353/35991371144_29a9b38ced_b.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/35991371144)
(https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11131/111313180/5686828-8180509366-walll.jpg)
(https://img06.deviantart.net/4001/i/2012/163/c/2/lost_by_leksotiger-d538pms.jpg)
This is Lena's Stone Forrest, in Russia:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BYxvjJsSwkg/Vj5BJyvxfXI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/oyYFbsl-fvk/s1600/Lena%2527s%2Bstone%2Bforest%252C%2BYakutsk%252C%2Bin%2BRussia..jpg)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/-NbD5f7Ek8-w/ToC-ypJhOUI/AAAAAAAAQh4/tkl18rOebjw/lena_pillars_06%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
Wow, talk about t tourist attraction! This is the Kansas City public library:
(https://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/novelist/images/KCLibrary_CommunityBookshelf_edit.jpg?v=1471016162)
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 28, 2017, 02:30:23 PM
Wow, talk about t tourist attraction! This is the Kansas City public library:
(https://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/novelist/images/KCLibrary_CommunityBookshelf_edit.jpg?v=1471016162)
That is for real??
Well, I found it in Ripley's Believe It Or Not - so you can believe it or not!
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 28, 2017, 02:51:50 PM
That is for real??
https://www.google.com/search?q=kansas+city+public+library&num=50&newwindow=1&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS757US757&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLoPnM1frVAhUE94MKHRbYAWkQ_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=735
I've never been to Kansas City - so I'll just have to take it on faith...
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 28, 2017, 03:41:24 PM
I've never been to Kansas City - so I'll just have to take it on faith...
The link I posted should calm you down a bit. ;)
A bit...
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/710asMFZokL._SY355_.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 28, 2017, 03:32:28 PM
https://www.google.com/search?q=kansas+city+public+library&num=50&newwindow=1&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS757US757&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLoPnM1frVAhUE94MKHRbYAWkQ_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=735
Thanks.
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 28, 2017, 03:41:24 PM
I've never been to Kansas City - so I'll just have to take it on faith...
Did a little more research and there are some great looking libraries out there! And KC's looks to one of the best looking.
Quote from: Cavebear on July 11, 2017, 10:16:54 AM
Quick, name all 3...
Bubbles, Blossom, Buttercup. Too easy.
Now, what does this get you?
D
D
S
S
H
G
B
Drunken moose ends up stuck in Swedish apple tree (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/08/sweden.drunken.moose/index.html)
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4w-eLx9IksQ/hqdefault.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 29, 2017, 05:34:55 PM
Drunken moose ends up stuck in Swedish apple tree (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/08/sweden.drunken.moose/index.html)
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4w-eLx9IksQ/hqdefault.jpg)
Squirrel climbed up and rescued him.
Yeah, that dastardly Boris and Natasha got him drunk! He said "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my ass!
Peacock spiders are cool!
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b3/f9/14/b3f91406ee7e9abb8dc5fbea27d5a6c1--spider-species-phd-student.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/y6KobEC.gif)
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 30, 2017, 04:51:52 PM
Peacock spiders are cool!
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b3/f9/14/b3f91406ee7e9abb8dc5fbea27d5a6c1--spider-species-phd-student.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/y6KobEC.gif)
Rasta spider, mon!
Yeah, if those spiders don't please the female, they get eaten!
thats the only spider I can look out that doesn't make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Well, that and Jeff from billy and mandy.
(https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/grimadventures/images/6/68/Jeff_Underfist.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160128055739)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 29, 2017, 08:23:58 AM
Now, what does this get you?
D
D
S
S
H
G
B
Doc
Dopey
Sneezy
Sleepy
Happy
Grumpy
Bashful
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 28, 2017, 02:51:50 PM
That is for real??
That can't be! That is too brilliant to be true...
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 31, 2017, 11:45:36 AM
Bravo!
I always forget Happy!
Name the santa reindeer.
Name the Powerpuff girls.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 31, 2017, 11:52:54 AM
I always forget Happy!
Name the santa reindeer.
Name the Powerpuff girls.
Powerpuffs were already answered.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner (or sometimes Donder) and Blitzen. And the backups Rudolph, and Olive the Other Reindeer.
I offer this sequence: O T T F F S S E -- what letter comes next?
Quote from: trdsf on August 31, 2017, 12:32:20 PM
Powerpuffs were already answered.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner (or sometimes Donder) and Blitzen. And the backups Rudolph, and Olive the Other Reindeer.
I offer this sequence: O T T F F S S E -- what letter comes next?
N for nine
NPOABF?
Quote from: Cavebear on August 31, 2017, 01:41:53 PM
N for nine
NPOABF?
Yup.
Hm. I have already adopted and rejected three different schemas that
almost (but don't quite) handle that sequence. Did you want the next in the list, or what the six stand for?
Quote from: trdsf on August 31, 2017, 02:49:31 PM
Yup.
Hm. I have already adopted and rejected three different schemas that almost (but don't quite) handle that sequence. Did you want the next in the list, or what the six stand for?
Nine Players On A Baseball Field
88=?
Quote from: trdsf on August 31, 2017, 02:49:31 PM
Yup.
Hm. I have already adopted and rejected three different schemas that almost (but don't quite) handle that sequence. Did you want the next in the list, or what the six stand for?
The Six? Sounds like the bad guys in "Conagher".
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/fcda588bd3ebd1800f7898c829bc3844/tumblr_mvnicfRM4z1rk4rjco1_500.gif)
(https://www.dailydot.com/wp-content/uploads/cb1/39/Fractal.gif)
I can never get this to work.
That's down by the Old Mill stream!
QuoteMy darling I am dreaming of the days gone by,
When you and I were sweethearts beneath the summer sky;
Your hair has turned to silver, the gold has faded too;
But still I will remember, where I first met you.
(Verse 2)
The old mill wheel is silent and has fallen down,
The old oak tree has withered and lies there on the ground;
While you and I are sweethearts the same as days of yore;
Although we've been together, forty years and more.
(Chorus)
Down by the old mill stream where I first met you,
With your eyes of blue, dressed in gingham too,
It was there I knew that you loved me true,
You were sixteen, my village queen, by the old mill stream.
Great lyrics and thoughts! I once saw a functioning waterwheel in New England. I stared at it as long as my parents allowed. When we got home in Petersburg VA, where there was a creek (an actual old civil war trench that the local water had found its way into), I built one. A bad one. But it worked. I was insufferably pleased. Hey, I was 12...
(http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/4/59/222459_c221c5a6d4a7b1aac0abcce75063b7d0_large.jpg)
(http://www.mathpuzzle.com/InterlockingSpiralsAnimation.gif)
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 25, 2017, 04:08:42 PM
(http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/4/59/222459_c221c5a6d4a7b1aac0abcce75063b7d0_large.jpg)
Sprites!
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 25, 2017, 04:08:42 PM
(http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/4/59/222459_c221c5a6d4a7b1aac0abcce75063b7d0_large.jpg)
That's just awesome. I need to find the video I got that captures the life cycle of a lightning bolt -- one frame caught the stepped leader emerging from the clouds, another couple frames caught a positive streamer creeping up the side of the house next door, about 20' away (!), and lastly the bolt itself, striking about a mile away, connecting perfectly with the spot the stepped leader had first appeared. I should be able to extract the frames and put together a respectable animated GIF.
(http://33.media.tumblr.com/66db1518caf240eb8364b7dea539f5f7/tumblr_mx5qh4j2H41qdlh1io1_r1_400.gif)
(http://68.media.tumblr.com/36669fd8daecd9f77d39bf431488940e/tumblr_ottsgfNY1U1snbyiqo2_540.gif)
(http://68.media.tumblr.com/d3d3079f9058f19d0c97531a9ba753d6/tumblr_ottsgfNY1U1snbyiqo1_540.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/rZd3lpg.jpg)
My only weaknesses.
Wasps...
Quote from: Gilgamesh on September 27, 2017, 03:03:21 PM
(http://68.media.tumblr.com/36669fd8daecd9f77d39bf431488940e/tumblr_ottsgfNY1U1snbyiqo2_540.gif)
(http://68.media.tumblr.com/d3d3079f9058f19d0c97531a9ba753d6/tumblr_ottsgfNY1U1snbyiqo1_540.gif)
So... you gonna pay the anime tax or what?
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on September 28, 2017, 08:29:16 AM
So... you gonna pay the anime tax or what?
Another tax? I may become a Republican!
Quote from: Cavebear on September 28, 2017, 08:36:56 AM
Another tax? I may become a Republican!
Hah, no, the "anime tax" is when you have to include the name of the anime after posting pictures of it.
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 27, 2017, 07:33:40 PM
That looks good enough to eat!!
That cake cost about $200 US.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 28, 2017, 09:55:48 AM
That cake cost about $200 US.
Hmmm... That's about 40 high-quality eclairs. OK, I'd go with the eclairs. So I'd limit the event to either 40, or maybe 80 guests given halfsies...
Quote from: Cavebear on September 28, 2017, 10:17:43 AM
Hmmm... That's about 40 high-quality eclairs. OK, I'd go with the eclairs. So I'd limit the event to either 40, or maybe 80 guests given halfsies...
Or fuck 'em and eat the eclairs.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 28, 2017, 10:23:03 AM
Or fuck 'em and eat the eclairs.
Hard not to love an eclair. I ate an entire Boston Creme Pie once and that is basically just a huge eclair. Well, it is hard to cut up neatly and after you do it is just you and a fork...
Quote from: Cavebear on September 28, 2017, 11:18:49 AM
Hard not to love an eclair. I ate an entire Boston Creme Pie once and that is basically just a huge eclair. Well, it is hard to cut up neatly and after you do it is just you and a fork...
"cut up"... Share? A Boston cream pie? ARE YOU NUTS?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 28, 2017, 11:36:33 AM
"cut up"... Share? A Boston cream pie? ARE YOU NUTS?
Mom made the best. And just for me when I came home from college once a month. I think it sent one sibling to the shrink...
(https://media.giphy.com/media/XVQXYxrjMUtTq/giphy.gif)
(http://38.media.tumblr.com/3b5cf1510bb7c6a48b7c3c75837a0342/tumblr_na6pteZjN71qdlh1io1_400.gif)
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 28, 2017, 04:51:54 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/XVQXYxrjMUtTq/giphy.gif)
(http://38.media.tumblr.com/3b5cf1510bb7c6a48b7c3c75837a0342/tumblr_na6pteZjN71qdlh1io1_400.gif)
Part of me says "No WAY". The other part says "WAY"!
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on September 28, 2017, 08:29:16 AM
So... you gonna pay the anime tax or what?
"Kimi no na wa" or "your name" in English
That guy kicking the ball into the hoop needs to be a coach for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Yeah, that's even better than Will Smith in Hancock!
(http://www.gifbin.com/bin/072009/1248041884_extreme-barbeque.gif)
This one looks like an epic fail:
(http://i.imgur.com/GRNV26h.gif)
Ever notice the item goes out of frame?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 29, 2017, 08:18:47 PM
Ever notice the item goes out of frame?
Most of them are fake. But I saw one where a guy threw a basketball from the top of a football stadium into a hoop on the sidelines and the ball was never out of the frame. Could still be faked though.
Rule #1 - If an event is idiotically unlikely, it is...
(https://i.imgur.com/FsgL3Tl.jpg)
I love this and I don't even like Superman/Supergirl/etc.
Well, she certainly looks better than Clark Kent!
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 01, 2017, 12:20:16 PM
Well, she certainly looks better than Clark Kent!
The sexual connotations of Supergirl doing that are far more awesome than when Superman does. But you might have to ask uber-Munch about that. LOL!
Quote from: Hydra009 on October 01, 2017, 12:18:31 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/FsgL3Tl.jpg)
I love this and I don't even like Superman/Supergirl/etc.
She can save me whenever she wants!
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 01, 2017, 12:20:16 PM
Well, she certainly looks better than Clark Kent!
Well thats opinion.
(https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/47357/1313673-3e74.jpg)
though personally, I know what I'd prefer more.
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/65/f2/3b/65f23ba357059cb24cd8852552068317--sexy-cartoons-xmen.jpg)
Quote from: Munch on October 01, 2017, 08:00:11 PM
Well thats opinion.
(https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/47357/1313673-3e74.jpg)
though personally, I know what I'd prefer more.
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/65/f2/3b/65f23ba357059cb24cd8852552068317--sexy-cartoons-xmen.jpg)
Yeah, I see your point! :weed:
Meet the cousins.
This one looks like it'd be fun to try:
(https://memeguy.com/photos/thumbs/the-magnus-effect-at-its-finest-227606.gif)
Quote from: Mike Cl on October 02, 2017, 07:27:44 PM
Are you sure we aren't related????
Boss Lady says I'm adopted.
Quote from: Mike Cl on October 01, 2017, 02:26:57 PM
She can save me whenever she wants!
Anyone would be glad to be saved. Did you have something more in mind?
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 04:28:20 AM
Anyone would be glad to be saved. Did you have something more in mind?
Indubitably
Hot or not? (Probably not going to see this.)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 04, 2017, 11:41:01 AM
Hot or not? (Probably not going to see this.)
Is that the new Mummy? Can't be bothered...
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 01:26:10 PM
Is that the new Mummy? Can't be bothered...
No, that pic is from Deviant Art.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 04, 2017, 03:33:03 PM
No, that pic is from Deviant Art.
Ok then its "hot" rollseyes...
Now I feel bad for having made you look at it.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 04, 2017, 04:01:50 PM
Now I feel bad for having made you look at it.
Don't feel bad. A hot chick dressed only in jewels? You are talking to guy with Frazetta mirrors in the bedroom... LOL!
The Tiger Lady and the Egyptian Haremess...
Don't forget Boris Vallejo
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5c/90/db/5c90dbc92d292d0033065b5d16cb7384.gif)
This is me after the cardiac surgery.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4504/36838289803_b3d7f2ebec_z.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/11/a0/7c11a04b9df3d9f8cb7c910b1d077da8.gif)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4yk03GuaN1qfv8tyo1_500.gif)
Gratitude? How about CATitude?
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/143/046/fc7.gif)
(http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/248380-2/Lizard-buries-itself-in-sand.gif)
Quote from: Mike Cl on October 04, 2017, 05:33:37 PM
Don't forget Boris Vallejo
Very similar. But I'm not collecting that kind of stuff. Have 2 and that's plenty.
(https://i.imgur.com/H5RZvJo.jpg)
(http://gaycomicgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Superman-Naked.jpg)
uh oh, clark forgot something after playing hide the sausage with lois and hearing a scream for help.
(https://i.imgur.com/wJjD2CB.png?2)
Spaceship hanger or apartment block viewed from ground level?
Quote from: Munch on October 09, 2017, 08:03:56 AM
(http://gaycomicgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Superman-Naked.jpg)
uh oh, clark forgot something after playing hide the sausage with lois and hearing a scream for help.
The Hope symbol is tatooed oh his chest? I thought it was on the uniform.
Quote from: Hydra009 on October 10, 2017, 09:59:28 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/wJjD2CB.png?2)
Spaceship hanger or apartment block viewed from ground level?
Scene from the most recent Judge Dredd movie.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 11, 2017, 05:47:20 AM
The Hope symbol is tatooed oh his chest? I thought it was on the uniform.
He fell asleep at the last party and hasn't washed the ink off yet.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 11, 2017, 06:59:17 AM
He fell asleep at the last party and hasn't washed the ink off yet.
Ah those temp tattoos! He better hope some friend doesn't give him a permanent one upside down. Or a "HI, I'M CLARK KENT". Boy wouldn't Lois be shocked at THAT (*coff, coff*)...
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 11, 2017, 06:58:33 AM
Scene from the most recent Judge Dredd movie.
I don't recall that scene. The image source says it's from the Ying Fat Building in Hong Kong, which looks like this (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Yick_Cheong_Building_and_Yick_Fat_Building._Aug._2015.B.JPG/1280px-Yick_Cheong_Building_and_Yick_Fat_Building._Aug._2015.B.JPG) during the day. I could be from a movie, but my best guess is that this is just some person's night photo.
Quote from: Hydra009 on October 11, 2017, 03:10:54 PM
I don't recall that scene. The image source says it's from the Ying Fat Building in Hong Kong, which looks like this (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Yick_Cheong_Building_and_Yick_Fat_Building._Aug._2015.B.JPG/1280px-Yick_Cheong_Building_and_Yick_Fat_Building._Aug._2015.B.JPG) during the day. I could be from a movie, but my best guess is that this is just some person's night photo.
They had those megablocks, vertical slums. That reminds me of those.
Quote from: Hydra009 on October 11, 2017, 03:10:54 PM
I don't recall that scene. The image source says it's from the Ying Fat Building in Hong Kong, which looks like this (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Yick_Cheong_Building_and_Yick_Fat_Building._Aug._2015.B.JPG/1280px-Yick_Cheong_Building_and_Yick_Fat_Building._Aug._2015.B.JPG) during the day. I could be from a movie, but my best guess is that this is just some person's night photo.
(https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/142946/3129195-0118891575-cs_02.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 11, 2017, 03:45:43 PM
(https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/142946/3129195-0118891575-cs_02.jpg)
I just watched "Gravity" last night. Not the same pictures, but reminds me of it. Oh Sweet Earth...
An actual spaceship hanger bay this time:
(https://i.imgur.com/8qdVLFd.jpg)
There are all kinds of amazing photos and illusions here:
Mind-boggling Illusions (https://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/mind-boggling-illusions)
The Spirit of Yamato.
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9F9_RUESS2E/SoqL-H_LahI/AAAAAAAAApE/Rgy3PS3pfig/s800/Amazing-3D-Sidewalk-Art-lobster.jpg)
Who keeps lobsters that small?
Quote from: Mike Cl on October 21, 2017, 07:14:46 PM
Its a 'baby' lobster.
Ten more feet and it will be eatin' size.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 21, 2017, 07:17:15 PM
Ten more feet and it will be eatin' size.
The baby or the lobster??
Lobsters don't eat babies! That lobstrosity only wants to tickle the little tyke.
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 24, 2017, 02:21:08 PM
Lobsters don't eat babies! That lobstrosity only wants to tickle the little tyke.
Teenagers from Outer Space. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053337/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mst3k/images/e/eb/Teenspace1.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20150611054915)
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 24, 2017, 02:21:08 PM
Lobsters don't eat babies! That lobstrosity only wants to tickle the little tyke.
Suuuurrre...........................never trust a clawed creature!
Hmmm, you may have a point there...
Quote from: Mike Cl on October 24, 2017, 05:16:04 PM
Suuuurrre...........................never trust a clawed creature!
Remember, Jean clawed van Damm!
(https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2017/02/Bootstrap_1000.gif)
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 21, 2017, 03:00:21 PM
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9F9_RUESS2E/SoqL-H_LahI/AAAAAAAAApE/Rgy3PS3pfig/s800/Amazing-3D-Sidewalk-Art-lobster.jpg)
Ooh, with melted bacon fat? OOOH, (shivers)
(https://i.redd.it/5vldwjuyhppz.jpg)
Deviant Art?
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 26, 2017, 04:11:33 PM
(https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2017/02/Bootstrap_1000.gif)
Awesome!
This one's pretty neat:
(http://i.imgur.com/ZNFXFNx.gif)
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 08, 2017, 04:58:56 PM
This one's pretty neat:
(http://i.imgur.com/ZNFXFNx.gif)
You come up with some the weirdest stuff! :thanx:
I like novelty - and the weirder the better!
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 08, 2017, 04:58:56 PM
This one's pretty neat:
(http://i.imgur.com/ZNFXFNx.gif)
That is
completely fucked up in the best possible way. :D
(https://i.imgur.com/tkbcVMS.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9d/e6/d0/9de6d01e883fc1371b16e296ef515318--fantasy-creatures-mythical-creatures.jpg)
(https://s.cdaction.pl/obrazki/endless-legend-aliens_bzozo.png)
They're actually quite friendly.
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 08, 2017, 04:58:56 PM
This one's pretty neat:
(http://i.imgur.com/ZNFXFNx.gif)
The stars and sky moved! Was it good for you, too?
Darn, I never see those good pictures looking out the back window (when I have the camera ready).
Quote from: Cavebear on November 11, 2017, 09:19:18 AM
The stars and sky moved! Was it good for you, too?
The worst I ever had was wonderful!
(https://i.imgur.com/CWrFREd.jpg)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gB0bw4hqZgc/UmkkQMODspI/AAAAAAAAcZ0/fcvVa-Z8kvo/s1600/Australia-Ayers-Rock.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8AQv6VU.jpg)
It's a trap!
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 23, 2018, 08:03:05 PM
It's a trap!
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/692/118/2db.jpg)
Spiral hives of Trigona carbonaria (stingless bee native to Australia)
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/a8/d8/79a8d830db77a1a8a78b09c307c84702--bee-keeping-busy-bee.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC_n2hdXcAA4GXR.jpg)
(https://puu.sh/z8iTt.jpg)
Just an image I took in the local plantation late Fall, I think it's called in English. it's at the middle of the capital too.
Oh noes! The beez are haunted by The Spiral! (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Uzumaki.jpg)
Quote from: Hakurei Reimu on January 24, 2018, 11:18:12 AM
Oh noes! The beez are haunted by The Spiral! (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Uzumaki.jpg)
Don't worry, long as you don't take up pottery, or develop scars on your head, or develop a phobia of spirals, or obsession, or become obsessed with your hair..
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/49/33/d0/4933d076090ebbcd3cd05a87b267e75a--rain-drops-umbrellas.jpg)
(http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/58345cc6dd0895707b8b47f5/an-acidic-hot-spring-in-yellowstone-dissolved-a-tourist--and-its-more-common-than-you-might-think.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 25, 2018, 04:47:54 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/49/33/d0/4933d076090ebbcd3cd05a87b267e75a--rain-drops-umbrellas.jpg)
I sometimes wonder what the world is like to that frog. Or a snake. I once sat and watched a small snakw in my small pond grab a frog and spend an hour swallowing it, The frog croaked piteously.
Some other person might have saved the frog. I didn't. I watched (sadly). I guess that is how nature photographers have to think.
On the other hand, had that been a hawk and one of my cats, they would have hawk feathers to play with. There are limits. And the boundaries are tricky.
I guess a snake likes to savor its meals, and must have all the patience it needs to enjoy a good dinner.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/5c/7a/3e5c7aeb08e3afc7137af127593eb52a.jpg)
Quote from: Cavebear on January 27, 2018, 12:04:59 PM
I sometimes wonder what the world is like to that frog. Or a snake. I once sat and watched a small snakw in my small pond grab a frog and spend an hour swallowing it, The frog croaked piteously.
Some other person might have saved the frog. I didn't. I watched (sadly). I guess that is how nature photographers have to think.
On the other hand, had that been a hawk and one of my cats, they would have hawk feathers to play with. There are limits. And the boundaries are tricky.
Yeah, be a nature photographer. Be in a plexiglass container, while a Great White circles trying to bite you (he can't see the plastic). Or the same on land, while a Serengeti lion (much smarter than a shark) tries to figure out the easy opening package!
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/7b/85/ec7b85fbd429a104883e443e3bb5cf27.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a7/3b/d1/a73bd1bcd8b01828a5891c8007915fe3--colorado-rockies-colorado-trip.jpg)
(https://orig00.deviantart.net/ca85/f/2011/139/9/6/the_great_deku_tree_by_lordofizan-d3grcwz.jpg)
(https://pics.me.me/7909698.png)
I don't know about awesome but I took this picture last week. There is nothing but about 7500 miles of water between the beach on the other side of those palm trees and the west coast of Nicaragua.
(https://i.imgur.com/CH1p3cb.jpg)
Big Island?
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 01, 2018, 04:03:36 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/7b/85/ec7b85fbd429a104883e443e3bb5cf27.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a7/3b/d1/a73bd1bcd8b01828a5891c8007915fe3--colorado-rockies-colorado-trip.jpg)
(https://orig00.deviantart.net/ca85/f/2011/139/9/6/the_great_deku_tree_by_lordofizan-d3grcwz.jpg)
(https://pics.me.me/7909698.png)
Facial recognition software does the same .. except instead of trees, it is ape's asses.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on February 01, 2018, 07:25:15 PM
Kwaj again.
Asleep at the switch again. 7,500 was way wrong. I need to take more drugs.
A real jewel of a bug:
(https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/250884/original_48ba8d3496ab8005ab26d8a10f38c07c.jpg)
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.4515648.1517620909!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/qarlinngua.jpg)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/qarlinngua-nunavut-arctic-bay-hidden-sea-arch-1.4515601
Yellowstone National Park in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien’s maps by Dan Bell.
(https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d6Cm5ZHVmofPexDyKyV10olaU40=/1600x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10136383/Yellowstone_National_Park.jpg)
Quote from: GSOgymrat on February 04, 2018, 04:03:34 PM
Yellowstone National Park in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien’s maps by Dan Bell.
(https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d6Cm5ZHVmofPexDyKyV10olaU40=/1600x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/10136383/Yellowstone_National_Park.jpg)
It DOES look a lot like his maps in the Silmarillion of where the elves lived! Nice.
I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this, but it isn't a picture, but it has some visually stunning stuff that I thought y'all might enjoy seeing, so I'll put it here since I didn't know where else to put it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lw59A8hI0A
Firemarshall Bill didn't like Methuselah's birthday cake ;-(
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 10, 2018, 06:27:50 PM
I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this, but it isn't a picture, but it has some visually stunning stuff that I thought y'all might enjoy seeing, so I'll put it here since I didn't know where else to put it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lw59A8hI0A
I am in awe!
(https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAOAAAAAJDlmN2Y4MTM3LWEyY2MtNDYyMC04OWJlLWJjYzU0OTVhYzY4Ng.jpg)
(http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/54987215dd089569358b45a5-1200/a-helicopter-discovered-this-mysterious-giant-crater-on-the-yamal-peninsula-of-siberia-a-place-referred-to-as-the-end-of-the-world.jpg)
http://uk.businessinsider.com/best-science-pictures-of-the-year-2014-12?r=US&IR=T#a-helicopter-discovered-this-mysterious-giant-crater-on-the-yamal-peninsula-of-siberia-a-place-referred-to-as-the-end-of-the-world-34
(https://i.imgur.com/qa9n1T8.jpg)
Extra History is just full of amazing stories; look up the Byzantines (Justinian/Theodora/Belisarius), some of the Punic Wars, etc.).
Backstory to one vignette of the Disney pirate movies ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2lhxUqMMQ
I'd heard about Madame Cheng, but didn't know much of the story. She was the most successful pirate in history, but few people have ever heard of her.
(https://i.imgur.com/TVgOxZg.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on February 18, 2018, 11:34:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/qa9n1T8.jpg)
Is that the younger brother from Full Metal Alchemist?
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/78494fbf4d9d5fc7ea9da04383799700/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto1_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/3d7d947d01bc328fad04427e29c010b7/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto2_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/25b7bb93d50163009d11986b735e2886/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto3_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/b9c7c979aec3283f49d1af8df459aeb7/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto4_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/57287345bcf51a8354c80c0549aa0d4f/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto5_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/1aad077dc1c1750e3c28e213c37384bf/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto6_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/de1a8720b5c1073ab2b0cf433aed6665/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto7_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/42955fd8fc413249551c1f95225f0b55/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto8_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/1fa3525eed5b1e551da9239dc20f5e29/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto9_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/7c319be03cb622ab7b791b7722c252ba/tumblr_p3et6ipRJ51qhttpto10_1280.jpg)
Quote from: Cavebear on February 25, 2018, 12:55:34 PM
Is that the younger brother from Full Metal Alchemist?
I'm reminded of the combat hummingbirds from "Epic".
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on February 26, 2018, 11:45:04 AM
I'm reminded of the combat hummingbirds from "Epic".
And I was impressed by Spirographs...
(https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1803/venusmoon_pascual_3000.jpg)
Woof!
(http://d.facdn.net/art/silverturian/1520781687/1520781687.silverturian_ych_genziz.png)
So that's a Dober-man?
Quote from: Baruch on March 12, 2018, 01:42:54 AM
So that's a Dober-man?
More like a wolfdogman, according to the original description.
Also
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-byWwPsL4YKU/TxGDkaIvBlI/AAAAAAAAAh8/1g_EHW0GkxA/s1600/thor_god_of_thunder_shirtless.jpg)
This is the Thor I'd love to see in the movies, not the cropped top beat down diet version the movies now showing.
I recently got a couple IR filters. Still working out the best settings for it, but the results are interesting so far:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4697/39756091715_459cbe5b2b_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/39756091715)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4750/39756087975_c75608d3a5_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/39756087975)
kinda creepy, I like it.
When movie makers in the '70s wanted to imply an other worldliness to a scene they'd do things like that. "The Dunwich Horror" is an example.
I always get the impression that h.p Lovecraft's creations were always open to interpretation, vague, so if one person thinks they nailed it, another one comes along with a completely different idea
Just looking up Azathoth, the blind idiot god, has all difference interpretations.
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/b/b4/Azathoth_the_Nuclear_Chaos.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20120505222004)
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/monster/images/5/5c/IMG_0013.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20171016133518)
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/5/57/Azathoth_the_Blind_Idiot_God.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/347?cb=20120505221907)
I think lovecraft left them as vague as possible, because he wanted to create the idea of them being beyond human comprehension, that nobody could just tie down his old gods with one basic design, because if they were beyond what we could rationalize, that made them all the more terrifying.
Quote from: Munch on March 12, 2018, 05:31:11 PM
I always get the impression that h.p Lovecraft's creations were always open to interpretation, vague, so if one person things they nailed it, another one comes along with a completely different idea
This is why I prefer radio to TV and movies -- the pictures are better. :)
Quote from: trdsf on March 13, 2018, 09:35:28 AM
This is why I prefer radio to TV and movies -- the pictures are better. :)
I grew up watching The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, The Whistler, and Gunsmoke all on the radio.
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 13, 2018, 11:14:23 AM
I grew up watching The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, The Whistler, and Gunsmoke all on the radio.
I avoided that.
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 13, 2018, 11:14:23 AM
I grew up watching The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, The Whistler, and Gunsmoke all on the radio.
I spent the morning on archive.org's Old Time Radio section alternating between episodes of X Minus One, and the Bob and Ray show. Glorious stuff. :)
Quote from: trdsf on March 13, 2018, 12:28:04 PM
I spent the morning on archive.org's Old Time Radio section alternating between episodes of X Minus One, and the Bob and Ray show. Glorious stuff. :)
I may have to make that journey.
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 13, 2018, 12:58:27 PM
I may have to make that journey.
Definitely worth the trip. Besides X Minus One (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?and%5B%5D=x+minus+one) and Dimension X (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?and%5B%5D=dimension+x) and Bob & Ray (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?and%5B%5D=bob+ray) (clear back to when they were local in Boston), there's unedited episodes of You Bet Your Life (https://archive.org/details/YouBetYourLifeunedited), as well as all the other usual suspects (Mercury Theatre, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Jack Benny, Spike Jones, Lights Out, Inner Sanctum...).
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 13, 2018, 12:57:32 PM
Why?
You don't start growing old until you stop growing up.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 13, 2018, 02:58:42 PM
You don't start growing old until you stop growing up.
Cool, I'm going to live forever -- I'm never going to grow all the way up! :D
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 13, 2018, 02:58:42 PM
You don't start growing old until you stop growing up.
I'm safe then, since I have not left childhood yet--or so most tell me. :)
Quote from: trdsf on March 13, 2018, 01:34:17 PM
Definitely worth the trip. Besides X Minus One (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?and%5B%5D=x+minus+one) and Dimension X (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?and%5B%5D=dimension+x) and Bob & Ray (https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?and%5B%5D=bob+ray) (clear back to when they were local in Boston), there's unedited episodes of You Bet Your Life (https://archive.org/details/YouBetYourLifeunedited), as well as all the other usual suspects (Mercury Theatre, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Jack Benny, Spike Jones, Lights Out, Inner Sanctum...).
I loved The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger and Winnie the Poo on the radio. My parents also listened to Gunsmoke and Dragnet, Jack Benny and Amos and Andy. The Whistler used to scare the shit out of me--after the show I had to go upstairs to bed.
(https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29136978_1668798129830784_6153974941952012235_n.jpg?oh=e560ccc096a5bb283aab370876e130f7&oe=5B35A21E)
Going to be seeing this set live in two weeks... even probably without hallucinogens, I cant wait.
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 13, 2018, 04:15:31 PM
I loved The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger and Winnie the Poo on the radio. My parents also listened to Gunsmoke and Dragnet, Jack Benny and Amos and Andy. The Whistler used to scare the shit out of me--after the show I had to go upstairs to bed.
Cisco Kid, Gunsmoke and Lone Ranger are on Archive; I'm not sure what all they have as far as those go since I was never a Westerns fan. Jack Benny remains to this day one of the funniest humans to ever walk this Earth, both on the radio and on the TV. I don't think anyone ever got more laughs out of a perfectly timed silence.
Quote from: Munch on March 12, 2018, 05:31:11 PM
I always get the impression that h.p Lovecraft's creations were always open to interpretation, vague, so if one person thinks they nailed it, another one comes along with a completely different idea
Just looking up Azathoth, the blind idiot god, has all difference interpretations.
I always pictured it as something like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/t2cN5RNh.jpg)
So alien that it's mercifully nearly incomprehensible - just this massive, pulsating smear on reality. The sheer scope of it...it's just breathtaking. And it never looks right. It looks unnatural and a mockery of the universe that we know of. It's horrible but enthralling, pulling you in. You want to turn away, but you're curious. So very curious. But just a momentary glance from such a thing will utterly unmake any mortal. Thankfully, its court keeps it rather busy. But their noise is maddening. To be among that court is to court death or worse.
I think thats what lovecraft always wanted them to be, incomprehensible. That lends itself to making these creations beyond what we can conceive of, yet still attempting to based on our limitations.
Quote from: Munch on March 14, 2018, 11:35:19 AM
I think thats what lovecraft always wanted them to be, incomprehensible. That lends itself to making these creations beyond what we can conceive of, yet still attempting to based on our limitations.
Lovecraft is my go-to theologian ;-)
Quote from: trdsf on March 13, 2018, 11:52:32 PM
I don't think anyone ever got more laughs out of a perfectly timed silence.
One time George Carlin walked out on stage and didn't say a word for 5 minutes, and he had them rolling in the aisles! I think he'd made a bet with someone that he could do that, and so he did.
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/448ff5f1db871f91e9f60c22d05dd8ba/tumblr_p5o7gtqD1P1tgigclo1_1280.jpg)
Quote from: trdsf on March 13, 2018, 11:52:32 PM
Cisco Kid, Gunsmoke and Lone Ranger are on Archive; I'm not sure what all they have as far as those go since I was never a Westerns fan. Jack Benny remains to this day one of the funniest humans to ever walk this Earth, both on the radio and on the TV. I don't think anyone ever got more laughs out of a perfectly timed silence.
Bob Newhart with his one-sided telephone calls?
(edited to add, I posted this March 17 - how does it show up March 13 )?
Anyone remember the awesome cover for the Hero Quest game from the 80s?
(https://geekandsundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/heroquest-feat.jpg)
I quite like this update.
(https://i.imgur.com/Trdeec8.jpg)
found my new wallpaper ^^
Quote from: Munch on March 17, 2018, 09:12:19 AM
Anyone remember the awesome cover for the Hero Quest game from the 80s?
YES. I love that game! I loved being the DM. The DM has a wonderfully devastating array of traps and spells. I delighted in keeping them in reserve, unleashing them at extremely inopportune times. I never made things impossible for them, but I made a walk in the park into a challenging encounter.
Sadly, my physical copy was misplaced long ago. I would love to play it again.
Quote from: Cavebear on March 17, 2018, 09:11:56 AM
Bob Newhart with his one-sided telephone calls?
(edited to add, I posted this March 17 - how does it show up March 13 )?
The March 13 that's showing up is the date of my post. Yours shows up as being posted today.
And no, I don't believe Newhart is on Archive -- but he never had a radio show to the best of my knowledge. Stan Freberg did (https://archive.org/details/stan_freberg_show), of course.
(https://i.imgur.com/86iiJEO.jpg)
The rats all like "Oy! Get away from my grains ye toe-rag!"
Quote from: trdsf on March 17, 2018, 04:45:40 PM
The March 13 that's showing up is the date of my post. Yours shows up as being posted today.
And no, I don't believe Newhart is on Archive -- but he never had a radio show to the best of my knowledge. Stan Freberg did (https://archive.org/details/stan_freberg_show), of course.
Hmmm, I probably shouldn't have had that last glass of wine...
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/588eca9e647a606f7808f39059257321/tumblr_p5wqbdsu4j1snnpu4o1_1280.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/K9c8cSw.gif)
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 06, 2018, 11:07:09 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/K9c8cSw.gif)
(https://img.memecdn.com/mmm-donuts_o_3232475.jpg)
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It seriously does. What??
I think that is the "law of averages" ... the particles at the periphery are moving faster ... so if you block the center out, then your sense of average speed should go up.
Quote from: Baruch on April 07, 2018, 06:31:10 PM
I think that is the "law of averages" ... the particles at the periphery are moving faster ... so if you block the center out, then your sense of average speed should go up.
Really? That's interesting.
Quote from: Deidre32 on April 07, 2018, 06:43:16 PM
Really? That's interesting.
People don't "think" thru statistics, most of the time. We deal with multiple things simultaneously by intuition, by heuristic. Which is why multi-tasking is dangerous in a medical environment. Until calculators and computers, actually doing statistics was tedious and boring.
Quote from: Deidre32 on April 07, 2018, 06:43:16 PM
Really? That's interesting.
Well, Baruch has some "interesting" ideas about the universe. He is limited due to his religious thoughts, so you have to forgive him a bit.
Quote from: Cavebear on April 13, 2018, 04:34:24 AM
Well, Baruch has some "interesting" ideas about the universe. He is limited due to his religious thoughts, so you have to forgive him a bit.
The example at hand, was science, not theology. Unless you want to make a different explanation for the optical illusion.
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/089f0746560dbbbf85105f857aa7a9ec/tumblr_inline_opmw7wEnkR1qmoaae_500.png)
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/eef30a76c1cb88255a1ea30c9eeb34fc/tumblr_inline_opmw8jP2Ze1qmoaae_500.png)
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/f7b0bb8bc7cb416f061a91b2f9a00508/tumblr_inline_opmw8647vC1qmoaae_500.png)
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/62889638235d41289c44eb2c01236e87/tumblr_inline_opmw8toNnc1qmoaae_500.png)
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/e91473dc5b0debbf8cdca49455a8eead/tumblr_inline_opmw90d0HL1qmoaae_500.png)
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/2a5f67f2bd68e1875472d2413c2759fb/tumblr_inline_opmw98OT0C1qmoaae_500.png)
(http://78.media.tumblr.com/318b901ba4bae4994acb402df07addc1/tumblr_inline_opmw9ieWgx1qmoaae_500.png)
What the hell was a possum doing in that pumpkin!? I'd say it was maybe the wrong place, wrong time...:-)
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 16, 2018, 02:07:14 PM
What the hell was a possum doing in that pumpkin!? I'd say it was maybe the wrong place, wrong time...:-)
I googled ... opossums like to eat pumpkins. So maybe he had gotten inside, by eating thru the bottom (hidden from view). The opossum riding on the back of the alligator could have two origins ... one ... baby possums ride on the back of their mother ... two ... an inversion of the old scorpion vs the frog ...
"A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both."
Seems a parable for American politics.
Shot these a few months ago at Donner Summit, Truckee, California... (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180417/574ea208d1ef20e84b8760d4e91837d2.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180417/7fbec4669508442542a0ff0825a0d01b.jpg)
Quote from: Emancipated on April 17, 2018, 03:25:35 PM
Shot these a few months ago at Donner Summit, Truckee, California... (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180417/574ea208d1ef20e84b8760d4e91837d2.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180417/7fbec4669508442542a0ff0825a0d01b.jpg)
Just think-----Tasmen Donner's gold is still there!
Quote from: Mike Cl on April 17, 2018, 04:10:48 PM
Just think-----Tasmen Donner's gold is still there!
It's probably buried right next to the poor souls who were eaten [emoji14]
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Quote from: Emancipated on April 17, 2018, 04:20:49 PM
It's probably buried right next to the poor souls who were eaten [emoji14]
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No, those sites have been searched and searched again. According to Keesberg, the man brought to trial for eating his fellow travelers, she did like to wander quite a bit--so it could be anywhere on the entire mt. Do ya feel lucky???!
Quote from: Mike Cl on April 17, 2018, 05:29:50 PM
No, those sites have been searched and searched again. According to Keesberg, the man brought to trial for eating his fellow travelers, she did like to wander quite a bit--so it could be anywhere on the entire mt. Do ya feel lucky???!
I live about 40 miles from Donner Summit. Hang on a minute... I'm going to grab a shovel and check my backyard :)
Quote from: Emancipated on April 17, 2018, 06:36:31 PM
I live about 40 miles from Donner Summit. Hang on a minute... I'm going to grab a shovel and check my backyard :)
The last 'rescue' party (it was not a rescue party, but a salvage party) that brought back Keesberg and a bunch of salvage, found some money, but not anywhere near all the gold that Tamsen Donner is supposed to have had. She outlived her husband and was known to wander in the snow; hence, the rest of the gold must remain hidden. So, get your shovel and map of the Donner path over the pass and come back rich!!
How much is that supposed to be worth in today's dollars? I wouldn't mind hiking around there, but only for the beauty of the natural surroundings, not for the possibility of finding someone else's gold.
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 17, 2018, 07:40:57 PM
How much is that supposed to be worth in today's dollars? I wouldn't mind hiking around there, but only for the beauty of the natural surroundings, not for the possibility of finding someone else's gold.
I don't remember. I know the Donner family sold everything they had and bought some wagons and supplies and the rest was turned into gold coins. Some were found on the mt. but not nearly enough to account for all that they were supposed to have had. But then, any amount of 1846 gold coins would be worth, well, a pretty-penny--right???
It can happen to you ...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-buried-gold-coins-on-sale20140527-story.html
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 21, 2017, 01:45:18 PM
There are all kinds of amazing photos and illusions here:
Mind-boggling Illusions (https://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/mind-boggling-illusions)
I love this kind of stuff.
Edit: I posted before I actually looked. I didn't find illusions, at least not like the ones you posted earlier.
Quote from: Mike Cl on April 17, 2018, 08:06:50 PM
I don't remember. I know the Donner family sold everything they had and bought some wagons and supplies and the rest was turned into gold coins. Some were found on the mt. but not nearly enough to account for all that they were supposed to have had. But then, any amount of 1846 gold coins would be worth, well, a pretty-penny--right???
Depends on the rarity of the coins. My sister inherited 23 "double eagle" gold coins that appraised, in 1963, at just above their value as gold bullion.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 18, 2018, 06:18:33 AM
Depends on the rarity of the coins. My sister inherited 23 "double eagle" gold coins that appraised, in 1963, at just above their value as gold bullion.
That seems odd considering I've never seen a double eagle, I would think the collector value would be high, especially with all the gold hoarders and collectors. I have owned Krugerrands and Canadian Maple Leafs which are basically only worth their value as bullion, but they are minting those continually.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 18, 2018, 06:18:33 AM
Depends on the rarity of the coins. My sister inherited 23 "double eagle" gold coins that appraised, in 1963, at just above their value as gold bullion.
They should appraise quite a bit higher than that now, especially if they're the St Gauden's Standing Liberty -- my perennial nominee for the most beautiful coin this country ever minted. Remember that in 1963 the value of gold was fixed in this country, and gold ownership was controlled in the US under the Gold Reserve Act of 1933, which wasn't relaxed until 1964 and formally ended until 1975.
Quote from: SGOS on April 18, 2018, 06:31:19 AM
That seems odd considering I've never seen a double eagle, I would think the collector value would be high, especially with all the gold hoarders and collectors. I have owned Krugerrands and Canadian Maple Leafs which are basically only worth their value as bullion, but they are minting those continually.
And the US still mints quarter-, half-, full and double eagles as bullion (https://catalog.usmint.gov/coins/gold-coins/?_ga=2.25559736.402024341.1524062849-1870455973.1524062849) (as well as in silver and platinum), but they were until 1933 circulating coins to one degree or another (https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?mode=avance&p=1&l=united-states&r=&e=united-states&d=&ca=3&no=&i=&v=&m=gold&a=&t=&dg=&w=&u=&f=&g=&c=&tb=y&tc=y&cat=y).
Quote from: SGOS on April 18, 2018, 06:31:19 AM
That seems odd considering I've never seen a double eagle, I would think the collector value would be high, especially with all the gold hoarders and collectors. I have owned Krugerrands and Canadian Maple Leafs which are basically only worth their value as bullion, but they are minting those continually.
This was more than fifty years ago, when there were still such yet to be found.
Quote from: SGOS on April 18, 2018, 06:31:19 AM
That seems odd considering I've never seen a double eagle, I would think the collector value would be high, especially with all the gold hoarders and collectors. I have owned Krugerrands and Canadian Maple Leafs which are basically only worth their value as bullion, but they are minting those continually.
Many double Eagles and Eagles sell not much more than gold bullion coins, but yes, they have collector value anyway. The reason is that the gold bullion market suppresses the sale price of all gold items (other than jewelry). A good reason for suppression of gold price from the beginning, is the restrain of free market on jewelry (think the DeBeers monopoly).
Part of the reason why so many of these have survived, is they haven't been melted down. Larger gold coins were always held by banks, not used by individuals. There are still US gold coins in bank vaults around the world, as part of their gold reserve. And these coins keep emerging decade after decade. But there are dates and mints that are particularly rare. Some issues always have been rare (the $3 gold piece) that they have long been counterfeited.
British Sovereigns were commonly held by banks, so they are usually plentiful and in good condition. Half Sovereigns were circulated, produced in smaller quantities, and so are rare. Because the gold Sovereign was so popular in the ME (thanks to the bribes put out by Laurence of Arabia) ... counterfeit Sovereigns were produced in Beirut Lebanon, and of good quality, because other good gold coins were unacceptable there, and so were melted down to produce a more acceptable form.
China puts out an incredible quantity of fake US coins, particular Morgan silver dollars. These are of poor quality (not enough silver). Chinese dynasties have fallen do to similar degrading in the past.
Quote from: SGOS on April 17, 2018, 08:45:15 PM
I love this kind of stuff.
Edit: I posted before I actually looked. I didn't find illusions, at least not like the ones you posted earlier.
Yeah, I see that now, it's not what I thought it was. Try this one, it's much better:
https://brightside.me/article/16-bewildering-and-beautiful-colour-illusions-that-will-easily-trick-your-brain-41705/
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 18, 2018, 01:45:42 PM
Yeah, I see that now, it's not what I thought it was. Try this one, it's much better:
https://brightside.me/article/16-bewildering-and-beautiful-colour-illusions-that-will-easily-trick-your-brain-41705/
That's the ticket!
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 18, 2018, 01:45:42 PM
Yeah, I see that now, it's not what I thought it was. Try this one, it's much better:
https://brightside.me/article/16-bewildering-and-beautiful-colour-illusions-that-will-easily-trick-your-brain-41705/
Awesome -- that one had a few I hadn't seen before!
I still can't believe the green and blue stripes are the same in that first one.
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 18, 2018, 04:03:48 PM
I still can't believe the green and blue stripes are the same in that first one.
Yeah, they should at least prove it since they went through the trouble of making it.
I guess it's all about contrast, or context, or something.
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 18, 2018, 04:27:56 PM
I guess it's all about contrast, or context, or something.
This is why literalism, even visual literalism, is a fail. A text has 4 levels of interpretation, how many does a picture have, if a picture is worth a thousand words?
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ecc68d556389aa183ecd4629151fd3ef/tumblr_ogclh925qK1rx7pfso1_500.gif)
Looks like Apocalypse to me ... make the valleys into mountains and the mountains into valleys ...
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/1bac36ba064b9d44764c5590d02594fc/tumblr_p3s8mbL0bZ1vr4739o3_1280.jpg)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/6483281b6361d591ec95cadd3aa1613b/tumblr_p3s8mbL0bZ1vr4739o4_1280.jpg)
Quote from: Munch on May 05, 2018, 09:02:33 AM
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/1bac36ba064b9d44764c5590d02594fc/tumblr_p3s8mbL0bZ1vr4739o3_1280.jpg)
I am obliged to go WOW! over this one. I would actually be willing to pay money to have this.
Quote from: trdsf on May 05, 2018, 08:36:31 PM
I am obliged to go WOW! over this one. I would actually be willing to pay money to have this.
And cats would love to knock if off the shelf ;-)
Quote from: trdsf on May 05, 2018, 08:36:31 PM
I am obliged to go WOW! over this one. I would actually be willing to pay money to have this.
"Coffee Lovers".
Quote from: Munch on May 05, 2018, 09:02:33 AM
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/6483281b6361d591ec95cadd3aa1613b/tumblr_p3s8mbL0bZ1vr4739o4_1280.jpg)
Attenborough voice: We see the chrysalis beginning to crack and it's clear that the Mega Shopper will soon be free of that shell and ready to migrate to the nearest mall, where the species will die out due to the lack of males in that environment.
New infrared filters. Here I took identical 680, 730 and 850nm shots and shifted them into the visible spectrum, basically: 680 to blue, 730 to green and 850 to red. I have a 950nm filter but it's problematic because of the extended exposure times it requires.
Anyway, my back yard, shifted up from the infrared:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/947/41891640562_fe9e5c043c_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/41891640562)
Quote from: trdsf on May 07, 2018, 10:43:54 AM
New infrared filters. Here I took identical 680, 730 and 850nm shots and shifted them into the visible spectrum, basically: 680 to blue, 730 to green and 850 to red. I have a 950nm filter but it's problematic because of the extended exposure times it requires.
Anyway, my back yard, shifted up from the infrared:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/947/41891640562_fe9e5c043c_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/41891640562)
I have NO IDEA what you are describing. But the results are impressive... Thank you.
Quote from: Cavebear on May 09, 2018, 11:51:37 AM
I have NO IDEA what you are describing. But the results are impressive... Thank you.
Them there tree thingies, and that there grass stuff, them's supposed to be green. No iff'n ya push the spectrum up ya get the bug view of the world.
Quote from: Cavebear on May 09, 2018, 11:51:37 AM
I have NO IDEA what you are describing. But the results are impressive... Thank you.
Well, basically, the 680 nanometer filter is on the "bluer" end of the near-infrared and the 850nm filter is on the "redder" end, so all I did was take three identical images with different filters into my image processing software, reduce each to black and white, and then add them together as the red, green and blue color channels to create a false-color image -- keeping each in their same relative position along the spectrum (longest wavelength to red, shortest to blue).
It's more or less exactly the same thing NASA does to retrieve color images -- they launch B&W cameras, with a set of filters to choose from. They select three images using different filters, and assemble them as RGB layers, and the order they get used has as much to do with aesthetics as it does science. PBS has a good explanation of how, for example, Hubble's "Pillars of Creation" was assembled (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/hubb-01.html). Only one of the original images was actually in the visible range (the green of doubly-ionized oxygen) -- the other two (hydrogen and ionized sulfur) were both in the infrared.
Side note: it's theorized that the Pillars are a ghost. Spitzer revealed a supernova nearby to the Eagle Nebula that might have blown the Pillars apart 6,000 years ago (https://www.newscientist.com//article/dn10925-pillars-of-creation-destroyed-by-supernova), so at their distance of 7,000 light years, they'll only remain visible another millennium.
Quote from: trdsf on May 09, 2018, 01:15:54 PM
Well, basically, the 680 nanometer filter is on the "bluer" end of the near-infrared and the 850nm filter is on the "redder" end, so all I did was take three identical images with different filters into my image processing software, reduce each to black and white, and then add them together as the red, green and blue color channels to create a false-color image -- keeping each in their same relative position along the spectrum (longest wavelength to red, shortest to blue).
It's more or less exactly the same thing NASA does to retrieve color images -- they launch B&W cameras, with a set of filters to choose from. They select three images using different filters, and assemble them as RGB layers, and the order they get used has as much to do with aesthetics as it does science. PBS has a good explanation of how, for example, Hubble's "Pillars of Creation" was assembled (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/hubb-01.html). Only one of the original images was actually in the visible range (the green of doubly-ionized oxygen) -- the other two (hydrogen and ionized sulfur) were both in the infrared.
Side note: it's theorized that the Pillars are a ghost. Spitzer revealed a supernova nearby to the Eagle Nebula that might have blown the Pillars apart 6,000 years ago (https://www.newscientist.com//article/dn10925-pillars-of-creation-destroyed-by-supernova), so at their distance of 7,000 light years, they'll only remain visible another millennium.
I appreciate all that. And actually I DO understand the false color pictures, angstroms, light-shift, galactic lensing and how they are adjusted with hubble et al.
Its my digital camera settings I can't figure out, LOL!
Screwing around with colors:
(https://i.imgur.com/taC3z0z.jpg)
Follow the green mossy road, follow the green mossy road, follow follow follow follow, follow the green mossy road.
Quote from: Munch on May 09, 2018, 07:45:03 PM
Follow the green mossy road.
It's a dry dirt road. After I changed the colors, I shopped the road out of the original photo into the altered photo so that one thing would look real.
Quote from: SGOS on May 09, 2018, 08:48:47 PM
It's a dry dirt road. After I changed the colors, I shopped the road out of the original photo into the altered photo so that one thing would look real.
And it works brilliantly (the sky was also left alone -- whether that was by design or not, I don't care, it works)!
Quote from: trdsf on May 10, 2018, 08:38:00 PM
And it works brilliantly (the sky was also left alone -- whether that was by design or not, I don't care, it works)!
Thanks. I didn't fiddle with the sky. What happened was not by design. I've noticed when getting outrageous with colors, I have no way of knowing what's going to work beforehand or what unintended consequence is going to turn up. Some things work and others don't.
Quote from: SGOS on May 10, 2018, 08:56:52 PM
Thanks. I didn't fiddle with the sky. What happened was not by design. I've noticed when getting outrageous with colors, I have no way of knowing what's going to work beforehand or what unintended consequence is going to turn up. Some things work and others don't.
That's the whole point of playing around in the graphics manipulation program of your choice (I'm a GIMP man, m'self): to see what's in the image that wasn't immediately obvious to the lens and sensor.
(https://i.redditmedia.com/8t55MgqNCVHGaYiB3H0ns5ryGvue08YMk3-aCI2BqRM.jpg?s=ea2b3c098934ee1d875cb9249f51b350)
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.†- Hermann Hesse
Quote from: trdsf on May 10, 2018, 08:58:40 PM
That's the whole point of playing around in the graphics manipulation program of your choice (I'm a GIMP man, m'self): to see what's in the image that wasn't immediately obvious to the lens and sensor.
I use a 20 year old copy of Paint Shop Pro. I bought it to "paint" the structures I create for Flight Sim scenery. I also use it for resizing and cropping photos and doing other normal "dark room" tasks, like adding saturation to something that looks washed out. I never thought about going wild with color until I noticed someone here doing it a couple of years back.
Quote from: SGOS on May 10, 2018, 09:10:15 PM
I use a 20 year old copy of Paint Shop Pro. I bought it to "paint" the structures I create for Flight Sim scenery. I also use it for resizing and cropping photos and doing other normal "dark room" tasks, like adding saturation to something that looks washed out. I never thought about going wild with color until I noticed someone here doing it a couple of years back.
Whatever tool works -- I used to use PSP, probably about 20 years ago, come to think of it.
I'm more a believer in "do what works" rather than "do it this way". :D
straight up nudity not allowed. but sometimes a tasteful nude needs to be appreciated
[spoiler](https://i.imgur.com/Up1BGEi.jpg)[/spoiler]
just really liked this one.
Quote from: Munch on May 20, 2018, 07:55:10 AM
straight up nudity not allowed. but sometimes a tasteful nude needs to be appreciated
[spoiler](https://i.imgur.com/Up1BGEi.jpg)[/spoiler]
just really liked this one.
The other Cirque De Soliel
Quote from: Munch on May 20, 2018, 07:55:10 AM
straight up nudity not allowed. but sometimes a tasteful nude needs to be appreciated
just really liked this one.
I am reasonably sure I would not have been able to sufficiently concentrate on the camera settings to take that picture. :wink:
(https://media.giphy.com/media/8FAadMEnpe1YCojLXn/giphy.gif)
Well, its awesome to me
The male version of Stormy Daniels.
Quote from: Munch on May 24, 2018, 07:55:09 AM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/8FAadMEnpe1YCojLXn/giphy.gif)
Well, its awesome to me
Yeah "whoppee". I could tell the diff from the start.
Quote from: Cavebear on May 29, 2018, 07:52:47 AM
Yeah "whoppee". I could tell the diff from the start.
the.. difference to what, I didn't make a comparison.
Quote from: Munch on May 29, 2018, 08:30:34 AM
the.. difference to what, I didn't make a comparison.
Indeed you did not. But I suspect the choice of image was intended to surprise some people. Especially given the sequence of the images. If you hadn't wished to surprise some people, you would have shown the guy FIRST, LOL!
Quote from: Cavebear on May 29, 2018, 08:36:31 AM
Indeed you did not. But I suspect the choice of image was intended to surprise some people. Especially given the sequence of the images. If you hadn't wished to surprise some people, you would have shown the guy FIRST, LOL!
I thought it was to point out the sexual dimorphism in allowable imagery. Male nipples allowed, female nipples not allowed, and "nipple" without modifier is assumed to be female.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on May 29, 2018, 08:45:20 AM
I thought it was to point out the sexual dimorphism in allowable imagery. Male nipples allowed, female nipples not allowed, and "nipple" without modifier is assumed to be female.
actually it was more just about taking liberties to the fact men can flash their nips about, but it could also have that added to it for context.
Quote from: Munch on May 29, 2018, 08:54:18 AM
actually it was more just about taking liberties to the fact men can flash their nips about, but it could also have that added to it for context.
We just said the same thing, so yeah.
Quote from: Munch on May 29, 2018, 08:54:18 AM
actually it was more just about taking liberties to the fact men can flash their nips about, but it could also have that added to it for context.
We have a local thing called Comfest (https://www.comfest.com) that has a gender neutral shirtless policy. Can't say it does anything for me that I can't get on any other sunny day...
Quote from: trdsf on May 29, 2018, 11:09:05 AM
We have a local thing called Comfest (https://www.comfest.com) that has a gender neutral shirtless policy. Can't say it does anything for me that I can't get on any other sunny day...
okay, just saying that name out load implies something else.
But that's only 'cause you've got a dirty mind! ;-D
Actually I think it is more interesting that males have them at all. Apparently, they develop before gender is established. And here I thought that was the FIRST thing that happened when sperm meets egg. Ya live and learn.
Quote from: Cavebear on May 29, 2018, 05:13:09 PM
Actually I think it is more interesting that males have them at all. Apparently, they develop before gender is established. And here I thought that was the FIRST thing that happened when sperm meets egg. Ya live and learn.
The chromosomes are activated in sequence.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on May 29, 2018, 05:17:20 PM
The chromosomes are activated in sequence.
Well, I checked. We are all female at fertilization. The hormones change us later. Mother Nature is not really very efficient.
Hey, more proof of no deity, right? A deity wouldn't be that dumb.
Quote from: Deidre32 on April 07, 2018, 06:04:24 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/r6aMgzz.gif)
It seriously does. What??
I don't know if it is the law of averages, but items coming straight at you do not have the same sense of speed at something moving sideways from you. Take a piece of paper and cover half of it.....you'll see.
It's like flying through the universe at many times light speed!
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 29, 2018, 06:17:17 PM
It's like flying through the universe at many times light speed!
If you do it right you can do the Kessel run in 14 parsecs!
Quote from: Cavebear on May 29, 2018, 06:00:59 PM
Well, I checked. We are all female at fertilization. The hormones change us later. Mother Nature is not really very efficient.
Hey, more proof of no deity, right? A deity wouldn't be that dumb.
No god, just goddess ;-)
Originally, men thought women were defective males. But actually men are defective females. And women alway knew that ;-)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on May 29, 2018, 06:18:37 PM
If you do it right you can do the Kessel run in 14 parsecs!
I never understood how a parsec got to be a unit of time rather than distance. But that's just Hollywood, I guess.
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 30, 2018, 01:51:08 PM
I never understood how a parsec got to be a unit of time rather than distance. But that's just Hollywood, I guess.
Ignorance, of course.
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 30, 2018, 01:51:08 PM
I never understood how a parsec got to be a unit of time rather than distance. But that's just Hollywood, I guess.
Length of wormhole, natch. 14 parsecs is a short distance, galaxy wise. About 46 light-years.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De0f12tUwAASQkl.jpg)
Quote from: aitm on May 29, 2018, 06:07:27 PM
I don't know if it is the law of averages, but items coming straight at you do not have the same sense of speed at something moving sideways from you. Take a piece of paper and cover half of it.....you'll see.
Amazing! Apparently, I can speed up or slow down a video online with just my hand on the screen! Who knew?
LOL!
Quote from: Baruch on May 30, 2018, 07:43:24 PM
Length of wormhole, natch. 14 parsecs is a short distance, galaxy wise. About 46 light-years.
Or is it length of snatch...wormhole.....get it ? LOL.....lard I apologize...yes I am a male pig.
Quote from: aitm on June 07, 2018, 09:56:48 PM
Or is it length of snatch...wormhole.....get it ? LOL.....lard I apologize...yes I am a male pig.
I am surprised you said that, never mind thought it. Would you care to elaborate? This could get interesting.
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/f4435cdcdf25aed1919827c4730eb223/tumblr_orx2s22oUy1v84zm3o1_1280.jpg)
Run, it's the Dandelion Borg!
Quote from: Baruch on June 11, 2018, 06:22:55 PM
Run, it's the Dandelion Borg!
you will be assimilated.. and smelling sweet.
Quote from: Cavebear on June 08, 2018, 05:24:45 AM
I am surprised you said that, never mind thought it. Would you care to elaborate? This could get interesting.
No...I think this is one of those comments you just leave and walk away from hoping nobody really noticed....
100 photographs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfewBuxsuBk
I had to stop 1/2 way through. They were too amazing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGOlGq1ftdw
Cat World Domination Day was yesterday. I made this...
(https://i.imgur.com/QLWmphQ.jpg)
Using Photo Elements 6! LOL!
I thought cat world domination day was every day? :-)
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 25, 2018, 01:43:58 PM
I thought cat world domination day was every day? :-)
Actually, it is the birthday of the cat who's person thought it up. Sparkle (deceased) but her succesor continues it.
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/bc39eba64a1e5a5fb83273e0f184bbac/tumblr_pa9k6blZ8U1sjxucwo1_400.gif)
I've nothing to add really. This is awesome to me.
Quote from: Munch on June 30, 2018, 09:16:34 AM
I've nothing to add really. This is awesome to me.
Is that you or just a fantasy?
Quote from: Cavebear on July 09, 2018, 04:31:42 AM
Is that you or just a fantasy?
If it were me I'd win any argument here by default
Quote from: Munch on July 09, 2018, 05:33:47 AM
If it were me I'd win any argument here by default
No.
Quote from: Cavebear on July 09, 2018, 09:10:59 AM
No.
If I were that hot, nobody could say no to me.
Except lesbians. They wouldn't find much in it
Quote from: Munch on July 09, 2018, 11:49:44 AM
If I were that hot, nobody could say no to me.
Except lesbians. They wouldn't find much in it
And feminist, trans, non-binary, gender neutral. Hey, how about Heinz Gender (the 57 variety)?
Quote from: Munch on July 09, 2018, 11:49:44 AM
If I were that hot, nobody could say no to me.
Except lesbians. They wouldn't find much in it
"A gay guy in old Kartooom
Brought a lesbian into his room.
They argued all night
Over who had the right
To do what and with which and to whom."
Quote from: Munch on July 09, 2018, 11:49:44 AM
If I were that hot, nobody could say no to me.
Except lesbians. They wouldn't find much in it
No.
Quote from: Cavebear on July 09, 2018, 03:14:29 PM
LOL!
I was declared the straightest man in Miami in 1978.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 09, 2018, 03:17:21 PM
I was declared the straightest man in Miami in 1978.
How did you prove that? Just curious.
Some curve to the left, some curve to the right, some curve up - but I guess Miami likes them straight, with no curvature at all.
Quote from: Cavebear on July 09, 2018, 03:24:19 PM
How did you prove that? Just curious.
I didn't try to prove anything. I didn't know there was a vote.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 09, 2018, 03:17:21 PM
I was declared the straightest man in Miami in 1978.
You were Don Johnson before Don Johnson? Or just into vice? ;-)
Quote from: Baruch on July 09, 2018, 08:15:20 PM
You were Don Johnson before Don Johnson? Or just into vice? ;-)
I'm fine with vice. The vote was held at the Pink Flamingo, a lady friend talked me into go there. I noticed I was getting more than the usual number of passes (for Miami, anyway) and stares. The results were posted the next night, but I never went back and got the details for any number of folks who had to share it with me.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 10, 2018, 06:30:20 AM
I'm fine with vice. The vote was held at the Pink Flamingo, a lady friend talked me into go there. I noticed I was getting more than the usual number of passes (for Miami, anyway) and stares. The results were posted the next night, but I never went back and got the details for any number of folks who had to share it with me.
You make waves, sailor!
Quote from: Baruch on July 10, 2018, 06:52:50 AM
You make waves, sailor!
220 lbs., size 28 pants. Yeah.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 10, 2018, 07:08:59 AM
220 lbs., size 28 pants. Yeah.
You must have eaten your spinach ... yehehehe
Quote from: Cavebear on July 13, 2018, 04:19:16 AM
Anorexic huh?
Yeah, something like that. Lean meat, raw veggies, and plenty of time on my hands.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 13, 2018, 07:10:22 AM
Yeah, something like that. Lean meat, raw veggies, and plenty of time on my hands.
Why did you need more than one watch? ;-)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/93d9df74569c84ca98614afc45ae48ba/tumblr_pc2pabwlzX1r8u8uko1_1280.jpg)
(http://pa1.narvii.com/6146/e2802c74d27293311d8d07fc6c8cd25c881ebd64_00.gif)
No! Think of your diabetes. Naughty.
Quote from: pr126 on July 20, 2018, 08:46:46 AM
No! Think of your diabetes. Naughty.
I have to walk past a shop in town every time I'm there, called patisserie valerie.
This is what I see every time I walk past it.
(https://brightcove04pmdo-a.akamaihd.net/4221396001/4221396001_5581123816001_5581123954001-vs.jpg?pubId=4221396001&videoId=5581123954001)
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2016/05/18/Patisserie-Valerie_3511781b_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpJliwavx4coWFCaEkEsb3kvxIt-lGGWCWqwLa_RXJU8.jpg?imwidth=450)
(https://gunwharf-quays.com/sites/gunwharf_quays/files/styles/whats_on_gallery_large/public/images/shops/gallery/patval1.jpg?itok=ZIuWW5oH)
I go into a diabetic coma just looking at it all..
Wear blinkers while passing the shop. Cross the road.
Deliver us from temptation.
I do bake cakes at home without sugar.
Have a look at Xylitol.
Btw, i have done 3 years of apprenticeship in a patisseri shop from 1958 -1961
nice. my mums gone over to something called stevia as a replacement for sugar in things. I still use demerara sugar in coffee sometimes, but I've not been baking anything sweet or sugary for last several months.
maybe might be a chance to try it out with baking.
Xylitol Natural Sweetener (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Xylitol-66629-Natural-Sweetener-1Kg/dp/B003VJQNWG/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1532095880&sr=8-3&keywords=xylitol+sugar+1kg)
Xylitol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) is used exactly like sugar, looks like it, and used weight for weight as if it were sugar.
Mind, it is not cheap, but I do not bake often and make it as a treat from time to time.
My Hba1c is 47 - 48 in my yearly tests for the last 4 years.
Quote from: pr126 on July 20, 2018, 10:20:33 AM
Xylitol Natural Sweetener (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Xylitol-66629-Natural-Sweetener-1Kg/dp/B003VJQNWG/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1532095880&sr=8-3&keywords=xylitol+sugar+1kg)
Xylitol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) is used exactly like sugar, looks like it, and used weight for weight as if it were sugar.
Mind, it is not cheap, but I do not bake often and make it as a treat from time to time.
My Hba1c is 47 - 48 in my yearly tests for the last 4 years.
thats not to bad, a 1k bag for that much. I might get one and try baking with it/have it on cereal
I do still use a teaspoon on honey on my cereal and in my tea but this might work just as well
I have never used Xylitol other than baking.
I use Tesco's granulated sweetener in porridge (1 spoonful), done in the microwave (4 minutes)
Also 1 tablet of Tesco's sweetener in tea. That's it.
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/shiva-statue-4765219.jpg)
I love the illusion of mountain peaks behind him.
Here is the real thing ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95aGhTfDXec
Quote from: Munch on July 20, 2018, 08:59:33 AM
I have to walk past a shop in town every time I'm there, called patisserie valerie.
This is what I see every time I walk past it.
(https://brightcove04pmdo-a.akamaihd.net/4221396001/4221396001_5581123816001_5581123954001-vs.jpg?pubId=4221396001&videoId=5581123954001)
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/business/2016/05/18/Patisserie-Valerie_3511781b_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpJliwavx4coWFCaEkEsb3kvxIt-lGGWCWqwLa_RXJU8.jpg?imwidth=450)
(https://gunwharf-quays.com/sites/gunwharf_quays/files/styles/whats_on_gallery_large/public/images/shops/gallery/patval1.jpg?itok=ZIuWW5oH)
I go into a diabetic coma just looking at it all..
*>
sigh<* I did
not need to add a trip to Mozart's (local Austrian pastry bakery) to the things I wanted to do this weekend... oh well.
Quote from: pr126 on July 20, 2018, 10:54:50 AM
I have never used Xylitol other than baking.
I use Tesco's granulated sweetener in porridge (1 spoonful), done in the microwave (4 minutes)
Also 1 tablet of Tesco's sweetener in tea. That's it.
I might look into it as an alternative.
However, I have my cynicism to these kind of things and for good reason. For about 12 years I was using canderel as my sugar substitute, on my cereal and in my tea, wasn't much of a baker back then so it only went into those things.
Thats when a lot of fear started up in health magazines and online at the dangers of what aspartame, an artificial non-saccharide sweetener, which was contained in canderel. When that broke a lot of people came off it, due to health fears of it causing cancer or causing dramatic weight gain.
I use Splenda tablets in my coffee when not using demerera sugar, but even that has some health risks if used to much in a single day, which i don't.
The cynical part of me think when reading how a sugar substitute is fine for diabetics, how its gonna reveal years down the line how long consumption of it has caused health risks or side effects.
I use sucralfate, never noticed any difference. Boss Lady used Stevia for a while, then moved on.
I generally drink my coffee and tea with neither cream/milk nor sweetener. At risk of sounding like the coffee snob that I kind of am, additives get in the way of the bean's subtleties.
When I do sweeten, it's sugar (white or demerera) or honey or agave. When I can find it, I like to keep fructose on hand because it's the 'correct' sugar for fruit flavors, so I prefer it for lemon tea, blueberry tea, that sort of thing.
Every single one of the sugar substitutes (including stevia, though it's the least offensive of them) tastes like soap to me, and a couple of them are headache triggers. Fortunately I haven't much of a sweet tooth, so my sugar intake isn't really that much to begin with.
Ever tried crushed blueberries in your coffee?
Now y'all can have something you've been yearning for your whole lives - mayonnaise flavored ice cream (https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/19/creators-strongbow-dark-fruits-ice-cream-released-new-flavour-mayonnaise-7737036/)!
so just tried coffee with some stevia.
probably the worst sweet tasting thing I've ever tasted.
think i'll buy a smaller pack of Xylitol before I commit to it PR just incase it has the same result.
(https://indiaheritagesites.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/khajuraho-temple.jpg)
(http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-903059-galleryV9-jyoc-903059.jpg)
The Pantheon in Rome was more impressive before the Christians and barbarians stripped it of its decorations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn2XdZfx93w
I love good reconstructions of ancient monuments ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aDhzQMIGCY ... mentions the Duomo ...
Best program on architecture ... ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCZeN6d1cA
Short compilation of photo firsts ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvlo_l9I4Pk
I imagine a few on here wouldn't want to watch this guy. however this video, he made some very good points I doubt many could disagree with on architecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapUEKYLE1o
Corporate dominated society ... buildings are all business. Monarchy dominated society ... buildings are all about power. Religions dominated society ... buildings are all about invoking the presence of the sacred ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTwuKCqFwJY
Quote from: Munch on July 21, 2018, 12:34:53 PM
I imagine a few on here wouldn't want to watch this guy. however this video, he made some very good points I doubt many could disagree with on architecture.
He makes a few good points, but he goes way overboard on his critique, and when he declared that Brutalist architecture is inherently totalitarian, that's when I tuned out. Yeah, you have some big soulless slabs of concrete, but you also get things like Habitat '67 and The Barbican.
There's a
lot of new construction going on here, and yeah, a lot of it is extremely poorly thought out: high-price brand new apartments on campus where college students can't afford them and regular residents won't live because the middle of campus is a fucking zoo most of the time, that's the main one right now. A little further south in a part of town called the Short North, even more expensive apartments are going up trading on being in the (currently) trendy arts district and with no thought for what the neighborhood might look like 20 years from now demographically, or what the neighborhood currently looks like architecturally. The new residential blocks downtown are a mixed bag; if I could afford it, there's a condo in the Leveque Tower already on my lottery list, because almighty Bob that is one gorgeous Art Deco skyscraper.
Most of the rest of the new structures are not matched to the existing architecture, nor to each other, and they're making High Street a claustrophobic experience from the south of campus clear down to the south of downtown. But that has far less to do with the actual architectural styles in use than it does plain old poor planning. And they're going to price themselves out of existence because they have this bizarre notion that when you have a need for housing, only expensive housing is needed. They might be able to get away with that downtown and in the Short North and that's iffy at best, but it's not going to fly on campus.
Finally got around to emptying two months worth of images from my camera. Here's a couple.
Apropos of talk about architecture, there's this shot of the decorative masonry work on the Atlas Building downtown:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/849/42859349564_2aa2042838_b.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/42859349564)
I have some SERIOUS bass envy. Yeah, that's a seven-string bass. I have large hands, but even I might be confounded by that fretboard.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1826/43577134681_bc8f6ee88c_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/43577134681)
The Hubbard on -- conveniently enough -- Hubbard Ave and High Street. I just liked the way the reflections came together on this, and the color really was reminiscent of two-strip Technicolor without any processing.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/845/43577136811_90519b6ae2_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/43577136811)
(https://i.redditmedia.com/mt6M0AzUtxGPGBwJ0I2R7NN_MzaTOIpcc7Mm5hirO8A.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=640&s=1a50c2adfb1571bcd018eae6210c6c6f)
Here we have the Diablo starfish. Note the characteristic pentagram in the center. Can be used to un-consecrate sacred bodies of water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqL6kkMTjRw
(https://orig00.deviantart.net/4704/f/2014/122/b/e/magni___regular_version_by_vladmrk-d7gssi2.jpg)
I kinda like Thor as a red head, seems more suited as a viking god.
Edit: turns out its suppose to be Thor's son, Magni. that explains the red hair
A chip of the old Molnir?
Quote from: Baruch on July 30, 2018, 07:00:46 PM
A chip of the old Molnir?
yar, though I think its like parallel future, timey whimey stuff why he exists.
Quote from: Munch on July 30, 2018, 07:04:53 PM
yar, though I think its like parallel future, timey whimey stuff why he exists.
Is his friend a Hulk who turns red?
Quote from: Baruch on July 30, 2018, 08:15:48 PM
Is his friend a Hulk who turns red?
There is a red hulk, but he's the original hulks enemy, and Bruce Banners girlfriends father
(https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RedHulk_6418.gif)
Quote from: pr126 on July 20, 2018, 09:13:33 AM
Wear blinkers while passing the shop. Cross the road.
Deliver us from temptation.
I do bake cakes at home without sugar.
Have a look at Xylitol.
Btw, i have done 3 years of apprenticeship in a patisseri shop from 1958 -1961
Is eating fresh fruit good for you guys? I seldom eat sweets myself. Offer me a ripe peach or a good apple fritter and I'll take the peach every time.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 07:06:21 AM
Is eating fresh fruit good for you guys? I seldom eat sweets myself. Offer me a ripe peach or a good apple fritter and I'll take the peach every time.
oh yeah, I'm told to eat plenty of fruit, obvious not to excess but I wouldn't do anyway, since, well that much fruit in one sitting would have messy consequences
But an apple or pear with lunch, banana on my cereal, cherrys or grapes for picking at, its all good stuff.
though is has to be fresh, stuff like canned fruits is a no go since they either have more sugar in them then is healthy or even just has them sit in fruit sugars. Its to do with the fact processed stuff absorbs the sugars into the body more quickly, where as just regular fruit and its sugars take longer to break down and absorb when its just the fruit itself.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 04, 2018, 07:06:21 AM
Is eating fresh fruit good for you guys? I seldom eat sweets myself. Offer me a ripe peach or a good apple fritter and I'll take the peach every time.
Not in my case. Dietician said no fresh fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice. Ever wonder why I am angry? I love fruits and nuts, that is why I post here.
Quote from: Baruch on August 04, 2018, 01:10:42 PM
Not in my case. Dietician said no fresh fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice. Ever wonder why I am angry? I love fruits and nuts, that is why I post here.
hmm, can't say I ever been told that, they encourage me to eat fruit. But then I'm type 1 diabetic, maybe type 2 has a harder time breaking down the sugars in it?
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/food-and-diabetes/i-have-type-1-diabetes
QuoteI've just been diagnosed with Type 1 â€" what can I eat?
In one word... anything. It may come as a surprise, but all kinds of food are fine for people with Type 1 diabetes to eat. In the past, people were sent away after their diagnosis with a very restrictive diet plan. This was because the availability of insulin was limited and the type of insulin treatment was very restrictive. As insulin treatments have been developed to be much more flexible, the days of “do's and don'ts†are long gone. The way to go nowadays is to try and fit the diabetes and insulin around the same healthy, balanced diet that is recommended for everyone, with lots of fruit and veg and some food from all the food groups.
obviously when they say all kinds their talking about eating with some common sense like even if I do eat sugars its not a heavy consumption. I inject myself 5 times a day, including a large dose of slow acting insulin (insulatard) at night.
I have struggled sometimes with my sugar levels in the past, when I was in my late teens I ended up in hospital several times, and recently i've had some high spikes in blood sugars, explaining why I'm trying to cut out a lot of stuff i use to eat and only very occasionally having white sugar, demerara or honey.
Quote from: Munch on August 04, 2018, 02:19:34 PM
hmm, can't say I ever been told that, they encourage me to eat fruit. But then I'm type 1 diabetic, maybe type 2 has a harder time breaking down the sugars in it?
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/food-and-diabetes/i-have-type-1-diabetes
obviously when they say all kinds their talking about eating with some common sense like even if I do eat sugars its not a heavy consumption. I inject myself 5 times a day, including a large dose of slow acting insulin (insulatard) at night.
I have struggled sometimes with my sugar levels in the past, when I was in my late teens I ended up in hospital several times, and recently i've had some high spikes in blood sugars, explaining why I'm trying to cut out a lot of stuff i use to eat and only very occasionally having white sugar, demerara or honey.
Yes, the treatment is different. And as I posted before some suffer from sugar drops, others from sugar spikes. I get spikes.
Quote from: Baruch on August 04, 2018, 05:07:35 PM
Yes, the treatment is different. And as I posted before some suffer from sugar drops, others from sugar spikes. I get spikes.
really when it comes down to it, there almost like two very different conditions entirely, but both are dangerous is mismanaged poorly in their own way.
type 2, you need to be completely vigilant in diet and what you consume, you don't have to do injections but you do need meds and being so strict with yourself (I had family friend who had type 2 and she had to do the same)
type 1, I get more flexibility, but problems can go south very quickly with poor self control, also the risk of giving myself to much or to little insulin at any time and the attacks that come from that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SyX2NUEkKk
Uranium glass sherbet cup (one of a set of six I just got)), repurposed to be a mad science martini and shot under UV light:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1772/43870317992_8b007b2e8b_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/43870317992/%5B/url)
You'd have to be really stoned to watch this whole Mandelbrot zoom (it's 2 1/2 hours!), but it's so amazing I thought y'all might enjoy it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pwtSBTnPU
So ... Mandelbrot is a math god. Sounds pagan to me.
Quote from: Baruch on August 10, 2018, 05:38:14 PM
So ... Mandelbrot is a math god. Sounds pagan to me.
Well, he was venerated in song.
https://youtu.be/nVIYiBdfGwE
I notice that after watching the Mandelbrot zoom for a while, when I pause the video it seems to be moving out instead of in. Must be a brain thing.
Here's a Julia set zoom that's not as long, and less repetitive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dfLVxKbEQ
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 11, 2018, 03:05:35 PM
I notice that after watching the Mandelbrot zoom for a while, when I pause the video it seems to be moving out instead of in. Must be a brain thing.
Watch all of it, then send me all your money ... bwahah.
Julia is more pretty than Mandelbrot, of course.
Oh great, now all the text is shifting into the distance. Gonna need a portal gun to fix this.
You'll have to steal one from Rick, I guess. But which Rick is the real Rick?
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YeDUe3WU-as/maxresdefault.jpg)
Yeah, that's totally awesome!
(https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/unusual-strange-clouds/unusual-strange-clouds-2-1.jpg)
Looks like a storm precursor, at dawn or dusk. More likely at dusk (storms get violent right about then).
makes me think of the Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrhBZwmEK8I
I'm so happy I grew up on musicals :)
Quote from: Munch on August 11, 2018, 09:16:50 PM
makes me think of the Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrhBZwmEK8I
I'm so happy I grew up on musicals :)
Tenderloin, West Side Story, Camelot, JC Superstar, etc?
Quote from: Cavebear on August 12, 2018, 10:03:41 AM
Tenderloin, West Side Story, Camelot, JC Superstar, etc?
West side story, Mary Poppins, wizard of oz, the sound of music, oliver!, little shop of horrors, meet me in st Louis, grease, and most of the Disney classics
(https://imgur.com/SldoTDZ)
How about a manhattan, some assembly required? I was thinking about the pousse café and other layered drinks and decided to see if I could do one. The separate layers were clearer in person, but I think you can still see the three layers (maraschino, sweet vermouth, whiskey). I'm going to have to try it with a perfect manhattan recipe so I can get a layer of dry vermouth in between the whiskey and sweet vermouth, for better contrast.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1871/43549720994_c2301dbb03_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/43549720994/)
Quote from: trdsf on August 26, 2018, 01:31:44 AM
How about a manhattan, some assembly required? I was thinking about the pousse café and other layered drinks and decided to see if I could do one. The separate layers were clearer in person, but I think you can still see the three layers (maraschino, sweet vermouth, whiskey). I'm going to have to try it with a perfect manhattan recipe so I can get a layer of dry vermouth in between the whiskey and sweet vermouth, for better contrast.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1871/43549720994_c2301dbb03_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/43549720994/)
I had a n apartment roommate who took bartending school once. He had to layer numerous liquers for the finals. He passed. I saw a picture, but I don't have it.
(https://i.imgur.com/xgXqrCN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/SobyNX2.jpg)
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(https://images.wallpaperscraft.com/image/dragon_girl_forest_art_96504_1920x1080.jpg)
Quote from: Munch on August 27, 2018, 10:52:02 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/xgXqrCN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/SobyNX2.jpg)
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Outstanding. And thank you.
Damn, I just noticed the reflection in the 1st pic. Even better!
Quote from: Cavebear on August 27, 2018, 03:54:57 PM
Damn, I just noticed the reflection in the 1st pic. Even better!
Looks like Mom finally got that supermodel figure.
(https://i.imgur.com/4LtmpoU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4jGBUt8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/BWtFJtv.jpg)
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That first picture is a very big par 3 golf hole, and that golf ball is going to squish that guy!
(https://i.imgur.com/ZS9Sw9X.jpg)
(https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Calvin-Hobbes-relaxing.png)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/845ef7333ca038669665c9be706112a4/tumblr_pdsa0icAPa1x3wtddo1_400.gif)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ee28eb7af72ee77ed4eef34086bf98bd/tumblr_pdsa0icAPa1x3wtddo2_400.gif)
Nine-armed starfish sliding out to sea: https://i.imgur.com/F3Dw5bJ.gifv
Quote from: Hydra009 on September 03, 2018, 10:44:50 PM
Nine-armed starfish sliding out to sea: https://i.imgur.com/F3Dw5bJ.gifv
"And now it's time for something completely different - a starfish with nine legs!"
"He ran away!"
German royals playing dress up ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItQbvh6yndM
Back in the day when a snazzy uniform would get you noticed!
View of Dresden from the Rathaus right after the firebombing of the city.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Fotothek_df_ps_0000010_Blick_vom_Rathausturm.jpg)
The Frauenkirche after the war...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-60015-0002%2C_Dresden%2C_Denkmal_Martin_Luther%2C_Frauenkirche%2C_Ruine.jpg)
...in 1965...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Fotothek_df_ps_0000348_Ruine_der_Frauenkirche_gegen_Rathausturm.jpg)
...and today.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Frauenkirche_in_Dresden%2C_3.jpg/666px-Frauenkirche_in_Dresden%2C_3.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Frauenkirche_interior_2008_001-Frauenkirche_interior_2008_009.jpg/780px-Frauenkirche_interior_2008_001-Frauenkirche_interior_2008_009.jpg)
Looks gay.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 02, 2018, 06:21:44 AM
(https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Calvin-Hobbes-relaxing.png)
Which one is real there, Calvin or Hobbes? And BTW, I always loved that their names seemed reversed according to their philosophies.
On Dresden church ... if it was Baroque, it needed fixing.
Quote from: Cavebear on September 15, 2018, 06:10:21 AM
Which one is real there, Calvin or Hobbes? And BTW, I always loved that their names seemed reversed according to their philosophies.
That's Hobbes when they're alone. When somebody else is there Hobbes is a stuffed animal. Probably Nature's most perfect camouflage.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 15, 2018, 07:11:19 AM
That's Hobbes when they're alone. When somebody else is there Hobbes is a stuffed animal. Probably Nature's most perfect camouflage.
I know that. I love Calvin & Hobbes and bet I know more about than you do (have at). Calvin isn't a teen in the books.
Quote from: Cavebear on September 15, 2018, 07:15:02 AM
I know that. I love Calvin & Hobbes and bet I know more about than you do (have at). Calvin isn't a teen in the books.
Not a contest. I read C&H for fun, not competition. And yes, he's not a teen in the strips. /obvious
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 15, 2018, 07:17:16 AM
Not a contest. I read C&H for fun, not competition. And yes, he's not a teen in the strips. /obvious
I meant only that the picture (great as it was) is not real to the strip. Hobbes would have killed him by that age, LOL!
Quote from: Cavebear on September 15, 2018, 07:42:27 AM
I meant only that the picture (great as it was) is not real to the strip. Hobbes would have killed him by that age, LOL!
He kept trying to kill him the strips, just unintentionally. (This because Hobbes represented Calvin's still small voice and it wasn't functioning correctly.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 15, 2018, 07:46:22 AM
He kept trying to kill him the strips, just unintentionally. (This because Hobbes represented Calvin's still small voice and it wasn't functioning correctly.
Oh do I ever remember all the times Hobbes pounced Calvin at the front door, LOL! And Susie. And the babysitter. And the snow goons...
Quote from: Cavebear on September 15, 2018, 07:50:30 AM
Oh do I ever remember all the times Hobbes pounced Calvin at the front door, LOL! And Susie. And the babysitter. And the snow goons...
Dad explaining how they determine the max weight allowed on bridges. (Calvin owes a lot to his dad.)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 15, 2018, 08:07:11 AM
Dad explaining how they determine the max weight allowed on bridges. (Calvin owes a lot to his dad.)
Yeah, "they just drive bigger trucks on them until the bridge collapses then build a new one".
I can't believe I forgot the Dadisms! Those were some of my favorites. "Old pictures were black and white because the world was black and white when he was young". I wish I could remember more. I could look them up in my books, but that would be cheating.
When I asked MY dad about stuff, I got straight answers "Why do balloons float? When interior density is less than exterior density - Boyle's Law". No wonder I read comic books as a kid. But it worked out well. Anyway, thanks for the Calvin&Hobbes stuff. I spent almost 3 hours today reading about them and it sure brought back great memories.
ONE of these Winters, we will get enough packable snow for me to make a snow-snake eating me. And completely unconnected, I still want to carve a 6' wood praying mantis to mount on the chimney. With a motion-detector to make the head look at people... LOL!
Feel free to offer more example of C&H... I'll be reading.
Quote from: Cavebear on September 15, 2018, 07:50:30 AM
Oh do I ever remember all the times Hobbes pounced Calvin at the front door, LOL! And Susie. And the babysitter. And the snow goons...
Did someone say snow goons?
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2768/4376310997_17159a61c5_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/4376310997/)
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Next good snowfall, we want to form the yard snow into tentacles coming out of the basement windows. I very much have the friends I deserve. :D
Quote from: trdsf on September 15, 2018, 10:07:07 AM
Did someone say snow goons?
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2768/4376310997_17159a61c5_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/4376310997/)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4028/4376316071_5e54a7542f_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trdsf/4376316071)
Next good snowfall, we want to form the yard snow into tentacles coming out of the basement windows. I very much have the friends I deserve. :D
Quick, hose them down! In fact hose the whole yard solid icy!
Quote from: Cavebear on September 15, 2018, 10:06:55 AM
Yeah, "they just drive bigger trucks on them until the bridge collapses then build a new one".
I can't believe I forgot the Dadisms! Those were some of my favorites. "Old pictures were black and white because the world was black and white when he was young". I wish I could remember more. I could look them up in my books, but that would be cheating.
"But they're color pictures of black and white scenes!"
Speaking of Calvin and Hobbes... there was a webcomic called 'Pants are Overrated' that did four C&H tribute strips in 2011 imagining Calvin grown up (sort of), married to Susie Derkins, and with a daughter. And completely nailed it, thematically and stylistically.
Hobbes & Bacon 1 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-05-10-Hobbes-And-Bacon.png)
Hobbes & Bacon 2 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-05-12-Hobbes-And-Bacon_002.png)
Hobbes & Bacon 3 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-10-11-Hobbes-and-Bacon-03.png)
Hobbes & Bacon 4 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-10-13-Hobbes-and-Bacon-04.png)
Quote from: trdsf on September 15, 2018, 10:45:47 AM
Speaking of Calvin and Hobbes... there was a webcomic called 'Pants are Overrated' that did four C&H tribute strips in 2011 imagining Calvin grown up (sort of), married to Susie Derkins, and with a daughter. And completely nailed it, thematically and stylistically.
Hobbes & Bacon 1 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-05-10-Hobbes-And-Bacon.png)
Hobbes & Bacon 2 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-05-12-Hobbes-And-Bacon_002.png)
Hobbes & Bacon 3 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-10-11-Hobbes-and-Bacon-03.png)
Hobbes & Bacon 4 (http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/comics/2011-10-13-Hobbes-and-Bacon-04.png)
WOW! Thanks... I don't actually even know what to say.
Just, thanks... And after several minutes, I added the comma.
Ah Spaceman spiff.
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CPz1c9Ym--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/edortruxctouetyfbcos.jpg)
Quote from: pr126 on September 16, 2018, 12:56:06 AM
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That's... actually really badass looking.
Granted, Thanos wouldn't even flinch against those guys, but the photography of it is amazing.
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/f4272aca2a5035a2fda1afeab4a3dfb8/tumblr_pa58lcNCWj1sfevb3o1_1280.jpg)
No deep meaning here. I just thought this was an awesome picture.. because the guy is extremely hot.
Here's a really beautiful fractal zoom, one of the best I've seen yet - and I've seen quite a few. Nice music, as well, I just wish it was longer, and went even deeper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU4RkDN-1Vs
The presentation of Mandelbrot has gotten more and more interesting. Though I thought the original point was "in set" or "out of set" ... so black & white. I think the color schemes come about because of "speed of convergence/divergence" of the calculation over the 2 degrees of freedom.
Graphics show up just how complicated pseudo-random is ... anything you can calculate, even a fractal, is pseudo-random. We can't even picture the truly random.
Even the set of prime numbers isn't truly random:
https://sciencetrends.com/prime-numbers-and-crystal-like-materials-share-a-hidden-organization/
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 16, 2018, 07:01:43 PM
Even the set of prime numbers isn't truly random:
https://sciencetrends.com/prime-numbers-and-crystal-like-materials-share-a-hidden-organization/
If they weren't pseudo-random, then we wouldn't even be able to calculate if a number was prime or not ;-)
There's almost a pattern â€" and there's certainly some structure â€" in the primes when laid out in hexagonal and square spirals:
(https://i2.wp.com/farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6196627523_b5796e6ae6.jpg)(https://i1.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Ulam_1.png)
The square is known as an Ulam spiral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral); patterns show up in number spirals in most regular tilings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral#Variants). They remain unexplained but (IMO) interesting.
Compare in article, the Ulam spiral vs a more random dot distribution ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
You can spot the more pseudo-random pattern at once.
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 16, 2018, 07:01:43 PM
Even the set of prime numbers isn't truly random:
https://sciencetrends.com/prime-numbers-and-crystal-like-materials-share-a-hidden-organization/
I sure hope that is just some coincidence. Because I thought prime numbers got unpredictable at some point. Not that many aren't found but there isn't (supposedly) a way to calculate them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_for_primes
Randomness can be measured, so it isn't just in the eye of the beholder. This Ulam spiral is a clever way to bring out the non-randomness in a particular number series.
I think that Cavebear is thinking ... as we get to larger numbers, the average space between primes gets bigger. As it must be.
Test. Counting 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...
(https://i.imgur.com/6H8PHRS.png)
YAYYYY!!! I did it...
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 23, 2018, 12:06:35 PM
"Today you are a man!"
So easy, even a Cave Bear can do it (see commercial).
Quote from: Baruch on September 23, 2018, 12:21:20 PM
So easy, even a Cave Bear can do it (see commercial).
We of the "Dreaded Cave" are sometimes embarrassed that the ways of the digital ancestors embarrass us in the ways of the digital descendants. "Betwixt and Between" are not just the names of candy bars, you know...
(https://i.imgur.com/lcQMHAo.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on September 23, 2018, 01:34:14 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/lcQMHAo.jpg)
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what I imagine when seeing a lonely road in the woods.
Gollum is related to Humpty Dumpty? Because he had a great Fall?
Quote from: Cavebear on September 23, 2018, 11:58:02 AM
Test. Counting 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...
(https://i.imgur.com/6H8PHRS.png)
You know, the standout statistic here is that all other questions show a significant decline from the oldest generation to the newest,
except belief in Hell. That's essentially linear. Weird.
Guess that shows the power of playing on fears rather than hopes, that's my tentative explanation.
Quote from: trdsf on September 23, 2018, 03:15:20 PM
You know, the standout statistic here is that all other questions show a significant decline from the oldest generation to the newest, except belief in Hell. That's essentially linear. Weird.
Guess that shows the power of playing on fears rather than hopes, that's my tentative explanation.
I noticed that. How "the hell" can people believe in a deity less but "a hell" as much. Illogical as it seems, I suspect most people are dumber than average.
Quote from: Munch on September 23, 2018, 03:33:13 PM
Well done man, proud of you!
Thank you. I truly do appreciate the congrats... Everyone has something that usually just baffles them.
Here's an awesome fractal that was made with an app called Fractview, that I recently got on my phone. I didn't create this image, but I hope to make similar great fractals when I learn how to use the app to it's full extent.
(http://nocache-nocookies.digitalgott.com/gallery/20/10327_07_12_17_4_10_23.jpeg)
I really love this app, it's completely free with no ads at all!
Just feeling a little better about humans. (https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/23594994_1504496362.8781.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0TKiHMy.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on September 28, 2018, 09:22:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/0TKiHMy.jpg)
That’s Ciri from the Witcher series, right?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Looks kind of like Stormy Daniels.
A. Yes, it's Ciri Hijiri.
B. Can you not ruin Ciri for me like that, Unbeliever? :P
(https://pre00.deviantart.net/da58/th/pre/f/2017/048/f/7/filler_art_7_ciri_by_oda_lee-dazduoe.jpg)
Quote from: Shiranu on October 03, 2018, 10:12:08 PM
B. Can you not ruin Ciri for me like that, Unbeliever? :P
Uh...oops?
I have a serious thing for Mandalorians.
(https://i.imgur.com/wxcqiuU.jpg)
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Quote from: Munch on October 03, 2018, 10:42:04 PM
(https://pre00.deviantart.net/da58/th/pre/f/2017/048/f/7/filler_art_7_ciri_by_oda_lee-dazduoe.jpg)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/918038733007964213/BDF9F33BD4317BF8ABC4BFE2375464C8C61EDE09/)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/12ba8e862c46b3ebec14c1f794a12891/tumblr_inline_pgejfmhg3r1qhb3wu_540.jpg)
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(https://66.media.tumblr.com/953895cf5ca459ea8eba745d50196c62/tumblr_pgu95o1U4l1rmsiy2o2_1280.jpg)
I love fall.
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daily reminder of perplexing notions Christians can't answer.
Old story, better king in Hell than slave in Heaven.
Of course, that is a false dichotomy in many ways.
Reality, with or without a G-d, is amoral ... hence monstrous.
As far as "lake of fire" goes, it has been baked in, literally, since 1945. Enjoy your wiener roast as best you can.
See the Glorious Winners of the 2018 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest (http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/10/see-the-glorious-winners-of-the-2018-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-contest/)
QuoteThe top prize winner, American photographer Brad Goldpaint, received £10,000 for his stunning photo, “Transport the Soul.†Winners of the subcategories collected £1,500 for their efforts.
Not much prize money, considering the price of professional cameras and accessories today.
(https://i.imgur.com/vcxak6m.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/XEWQwic.jpg)
I really miss Carl Sagan. We could use his wisdom right now.
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 03, 2018, 01:45:55 PM
I really miss Carl Sagan. We could use his wisdom right now.
His books and videos are available.
Yeah, it would be nice if they become known and loved by the great unwashed masses.
(https://i.imgur.com/Si5ELbK.jpg)
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 03, 2018, 01:50:41 PM
Yeah, it would be nice if they become known and loved by the great unwashed masses.
The original Cosmos was pretty popular. Did you expect everyone to become an atheist (as he was) just because of that? The breadth and scope of Cosmos was impressive. But pop science has been done that way since the Victorian era (yes, they had public lectures in science for the masses back then). Probably my favorite episode was the Samurai Crabs.
Bronowski was impressive too. But I got to see Sagan in person, at a conference on Mars exploration in Boulder CO. And I was a charter member of the Planetary Society. That was several lives ago. Naturalism isn't wrong, just incomplete without humanism.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/719264d169734fd5c2a15c8e8f430522/tumblr_phrm7r7hvP1sk1fu9_540.jpg)
36JJ
Oh it is a bra size.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on November 10, 2018, 12:43:40 PM
Oh it is a bra size.
Yeah, for Chris. Mark is going to need something a wee bit larger.
Quote from: Baruch on November 03, 2018, 07:40:29 PM
The original Cosmos was pretty popular.
Sagan is the same man to hundreds of millions of people around the world as he is to a certain generation of Americans. Do you know anyone of the sort who is not a pop, rock singer or an athelete?
QuoteDid you expect everyone to become an atheist (as he was) just because of that?
Why would anyone expect anything of the sort? Cosmos is not propaganda material. It's about learning. Teaching people to ask questions to begin with. Considering your age, you should know that if you had traveled in time to ask that very question to people, they would have looked at you as if you have grown a second head.
Making people atheists with documentaries, lol. By popular science. In early 80s. What are you making? An omlette? :) There wasn't an understanding of the sort then. It's an anachronistic look. It's just a documentary series. Besides, as far as I know Sagan never identified himself as an atheist, because that would be claiming something absolute. Which he wouldn't do. So wouldn't influence anyone that way either.
QuoteNaturalism isn't wrong, just incomplete without humanism.
Well, Sagan managed that pretty good. His successor is doing a good job about that too. Which series did you watch?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on November 10, 2018, 12:51:44 PM
Yeah, for Chris. Mark is going to need something a wee bit larger.
I dunno why I didn't get it. I think I couldn't recognise the JJ part. :shocked:
Drunkensoe - Bronowski is the WWII generation, Sagan is post WW II generation. I prefer the assumptions of the WW II generation. My generation was full of shit, and devolution declines from there. WW II gave clarity, since then it is a muddle of competing inanity.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on November 10, 2018, 01:13:02 PM
they would have looked at you as if you have grown a second head.
Yeah, even though two heads are better than one, most people would view a two-headed person as a freak...
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 10, 2018, 01:26:00 PM
Yeah, even though two heads are better than one, most people would view a two-headed person as a freak...
Is that you, Zaphod?
Quote from: Baruch on November 10, 2018, 01:20:56 PM
Drunkensoe - Bronowski is the WWII generation, Sagan is post WW II generation. I prefer the assumptions of the WW II generation. My generation was full of shit, and devolution declines from there. WW II gave clarity, since then it is a muddle of competing inanity.
Oh come on, we are talking about the way you viewed Sagan, his influence in that post.
I tried to give some clarity. :)
How atheism was regarded, how it spreads changed so much, it gets distorted. That is the problem.
Quote from: Baruch on November 10, 2018, 01:30:11 PM
Is that you, Zaphod?
That's "Mister Beeblebrox" to you, sir!
LOL
Actually pix okay? "View image" suggested.
(https://i.imgur.com/tb29BUC.jpg)
St. Louis Zoo pinniped pool.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/174c8c420c76c1024c137ee7b7fe7943/tumblr_p5zbcqLluZ1x9a5r1o3_1280.jpg)
Horses are great aren't they?
Is that Mr. Godiva?
;-D
oh theres a man on that horse!
I didn't notice.
(https://i.imgur.com/0HDCUNV.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/M2wliOu.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on November 14, 2018, 10:02:06 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/M2wliOu.jpg)
cutest baby I've seen in quite some time!
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/9dc87de18258cf4a440bb08996f2a00d/tumblr_osxyb7gZKZ1s1vn29o3_1280.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/8f221c5970ea06a06849fdef351bf79e/tumblr_osxyb7gZKZ1s1vn29o4_1280.jpg)
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an outdoor art exhibit.
Kinda creepy.
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 16, 2018, 01:13:20 PM
Kinda creepy.
Typical European masterwork, internalizing their sense of unworthiness.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/9fc41101346c99627fe58465be62798f/tumblr_pi5i986Z921wohnyh_500.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/44e58f9291936077f9cd4d2c39afba2a/tumblr_pi5i98qM6r1wohnyh_500.jpg)
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(https://66.media.tumblr.com/4ddd1203a80a242eaced028b953572cc/tumblr_pi5i99I2QG1wohnyh_500.jpg)
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(https://66.media.tumblr.com/c08f2cd7abd5028fe50f9c47ae80e0aa/tumblr_pi5i9bTMxc1wohnyh_500.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/003b757365a6484fe0886e7d6da4a373/tumblr_pi5i9b0N1u1wohnyh_500.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/bde98ea1c61ad9e234508e4c81e30ada/tumblr_pi5i9c9WnY1wohnyh_500.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/1ecfb156ff2210c98c6fc6a4befa1e8d/tumblr_pi5i9cNg6m1wohnyh_540.jpg)
Quote from: Baruch on November 16, 2018, 06:35:23 PM
Typical European masterwork, internalizing their sense of unworthiness.
Pfffft. It's beautiful.
Quote from: Munch on November 17, 2018, 03:11:16 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/fe9341af8fe46379d830c1a7fb466fe9/tumblr_pi5i99hO8R1wohnyh_500.jpg)
Depending on where it is, that one is actually quite useful.
Quote from: Shiranu on November 17, 2018, 05:55:43 PM
Depending on where it is, that one is actually quite useful.
unless each lock has a different key and you lose one of them.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/03c1ae7f57f57ad54d2e2bd56232808d/tumblr_phjjpvEDE91sudty8o2_640.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/db1c68d60ff39b321f79c55bdbf14f87/tumblr_phjjpvEDE91sudty8o6_640.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/6d6dd932170d99ca1240aaed7913efcb/tumblr_phjjpvEDE91sudty8o1_640.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/6afe5708a6c403f1b76bb4b90333c4e1/tumblr_pc8ydsor211rn6uz2o1_640.jpg)
I don't trust that chair.
(https://i.imgur.com/oN4PBLl.jpg)
I think we're gonna need a bigger boat...
LOL
Quote from: Unbeliever on November 24, 2018, 02:27:21 PM
I think we're gonna need a bigger boat...
LOL
That's just two of a larger collection. Very weird.
Who knew hummingbirds snore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5huCuhD_Q
Here's a guy who's in really incredible shape!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtLfYXNzh6Y
Bounced too much at the start.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 24, 2018, 05:10:50 AM
Bounced too much at the start.
In America, you do push ups. In Russia Earth does push ups. ;-)
Not that I am a Chuck Norris fan but I could easily see a vid of him doing that with the tag: The earth does pushups against Chuck Norris.
Quote from: aitm on December 24, 2018, 07:43:51 PM
Not that I am a Chuck Norris fan but I could easily see a vid of him doing that with the tag: The earth does pushups against Chuck Norris.
"I'm no bad ass, but I'm fucking Chuck Norris's wife, and he knows it."
Some of these are pretty awesome! I like the wheel chair with legs, at 2:40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFGDoy1v4Lw
Just more awesomeness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl6s7AvY_TA
(https://i.imgur.com/ovbYGRr.jpg)
Some amazing stuff min here. I had no idea a dog could understand that fish need water to survive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieJ-GSdyx8
I might as well post this on, too, since it's just as incredible as the other, though there are a few repeats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0eXSm1bx54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P47i09QC-Q
(https://i.imgur.com/tnPiOJA.jpg)
meow :3
Probably, you know this guy. Just wanted to post it. Watching his series makes me happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmYCUljsrDg
Dam that was satisfying to watch!
Sunrise on the canal.
Taken with the Oneplus 6T
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7850/33344748058_9c8792a7d0_c.jpg)
watch those swans, they learned what queen Victoria did with their necks and now want revenge.
My new wallpaper:
(https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*sRyVWXGA1XbluGh9PnGtEA.jpeg)
That's kind of weird, I like weird! Very surreal.
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 11, 2019, 01:33:57 PM
That's kind of weird, I like weird! Very surreal.
The reality of trichinosis is horrifying.
Then why do you ham it up so much?
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 11, 2019, 07:46:10 PM
Then why do you ham it up so much?
I studied under Sir Francis Bacon.
Is he one of the Canadian Bacons?
Guy did a cosplay of Geralt for a 2017/2018 calendar.
http://maulcosplay.storenvy.com/products/18598228-the-witcher-cosplay-calendar-2018-medallion-edition
(https://i.imgur.com/i5iZFKE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jsFHpVN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qi78cXQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PunYJnv.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hUoUucC.jpg)
I did a friend a favor and was a "slave trader" for a book cover photo shoot a few years back. The ... slave ... wore a leather breechcloth. She was hot.
There's a wealth of amazing images here:
QuoteCelebrating 44 years of images captured by the light microscope
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/
When soy sauce dries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDSalwmICnU
These are really amazing!
https://twistedsifter.com/2011/08/electron-microscope-photography/
Shows how flies lead multifaceted lives ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8D1tBxaE80
(https://i.imgur.com/eWouoA7.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/je25u3g6emw21.jpg)
When you get to the edge of the earth, it starts to render weird.
French spiders be like:
(https://i.redd.it/u8qy0pdhdb131.jpg)
You can tell it's a French spider - what else would build a replica of the Eifel Tower?
(https://i.imgur.com/DzuLC1Z.png)
That's the biggest fluff ball I've seen. Socks must be quite staticy
Yeah, it almost looks like a tribble.
It was, in point of fact, a most terrible and enormous tiger-ish. I know, I asked.
(https://i.imgur.com/UBKrfH4.png)
Leroy Neiman?
Quote from: Hydra009 on May 31, 2019, 09:03:47 PM
Dimitri Sirenko
Very similar then. Nice work. The bear exists, but defines itself, leaving the viewer to accept or fail.
(https://i.redd.it/kud2zdg3af331.jpg)
Abandoned village in China
(https://puu.sh/CQXV2.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on June 10, 2019, 06:18:53 AM
(https://i.redd.it/kud2zdg3af331.jpg)
Abandoned village in China
Blair Witch Village, Amur, China.
(https://pics.me.me/baby-fox-with-butterfly-58058618.png)
(edit - pic was deleted, closest backup I could find,)
My new wallpapers:
(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/006/125/850/large/thomas-du-crest-riftborn-quest-chap4a-part-2-u-turn.jpg?1496223800)
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/006/125/849/large/thomas-du-crest-riftborn-quest-chap4a.jpg?1496223795)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTcw012d2ag
Okay, when the dog was trying to save the fish by pushing water towards it, I got teary eyed.
This world would suck without dogs.
I find it amazing that a dog would even know that a fish needs water to survive.
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 20, 2019, 07:17:42 PM
I find it amazing that a dog would even know that a fish needs water to survive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pStxAFJ70rM
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 20, 2019, 07:17:42 PM
I find it amazing that a dog would even know that a fish needs water to survive.
They don't.
Well, I wouldn't've thought so, but what was the dog doing, and why?
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 20, 2019, 08:04:37 PM
Well, I wouldn't've thought so, but what was the dog doing, and why?
People anthropomorphize even mechanical devices, not just plants and animals. It is part of our ability as children to play with plush toys.
The dog could be caninemorphizing.
Supposedly human thought patterns are a lot like cat thought patterns. That is why cats and people get along so well. The cat thinks you are a big dumb cat. I suspect a dog thinks similarly. Porpoises who rescue swimmers, supposedly do that because it is what a mother does to help the porpoise baby learn to breath.
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 20, 2019, 08:04:37 PM
Well, I wouldn't've thought so, but what was the dog doing, and why?
It's doing "dog things". Attribution of human intent and/or motives to animals is a bit of a crazyland.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on June 21, 2019, 02:44:00 AM
It's doing "dog things". Attribution of human intent and/or motives to animals is a bit of a crazyland.
Crazyland is normal for monkeys.
https://i.imgur.com/ivbzpLd.gifv
Quote from: Hydra009 on July 25, 2019, 12:17:51 PM
https://i.imgur.com/ivbzpLd.gifv
Damn, son, that's right purdy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prZxQVeJiOo
Quote from: Hydra009 on May 31, 2019, 08:13:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/UBKrfH4.png)
I should steal that... I'm "cavebear" right?
(https://www.infurnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Golden_Compass_Bear.jpg)
(https://external-preview.redd.it/jARWaiLJARQCeyJovrfzf8dlUhLz2JFUxnry6GzypzY.jpg?auto=webp&s=2ae0bf7b6fc9d9dddd2c70dde92dd544f90e77b8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJcXMPJ9XN8
First time I've seen one of these. Just beautiful!
(https://i.redd.it/cv9qwirxlri31.jpg)
When the aguamiel hits you just right.
Aztec Eagle warrior? Cuts your heart out.
Quote from: Baruch on August 26, 2019, 05:40:52 PM
Aztec Eagle warrior? Cuts your heart out.
They wouldn't--the priests get to do that.
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 26, 2019, 08:16:52 PM
They wouldn't--the priests get to do that.
No, they just took prisoners alive so they could be cruelly murdered.
This practice was what got their neighbors to team up with the conquistadors.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 26, 2019, 09:34:27 PM
No, they just took prisoners alive so they could be cruelly murdered.
This practice was what got their neighbors to team up with the conquistadors.
right--my only point was that the warriors did not cut out the hearts--priests did.
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 26, 2019, 10:10:51 PM
right--my only point was that the warriors did not cut out the hearts--priests did.
Typical theists... ;)
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 26, 2019, 08:16:52 PM
They wouldn't--the priests get to do that.
Nahuatl grammar nazi.
Quote from: Baruch on August 27, 2019, 02:24:53 AM
Nahuatl grammar nazi.
What part of MikeCL pointing out that priests did the rituals and not the warriors upset you to use "nazi"?
Quote from: Cavebear on August 27, 2019, 03:53:46 AM
What part of MikeCL pointing out that priests did the rituals and not the warriors upset you to use "nazi"?
Nazi = grammar nazi ... not German Nazi. A common dig on people who say ... your point is good but you did something trivial wrong.
Quote from: Cavebear on August 28, 2019, 02:50:56 AM
Yeah. The tl at the end is a giveaway.
Friend of mine is passionate about exploring cenotes. He retired recently and moved to Yucatan to do it full time. The Mexican government is working with him. He speaks Aztec.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 29, 2019, 06:27:01 AM
Friend of mine is passionate about exploring cenotes. He retired recently and moved to Yucatan to do it full time. The Mexican government is working with him. He speaks Aztec.
Multiple Mayan languages. He needs to speak Yucatec.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 29, 2019, 06:27:01 AM
Friend of mine is passionate about exploring cenotes. He retired recently and moved to Yucatan to do it full time. The Mexican government is working with him. He speaks Aztec.
What kinds of things are found in cenotes? I've come across them in fiction, but I know nothing of the real ones.
[edit]
Oh, I see! Pretty much what I didn't expect!
https://www.oyster.com/articles/the-most-amazing-cenotes-in-mexico/
I can see why someone would be bonkers for the things, what beauty! Exploring such things would be awesome. But really, does he expect to find archeological evidence?
[/edit]
The hunt is more important than the finds. He's having fun.
There is a hidden cenote beneath the main temple at Chichen Itza. They aren't all open topped.
It's not just a cenote, it's the main doorway to the underworld, where the Corn Brothers live.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 29, 2019, 07:47:36 PM
It's not just a cenote, it's the main doorway to the underworld, where the Corn Brothers live.
Have you watched the animated Popul Vuh?
(https://mybakers.in/image/cache/catalog/product-images/exclusive-lotsof-chocolates-mood-cake-700x962.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 30, 2019, 11:05:30 AM
(https://mybakers.in/image/cache/catalog/product-images/exclusive-lotsof-chocolates-mood-cake-700x962.jpg)
My kind of creative--love stuff like that; don't need it, but love it.
Quote from: Baruch on August 29, 2019, 10:22:24 AM
Multiple Mayan languages. He needs to speak Yucatec.
Shouldn't that be "Yucatectl"?
As that is a joke, I will apologize with an original poem.
"There once was a brave warrior Aztectl
Who wielded a very fine Axalatl.
He told all the peoplatl
He should be their ruleratl
Cuz he killed off the last pterodatlytl!"
Well, I triedtl...
Quote from: Cavebear on August 31, 2019, 11:58:34 AM
Shouldn't that be "Yucatectl"?
As that is a joke, I will apologize with an original poem.
"There once was a brave warrior Aztectl
Who wielded a very fine Axalatl.
He told all the peoplatl
He should be their ruleratl
Cuz he killed off the last pterodatlytl!"
to the sacrifice stone with you ;-)
Well, I triedtl...
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 30, 2019, 11:05:30 AM
(https://mybakers.in/image/cache/catalog/product-images/exclusive-lotsof-chocolates-mood-cake-700x962.jpg)
"I call it: The Heart Jumper"
This is pretty awesome, a very talented lady!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdX0DYK2Jk
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 01, 2019, 07:35:26 PM
This is pretty awesome, a very talented lady!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdX0DYK2Jk
I found an equally talented young man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u66R5cOjR2U
also, This popped up on my amazon listings randomly.. I had to have it.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nn0YQLuhL.jpg)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0768ZG5BB/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item_image
Quote from: Unbeliever on August 21, 2019, 11:19:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJcXMPJ9XN8
First time I've seen one of these. Just beautiful!
Offff. WOW. It's magnficient.
(https://i.imgur.com/8FzTwAN.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/URectbo.jpg)
Those ARE awesome. All I can provide is
(http://ibiblio.org/pha/Gawdzilla/IMG_6116.jpeg)
and only with gawdzillasama's help.
I really did appreciate his help... Thanks...
No problemo, mi amigo.
Sit vis vobiscum ...
Quote from: Cavebear on September 11, 2019, 10:14:12 AM
Sit vis vobiscum ...
Don't give the Evil Empire the Rebel's password!
(https://i.imgur.com/lVEbhUz.jpg)
Tastes like chicken ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esgj4XZwCJ4
No, not the Megalodon!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEVs5oVUYAEALio?format=jpg&name=large)
if that is Bikini Bottom, why isn't he in a Speedo? Where is Mr Crabs?
he might be a water nymph
Quote from: Munch on September 13, 2019, 09:43:21 PM
he might be a water nymph
And you are ... a nympho-maniac? ;-)
Quote from: Munch on September 13, 2019, 09:43:21 PM
he might be a water nymph
DID YOU JUST ASSUME GENDER????
;)
QuoteA baby elephant was stuck in a concrete gutter built to bring the water pumped into the water point. Lions were around looking at the scene waiting for the right moment to attack.
The mother elephant was calling her baby and was stressing all the elephants around. She was chased by other elephant. A new herd of elephant arrived, lead by a old matriarch. The old female saw the baby elephant stocked and did everything she could to save it.
During half an hour she tried to get the baby out. Every elephant at the moment was stressed. The old female gave up several times, but she came back every time. She finally managed to get the baby out using her trunk and tusks. Once the baby saved, she left the water point with her herd and the mother came back to retrieve her baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9NeeuQpZ74
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 14, 2019, 05:45:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9NeeuQpZ74
Pretty good for dumb animals. Especially since elephants have no emotions, ability to figure anything out, no sense of self.
Elephants are some of my favorite people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVceZEfAsTc
the little guy came to save the man in the river. guy wasn't even in danger.
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 14, 2019, 07:45:10 PM
Yeah. Mime too.
Okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87Iux8E0u8
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 14, 2019, 07:46:25 PM
Okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87Iux8E0u8
I've tried to mime--I can spell it, just can't do it very well. And elephants don't like it when I try.
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 14, 2019, 07:45:10 PM
Yeah. Mine too.
Matriarchy. Who wears the pants in your house? ;-)
Quote from: Baruch on September 14, 2019, 10:21:19 PM
Matriarchy. Who wears the pants in your house? ;-)
The elephants do.
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 14, 2019, 10:27:51 PM
The elephants do.
Don't talk about your Mistress that way! You may end up stuffed in her trunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ajXJ3nj1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbs5eSIiFkY
Don't like that at all. Got acrophobia. Tallest hotel in Atlanta GA, they have an external elevator that made my body collapse in fear, in 1986. Temporarily unconscious. It is only 723 feet high.
You mean the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel?
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 21, 2019, 01:28:14 PM
You mean the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel?
Didn’t mind the rotating restaurant at the top. Would need to get up to 30 rpm to induce motion sickness Å,-)
I once rode a freight train from New Orleans to Atalanta just for the fun of it. Why is everything there named Peachtree?
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 21, 2019, 02:03:04 PM
I once rode a freight train from New Orleans to Atalanta just for the fun of it. Why is everything there named Peachtree?
'Cause peaches don't grow in Yankeeland, ya'll.
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 21, 2019, 02:03:04 PM
I once rode a freight train from New Orleans to Atalanta just for the fun of it. Why is everything there named Peachtree?
Ty Cobb was nicknamed 'The Georgia Peach'--Georgia, of the debtor's prison tradition, apparently grows some mean peaches--and on peach trees.
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 21, 2019, 02:03:04 PM
I once rode a freight train from New Orleans to Atalanta just for the fun of it. Why is everything there named Peachtree?
My dad did that in 1944, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Crazy kid!
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 21, 2019, 02:03:04 PM
I once rode a freight train from New Orleans to Atalanta just for the fun of it. Why is everything there named Peachtree?
My grandpa rode the rails from Seattle to at least Portland--maybe further. He lived the life of a hobo when he jumped ship in Seattle (from Sweden) prior to WWI--but he probably had company in those days.
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 21, 2019, 07:11:31 PM
My grandpa rode the rails from Seattle to at least Portland--maybe further. He lived the life of a hobo when he jumped ship in Seattle (from Sweden) prior to WWI--but he probably had company in those days.
My dad had company too. Mexican migrant workers. Learned to eat a sandwich made from just sliced bread and chili peppers (the small ones in the jar with the vinegar marinade (it is the spicy marinade that you use to spice your food, not the chilis themselves)).
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 21, 2019, 07:11:31 PM
My grandpa rode the rails from Seattle to at least Portland--maybe further. He lived the life of a hobo when he jumped ship in Seattle (from Sweden) prior to WWI--but he probably had company in those days.
And he probably didn't do it on a lark, either. He likely had no choice back in those days.
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 21, 2019, 07:20:15 PM
And he probably didn't do it on a lark, either. He likely had no choice back in those days.
No, not a lark. Apparently he jumped his Swedish fishing boat in Seattle and then rode the rails for a number of years picking up odd jobs along the way. He was simply surviving as best he could.
(https://preview.redd.it/ukhjiowr75o31.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8c5fff3d1897ea5007ffc5f0d12354ac505b9a80)
Four Jokers in the deck
and never a Batman around when he's needed!
I'd rather they replace jared leto with the animated mark hamill version, if going for definitive jokers.
(https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/batman-the-animated-series-joker.jpg)
but of course no one takes animation seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OqQokqg1vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRej1VKDgcE
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/fc9e7f6becce8a421ba9502f8248b9ed/tumblr_pml029gxGv1va87k2o6_500.jpg)
The Lock Ness Monster! Run for your lives!
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 23, 2019, 08:49:14 PM
The Lock Ness Monster! Run for your lives!
Nah, the Eliot Ness monster is worse! "Come and get me, coppers!".
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 23, 2019, 08:49:14 PM
The Lock Ness Monster! Run for your lives!
The Loch Ness monster is a kelpie.
(https://i.imgur.com/e7HdEY1.jpg)
We all float down here...
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 30, 2019, 01:27:20 PM
We all float down here...
Only a clown would live in a sewer.
Quote from: Baruch on September 30, 2019, 02:29:11 PM
Only a clown would live in a sewer.
Technically he is and isn't a clown
Quote from: Munch on October 04, 2019, 04:18:38 AM
Technically he is and isn't a clown
Please, no politics.
Oh, you meants someone else. Sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhMd2j6RMm0
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGEE26FUcAAi4GI?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGEE3BlVAAA4rCI?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGEE3BlVUAIkXMd?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGEE3FaU8AIvYTb?format=jpg&name=large)
artist (can't find their name) did their perception of what mental disorders would look like as monsters.
couple more.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGmJe5ZUEAAIPTO?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGmJe5ZUcAAmOsd?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGmJe5YU4AEEoEE?format=jpg&name=large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGmJe5XU0AEbE-x?format=jpg&name=large)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdmp9SXmwY
Blue water in a berg indicated fresh water. It's well known about sailors, the sail navies used to look for blue bergs to replenish their drinking water.
I only got to 1:28 before I called bullshit and stopped the video.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDjeXftWsAI9hO7.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDjfUVbXUAIMbqm.jpg)
Mexican Alligator Lizard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abronia_graminea)
Argh, their so precious! ^^
Aww. They are so cute, they look unreal.
Colors are dazzling! They look like jade.
(https://i.redd.it/6nj5hreohft31.png)
Banzai!
Is that Mt. Fuji?
They should call volcanoes "the mother of Earth," since that's where all the land comes from.
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 20, 2019, 05:32:01 PM
Is that Mt. Fuji?
They should call volcanoes "the mother of Earth," since that's where all the land comes from.
Siberian traps.
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 20, 2019, 05:32:01 PM
Is that Mt. Fuji?
They should call volcanoes "the mother of Earth," since that's where all the land comes from.
I believe so, yes. At least, that's what's listed on the photo travelogue with that image.
BTW, most land didn't come from volcanoes. The lighter rock floated on the heavier rock. That the Reader's Digest version.
(https://i.redd.it/s6n6l1v0aip21.png)
Really, any screenshot from this game.
Are the kami on his side or is he screwed?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 20, 2019, 09:01:18 PM
BTW, most land didn't come from volcanoes. The lighter rock floated on the heavier rock. That the Reader's Digest version.
Back in those days the whole Earth was one big volcano! LOL
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 21, 2019, 01:15:14 PM
Back in those days the whole Earth was one big volcano! LOL
Thea was the last time for that, IIRC. She was a bit of a blow.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 21, 2019, 06:47:23 AM
Are the kami on his side or is he screwed?
A little bit of both, from as far as I've gotten in the game.
(https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e8/bc/d140fb9088ab859bbe412d1987e02c5f6a3b/sword/_w850.png)
From five years ago, this was the first sword crafted by Masamune discovered in over 150 years, and was forged around 700 years ago.
Unfortunately following WW2, the Americans stripped the Japanese nobility of their armouries, so many swords that were passed down for hundreds of years have been lost. When you consider the quality of steel Masamune was working with, it's even more impressive how the quality of his swords was higher than that of Chinese and European blacksmiths.
(And this isn't a, "OmG, KaTaNa BeSt SwOrD eVeR!" post. It's just an amazingly well made sword from a master craftsman.)
It's a shame Europeans tended to be buried with their swords, because some of the artifacts we have found... if the swords were still in good condition, they would be absolutely stunning as well.
When I was stationed in Japan I was briefed on how to buy a sword. Took me six months but I got the one I wanted at a good price. (The store had a "no Americans" sign in the window.)
Quote from: Shiranu on October 22, 2019, 07:02:44 PM
(https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e8/bc/d140fb9088ab859bbe412d1987e02c5f6a3b/sword/_w850.png)
From five years ago, this was the first sword crafted by Masamune discovered in over 150 years, and was forged around 700 years ago.
Unfortunately following WW2, the Americans stripped the Japanese nobility of their armouries, so many swords that were passed down for hundreds of years have been lost. When you consider the quality of steel Masamune was working with, it's even more impressive how the quality of his swords was higher than that of Chinese and European blacksmiths.
(And this isn't a, "OmG, KaTaNa BeSt SwOrD eVeR!" post. It's just an amazingly well made sword from a master craftsman.)
1024 layers from 10 foldings of the steel billet.
It's a shame Europeans tended to be buried with their swords, because some of the artifacts we have found... if the swords were still in good condition, they would be absolutely stunning as well.
In my former sword collection, one old tanto and one WW II katana. The Japanese developed better swords to deal with the two attempted Mongol invasions of Kyushu. The best European swords were Damascus blades (probably developed from Indian steel technology). So gotten by trade or Crusade plunder. It takes a lot of patience to fold good steel. And a lot of prisoners to test the edge ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLzMZn-xvg
Watched that live while I was in Japan. Very cool to watch.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 23, 2019, 06:24:03 AM
Watched that live while I was in Japan. Very cool to watch.
10 folds to make 1024 layers in the steel.
I watched my sword being made.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 23, 2019, 08:02:26 AM
I watched my sword being made.
Old world craftsmanship. There is no Progress to replace this. Progress gives you little umbrellas in your cocktails, not sake.
I have a titanium-alloy blade that would chop the katana in half, but isn't nearly as pretty. It has a certain Kzin-like quality to it.
This is like visual music, poetry in motion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6jlhqNxRYk
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 23, 2019, 12:27:42 PM
I have a titanium-alloy blade that would chop the katana in half, but isn't nearly as pretty. It has a certain Kzin-like quality to it.
Useful for damaging SR-71s?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 23, 2019, 04:56:27 PM
Only at Mach 17.
Got to hold a chunk of titanium, recovered from the public auction of Rocky Flats left overs. Our optics professor liked to go to those auctions. He found a lens from a U-2 camera there (big parabolic plastic lens). It would have been expensive to make, since most lenses are just spherical surfaces, it being to expensive to use parabolic (to avoid aberration), so multiple lenses are used to correct.
I got to visit the Skunk Works "a while back". They used to give visitors pieces of aircraft, without disclosing what plane the item came from.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIMziB5W4AASY4G?format=jpg&name=small)
i love this time of year, I admire peoples creativity
Typical Millennial Dem ;-(
La Clarividencia de la Muerte - (Kapala skull, a Buddhist/Hindu tradition of carving skulls to be used as sacrifice vessels for the wrathful gods)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJJhS90UUAI9fWZ?format=png&name=900x900)
Tibetan prayer beads also made from human bones.
Quote from: Shiranu on November 12, 2019, 12:28:01 AM
La Clarividencia de la Muerte - (Kapala skull, a Buddhist/Hindu tradition of carving skulls to be used as sacrifice vessels for the wrathful gods)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJJhS90UUAI9fWZ?format=png&name=900x900)
I've never seen a tequila hangover more effectively imaged.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJLr9bTWsAUZMCI?format=jpg&name=medium)
thats a lovely looking hotel.
why is it anime artists food designs are so dam mouth watering.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/3e/32/0f3e325ba5576c7760dad42fe1cad432.gif)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De9ux_AUYAABwHL.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DijGc9iVsAAJ7SU.jpg)
(https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-11/27/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/anigif_sub-buzz-6004-1511799739-3.gif?downsize=700:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)
(https://pm1.narvii.com/6411/2cfef978802fe4623ac5ffaec7de09b5cace2772_hq.jpg)
One of my guys was arrested in Japan when, during a drunken night out, he broke the glass over a food display outside a restaurant. He said the food looked delicious. He failed to realize it was plastic, display purposes only.
I wonder what Japanese jails are like? I'd think they'd be fairly civilized about such things.
They're clean, safe, and fucking strict.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 04, 2019, 01:46:03 PM
They're clean, safe, and fucking strict.
Japanese culture - be polite or die
American culture - fuck you
I always thought the phrase "American culture" was an oxymoron...
;-)
Quote from: Baruch on December 04, 2019, 02:10:17 PM
Japanese culture - be polite or die
American culture - fuck you
You should spend some time in a Marine Red Line brig. (If they still have them.)
Quote from: Unbeliever on December 04, 2019, 02:22:24 PM
I always thought the phrase "American culture" was an oxymoron...
;-)
Banjo (African-American), Rag Time, Jazz ... need we admit more?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 04, 2019, 02:37:55 PM
You should spend some time in a Marine Red Line brig. (If they still have them.)
Well, there was a Marine at Camp Pendleton a decade or more ago. That had finked on the local Jarhead drug trade. He died in the brig.
Quote from: Unbeliever on December 04, 2019, 01:32:02 PM
I wonder what Japanese jails are like? I'd think they'd be fairly civilized about such things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw2NULDjKM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_system_of_Japan
Nicer than a lot of other East Asian countries, that's for sure. But not very pleasant at all.
Though their prison population is less than a tenth of the USA's per capita, so that's a bright spot.
Jail isn't for pleasant.
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(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/489525061787713567/639683757766475787/image0.jpg)
Hmmm. That might be a little gay. Just sayin'.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 08, 2019, 12:20:22 PM
Hmmm. That might be a little gay. Just sayin'.
Yeah-he does look a little happy.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 08, 2019, 12:20:22 PM
Hmmm. That might be a little gay. Just sayin'.
You saying a man with hairy legs can't be a Disney Princess? :O
Quote from: Munch on December 08, 2019, 01:23:28 PM
You saying a man with hairy legs can't be a Disney Princess? :O
It's the hairdo that bothers me. Looks like it's after his brain.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 08, 2019, 02:28:57 PM
It's the hairdo that bothers me. Looks like it's after his brain.
Oh no, that's what happened in Tangled, not Aladdin, Rapunzel's hair sucking the life force from the planet to heal people
Quote from: Munch on December 08, 2019, 03:38:50 PM
Oh no, that's what happened in Tangled, not Aladdin, Rapunzel's hair sucking the life force from the planet to heal people
Oh, what a braided web we weave...
I bet he's got a really strong neck, carrying all that hair around!
(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/pics-745.jpg)
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/pia23556-nasa.jpg?itok=Ok5qkYXk)
its not a lovecraftian abomination watching over us, this is an inferred image Nasa took recently of the south pole of jupiter, a massive series of storms
For context, this is how big america would be up against it.
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/pia23560-nasa.jpg?itok=kAUIfYGd)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-navigators-enable-jupiter-cyclone-discovery
That is so freaking cool.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/3850/14585166986_b315eb3886_c.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon
I think of astronomy as I think of cooking, something uplifting and something everyone can find joy and fascination in regardless of who we are or where we're from.
aww, cute doggy!
(https://i.imgur.com/7v1Ao8u.jpg)
and such lovely weather.
plus the mountain of handsome running though.
(https://i.redd.it/1s11o4ggi2f41.jpg)
Obviously left by ... Spiderman ;-)
(https://external-preview.redd.it/Heu6plGacc_Ch_xFnTt3Uo72U2Ywh9-9UvHoy6euYIQ.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b01e9c3f4809c477281690ae411842e36e012d50)
The black goat of the woods.
Quote from: Hydra009 on February 15, 2020, 01:01:59 AM
(https://external-preview.redd.it/Heu6plGacc_Ch_xFnTt3Uo72U2Ywh9-9UvHoy6euYIQ.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b01e9c3f4809c477281690ae411842e36e012d50)
The black goat of the woods.
Well that's one way of showing Shub-
Niggurath
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lovecraft/images/c/c8/Tumblr_n72r7hKWR91s748a0o1_1280.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140818055056)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Shub-Niggurath.jpg/300px-Shub-Niggurath.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-EIVlHvHRM
Art, huh.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on February 26, 2020, 05:29:28 PM
Art, huh.
Sometimes art is subjective
Sometimes art is subjectivity shit
Quote from: Munch on February 26, 2020, 06:04:48 PM
Sometimes art is subjective
Sometimes art is subjectivity shit
Nobody can equal Jackson Pollock shit ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EncR_T0faKM
Elites pay millions for this ... to impress other elites.
This stuff's really cool, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EidMn79Gr8M
I wonder with something like that, how something else would see it, like a fly, or another creature with better eyesight then us.
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 26, 2020, 07:09:15 PM
This stuff's really cool, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EidMn79Gr8M
In action, looked like a really nasty, really clean, meat shredder. I think I would keep my hands away while it is in operation ;-(
Quote from: Munch on February 26, 2020, 08:39:23 PM
I wonder with something like that, how something else would see it, like a fly, or another creature with better eyesight then us.
We strobe sight 30x a second. A fly sight strobes 60x a second. Everything is moving in slow motion to them.
Quote from: Munch on February 26, 2020, 06:04:48 PM
Sometimes art is subjective
Sometimes art is subjectivity shit
So, just like maths.
Quote from: Baruch on February 26, 2020, 11:44:52 PM
In action, looked like a really nasty, really clean, meat shredder. I think I would keep my hands away while it is in operation ;-(
Yeah, some of it looked organic. I've played with a variable strobe light, but I never managed anything like that!
I just tried watching it while listening to Ron Bushy's drum solo in Inna Godda Da Vida. What a trip!
(https://i.imgur.com/1W4kuiy.jpg)
Cottonwood?
(https://i.imgur.com/oKAHD3x.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/c0qxDL4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/MiiYil0.gif)
Yeah, when did aliens go from green to gray?
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 12, 2020, 02:01:37 PM
Yeah, when did aliens go from green to gray?
1990s some time. One author wrote a book about "grey aliens" and suddenly they were everywhere. I'd recognize the name if I saw it.
Was if Whitley Strieber?
I know he's written a few books. None of them worth reading, though.
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 13, 2020, 01:50:37 PM
Was if Whitley Strieber?
I know he's written a few books. None of them worth reading, though.
Bimbo! Had a grey alien on the cover. First mention of them, then they were everywhere, including being retrofitted to old accounts.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 14, 2020, 04:55:50 AM
Bimbo! Had a grey alien on the cover. First mention of them, then they were everywhere, including being retrofitted to old accounts.
If we didn't have urban myths, we would have no myths at all ;-)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 14, 2020, 04:55:50 AM
Bimbo! Had a grey alien on the cover. First mention of them, then they were everywhere, including being retrofitted to old accounts.
OK, but don't call me Bimbo!
LOL
Quote from: Baruch on March 14, 2020, 12:54:49 PM
If we didn't have urban myths, we would have no myths at all ;-)
Are there no suburban myths?
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 14, 2020, 01:19:36 PM
Are there no suburban myths?
Sure, "My Three Sons", "Bewitched", "Father Knows Best", "The Loretta Young Show"...
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 14, 2020, 01:19:36 PM
Are there no suburban myths?
White middle class college educated people are better than others? Definitely false.
(https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/efflam-mercier/the-digital-art-of-efflam-mercier-7.jpg)
Up in the sky
Its Bird
Its a Plane
No its.. Oh my.
(https://i.imgur.com/l7jogAf.jpg)
Symbols on costumes are overrated anyway.
(https://i.imgur.com/taD3OjG.jpg)
Quote from: Munch on March 14, 2020, 11:53:30 PM
Up in the sky
Its Bird
Its a Plane
No its.. Oh my.
Symbols on costumes are overrated anyway.
I gotta admit, one'a the reasons I always liked Hawkman was that shirtless hero look...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF8IZNuWwAAtDrW.jpg)
Credit: Hue Teo https://www.artstation.com/htartist
The current pens in rotation -- this is my 'Pride pack'.
(https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/fs/cd4cc393928269.5e7187334c916.png)
l. to r., the inks are Noodler's Berning Red (Berning as in Bernie, red as in the Red Flag), Ohio Pen Club 2020 Roundtown Pumpkin (our custom ink this year), Private Reserve Buttercup, Iroshizumi Shin-Ryoku, Lamy Turquoise, and Levenger Amethyst.
The three on the right are the ones that just arrived from China, having been ordered in January before COVID-19 became a Big Thing. I of course refer to them as my 'plague pens'.
Quote from: trdsf on March 24, 2020, 07:32:42 PM
I gotta admit, one'a the reasons I always liked Hawkman was that shirtless hero look...
you might like this site then.
https://shirtless-superheroes.blogspot.com/
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5bcfpMCxb6I/Rvj8CTs1NqI/AAAAAAAAArc/m7iVWxvJHgE/s400/hawkman0000.jpg)
Quote from: Munch on March 25, 2020, 11:17:07 PM
you might like this site then.
https://shirtless-superheroes.blogspot.com/
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5bcfpMCxb6I/Rvj8CTs1NqI/AAAAAAAAArc/m7iVWxvJHgE/s400/hawkman0000.jpg)
Yeah, there we go. :)
(https://i.imgur.com/O6PedD7.jpg)
(https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/astana-kazakhstan-3.jpg)
Astana Presidential Park, Kazakhstan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Peace_and_Reconciliation
Central Asian tyrannies are like so many Brasilia's.
Quote from: Baruch on March 30, 2020, 12:20:17 PM
Central Asian tyrannies are like so many Brasilia's.
I concur fully with that.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 30, 2020, 12:29:35 PM
I concur fully with that.
At least they didn't put all the pretty buildings in the middle of the Amazon!
I'm not really a fan of most large body tattoos, since I think it can just distract from someones physique more. However I do have a strange admiration for people who get complete full body, all over tattoos, as that really pushing it to the next level.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUC6pKJVAAU_9La?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://i.imgur.com/ok006eO.jpg)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagworm_moth
Quote from: Munch on April 01, 2020, 10:35:07 PM
I'm not really a fan of most large body tattoos, since I think it can just distract from someones physique more. However I do have a strange admiration for people who get complete full body, all over tattoos, as that really pushing it to the next level.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUC6pKJVAAU_9La?format=jpg&name=small)
I went to Pinky's, in Wan Chai, every chance I got. My tat from 1970 is still as colorful as the day it went on. But when I was there the first time I saw a guy getting a tat that covered his entire back. He was a bit of wuss so he was getting it done a bit at at time. The whole scene was a fox hunt. Across the shoulders was a manor house, with many windows. Below that the hunters on horseback, over a dozen of them. Then the dogs, chasing the fox. You only saw the fox's tail because it was disappearing down a convenient "hole". (Wink goes here.) He was getting the tail worked on when I was there that time.
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/000/158/815/large/alexey-zakharov-cityshtl-2-1k.jpg?1407449108)
Painstakingly drawn before a live audience.
(https://i.redd.it/okvhobuscss41.jpg)
The duality of man.
The Spirit of Radio Telescope.
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 14, 2020, 03:10:31 PM
(https://i.redd.it/okvhobuscss41.jpg)
The duality of man.
The irony of that picture is that most people don't get it.
What? You don't hear God?
All the parishioners gathered in the church, the priest waving his arms up in the air.
"AND HEAR YE ONTO ALL THE VOICE OF GOD SPEAK ONTO THY, HIS WORDS OF COMFORT AND JOY, LISTEN NOW TO THE VOICE OF GOD!!.. Listen!"
BBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
"HALLELUJAH, PRAISE JESUS!!"
*blood trickles out from his ear"
The best church services I ever saw were in "Kingsmen".
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 14, 2020, 03:10:31 PM
(https://i.redd.it/okvhobuscss41.jpg)
The duality of man.
I bet that farmer gets really good Netflix streaming ;-)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 15, 2020, 05:39:06 AM
The best church services I ever saw were in "Kingsmen".
Sorry for your PTSD. But your idea of entertainment is too Operation Phoenix ;-(
How about a scene like in the finale of Inglourious Basterds, but at an SJW meeting ;-(
I couldn't sit through inglorious bastards.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on April 15, 2020, 02:34:15 PM
I couldn't sit through inglorious bastards.
You have admirable taste.
I had to sit through it, after my nephew was born and I was visiting my brothers place to see him.
Seemed strange to me a baby in a basket laid on the floor in front of the tv while inglorious bastards was playing.
Just hope nothing rubbed off on his subconscious.
Christoph Waltz drives me nuts sometimes. I recognize him but can't remember when I saw him, which is basically EVERYWHERE.
(https://i.imgur.com/a5nHr6Eg.jpg)
Book cover for Chapterhouse Dune
Artist: Nicolas Bouvier (online handle: Sparth)
Quote from: Munch on April 15, 2020, 05:39:13 PM
I had to sit through it, after my nephew was born and I was visiting my brothers place to see him.
Seemed strange to me a baby in a basket laid on the floor in front of the tv while inglorious bastards was playing.
Just hope nothing rubbed off on his subconscious.
I have seen young mothers take their babies into "rated" movies because they had no baby sitter. Future baby Hitlers ;-)
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pixelart scenery.
Matterhorn, having flags projected on it every night as a sign of solidarity with the world.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV35fXAWAAEfoXZ.jpg)
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/03/27/10/26480550-0-image-a-34_1585305991341.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/09eug9m90yw41.png)
Life uh finds a way.
Quote from: Shiranu on April 22, 2020, 07:17:47 AM
Matterhorn, having flags projected on it every night as a sign of solidarity with the world.
(https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p235x350/93366656_10158140511178563_4750198434550513664_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=f7Tp1rISBbkAX988VN5&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=aa0cfc87e1f79640e66c74ceeb91e056&oe=5EC7A54D)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV35fXAWAAEfoXZ.jpg)
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/03/27/10/26480550-0-image-a-34_1585305991341.jpg)
That’s pretty goddamn cool.
This is cold not just cool ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gK-zACrlZc
(https://i.imgur.com/R6sRndD.jpg)
D'awww.
Hail Hydra!
The CP2077 Quandra, rendered into a real world...
(https://i.redd.it/gdimfsjndnw31.jpg)
(https://cdn.disclose.tv/sites/default/files/img/inline/2020/05/12/bluebee.jpg)
(https://usercontent1.hubstatic.com/8495836_f496.jpg)
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Bucket list item checked off: glassblowing. :D
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/666162349773684738/727973920652656741/IMG_20200701_143953_01.jpg)
Made this at Glass Axis (https://www.glassaxis.org) last week. I want to take another class already!
You made that? Fuck! That looks good!
You blew it.
Thank you! The colors were fortuitous -- I thought they'd come out looking slightly differently than they did, but I like what I got. I intend to take further classes there as time and money permit. It's a perfect double rocks glass, although I use it sparingly to prevent accidents happening to it.
Also, GS, I saw what you did there. XD
(https://preview.redd.it/6kpcm4va2pa61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bfa4ee3403a8163798e5bbddf872407b725642f0)
I though "Christina Ricci" at first glance.
My uranium glass collection has been re-housed in a gloriously MidMod cabinet:
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/703684640619102212/811817266953453628/thumbnail_20210217_172217.jpg)
Ida doing crazy things to the sky here this morning. No rain but a double rainbow. Not the best picture...
(https://i.imgur.com/1voOPF4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/UuEGIPC.jpeg)
Isn't that...too lose?
E: close, lol
Quote from: drunkenshoe on August 31, 2021, 02:55:15 AM
Isn't that...too lose?
E: close, lol
Your thunking in reverse perspective, which makes *close* objects look much larger.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on August 31, 2021, 02:55:15 AMIsn't that...too lose?
E: close, lol
Nah, the photographer got most of the ship in the shot.
Quote from: Hydra009 on September 02, 2021, 10:15:58 PM
Nah, the photographer got most of the ship in the shot.
i got 4 carriers in one shot once, nearly a mile of bird farms, at North
island, 1988.
Those guns are bigger than that tug. I wonder if they had to account for windage?
Quote from: Cassia on September 03, 2021, 07:56:09 AM
Those guns are bigger than that tug. I wonder if they had to account for windage?
Windage, speed, barometric pressure, humidity, etc.
Quote from: Hydra009 on September 02, 2021, 10:15:58 PM
Nah, the photographer got most of the ship in the shot.
Nope, that's a radio antenna on the bow, about 20' tall.
Quote from: Baruch on May 06, 2020, 10:46:47 AM
This is cold not just cool ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gK-zACrlZc
Not cold, but Invigorating. Brilliant.
(https://cdn.dvidshub.net/media/thumbs/photos/1401/1155643/1000w_q95.jpg)
I jumped out of that boy many times when I was little girl. It's absolutely an amazing chopper. I am in love as well as in awe of it and those who worked to develop and maintain it.
Quote from: Sheena on September 16, 2021, 07:02:46 PM
I jumped out of that boy many times when I was little girl. It's absolutely an amazing chopper. I am in love as well as in awe of it and those who worked to develop and maintain it.
101st?
I used to know the pilot with the non-stop flight record in a Chinook. He said his teeth chatterd for week afterwards.
Quote from: Sheena on September 16, 2021, 07:02:46 PM
(https://cdn.dvidshub.net/media/thumbs/photos/1401/1155643/1000w_q95.jpg)
I jumped out of that boy many times when I was little girl. It's absolutely an amazing chopper. I am in love as well as in awe of it and those who worked to develop and maintain it.
Kind of looks like a shocked fish.
(https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/241939103_10223377464842422_3779357072229712214_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=oSH_m5SbRhQAX_UmHsv&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=01bb18829bc76b077deacca70303abea&oe=616B5FAE)
They can carry their weight in guns and ammo according to a friend. He was a door gunner '68-'70. His bird transported me one, amazing to find a person you know from Alexandria, Indiana, there, in that place and time.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on September 16, 2021, 09:09:41 PM
101st?
...
Nop. I did abroad, with a foreign Air Force. The closest I got to the 101st is twice the maneuvers we did with the USAF and USNavy. It was just for like less than a week. that's it. That chopper is phenomenal. I should have "kidnapped" one when I had a chance (no pun intended).
QuoteI used to know the pilot with the non-stop flight record in a Chinook. He said his teeth chatterd for week afterwards.
I m curious as to what type of flight that was. I like reading US military autobiographies. Extremely fascinating. And just from reading what I can put my hands on, I mean the hell these these Guys go through, the missions, etc. Astonishing!!
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on September 17, 2021, 07:03:11 AM
Kind of looks like a shocked fish.
(https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/241939103_10223377464842422_3779357072229712214_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=oSH_m5SbRhQAX_UmHsv&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=01bb18829bc76b077deacca70303abea&oe=616B5FAE)
:rotflmao: you're right. Sort of :bravo: .
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 17, 2021, 11:21:07 AM
They can carry their weight in guns and ammo according to a friend. He was a door gunner '68-'70. His bird transported me one, amazing to find a person you know from Alexandria, Indiana, there, in that place and time.
Yes they do. It must be so cool to fly in them as a civilian. Never tried that. But I consider myself fortunate to have created that opportunity for me. The US military is f ing Wild. I Adore it with everything I got. The Troops the Equipment, the Everything except the politics.
Here's a clip I found of what the chinnoks can do. One pilot managed to perch its back & ramp on the top of a montain so the soldiers could get supplied, another did the same but on the ocean, opened the back ramp for this zodiac to shoot right in, and the 3rd demoed the over 11 tons chopper as if he's messing around in his little brother's winged bicycle (LOL). Minute mark of about 3 to 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWvGcMq8CM :smile2:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/16/fd/2616fdb11cb7a45e5ca6c8ae5d914ad1.jpg)
Needs a big eye looking at the diver.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 20, 2021, 06:46:38 AM
Needs a big eye looking at the diver.
You don't want to zoom in? But one still can't see much due probably to the dept of the deep. I am not a photographer.
Gawdzilla Sama, do you now or have posted at the skeptic forum in the past?
...perhaps this one is better as far as the visibility of the divers:
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/27/article-2008640-0CC0843500000578-852_964x612.jpg)
Quote from: Sheena on September 20, 2021, 06:35:27 PM
You don't want to zoom in? But one still can't see much due probably to the dept of the deep. I am not a photographer.
Didn't have a motivation to do that.
Quote
Gawdzilla Sama, do you now or have posted at the skeptic forum in the past?
Yep.
(https://i.imgur.com/xDUmuetl.jpg)
I LOOOOOVE stuff like this!
Subtle.
Grabbed this screenshot as Verstappen was getting out of his car after winning the Mexican GP today, thought it looked really good.
(https://i.imgur.com/CoPOG0j.png)
Two Soviet Soldiers in WW2 aiming their PPSH-41s.
(https://www.worldwarphotos.info/wp-content/gallery/ussr/rkka/red_army/Soldiers_with_PPSh-41.jpg)
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/09f0052885db912cc302578567453bdf/tumblr_oqrrd52lAY1tg6fxfo1_1280.jpg)
Quote from: Shiranu on November 10, 2021, 08:43:58 PM
Two Soviet Soldiers in WW2 aiming their PPSH-41s.
(https://www.worldwarphotos.info/wp-content/gallery/ussr/rkka/red_army/Soldiers_with_PPSh-41.jpg)
That's the most gangsta non-gangster shit i've ever seen.
lol, it does look like they're holding them sideways.
Jermija: What does Joseph Stalin look like?
Adolf: What?
Jermija: What country you from?
Adolf: What?
Jermija: What ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak Russian in What?
Adolf: What?
Jermija: RUSSIAN, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
Adolf: Yes!
Jermija: Then you know what I'm saying!
Adolf: Yes!
Jermija: Describe what Joseph Stalin looks like!
Adolf: What, I-?
Jermija: [pointing his gun] Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Say what one more goddamn time.
Adolf: He's w-w-white...
Jermija: Go on.
Adolf: He's got a moustache...
Jermija: Does he look like a bitch?
Adolf: What?
[Jermija shoots Adolf in shoulder]
Jermija: DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
Adolf: No!
Jermija: Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch, Adolf?
Adolf: I didn't.
Jermija: Yes you did. Yes you did, Adolf. You tried to fuck him. And Joseph Stalin don't like to be fucked by anybody, except Mother Russia.
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on November 13, 2021, 07:50:43 PM
Jermija: What does Joseph Stalin look like?
Adolf: What?
Jermija: What country you from?
Adolf: What?
Jermija: What ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak Russian in What?
Adolf: What?
Jermija: RUSSIAN, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?
Adolf: Yes!
Jermija: Then you know what I'm saying!
Adolf: Yes!
Jermija: Describe what Joseph Stalin looks like!
Adolf: What, I-?
Jermija: [pointing his gun] Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Say what one more goddamn time.
Adolf: He's w-w-white...
Jermija: Go on.
Adolf: He's got a moustache...
Jermija: Does he look like a bitch?
Adolf: What?
[Jermija shoots Adolf in shoulder]
Jermija: DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
Adolf: No!
Jermija: Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch, Adolf?
Adolf: I didn't.
Jermija: Yes you did. Yes you did, Adolf. You tried to fuck him. And Joseph Stalin don't like to be fucked by anybody, except Mother Russia.
Can I buy some of that shit you're smoking?
Sicilian man showing American G.I. which direction the Germans had retreated, 1943
(https://i.redd.it/9i5xbqcjt1cy.jpg)
When I was stationed in Sicily I followed Patton's, and then Montgomery's, route to Messina. I may have stood in that exact spot. IF there was a trattoria there.
Quote from: Shiranu on November 16, 2021, 03:06:34 AM
Sicilian man showing American G.I. which direction the Germans had retreated, 1943
Nothing inspires enduring loyalty among the general population quite like fascism, lol.
Quote from: Hydra009 on November 16, 2021, 06:27:10 PM
Nothing inspires enduring loyalty among the general population quite like fascism, lol.
The US government cut deals with the Mafia to avoid labor strikes and theft on American harbors during the war.
Quote from: Shiranu on November 16, 2021, 03:06:34 AM
Sicilian man showing American G.I. which direction the Germans had retreated, 1943
(https://i.redd.it/9i5xbqcjt1cy.jpg)
He looks exactly like Anatolian villagers.
(https://i.imgur.com/TQVJygN.jpg)
Mammalisaurus?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on November 18, 2021, 04:52:04 PM
Mammalisaurus?
Fantasy pangolin. Note the digging front claws, thickly scaled tail, and the heavily scaled dorsal area (less scaled on the ventral side)
(https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/pangolin-close-scales-600w-1297272853.jpg)
Last one I saw was in a zoo in North Carolina.
(https://i.redd.it/wi7ed562u5181.jpg)
Nessie!
(https://i.imgur.com/bvDGKyE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/49ppUFR.jpg?2)
I know brutalism has a bit of a reputation, but damn these are majestic!
(https://i.imgur.com/4xkT8VB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/a6tIDY9.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1G2gEph.jpg)
(https://www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Stone-Flower-Jasenovac-Croatia-14.jpg)
I'm 90% sure the last one is the mission objective in an RTS game.
Neo-Andean architecture in Bolivia (relatively recently built, 2005-current)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH7IHKHXkAEVuz8?format=jpg&name=medium)
(https://www.liessmit.nl/images/fantasyhouses/colourful-.jpg)
I can't decide if this style is vibrant and colorful or garish and tacky.
A lot of these buildings are built for the poor, so I assume the former applies if they are rich people houses and the latter applies if they are poor people houses.
Vibrant and colorful.
Most efficient hypothetical US/Canada rail network linking all important cities
(https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Ag9hDocMGVAfS5AFwzc4OFwL2kY=/0x0:5340x2774/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:5340x2774):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22430095/Proposed_Amtrak_Routes_April_2_2021_v4_1_.jpg)
Full resolution: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/04/05/proposed_amtrak_routes_april_2_2021_v4_custom-720fe00d7655d42e2a1aa70542d832af3aaade68.jpg
Q: My city isn't on the list.
A: Then it's not really important, now is it?
Q: What about the Canadian cities of Calgary, Ottawa, and Edmonton?
A: Those are fictional.
Q: FFS, man. Ottawa isn't even very far from Montreal and it's much more populated than Vancouver, eh?
A: Ottawa is not a real city, but a pit straight to the depths of hell where all Canada geese spawn from like LOTR orcs.
Q: Why do you hate South Dakota?
A: They know what they did.
Quote from: Hydra009 on December 29, 2021, 11:28:38 PM
Neo-Andean architecture in Bolivia (relatively recently built, 2005-current)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH7IHKHXkAEVuz8?format=jpg&name=medium)
(https://www.liessmit.nl/images/fantasyhouses/colourful-.jpg)
I can't decide if this style is vibrant and colorful or garish and tacky.
A lot of these buildings are built for the poor, so I assume the former applies if they are rich people houses and the latter applies if they are poor people houses.
They look like hard candies.
Quote from: Hydra009 on January 05, 2022, 07:58:26 PM
Most efficient hypothetical US/Canada rail network linking all important cities. ...
That map looks like they have avoided certain regions.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on January 06, 2022, 10:44:01 AM
That map looks like they have avoided certain regions.
Yep. And there's a reason for that. The USA is only densely populated in major cities on the eastern half, the western half is pretty thinly populated until you get close to the west coast.
(http://geographymonkey.com/uploads/3/5/2/1/35215747/us-population-distribution_orig.jpg)
The areas where Amtrak doesn't go is because of lack of population to support the system. Other rails exist, but they carry cargo.
https://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/usa-rail-map.html (https://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/usa-rail-map.html)
These maps remind me of one of my all-time fav Avalon Hill game--Rail Baron. It is a railroad building game using most of the railroads of history. The big problem for me was finding enough people to play it. It was best with 4/5 people and lasted around 6/7 hours to play.
Quote from: Hydra009 on January 05, 2022, 07:58:26 PM
Most efficient hypothetical US/Canada rail network linking all important cities
[spoiler](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Ag9hDocMGVAfS5AFwzc4OFwL2kY=/0x0:5340x2774/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:5340x2774):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22430095/Proposed_Amtrak_Routes_April_2_2021_v4_1_.jpg)[/spoiler]
Full resolution: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/04/05/proposed_amtrak_routes_april_2_2021_v4_custom-720fe00d7655d42e2a1aa70542d832af3aaade68.jpg
Q: My city isn't on the list.
A: Then it's not really important, now is it?
Q: What about the Canadian cities of Calgary, Ottawa, and Edmonton?
A: Those are fictional.
Q: FFS, man. Ottawa isn't even very far from Montreal and it's much more populated than Vancouver, eh?
A: Ottawa is not a real city, but a pit straight to the depths of hell where all Canada geese spawn from like LOTR orcs.
Q: Why do you hate South Dakota?
A: They know what they did.
One of the things I will never forgive John Kasich for is killing the 3C high speed rail project connecting Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. I mean, there are many things I won't forgive him for, but that's one of the big ones.
Quote from: trdsf on January 10, 2022, 02:48:39 AM
One of the things I will never forgive John Kasich for is killing the 3C high speed rail project connecting Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. I mean, there are many things I won't forgive him for, but that's one of the big ones.
C = 186000miles/second. 3C =558000miles/sec. Or does that mean C^3? 10,378,800,000/sec.
Either way, way to fast for most Ohioans. Rob Dyrdek, maybe.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 10, 2022, 08:35:49 AM
C = 186000miles/second. 3C =558000miles/sec. Or does that mean C^3? 10,378,800,000/sec.
Either way, way to fast for most Ohioans. Rob Dyrdek, maybe.
I see you've never been on an interstate in Ohio. :D
(https://i.imgur.com/iJUSBP9.jpg)
Quote from: trdsf on January 10, 2022, 06:46:15 PM
I see you've never been on an interstate in Ohio. :D
A few years back, and the back up for a construction site was several miles long in either direction. Slo and NoGo all the way.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 11, 2022, 08:43:55 AM
A few years back, and the back up for a construction site was several miles long in either direction. Slo and NoGo all the way.
Well, yeah, there's a lot of that, too... the unofficial state tree is the Orange Traffic Barrel.
Not a dragon, but the next best thing:
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/7a1d7dd1da30b9474de905992b0ef6ea/2584fe1901a01476-39/s500x750/f78b3e2d11e8f9c6257ce8e5997a002f220c207b.png)
(https://img.republicworld.com/republic-prod/stories/promolarge/xhdpi/ahd6scww1udm7gxe_1630155071.jpeg)
Great-eared nightjar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_eared_nightjar) (not to be confused with the satanic nightjar, E. diabolicus, which I assume is the same thing but with devil horns)
(https://preview.redd.it/llcrhkp4hkb71.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfb6bb3da2385cc773c7654cf0a123d3e645792c)
Facts:
* The outerbanks have murlocs/nagas as well as timid surf crawlers and non-mountable horses. Frequently raided by the Salt Life clan.
* Further inland, there is swampland filled with spiders, snakes, and carnivorous plants (rare spawn).
* The center-east farmlands have plenty of boars and stags. Boarmeat is a popular crafting ingredient.
* Charlotte has the zone's only AH/bank.
* Be careful in the mountainous west, it has owlbears and direwolves and worse...Tennessee natives.
That map makes me concerningly happy.
The Librarian.
(https://i.redd.it/xk00xfzdgj091.jpg)
https://v.redd.it/1i6y9l2j3eb91
Chirodectes maculatus, an incredibly rare genus of box jellyfish which had only been sighted once before.
Source (https://earthlymission.com/scuba-divers-spot-incredibly-rare-jellyfish-species-only-once-before-seen/)
(https://i.imgur.com/6SUz9in.jpeg)
I need this.
I can see Constable's "The Hay Wain" with ceratopsians pulling the wagon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/usoodl/saturn_rising_from_behind_the_moon_during_a_lunar/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
(https://preview.redd.it/0vkv9g9cvjf91.jpg?auto=webp&s=6d9a9f22080fa18575ffcb35986199195155b0bc)
"Seems friendly, and he's inviting me to dinner."
(https://i.redd.it/4rtyaghy6zf91.jpg)
The sheer brute strength!
Southern Whyte Rhino?
(https://i.redd.it/b44jhjb1owg91.jpg)
Source (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-apples)
Word of the day: pomaceous
definition: of or relating to apples
etymology: from Vulgar Latin poma "apple," originally plural of Latin pomus "fruit," -aceous "belonging to, of the nature of," from Latin -aceus
Thank you, sir. I wonder how long that took. WOW.
(https://i.redd.it/grn03e58w6h91.png)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/wm8v3j/decorator_crabs_pick_up_plants_and_animals_in/
One of Ru Paul's buddies?
(https://i.redd.it/fr37lujgrbh91.jpg)
Sea slug
This should have been done years ago, lol.
(https://i.redd.it/bl9q4kcy9jl91.jpg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on August 13, 2022, 06:26:58 PM(https://i.redd.it/fr37lujgrbh91.jpg)
Sea slug
OMG. I want to cuddle with them all. It looks like a miniature, horned-cow-faced bush. It's poisonous, isn't it?
I think just about everything in the ocean is poisonous, isn't it?
Well, I automatically think that if they have a bright coloured part, doesn't matter how tiny,lol.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 03, 2022, 12:47:19 PMOMG. I want to cuddle with them all. It looks like a miniature, horned-cow-faced bush. It's poisonous, isn't it?
Some are poisonous. And some are venomous, with nematocysts much like jellyfish. So do not hug them.
When I was stationed in Puerto Rico I went swimming and snorkeling a lot. One day I swam over a reef and brushed up against something that put a row of stingers in me. By the time I got to the beach I couldn't use my right leg. They rushed me to the hospital and the docs replaced my blood. Out one arm, in on the other. They did that twice. Spent a week in the hospital.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on September 04, 2022, 09:01:47 AMWhen I was stationed in Puerto Rico I went swimming and snorkeling a lot. One day I swam over a reef and brushed up against something that put a row of stingers in me. By the time I got to the beach I couldn't use my right leg. They rushed me to the hospital and the docs replaced my blood. Out one arm, in on the other. They did that twice. Spent a week in the hospital.
Zilla, don't get this wrong. How the fuck have you lived this far, pray tell?
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 04, 2022, 02:11:51 PMZilla, don't get this wrong. How the fuck have you lived this far, pray tell?
Pure magic.
Or dumb luck.
You pick 'em.
Dumb luck has to be the most powerful force in this universe, bar none other than maybe stupidity.
"I'd rather be lucky than good any day."
Yeah, dumb luck seems to be the only reason the Earth has been habitable long enough to produce us.
True enough
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 04, 2022, 09:02:23 PMYeah, dumb luck seems to be the only reason the Earth has been habitable long enough to produce us.
. What did we ever do to get where we are, except by vicious behavior? And, yes, a lot of dumb luck. Now, we may have used up all of our dumb luck, though. It remains to be seen. Maybe homo sap will survive at/near the poles as hunter-gatherers again, until the place cools off. I know that I won't be here to see it, whatever it is.
Right, which is why I don't worry about it either way.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on September 04, 2022, 09:47:38 PMTrue enough. What did we ever do to get where we are, except by vicious behavior? And, yes, a lot of dumb luck. Now, we may have used up all of our dumb luck, though. It remains to be seen. Maybe homo sap will survive at/near the poles as hunter-gatherers again, until the place cools off. I know that I won't be here to see it, whatever it is.
All things considered, that sounds a lot better than the world now - if for no other reason than the astronomical magnitudes of suffering it would end.
Just rather the universe didn't have to go Thanos on us to make us get to that point, and we just did it peacefully instead.
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 04, 2022, 09:02:23 PMYeah, dumb luck seems to be the only reason the Earth has been habitable long enough to produce us.
...and stromatolites.
'Vicious behaviour' has a lot to do with our evolution.
I've just remembered I was told here what was cow tipping in the forum before. LOL. Well, it is not something you'd keep in mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpita_porpita
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/xhrkpj/the_frost_on_the_windshield_looks_like_a_winter/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
At first I thought that was Antarctica!
Quote from: Unbeliever on September 19, 2022, 03:49:51 AMAt first I thought that was Antarctica!
Little boat there close to the glacier.
And then they were all eaten by the ice giants.
I thought it was a real sight too, lol.
(https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pesquets-dracula-parrots-birds-new-guinea-4-5e5539347826e__700.jpg)
(https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pesquets-dracula-parrots-birds-new-guinea-1-5e55392f17e1e__700.jpg)
Dracula parrot (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesquet's_parrot)
That's really cool! I like how the black feathers look like the embers of a piece of wood that's still in the fire pit, but burnt out. Looks like a mean motor scooter of a bird.
(https://i.redd.it/lzjqfdlgmlr91.png)
"The streets of Ankh-Morpork imagined by AI."
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 04, 2022, 08:25:08 AM(https://i.redd.it/lzjqfdlgmlr91.png)
"The streets of Ankh-Morpork imagined by AI."
I am somewhat skeptical towards that kind of stuff so-called AI-generated.
Quote from: SoldierofFortune on October 04, 2022, 08:41:10 AMI am somewhat skeptical towards that kind of stuff so-called AI-generated.
I doubt that bears can run fast enough to chase down deer. It still happens.
Quote from: SoldierofFortune on October 04, 2022, 08:41:10 AMI am somewhat skeptical towards that kind of stuff so-called AI-generated.
I've got one of those AI apps, but I have yet to play with it much. I wasn't really impressed so far, though.
Quote from: Hydra009 on October 04, 2022, 12:22:59 PMI doubt that bears can run fast enough to chase down deer. It still happens.
Brown bears (ala Kodiaks) can hit 30 mph in a hunt.
Quote from: Unbeliever on October 04, 2022, 08:18:14 PMI've got one of those AI apps, but I have yet to play with it much. I wasn't really impressed so far, though.
My personal experience has been lackluster so far.
Did ask for some difficult things though, to be fair.
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on October 05, 2022, 01:19:48 PMMy personal experience has been lackluster so far.
Did ask for some difficult things though, to be fair.
I played around with that DALLE-2 AI everyone's been talking about, but it didn't really live up to what I'd seen, either. If I gave it an easy prompt like Sonic the Hedgehog vs Super Mario, it'd give me a blue fox I presume is supposed to be Sonic, and a brown-quilled animal that's kinda like Sonic with Mario's hair color.
On the other hand, if I tried to be more specific, I'd often get this abstract art that only vaguely resembled what I'd asked for, if you squinted at it. I asked for a "green dragon eating with the in-laws." I got three alien-looking monsters in space, around a small table, eating...something. Sometimes, the monster in the middle was green, so...yeah.
What I find interesting is when it tries to use text in the image. The AI really doesn't know what to do with that, and it often comes out looking like an alien language.
This one is my favorite image. I saw on a video that you could add "::-1" to an end to the end of a search to get the "opposite" of what you're asking for, and get some weird results. Didn't work. Maybe that was for a different AI. But I tried to get the AI's interpretation of the opposite of Sonic the Hedgehog.
https://labs.openai.com/s/QlWptbLTErv6wpaWtULOwCT2
It won't give me a direct link to the picture...
The AI isn't very good at deciphering your intent. You're better served by just sticking to nouns.
I don't know, I kinda really like this. I would put it on my wall.
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(https://i.imgur.com/IK4wfdVl.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6Fy65Lkl.jpeg)
"That's MR. BAMBI to you, buddy. "
AI's interpretation of those two Nazi-looking Italian police officers I shared earlier. Yall shouldn't have told me about AI art, this stuff fascinates me. I think it captured the "soul" of the Nazi look quite well.
(https://create.starryai.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.starryai.com%2Fresults%2F826664694%2F41.png%3F*%26Policy%3DeyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOiBbeyJSZXNvdXJjZSI6ICJodHRwczovL3N0b3JhZ2Uuc3RhcnJ5YWkuY29tL3Jlc3VsdHMvODI2NjY0Njk0LzQxLnBuZz8qIiwgIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6IHsiRGF0ZUxlc3NUaGFuIjogeyJBV1M6RXBvY2hUaW1lIjogMTY2Nzk2MjE0OH19fV19%26Signature%3DH9Bpv4emEzLmhN3LkYdgv4FAPLBnFDWEU~GH8fETJY9D-3IDNe6oT5s2UW6KnSFWwrFhWHmAb8EgsPXfSVnbhgRFcvg51J1CxzHLOdK4H1f5vJIPgCllm0nyXR-1oAcsLfE~-FSVDBI4lyWUcTrWc715BGAr9eH8eOBsxfR~jewN1CIznk6eE3RUFK4Gy5AEEmJOShCJBECUNUSzX~Ft3oNxrx7XlA0ecm9NeLRn0EmwHX9Zg1NBEJxgXuRSVtkRFN3GKIrrzWaY6wWT9ce7eE04Jvp5dXFVK33oknn1EYgP8ixAzo78AjzNPz2jB5UalaUbrNGkGEqvwu~xpA5KZg__%26Key-Pair-Id%3DK35YXSO59Z7GJ9&w=1920&q=100)
Also, just like the colors of this one...
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Yeah, those are nice. 👍
(https://i.imgur.com/ZuPPb1G.jpeg)
Inspiration! Me and my marijuana card are going to cruise Deviant Art.
(https://i.imgur.com/RVIZ4Bg.jpeg)
Gwozdziec synagogue, originally in Ukraine and re-created in Poland, sometime before WW2 and the engineering that made it an almost Persian temple supported by a hanging domed roof, inside a... Buddhist/Ukrainian Slavic/Nordic hybrid exterior temple much tastefully linear in design?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Gwo%C5%BAdziec_-_Synagoga.jpg/1024px-Gwo%C5%BAdziec_-_Synagoga.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Wooden_Synagogue_in_Hvizdets%27_%28Gwo%C5%BAdziec%29_-_Drawings_05.jpg)
(https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/kaufmann-painting.jpg)
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52701ddae4b0764939e3b98a/1397144615768-3B8CDFB1XVDFMNGA60RX/West+-+North+corner200.498+copy.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Wooden_Synagogue_in_Hvizdets%27_%28Gwo%C5%BAdziec%29_-_Bimah.jpg)
This was itself a reconstruction; the original temple had been destroyed by the Russians in 1919 - it was not unique in that regard... "the" Ukraine was an incredibly tolerant region (quite strongly... relatively speaking) towards the Jews for hundreds upon hundreds of years... going back all the way to the Kievian Rus' (Slavic-Viking Ukraine) in the 900s.
There is no telling how many beautiful pieces of architecture like this across Eastern Europe, and how many artistic marvels of Europe were torn down in various pogroms or, baring that, bombed into oblivion in the 20th century... but can you imagine a world where this architecture was the norm? Instead we get the Fascist Brutalist/Capitalist-love child of modern architecture.
And now we are destroying the remaining cultural artifacts yet again, and the West is falling into it's old nationalist, anti-Semitic "blame the Jews!" anger again as the economy declines and things destabilize.
Fucking humans man, the memory of a 10-year old dead goldfish.
Well, here is a reconstruction to at least have a sense of how colorful and beautiful of experience this must have been, so that's nice.
(https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/9/9e479776f19e4862afecf5d1e2dfcefd/2hjp8t0.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/98/82/a4988273abb3a615ad29c612cfdb2179.jpg)
Seriously though, the more I stare at that diagram... the more I fall in love with mathematics.
The Romans were wine-drunken children making scribbles when it comes to some of the Eastern architecture and geometric mathematical understanding these people had.
It's highly likely that those were added and added in different times, but not planned and made in one go. It's not a surprise that it's very different than the architecture a culture bent on invasion and centralisation produced. It comes from the tabernacle; a tent. Jews are originally nomads.
On the other hand, Romans are invaders and ruled over masses and masses. They've become imperial, and so have their architecture. It's imposing. It's meant to make you feel small and be subjected to. It doesn't need to be telling much in detail or prove anything other than how big it is. It's profane -as in from and to this world- and it needs to impose. Well, all architecture impose by default, because you can't naturally ignore it, but centralised army and administration carry it to huge scales. You don't build aqueducts, roads and bridges that last for thousands of years to evoke divinity, you build them to carry armies, spread and rule over.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on November 22, 2022, 01:33:47 AMIt's highly likely that those were added and added in different times, but not planned and made in one go. It's not a surprise that it's very different than the architecture a culture bent on invasion and centralisation produced. It comes from the tabernacle; a tent. Jews are originally nomads.
That's a good point, I hadn't really considered that - that honestly makes it more and more romantic to me.
QuoteOn the other hand, Romans are invaders and ruled over masses and masses. They've become imperial, and so have their architecture. It's imposing. It's meant to make you feel small and be subjected to. It doesn't need to be telling much in detail or prove anything other than how big it is. It's profane -as in from and to this world- and it needs to impose. Well, all architecture impose by default, because you can't naturally ignore it, but centralised army and administration carry it to huge scales.
I have nothing to really add to this; as you said, it really is profane - though I would include it in it's verb form (to treat with disrespect) as well.
QuoteYou don't build aqueducts, roads and bridges that last for thousands of years to evoke divinity, you build them to carry armies, spread and rule over.
I'm saving this one for later, because it captures in one sentence what takes me 10 sentences to say.
[Profane does not have a derog. meaning there though. It just means, it is a worldly culture. As opposed to Egyptians as the classic examples goes. Which I think the point you have a beef with. LOL]
(https://i.imgur.com/CspXE6Dl.jpeg)
It's a type of long-tailed tit native to Japan.
(https://i.imgur.com/wQbvKDrl.jpeg)
What's the bird?
The bird is the word.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 01, 2022, 12:03:14 PMWhat's the bird?
Japanese long-tailed tit
I heard they are fun to play with.
(https://i.redd.it/qzhigaqact5a1.jpg)
(https://preview.redd.it/weos8frhz3961.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=fc0a93ffe4a67ee1e0f9d6976a8d7a61545dc8ce)
Great angle on the seal.
Oh christ, that looks like The Item. A crappy independent movie no one should watch.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/502a2a23e4b0ce22e4c42f9d/1593153973436-N9LN50VZ31RY0EZWYCWF/TheItemCap_00008.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 26, 2022, 01:13:00 PMGreat angle on the seal.
Oh, I thought it was Jabba's mate. Those huts have to reproduce some kind of way, after all...
(https://i.redd.it/ptybqvoy2eba1.jpg)
Baby bats
Hold on while I take a picture of the vomit.
Aw. They're so cute.
"Pig Nosed Bats" IIRC.
Brazilian rainbow boa:
(https://i.redd.it/1qszvawlkeea1.jpg)
That's not Photoshopped, that's how they really look.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FghWup8VsAEzqSu?format=jpg&name=small)
I'd hug one, but I'm afraid that it'd want to hug me back!
Good thing I didn't do any acid this morning.
(https://i.imgur.com/ftPRo5S.png)
Quote from: Hydra009 on January 26, 2023, 02:09:33 PMI'd hug one, but I'm afraid that it'd want to hug me back!
Nah, they very rarely attack humans. They're not interested in us in any way. Also they don't have enemies in nature, if memory serves right.
Quote from: Hydra009 on January 28, 2023, 10:11:18 PM(https://i.imgur.com/ftPRo5S.png)
I miss the '70s too!
Looks like a black light poster.
(https://whythebeatlesarestillrelevant.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/blacklight11.png)
Miss my paisley prints.
I don't miss those paisley pants.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 29, 2023, 10:38:25 AMI don't miss those paisley pants.
Now I know what NOT to get you for your birthday!
Quote from: Mike Cl on January 29, 2023, 11:21:03 AMNow I know what NOT to get you for your birthday!
So there is a God.
I always liked paisley, but I can't find it anymore. 😢
Same with bell-bottoms pants.
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 29, 2023, 12:23:19 PMI always liked paisley, but I can't find it anymore. 😢
Same with bell-bottoms pants.
Fine minds think alike.
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 29, 2023, 12:23:19 PMI always liked paisley, but I can't find it anymore. 😢
Same with bell-bottoms pants.
I visited Carnaby St. back in the 70s. It was ... weird.
Where's Carnaby St.?
Oh, never mind, I googled it.
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 29, 2023, 07:47:58 PMWhere's Carnaby St.?
London. Hippie cenctric area back in the '60s-'70's.
(https://i.imgur.com/3QfEcID.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rEdjKxl.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2LkxNJa.jpeg)
You can't take the sky from me.
MTV.......
(https://i.imgur.com/Mbj2Fwn.jpeg)
Quote from: Hydra009 on February 06, 2023, 09:24:33 PM(https://i.imgur.com/Mbj2Fwn.jpeg)
😄 That's just fucking wrong!
Horse is going "Eh?"
(https://preview.redd.it/hp9ut96fm1ja1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=d909be3408173f96566fc7f993771b3a9d74e5d9)
This pic goes hard.
Yeah, Calvin!!!
And fuck fast movers. Sandy got my back.
Quote from: Hydra009 on February 22, 2023, 01:45:31 AM(https://preview.redd.it/hp9ut96fm1ja1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=d909be3408173f96566fc7f993771b3a9d74e5d9)
This pic goes hard.
Yep... Shouts Calvin from miles away, lol. Two heroes who have always been stable in my life since high school. :rockout: Waterson's usage of English had baffled me when I was a kid reading it the first time. How many times we tried to build snow goons I have no idea.
There are no obvious couple representations. There was a man taking care of a sick woman and middle age knight robots hugging, asleep.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on March 12, 2023, 03:08:55 AMThere are no obvious couple representations.
"Write what you know" :'(
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(https://images.hdqwalls.com/wallpapers/science-fiction-city-hd-qd.jpg)
https://i.imgur.com/WI44POJ.mp4
This needs to be a Prodigy music video.
(https://i.imgur.com/so9XGni.jpeg)
Aliens built them to hold the mantle off that hot magma bellow the surface; how else do you think the earth doesn't just catch on fire and sink all the way to the core?
I thought it was turtles all the way down. 🤠
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 30, 2023, 10:13:37 PMI thought it was turtles all the way down. 🤠
Alien turtles! It's true! Yertle was an abductee!
Tree Kangaroos 🦘
(https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ad_210703752.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=480%2C640)
(https://images.theconversation.com/files/323905/original/file-20200330-146671-1nz1jhs.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=898&fit=crop&dpr=2)
Tree 'roos?
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 08, 2023, 01:46:34 AMTree Kangaroos 🦘
(https://i.redd.it/13rfkgal7ksa1.jpg)
(https://images.theconversation.com/files/323905/original/file-20200330-146671-1nz1jhs.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=898&fit=crop&dpr=2)
Do they climb the trees or just jump up into them? 🤔 🦘
That guy's dick has eyes!!!
Here's lookin' at you, kid! 👀👁👁
https://i.imgur.com/o9FZ75H.mp4
(https://i.imgur.com/b7DFuSA.jpeg)
I can't post a picture or video with my phone, but have y'all ever seen a shoebill stork!? Check it out on Google or YouTube, it's amazing!
🖖
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 22, 2023, 05:18:19 PMI can't post a picture or video with my phone, but have y'all ever seen a shoebill stork!? Check it out on Google or YouTube, it's amazing!
🖖
(https://t1.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcSijTqeuBWtIeCDo3E3pMSbhOWgGifENC-h6LLovnuq-EQiofTHj-AMEkHoqYU0_8Gbq0BrdC974vBwHwE)
You made that up, didn't you?
No, saw it on YouTube and thought it was cool. They stand all day just waiting for anything the right size to move. Then they pounce... 🫣
Quote from: Unbeliever on April 22, 2023, 07:35:13 PMNo, saw it on YouTube and thought it was cool. They stand all day just waiting for anything the right size to move. Then they pounce... 🫣
I've seen them on the tv zoo shows. One new employee was being bullied by a male shoebill. They had to coach him into a position where him and bird got along.
God, he is gorgeous...
At least they're not terror birds! 😱
What's a terror bird?
Quote from: drunkenshoe on April 29, 2023, 01:52:42 PMWhat's a terror bird?
(https://earimediaprodweb.azurewebsites.net/Api/v1/Multimedia/194fbc3b-dca4-4b92-a2e9-79c901f8b2cc/Rendition/low-res/Content/Public)
That famous documentary "10,000 BC" certainly depicted them accurtely-ish.
Oh them. OK. Unfortunate name. Leave it to humans to name something better at killing than themselves. Lol.
(https://i.imgur.com/puNSxuv.png)
MURDER!
...in the worst degree.
Gawd...one of the most beautiful animals on earth.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on May 08, 2023, 01:37:46 AMGawd...one of the most beautiful animals on earth.
:blush:
BunBun mange banane (https://i.imgur.com/vUegiu3.mp4)
(https://i.redd.it/1fbf83tyzr0b1.jpg)
Visited the Sorbian painted churches a few hours from me... really beautiful, and makes me even more proud of my heritage - a little bit of Slavic culture preserved deep in the heart of Texas, and the only museum of the Sorbs outside Germany.
(https://i.imgur.com/23ylIqe.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/9j8I1Om.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/9TsGQ5l.jpeg)
Cao Dai temple.
(https://journeyonair.com/sites/default/files/2021-02/cao-dai-temple.jpg)