Retro Cool
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See, on the last photo I posted, Lenin and Molotov. Around Molotov's figure there's a halo too. Very common on old photos. Adopted from oil painting technics.
However, you may think that it's another fake photo and you may be right. We weren't there. Photos aren't real documents, always, they never were. Long time before Ps. -
I did some reading up on "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," and it was interesting. The photographer wasn't identified until fairly recently. Although staged, the photo wasn't faked. The halo you see are actually clouds in the background, they are so high up. Also, unkown to viewers, there is a roof surface a few stories below, so if they fell they wouldn't have had too far to go.
I remember seeing film of steel workers on skyscrapers. It seemed to defy logic (and prudence) to be so high up and walking on such narrow steel beams, before the age of safety harnesses, but they did it.
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Michel, looking at the photos of Lenin with and without Molotov, what jumps out immediately is that the second image has less resolution, so it's hard to compare the two. It appears there is a lot of light reflecting off the river, and possibly off the white wall in the background. I wonder if what you are seeing as a halo is not a lot of reflected light behind the figure.
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Daniel, not a halo, an editing again. I wonder if Molotov is a fake.
The scale of these figures is a bit... out of scale. I wonder.
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Meanwhile, back on topic...
@unknownuser said:
The Douglas TB2D Skypirate was a torpedo bomber intended for service with the US Navy’s aircraft carriers. Two prototypes were completed, but the dedicated torpedo bomber was becoming an outdated concept and with the end of World War II, the type was no longer needed, resulting in the project’s cancellation.
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@unknownuser said:
The Douglas TB2D Skypirate was a torpedo bomber
what's to distinguish this from other WWII planes? Just curious what you find retro cool about it. (looks sorta like the corsair)now that motorcycle - awesome!!
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The dual set of propellers caught my eye.
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ah, that is peculiar, Perhaps a thrust issue. Wonder how many horsepower was under that cowl.
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Do these still roam the streets?
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Or these in the old mans shop.
Rigid
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IDK about the tool, but she looks anatomically impossible!
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Well, these are also anatomically incorrect yet still alive
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somebody needs to buy that girl a hamburger.
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my love of classic VW's segue's beautifully into this discussion
1956 bus
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Yes Dale, Mr Whippy is still alive and kicking...and just as annoyingly loud as ever. I can understand them at the beach or whatever, but why the 'burbs? It's not like we don't have freezers these days....and much cheaper ice cream from the supermarket.
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@unknownuser said:
my love of classic VW's segue's beautifully into this discussion
...3d model
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=52b4ef2f4f07eec8c33d84e056f4fd5d
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Sweet.
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@unknownuser said:
This is the ‘jungle yacht’, and was used by the Italian explorer Attilio Gatti in his 10th and 11th African expeditions. The expedition used two streamlined trailers designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky and using 1937 International Harvester D-35 chassis, and were 44 feet long and weighed 9 tons. The vehicles were built by the International Harvester company, who was evidently one of the sponsors of the expedition.
The trailers were pretty luxurious accommodations for camping out in the boonies of British East Africa. They were joined together in camp as a deluxe 5-room apartment on wheels, and served as headquarters while the expedition’s personnel sought out the secrets of the dim heart of Africa.
The camps were equipped with electricity and air conditioning and had a workshop, a photographic lab, and a ham radio station (Gatti was an enthusiastic ham radio operator). Electricity was supplied by a 110 volt generator mounted behind the cabs of the trucks. Each night a single wire 4500 volt electric fence was put up to dissuade the large specimens of the local wildlife from approaching the camp.
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Reminds me this one
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