Bazza Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/1/0/6/5/8/ocean-sphere.jpg http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/2/9/9/2/trippy.jpg http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/1/7/1/sisyphus-bruce-shapiro1.jpg (movie here, more here) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures The problem with the Geek picture is that it is missing a few. Specifically it should have a Sci-Fi Geek and a Fantasy Geek. That would take care of things like B5 and the X-Files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures That "trippy" pic almost blinded me. My eyes are still recovering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures That "trippy" pic almost blinded me. My eyes are still recovering! ur welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Marvels vs. Marvels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Marvels vs. Marvels you know what I like the most? Genis isn't in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures you know what I like the most? Genis isn't in there. I thought you specifically would get a kick out of this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexraccoon Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures [attach]26520[/attach] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures [attach]26520[/attach] Ahh, geek humor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures [attach]26520[/attach] Hehehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted December 15, 2007 Report Share Posted December 15, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Except that the Flash wears gloves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures I found this while looking for a new avatar. Very cool. Be sure to check it out full sized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures I had forgotten this until I was making up thumbdrives for the gradndparents. My kids had no assistance from me in setting this up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Log, I think that's Leonard Eto, who did some drumming for Siouxsie at concert. (Or could be someone using a similar setup...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Looks like a taiko drummer. And Cancer's kids have teh funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures I had forgotten this until I was making up thumbdrives for the gradndparents. My kids had no assistance from me in setting this up. If they were smart, they'd get the dog to run on the treadmill for them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Aah, but we have no dog. Three cats, but cats won't do nothin' for nobody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Looks like a taiko drummer. It is a taiko drummer. I freaking love taiko. It's a group called Yamato, press release here. There are more images linked there, too. Such as... and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures . . . Those are so gonna be posted at the kendo club guestbook! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures A complete journey of a boomerang fitted with LED lights. Oooh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Cool! Like a 3D-Spirograph! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures From Strange Maps All was not well in Europe in 1870, the year the Franco-Prussian war would lead to a united German Empire and a humiliated France; one could call it the first of three European civil wars, the other two being World Wars One and Two. This French satirical cartoon map (’Carte drôlatique d’Europe pour 1870‘) sought to get some laughs out of those tensions by showing an anthropomorphic map of Europe, where each country was represented by a caricature of its national ‘persona’. • Prussia, made to look like its walrus-bearded ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, is haranguing its neighbours: kneeling on Austria, a sleeping soldier in undress; covering the Netherlands with its right hand. • France, dressed as a fierce zouave soldier, is aiming a bayonet at the heart of the unwieldy Prussian military monster. • Belgium, too small to be anthropomorphised, is being squeezed between France and Prussia (which would become its familiar, if uncomfortable lot in the First and Second World Wars). • England is an old woman, struggling with Ireland, her rebellious lapdog on a leash (although it looks more like a small bear); Scotland is the old lady’s mobcap. • Spain is a rotund senorita, smoking the day away while lying on her back and thus nearly crushing the small Portuguese soldier under her. • Corsica and Sardinia are joined to show a leprechaun-like figure gleefully mooning the map-reader. • Italy, possibly made to look like the great national leader Garibaldi, is holding off pressure from Prussia. • Denmark is a small, swaggering soldier, no doubt hoping to recover Holstein, the territory it lost to Prussia in a war a few years earlier. • Norway and Sweden are together turned into a ferocious dog. • Switzerland is a closed cottage. • Turkey in Europe is “an Oriental crushed by the superincumbent pressure of the other countries”. • Turkey in Asia is a girl smoking a hookah pipe. • Russia is a rag-collector in a patched coat, ‘Crimea’ written on the patch sewn on last. The Degrees of Longitude at the bottom of the map are measured in rifle-lenghts – another comment on the explosive military situation. This map was obviously drawn before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in July. Its author is mentioned as Hadol; Paul Hadol was a French illustrator and caricaturist, also publishing under the pseudonym ‘White’. He was one of the exponents of France’s Golden Age of Caricaturism in the mid-19th century. In a sad irony, seeing that war was so imminent, most Europeans were able to agree that this was a funny map. It was republished in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Re: "Neat" Pictures Cool! Like a 3D-Spirograph! That's why I like it. I loved Spirograph as a kid. Did you that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirographs and the rise in gang activity? Think about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Re: "Neat" Pictures From Strange Maps All was not well in Europe in 1870, the year the Franco-Prussian war would lead to a united German Empire and a humiliated France; one could call it the first of three European civil wars, the other two being World Wars One and Two. This French satirical cartoon map (’Carte drôlatique d’Europe pour 1870‘) sought to get some laughs out of those tensions by showing an anthropomorphic map of Europe, where each country was represented by a caricature of its national ‘persona’. • Prussia, made to look like its walrus-bearded ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, is haranguing its neighbours: kneeling on Austria, a sleeping soldier in undress; covering the Netherlands with its right hand. • France, dressed as a fierce zouave soldier, is aiming a bayonet at the heart of the unwieldy Prussian military monster. • Belgium, too small to be anthropomorphised, is being squeezed between France and Prussia (which would become its familiar, if uncomfortable lot in the First and Second World Wars). • England is an old woman, struggling with Ireland, her rebellious lapdog on a leash (although it looks more like a small bear); Scotland is the old lady’s mobcap. • Spain is a rotund senorita, smoking the day away while lying on her back and thus nearly crushing the small Portuguese soldier under her. • Corsica and Sardinia are joined to show a leprechaun-like figure gleefully mooning the map-reader. • Italy, possibly made to look like the great national leader Garibaldi, is holding off pressure from Prussia. • Denmark is a small, swaggering soldier, no doubt hoping to recover Holstein, the territory it lost to Prussia in a war a few years earlier. • Norway and Sweden are together turned into a ferocious dog. • Switzerland is a closed cottage. • Turkey in Europe is “an Oriental crushed by the superincumbent pressure of the other countries”. • Turkey in Asia is a girl smoking a hookah pipe. • Russia is a rag-collector in a patched coat, ‘Crimea’ written on the patch sewn on last. The Degrees of Longitude at the bottom of the map are measured in rifle-lenghts – another comment on the explosive military situation. This map was obviously drawn before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in July. Its author is mentioned as Hadol; Paul Hadol was a French illustrator and caricaturist, also publishing under the pseudonym ‘White’. He was one of the exponents of France’s Golden Age of Caricaturism in the mid-19th century. In a sad irony, seeing that war was so imminent, most Europeans were able to agree that this was a funny map. It was republished in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands. Awesome! I'll be sharing this with the Cartographer's Guild. Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Re: "Neat" Pictures From Strange Maps Awesome! I'll be sharing this with the Cartographer's Guild. Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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