[QUOTE=Mr.Dugong;47107697]Seriously what is even the point of a spider tail? Scaring off predators? it's already a snake why the hell does it need the extra spider attachment? It's like he evolved just to fuck with us on purpose.[/QUOTE]
I'm going to bet it's bait. It probably eats small snakes or lizards or bugs that eat spiders, so baiting them in with a tail that looks like *their* food is a good way for it to get *its* food.
[QUOTE=Mr.Dugong;47107697]Snakes and spiders sure are scary right?
It's a good thing they don't know how scary they are together right?
[url=http://i.imgur.com/cczS86H.gif]RIGHT!?!?!?!?![/url]
Seriously what is even the point of a spider tail? Scaring off predators? it's already a snake why the hell does it need the extra spider attachment? It's like he evolved just to fuck with us on purpose.[/QUOTE]
I haven't realize that rock was his head!
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It looks like something out of a fantasy story.
[editline]9th February 2015[/editline]
Here's a video of that "thing"
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjtQOc9euU[/media]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;47105106][img]http://i.imgur.com/BZ4qoQy.gif[/img]
I hope our brazilian friend doesn't see this.[/QUOTE]
This is 30 days worth of the lives of every human being, current and past, in the only place in the entire universe that they have ever existed
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6MkkqeZ.gif[/img]
Where are you getting these planet gifs from? They're fantastic.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;47112730]Sshhhh.
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I want more beige.[/QUOTE]
About 10 years back I was in a videogames store. After quickly glancing at the shelves, I asked them why did they start selling old PC's. Turned out it was an xbox 360.
Funny since the Xbox 360 is nearly a decade old.
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And some neat GoT stuff.
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[img]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/081/0/a/highgarden_by_zippo514-d5yujfv.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/257/3/d/the_iron_throne__grr_martin_by_marcsimonetti-d5emt92.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/dtRsrx3.jpg[/img]
A Marine Recruit being hounded by Drill Instructors. Parris Island 1970
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[QUOTE]Last year, five pharmaceutical companies made a profit margin of 20% or more - Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, AbbVie, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Eli Lilly.
With some drugs costing upwards of $100,000 for a full course, and with the cost of manufacturing just a tiny fraction of this, it's not hard to see why.
Last year, 100 leading oncologists from around the world wrote an open letter in the journal Blood calling for a reduction in the price of cancer drugs.
Dr Brian Druker, director of the Knight Cancer Institute and one of the signatories, has asked: "If you are making $3bn a year on [cancer drug] Gleevec, could you get by with $2bn? When do you cross the line from essential profits to profiteering?"
And it's not just cancer drugs - between April and June this year, drug company Gilead clocked sales of $3.5bn for its latest blockbuster hepatitis C drug Sovaldi.
Drug companies justify the high prices they charge by arguing that their research and development (R&D) costs are huge. On average, only three in 10 drugs launched are profitable, with one of those going on to be a blockbuster with $1bn-plus revenues a year. Many more do not even make it to market.[/QUOTE]
Roche is really cool, they're not only the only one who spends more on R&D than marketing, but they have really goddamn cool labs about 3 miles away from me. Too bad they're closing up shop in my state.
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[editline]12th February 2015[/editline]
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excuse me but what's that huge tall thing being built
[QUOTE=Joazzz;47128598]excuse me but what's that huge tall thing being built[/QUOTE]
Isengard
[IMG]http://static.timetobreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20-posh-kids-war.jpg[/IMG]
the great class devide in England before World War 2
[img]http://static.timetobreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/22-hitler-mockups.jpg[/img]
U.S intelligence produce pictures of what Hitler may look like if he went into hiding.
[img]http://static.timetobreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/23-moving-day.jpg[/img]
Moving day in the suburbs, 1950
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;47129647]Moving in or out?[/QUOTE]
Not sure, seems like moving into a new neighborhood maybe?
Looks like a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York"]Levittown[/URL]-style suburb, one of the first template based living areas with cookie-cutter houses. Cheap to produce, easier to maintain, architecturally boring as balls
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;47129647]Moving in or out?[/QUOTE]
In.
There was pretty much no such thing as a middle class in America from 1866-1947. America spent an assload on infrastructure -> sewers/roads/parks, and GIs with enough money to get a house/car/new fangled appliances migrated en mass, since manufacturing was king. Thanks to unions, you could get a job in steel work/car manufacturing/ home building without even a high school diploma and earn enough to have a 3 kid family and be able to live well.
Also appliances built in the 50s were built to last for real (we just replaced a fridge bought in the 50s two years ago, a year previous for a stove, not even kidding) so while they were generally the same relative price as they are now, they would literally last forever, so buying one was an investment that worked.
You'd go into debt over the first three years, work that factory job for 25-30 years, and have everything paid off in about 17 and pass on that stuff to your kids, who pretty much had rely on it hardcore during the 70s unless they had tech or entertainment jobs. Most of these houses are actually still around, and in relatively good shape, provided they were taken care of.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;47127356][img]http://i.imgur.com/7YxC7eW.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I at this moment have a job at Disphar international, in the Netherlands and
I can honestly say.. it's logical. The R&D department is a part of the mother company, where they all (in the group) put money to, and the Sales basically is a part of the company itself.
they are a daughter company of the Nordic group, and together these companies put money towards r&d , instead of one singular company spending fuck sakes amount of money
[QUOTE=Siemz;47131667]I at this moment have a job at Disphar international, in the Netherlands and
I can honestly say.. it's logical. The R&D department is a part of the mother company, where they all (in the group) put money to, and the Sales basically is a part of the company itself.
they are a daughter company of the Nordic group, and together these companies put money towards r&d , instead of one singular company spending fuck sakes amount of money[/QUOTE]
Yeah as far as I understand these things, it's the sales & marketing that pretty much keeps R&D afloat . And if you wanna do marketing on a big scale it's gonna cost you a lot.
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Concept art for Killzone Mercenary. While being a really nice piece you can also see that a lot of it seems to be cut and paste from other images. Really makes me wonder about the process behind making this whole image. I'd love to a see a time lapse of the guy creating this.
[QUOTE=Sharker;47134699][t]http://psneo.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Killzone-Mercenary_juego1.jpg[/t]
Concept art for Killzone Mercenary. While being a really nice piece you can also see that a lot of it seems to be cut and paste from other images. Really makes me wonder about the process behind making this whole image. I'd love to a see a time lapse of the guy creating this.[/QUOTE]
I can't speak for all artists, but when it comes to doing matte painting-style composite art such as this, a great majority of it is spent taking elements from a buncha images and making a collage of images to represent the feeling of what you're going for. here's another example from the akira project thats visually consistent with this
[IMG]http://36.media.tumblr.com/046c93e03206ef9216b42f9b7b2f93c2/tumblr_n5c4kf9dTS1rvu5tzo1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
and then here's the process video for it
[video=vimeo;109443563]http://vimeo.com/109443563[/video]
its all about making things blend, and making it look interesting
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;47131482]Lofoten, Norway[/QUOTE]googled the place
[img]http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/uploads/717/4909v108773.jpeg[/img]
if someone told me that dragons lived in those mountains and i didn't know better, i'd believe them
[QUOTE=Sharker;47134699][t]http://psneo.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Killzone-Mercenary_juego1.jpg[/t]
Concept art for Killzone Mercenary. While being a really nice piece you can also see that a lot of it seems to be cut and paste from other images. Really makes me wonder about the process behind making this whole image. I'd love to a see a time lapse of the guy creating this.[/QUOTE]
I can't tell you exactly what an artist thinks or how he decided to use those images, but doing computer games art I have lectures on stuff like this.
The idea is to create an image as quickly as possible but still get the same feeling and look that an producer wants from a level, most concept art you don't see will literally be stuff like this and even worse most of the time. It's better to be able to produce 10 images like this than 3 that are painted from scratch. A good example I was shown was the concepts for Bane's mask from the Dark knight Rises which were all pencil doodles.
[img]http://cdn2.crushable.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BaneMaskSketches.jpeg[/img]
Using parts and pieces of images are also good for when creating the object in 3D, as an artist can see what a part is supposed to look like or be based off in greater depth and create textures from the reference photo.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/H96566k.jpg[/img]
[i]The moth that helped to create the term "debugging" in computers and programming.[/i]
[QUOTE=pentium;47136055][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/H96566k.jpg[/img]
[i]The moth that helped to create the term "debugging" in computers and programming.[/i][/QUOTE]
Actually got part of a lecture on that entire situation when starting my IT/CS course at uni here saying "yeah she basically invented the word 'bug' when it came to bugs in a computer".
The thing is the word was already in use by engineers hence what she (Grace Hopper) wrote under the moth.
Give this a look, it might not be the worlds most credible source but its an interesting read.
[url]http://www.computerworld.com/article/2515435/app-development/moth-in-the-machine--debugging-the-origins-of--bug-.html[/url]
Oh I'm aware that the term was around for a while in engineering but in the realm of computing it was a somewhat new term.
A new motif appearing on Afghan rugs
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[t]http://www.warrug.com/warrugs/1566/IMG_6807.JPG[/t]
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