Auxiliary Pics V BRUTALISM 𝔸 𝔼 𝕊 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕋 𝕀 ℂ

[Zzztops]

They're really great photographs, and what's more they shed a lot of light on a very forgotten time and place.

[153x]

[QUOTE=Zzztops;53040075]They're really great photographs, and what's more they shed a lot of light on a very forgotten time and place.[/QUOTE]

The US government also gave incredibly large grants to photographers to document the country shortly after, which continued up until about the late 80s when Republicans decided the work being done with said money became immoral.

This is a good opportunity to post some good ol' Gordon Parks. His early work around poverty-stricken and heavily segregated areas brought him to a government job with the FSA (which also employed Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange) to travel and document life in America. He later worked as a photojournalist for Life and other publications and received widespread acclaim for his work documenting struggling black Americans. He also was the first African-American to produce and direct a major motion picture and is largely responsible for the explosion of black representation in media in the 1970s.

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and the man himself celebrating his 90th birthday, 2002

[t]https://www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/gordon-parks.jpg[/t]

people like him are why it is incredibly important that we continue government programs to fund artists.

[ZombieDawgs]

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Christ that sign

[Merv]

Those photos are simply incredible!

[Joazzz]

[QUOTE=153x;53041118]up until about the late 80s when Republicans decided the work being done with said money became immoral.[/QUOTE]i'd love to hear the reasoning for how it was "immoral", although i can already guess the gist of it

[Pickwickian]

[QUOTE=153x;53041118]
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Malcom X legit looks like he's got a modern day vape hanging around his neck.

[153x]

[QUOTE=Joazzz;53041770]i'd love to hear the reasoning for how it was "immoral", although i can already guess the gist of it[/QUOTE]

It wasn't this work in particular, it became a huge controversy after Robert Mapplethorpe got grants for shows and Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" piece happened. The American Family Association and celebrity evangelists made a fuss, so conservative christian republicans made it a partisan thing like they usually do

[Zzztops]

Oh yeah, the guy we've got to thank for Shaft! I wasn't aware of his many other contributions, very cool.

[Asd.]

[QUOTE=153x;53041118]
and the man himself celebrating his 90th birthday, 2002

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Guy doesn't look a day over 60 in that photo.
Sad to hear he passed away only 4 years after.

[Arc Nova]

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Ice being sliced by The Confederation Bridge, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

[DIOBRANDO]

BMW commercial and a bit over dramatic but still kind of cool pulling it off. I wonder what the requirements for it to be considered a drift still is, as they get going pretty damn slow.

[video=youtube;obkLDeO58Wo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obkLDeO58Wo[/video]

Also "...fire is our biggest concern right now."

"If those guys slip up that one random guy gets squished."

I know it is unintentional but I got a giggle out of that because it is immediately after they say that no pause even lol

[Euskalduna]

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1889 World's Fair, Paris

[nox]

These were posted some time ago but I felt they're worth a repost

Loadouts of various soldiers throughout history
Mounted Crusader, 1244
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English Longbowman, 1415
[thumb]https://cdn.fstoppers.com/styles/full/s3/media/2014/08/atkinson-soldiers-inventories-3.jpg[/thumb]

New Model Army Musketeer, 1645
[thumb]https://cdn.fstoppers.com/styles/full/s3/media/2014/08/atkinson-soldiers-inventories-6.jpg[/thumb]

Marlborough Era Private - 1709
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There are plenty more at the photographers website including modern loadouts
[url]https://www.thomatkinson.com/[/url]

[DEATH FETISH]

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[Download]

Looks like the cover for a black metal album.

[editline]15th January 2018[/editline]

Seems it's from a doom metal album. I was pretty close.

[Griff]

[video]https://youtu.be/tgAbOCJPFKM[/video]

[Zzztops]

To correspond with the above, here's this:

[video=youtube;6urNFXkHfpY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6urNFXkHfpY&t=[/video]

I like the 1954 rendition in particular, but I must say; they were just having a grand old time with that Cultural Revolution in 69'!

[G-Strogg]

[media]https://youtu.be/Unz0bO0--9A[/media]

A small demonstrative collection of the techniques found in the older German longsword tradition.

[Skerious]

Apparently, someone made Virtua Fighter figurines.

[img]https://static.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1179/11799911/2995829-polygonal.jpg[/img]

[ZombieDawgs]

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Stalenhag's twitter is full of cool stuff.

[Stev]

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NYC's J1, streamlined for The Mercury

[BBarnes005]

The New York Central's streamliners were stylish as fuck, it's unfortunate that none of them were preserved.
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[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/20th_Century_Limited_pulled_by_Commodore_Vanderbilt_1935.JPG[/T]

However the New York Central had pretty big money problems as well which is one of the factors that led it's merger with the Pennsylvania creating Penn Central which continued the NYC's legacy of financial problems which led to it's downfall and the formation of Conrail.

To let you know how bad the NYC's money problems were, that [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Central_Railroad#Robert_R._Young:_1954–1958"]Robert Young[/URL], one of it's CEOs committed suicide shortly after he took control of the company when he found how bad it was. The problem was that the Northeast was at the over-saturated at a time when rail traffic in the region was dwindling meaning that a lot of the Northeastern railroads found out that they were bigger than they could afford to be.

[Grenadiac]

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;53065527][t]https://www.american-rails.com/images/MERCASPOP.jpg[/t]

NYC's J1, streamlined for The Mercury[/QUOTE]

It's said that this locomotive was actually built in the 1920s but the streamlined fairings were added in the 30s. Are there any pictures of the original engine?

[BBarnes005]

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;53066718]It's said that this locomotive was actually built in the 1920s but the streamlined fairings were added in the 30s. Are there any pictures of the original engine?[/QUOTE]

It's a streamlined J1 Hudson so it would've looked something like this without the fairings on it:
[IMG]http://www.railarchive.net/rlsteam/images/nyc5367.jpg[/IMG]

The St.Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) had Hudson-type locomotives as well although they never had a official designation for them and even streamlined a few of them for use on the Firefly.
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(And yes that is a form of streamlining.)

[BMCha]

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;53066718]It's said that this locomotive was actually built in the 1920s but the streamlined fairings were added in the 30s. Are there any pictures of the original engine?[/QUOTE]

Took a bit of searching but this looks to be one of the two that were converted. (Also everything I saw suggested the Mercury locos were K-5b class, not J class)

[url]http://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/nyc4915.htm[/url]
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Evidently they removed the streamlining at some point but kept on the new drivers.

Here's an original K-5b for reference:
[t]http://www.railarchive.net/nyccollection/images/nyc4933.jpg[/t]

[BBarnes005]

Well wheel arrangement wise they're Hudson(or Baltic if you live in Europe)-type locomotives(4-6-4) [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-6-4[/URL]

It can get confusing as Hudsons are generally associated with the NYC, who was the first railroad to start using them but other railroads like the Frisco, Milwaukee Road, and CB&Q used them as well although none of them came close to the NYC who together with it's subsidiaries owned 275 Hudsons of which none survived the NYC's conversion to diesel locomotives.

[BMCha]

[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;53066822]Well wheel arrangement wise they're Hudson(or Baltic if you live in Europe)-type locomotives(4-6-4) [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-6-4[/URL]

It can get confusing as Hudsons are generally associated with the NYC, who was the first railroad to start using them but they were far from being the only ones to use them.[/QUOTE]

Ok I think I figured it out.

The picture that started this discussion is of the original 1936 "Cleveland Mercury" which did run 4-6-2 K-class locomotives. In 1939 they started a second train in the family, the "Chicago Mercury". This one ran the J-class Hudsons. ([url]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Mercury_brochure_1939.JPG[/url])

[Stev]

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;53066718]It's said that this locomotive was actually built in the 1920s but the streamlined fairings were added in the 30s. Are there any pictures of the original engine?[/QUOTE]

yeah very few classes were built streamlined. the PRR T1, GG1, and S1. Santa Fe`s Blue Goose, Milwaukee`s A class and F7`s, CO`s various hudsons, CN`s 6400`s, LNER`s A4 and P2`s and Norfolk`s J class are the only ones i can think of off the top of my head as being streamlined from new (unless you count CP`s hudsons, atlantics and Selkirks as streamlined). Everything else was retrofitted to existing engines.

I was trying to find some images of the Commodore Vanderbilt being streamlined, with just the base engine with all the metal framing for the sheet metal on it. But no such luck i`m afraid. Have this instead.

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"Beep beep it's the future"

[Hoopty]

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[QUOTE]
Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer born of Belgian and Irish parents, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. [B]He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."[/B]

After returning home from service (including a period as a prisoner-of-war) in the Second World War, he was sent to China as Winston Churchill's personal representative. While en route he attended the Cairo Conference.

In his memoirs, Carton de Wiart wrote, "Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose." Carton de Wiart was thought to be a model for the character of Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in Evelyn Waugh's trilogy Sword of Honour. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography described him thus: "With his black eyepatch and empty sleeve, Carton de Wiart looked like an elegant pirate, and became a figure of legend."[/QUOTE]

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart[/url]

[ZombieDawgs]

"Frankly I had enjoyed the war."

Absolute top class madlad