Image Thread 27 : the trilogy cubed

[robkelk]

(looks at flip-communicator user's glasses)

He'll use whatever he wants. Who the Hell do you think he is?

[Bob Schroeck]

The really interesting thing is that both sets are made with identical ingredients. McDonald's is actually quite scrupulous about that -- your average burger gotten at the counter is cooked and assembled very quickly by a set of teenagers who would really rather be somewhere else, but for the commercials, McDonald's actually has "food stylists" who create the sandwiches seen in their advertising (plus they use a few tricks like piling all the toppings along the edge facing the camera). They actually made a video a few years ago to address this (very common) observation and were very forthright about what's done:

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[hazard]

Note to IT staff: Lie to your supervisors/managers that your servers are so damn sensitive to vibrations that when they scream at you next door to the server rack, where the office is, there is a measurable drop in performance throughout the company.
I mean, they won't treat you less poorly, but maybe they will scream less?

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[Vulpis]

...Looking back a bit, I have to wonder what kind of 'escape room' blindfolds and chains participants...

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[Norgarth]

[classicdrogn]

when you spent a week trying every possible thing you could think of to get that damn Mew out from under the truck

[Norgarth]

[Jinx999]

A ritual site dedicated to Chaos.

[hazard]

I would not want to live there. It smacks of a designer's ego and none of the needs of a population. It seems CIAM has returned, and not for the better.

[Bob Schroeck]

The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne?

Anyway, that doesn't look anything like a residential area. It doesn't look anything like anything I might guess at. If each of those octagons didn't have an obvious entrance on each side, I'd suspect it was some kind of military structure. No fences or walls, so unlikely to be a prison. Failing that, I don't have a clue. But maybe Google Images does...

I stand corrected. According to a 2021 article on CNN (image 4), this is the hub of Egypt's new administrative capital, kind of like Brasilia in the desert, where they want to move all the government and financial stuff from Cairo. It's apparently called "6th of October City".

[classicdrogn]

I thought it was a cluster of missile silos until I looked close enough to see the shadows indicating that the stuff in each circle had a few floors worth of elevation, but .even the blatantly corrupt and incompetent countries are usually with it enough to not route passenger overflights (and/or repressive enough to interdict any photos if they did) if they have enough military and economic grunt to build one in the first place.

[Norgarth]

To my knowledge it's supposed to be the HQ of the Egyptian military.

[robkelk]

The attitude expressed by "The cold never bothered me anyway"  is a leading cause of on-screen Tauntaun deaths. Please, think of the Tauntauns!

Cook

[Norgarth]

[Dartz]

Hook Lighthouse, in the last light of 2023

The sea is wild
The birds are on the wing
The date is 40 years wrong...

... or is it?



Grange strand under a sky.



Glendalough



Glendalough

[robkelk]

And that's 300 posts, ending off with some spectacular photos.

New thread is here