they still do a lot of vfx tech research, but a lot of it gets made into proprietary tech. sometimes new stuff gets released and sometimes rhings get made public at the end of their lifespans like renderman.
Yeah that shit's cool too. The sand stuff they developed for Moana is nuts. But still not quite the same as "we're going to space, motherfuckers" in 1955, with operation paperclip's finest to hand.
Hopefully we post enough space content to revitalise the space race, can you imGine if fp helped to restart the space race?
https://i.imgur.com/tzfDrWW.jpg
https://youtu.be/ic7lbcojR4U?t=7
Shot Fig of Operation Hardtack was a test of the W51/W54 warhead used in the Davy Crocket recoilless rifle and Special Atomic Demolition Munition. It was the last test fired at Enewetak Atoll.
Disney World parking lot in dense swamp fog
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110042/8dba2caf-ac11-43cc-bfa1-64103fa80ca8/34c925agzrr01.jpg
This has probably been posted heaps, but it's very impressive still.
I raise you the massiva DUGA radar
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Since the east, and space travel have been getting brought up a lot here as of late.
The Soviets had a real penchant for music that highlighted the technological achievements of the times, with space travel being at the forefront of it all. Probably the most clear example would be the unofficial anthem of their cosmonautics program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncx4x8rvrQU
It's really quite moving, and perfectly captures the hopes and dreams that many no doubt shared as the earliest satellites and first men took to the skies. Hell, Putin knows the song as well, and even helped a student sing it!
https://youtu.be/QbbnfLMLgfU?t=83
All this talk about the Race for Space reminds me of the great concept album of the same name by Public Service Broadcasting.
If only we put all that money investing in war into space and medicine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI
also throwing this one in here because it brings a tear to my eye being a brit that lives on the south east coast, growing up watching Spitfires fly along beachy head in the summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE&t=90s
Yes love it all, have you listened to the latest album Every Valley?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvK7Uffmts
I gotta say, I'm really liking the aesthetics of these two Spiderman levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUA_9GaHnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwy6ivRqlU
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/b7da0f4e-2fed-4dbd-9d43-4b6f61ff2473/image.png
LWP propaganda from the 1950s
It's strange to see communist propaganda make use of feudal history as a positive.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, especially historic nostalgia where you can make up whatever you want regarding the past after you've gotten of the historians.
"The Kiev Rus were always fighting for the proletariat"
My fave will always be:
"We are the progeny of the Teutonics; our noble birthright is to conquer and enlighten the world as these noble Indis did"
"oh btw exterminate the Romani"
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/c00cf29a-70be-4ef6-9f8c-15ff4780b929/image.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/01bbbfe2-283d-4cda-b999-75dcfee3157c/image.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/d90d806a-6472-43e5-abd3-796a452d2d0e/image.png
chameleons are the coolest
sorry other reptiles but yall lost
It's weird how their eyelids or whatever is basically an eyeball shell that's seemingly separate from the rest of the body. At least, that's what it looks like.
Karate chop hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR_byRbXxvs
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/521aa594-7991-409f-886c-7efc7028dd95/image.png
Tonton Macoutes patrolling a Haitian street in 1988
Oval table that is 2018mm long and 1953mm wide, as in pretty much a circle? The picture looks like it's more than twice as long as it is wide. Very confusing.
Not to mention that 2018mm is 201cm or 6.6ft which I feel like would be a much smaller table
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/c2df4f5a-9e45-4a50-8f97-e25d35e31c1e/image.png
Inuit on a traditional qamutik (dog sled) in Cape Dorset/Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1426440.1439567951!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/gallery_1200/northeast-blackout-2003.jpg
A dark times square during a total blackout in 2003.
A shame it was cloudy, imagine if it was a clear sky at night, you could see loads of stars.
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