Auxiliary Pics

[noh_mercy]

[QUOTE=Zzztops;48547711][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Jean_Thurel_1788_%281804%29%2C_par_Antoine_Vestier.jpg/433px-Jean_Thurel_1788_%281804%29%2C_par_Antoine_Vestier.jpg[/img]
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Holy shit my mind it just blows my mind how someone can live that long in that age

[Blazedol]

some promo/concept art for a game called Pathologic
[t]http://pathologic-game.com/images/press/art.en/1wwar_plague.jpg[/t][t]http://www.entertainmentbuddha.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/04_Triumph-of-Sand.jpg[/t][t]http://pathologic-game.com/images/press/art.en/step_l_en.jpg[/t][t]http://assets.vg247.com/current//2014/09/pathologic_concept_art_3.jpg[/t][t]http://assets.vg247.com/current//2014/09/pathologic_concept_art_1.jpg[/t]

[spoder55]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/uOv1NUY.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The last civil war veteran, Bill Lundy, posing with a jet in 1955.[/QUOTE]

[Zillamaster55]

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48549692]Honestly surprised that he wasn't purged during any of France's transitions.[/QUOTE]

The Reign of Terror tended to whack civilians rather than soldiers for the most part, and the fact that he kept himself to lower statuses in the military basically ensured his safety come the time when Madame le Guillotine was being put to work.

Most of the military men executed were generals, and mainly for "You lost this battle, you are an enemy to the [del]motherland[/del] republic, off with you"

[Killuah]

"Refugee Critics" and "Worried Citizens", Germany, a few days ago

[img]https://web.archive.org/web/20150826140325im_/https://vice-images.vice.com/images/content-images-crops/2015/08/24/heidenau-rechte-greifen-polizei-an-polizei-verpruegelt-linke-009-body-image-1440430270-size_1000.jpg[/img]

[Ntag]

The music of George Crumb:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/ImdXGVp.png[/t]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/eJg9OGt.gif[/t]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/Ucm9Yc6.png[/t]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/kfif50q.jpg[/t]
This is what the sheet music for these pieces actually look like, and yes, you can perform them.

Some other crazy sheet music:

[t]https://i.imgur.com/mOUYfmG.png[/t]
George Flynn's "Wound"
[t]https://i.imgur.com/votuKxw.png[/t]
Finnissy's English Country Tunes
[t]https://i.imgur.com/gMqWVHQ.jpg[/t]
Some of Bussotti's work
[t]https://i.imgur.com/Gajxzd4.jpg[/t]
Robert Downie's Piano Piece No. 2
[t]https://i.imgur.com/lERXvKE.jpg[/t]
Xenakis was a mathematician so his music has some pretty crazy rhythms and stuff. You even can see some intersting functions in his music if you plotted it all down.
Also Sorabji has some [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqxnZSOnpr0]crazy shit[/url] for piano including a 4 hour piece which is full of technical virtuosity and 2 5 minute cadenzas.

Bonus: [url=https://i.imgur.com/h8NikWT.jpg]Ropartz, Ysaye and Magnard[/url]

[revan740]

[QUOTE=Ntag;48552215]The music of George Crumb:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/kfif50q.jpg[/t]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/lERXvKE.jpg[/t]
[/QUOTE]

One should definitely listen to some of these pieces just to see the outcome. Xenakis experimented heavily with timbres, not limiting himself to conventional instruments. He created some weird electronic music, including his own electronic reader that can read blotches of written stuff on a paper. Sounds super weird. (At least, I think it was Xenakis. My post tonal composer knowledge all kind of bundles up together since I hate the music)

Also, the Crumb piece Black Angels is hard to listen to, but his intent was really to work with the change in timbre as well, trying to focus the listener's interest on the change between sound sections rather than harmonic and melodic dimensions:
[video=youtube;mknVnEB3pho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mknVnEB3pho[/video]

The effect is better with electronic instruments, but it's super neat to see the performers perform it.

[editline]27th August 2015[/editline]

Speaking of modern music, you'll find that in the "Classical" world, the specific style of music that composers compose is very wide spread, opposed to the cookie cutter examples from periods we can name in the past as "baroque" or "classical". Here's one of my favorite modern pieces, I promise you'll like it.

[video=youtube;eixilvlGSt0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eixilvlGSt0[/video]

[Zillamaster55]

[t]https://i.imgur.com/M10pG5X.jpg[/t]

Caucasus border gore

[spoder55]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48554118][t]https://i.imgur.com/M10pG5X.jpg[/t]

Caucasus border gore[/QUOTE]
this describes every time I play ck2 ever

[Hakita]

[QUOTE=Ntag;48552215]The music of George Crumb[/QUOTE]

graphic notation is pretty fun too, here's some Cornelius Cardew:

[t]http://www.htvdeijsberg.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/def_drawingonwriting1.jpg[/t]
[img]http://cdn.lrb.co.uk/assets/edillus/gott01_3105_02.gif[/img]
[img]http://cdn.lrb.co.uk/assets/edillus/gott01_3105_01.gif[/img]
[img]http://www.spiralcage.com/improvMeeting/pics/TreatisePage75.jpg[/img]
[img]http://zoamorphosis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Cardew_Treatise_29.jpg[/img]

[godfatherk]

[t]https://planetgallery.global.ssl.fastly.net/web/hulunbuir-industry-snow-web.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Plumes of condensed steam rise from these industrial facilities near Hulun Buir, Inner Mongolia. The fields and pastures of the region are transforming rapidly as gasification plants are built to convert local coal reserves into power, natural gas, petrochemicals, and liquid fuels.[/QUOTE]

[Zillamaster55]

[QUOTE=godfatherk;48555585][t]https://planetgallery.global.ssl.fastly.net/web/hulunbuir-industry-snow-web.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]

btw for those unfamiliar, Inner Mongolia refers to a region in China, not Mongolia proper.

Don't ask.

[StratoSlug]

[quote]A knight battling a "Man of the Woods" by 15th c illustrator Hans Burgkmair.[/quote]
[thumb]http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/photos/2013/11/25/af/4c/Burgkmair-Fight-in-Forest.jpg[/thumb]

[quote]Battle of Kringen, Norway, 1612. Along a narrow mountain pass, Norweigan Peasants ambush and defeat a column of well armed and trained Scottish Mercenaries, taking only 7 casualties.[/quote]
[thumb]http://www.kringen1612.no/Bilder_slaget/Stroemdal_Maleri_fra_Kringen_malt1897_900bg.jpg[/thumb]

[Zillamaster55]

[t]https://i.imgur.com/b6vhmfw.jpg[/t]

Linguistic map of India.

Shit's huge, I'd recommend giving it a look

[ignhelper]

Today I learned there is a thing called the mantidfly. Which looks like a cross between a Mantis and a Wasp.

And looks like its gonna fuck your life up

[IMG]https://40.media.tumblr.com/541826aaaed46cbf209c0a5a868052e9/tumblr_neaumnXzki1sgxjc6o2_500.jpg[/IMG]

[pentium]

[img]http://blogs.c.yimg.jp/res/blog-b4-49/motormagazine_blog/folder/345165/00/5299700/img_0?1148640199[/img][img]http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/plginrt-project/underwatersculpture/14feb5e0a4a311842f555d_zps198054c3.jpg[/img]
[img]http://images.dannychoo.com/cgm/images/post/20091230/25346/85996/large/9755c0f3fc2473854effd954cffddb3d.jpg[/img][img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-voCKAjiT3Jc/U1yxLeIUm_I/AAAAAAAAdGI/3EeNgBDHKLo/s1600/Tokyo+Tower+Construction.jpg[/img]

[i]Construction of Tokyo Tower, Mid 1950's.[/i]

[img]https://serendipityproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tokyo-tower-1.jpg[/img]
[img]https://serendipityproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tokyo-tower-3.jpg[/img]
[img]https://serendipityproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tokyo-tower-4.jpg[/img]

[i]Postcards of a completed Tokyo Tower, 1958.[/i]
[i]With the completion of the Tokyo Skytree in February 2012 and the switchover to Digital television, Tokyo Tower's commercial use as a broadcast tower has been declared redundant. Like the Eiffel Tower it now exists purely as a one of the region's most famous tourist attractions.[/i]

[godfatherk]

[t]https://seanclarke87.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/salzburg-panorama-3200.jpg[/t]

[editline]28th August 2015[/editline]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/YB4sBu9.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Peshmerga shot down a Daesh drone at Mosul dam[/QUOTE]

[VikeeVeekie]

[QUOTE=godfatherk;48555585][t]https://planetgallery.global.ssl.fastly.net/web/hulunbuir-industry-snow-web.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]

For some reason I find those factories look like PCBs with components burning out.

[matt.ant]

Some British pubs which have been granted listed status, meaning they can never be demolished.

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/112E3/production/_85217307_1024biggin1-hall-hotel--dp1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/AF97/production/_85215944_1024daylight-inn--1-exterio.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/FF01/production/_85218256_1024daylight-inn--dp170026a.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1357/production/_85215940_1024-berkeley-hotel-hall.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/16EFF/production/_85215939_1024-berkeley-hotel.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/6AE1/production/_85216372_1024duke-william-3-public-b.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/91F1/production/_85216373_1024duke-william-1-exterior.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/15541/production/_85216378_1024black-horse--dp166415.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1290/production/_85225740_10241-exterior-1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12400/production/_85225747_10245-buffet-by-michael-sla.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/15807/production/_85217088_1024gatehouse-dp172330--1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/17F17/production/_85217089_1024gatehouse-dp172339.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/B0E1/production/_85218254_1024stag's-head--dp152384_1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/D7F1/production/_85218255_1024stag's-head--dp152404.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/123F/production/_85217640_1024newgolden-heart--dp1522.jpg[/img]

[img]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/146D7/production/_85217638_1024royaloak-dp170457.jpg[/img]

[joshjet]

[QUOTE=godfatherk;48560475]

[editline]28th August 2015[/editline]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/YB4sBu9.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]

Oh shit, that's a Skywalker X8, a hobbyist RC plane. Lets hope no news sources get a hold of this, it'd be a shitshow with all the drone panic going on.

[editline]29th August 2015[/editline]

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJLgAlkABE[/media]
Flite Test video on the frame. Great show if you're interested in RC, by the way.

[CabooseRvB]

[QUOTE=matt.ant;48562708]Brit Pubs[/QUOTE]

It's so strange to see pubs standing alone. I'm always used to seeing squat, corner pubs; having them a part of a larger building. For me it just looks more homely.

[img]http://www.nycmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/White-Horse-Tavern.jpg[/img]
[img]http://careysigngraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/shoppes-at-Chino.jpg[/img]

[noh_mercy]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;48560280]Today I learned there is a thing called the mantidfly. Which looks like a cross between a Mantis and a Wasp.

And looks like its gonna fuck your life up

[IMG]https://40.media.tumblr.com/541826aaaed46cbf209c0a5a868052e9/tumblr_neaumnXzki1sgxjc6o2_500.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;0NV3EK4YsP8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NV3EK4YsP8[/video]

[Headhumpy]

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48564609]It's so strange to see pubs standing alone. I'm always used to seeing squat, corner pubs; having them a part of a larger building. For me it just looks more homely.

[img]http://www.nycmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/White-Horse-Tavern.jpg[/img]
[img]http://careysigngraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/shoppes-at-Chino.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

The colonies never do get it quite right I guess.

[perka123]

The Swedish Armed Forces are currently doing military exercise in and outside my city, thought i'd share a few pics

[t]https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/t31.0-8/11952725_1022973494393831_9063043147948980715_o.jpg[/t][t]https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/11872231_1022973427727171_984815832299846567_o.jpg[/t]
[t]https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/11891460_1022973447727169_7623928098186741544_o.jpg[/t][t]https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/11930996_1022973514393829_8032960388764007749_o.jpg[/t]

[Jamsponge]

[QUOTE=godfatherk;48560475][t]http://i.imgur.com/YB4sBu9.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
That thing is almost entirely covered in duct tape. Just goes to show that for all of their current 'power', they'll be pretty fucked once stuff starts breaking down.

[J.C.DentonUNATCO]

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48564609]It's so strange to see pubs standing alone. I'm always used to seeing squat, corner pubs; having them a part of a larger building. For me it just looks more homely.

[img]http://www.nycmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/White-Horse-Tavern.jpg[/img]
[img]http://careysigngraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/shoppes-at-Chino.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

Most of them are on corners or at least in between other buildings. I'd say the ones that aren't were originally really old taverns for travelers.

Also you only find (nice) americanized pubs in downtown areas so that's another reason you'd always see them on corners.

[Zillamaster55]

[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Gay_Adoption_Map_North_America.svg/1790px-Gay_Adoption_Map_North_America.svg.png[/t]

Current Legality of LGBT Adoption

(Purple = Legal/Recognized Legally)

[EmperorScorpious]

Is there a world map?

[Griff]

[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Abusimbel.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The statue of Ramses the Great at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel is reassembled after having been moved in 1967 to save it from being flooded.[/QUOTE]

[lekkimsm]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zKuCJ0P.jpg[/IMG]