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Here's one of ours:  I feel that Zimmy would be quite at home in that one.
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Here's my state's museum of art. It's kind of exactly the opposite of what you'd expect:  But it's all OK, there's a trail behind the buildings and you can look at these things: 
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Oct 28, 2014 00:15
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idonotlikepeas posted:Here's one of ours: You grew up in a Dr. Seuss book!
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Oct 28, 2014 00:19
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idonotlikepeas posted:Here's one of ours: Actually wait, is that what what they were going for? I can't imagine a building complex looking more like a jumble of crumpled cardboard and aluminum. There's that half-banana, and what looks for all the world like a discarded coffee cup in the corner.
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Oct 28, 2014 01:08
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pik_d posted:But it's all OK, there's a trail behind the buildings and you can look at these things:
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Oct 28, 2014 01:10
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Ditocoaf posted:Wow, they really captured that "pile of old garbage" look. Personally I think it's hideous but I'm not an architecture critic.
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Oct 28, 2014 01:12
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idonotlikepeas posted:Here's one of ours: There is a reason I hate Frank Gehry and it is this monstrosity. I worked in that building for five years and it is as awful on the inside as it is on the outside. It is a rule that MIT Computer Science majors must get lost in that building at least once to graduate. Oh, and Gehry has had his fair share of laser death buildings. EDIT: Among the amenities the building provides inside are bare concrete pillars with construction markings still painted on them and easily visible wide gutters designed to hold Ethernet cable runs along almost every wall that remain largely unused because wifi came on the scene at the same time the building was built. The gutters have not been removed reportedly because they are contractually part of the building architecture and hence cannot be removed. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 01:55
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What's hard to get from the pictures is the feeling of disorientation you have when you're on the streets looking up at this thing. The proportions just feel all wrong. You get the feeling that there must be some elder god asleep somewhere in the middle of it.
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Oct 28, 2014 02:03
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Ditocoaf posted:Wow, they really captured that "pile of old garbage" look. 
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Oct 28, 2014 02:13
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Nuts to all of you. Cwmbran is the place to be. You knows it, bruv.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:11
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Blasmeister posted:Well you could visit the scenic and nearby city of Coventry if you want to do that: England has so many walkable elephants, and I never knew it! Austin doesn't have any to my knowledge, which is very strange to me. Dammerung posted:I'm actually going to be visiting Birmingham in about two weeks, so I can tell you how it is! I'll be sure to visit the elephant. This is awesome, that would be awesome! Adding to hellspider chat, half my family lives near and around Birmingham, Alabama, and I can assure you there are no deadly hellspiders. Probably because we have so many hunting spiders there. (They hunt widows and brown recluse like they do insects, and like to live in houses. They're all pretty cute, too  ).
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team overhead smash posted:I was in Birmingham at the weekend (and have been there many time) and it looks a lot better in person. Coventry though... Yeah, sadly the whole post-blitz urban renewal thing coincided with that unfortunate time in the 50's & 60's when architects thought prefabricated concrete was actually a pretty great idea and sure to be both awesome to look at and last forever. Blasmeister fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 04:55
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hey brutalism is a great architectural movement 
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Blasmeister posted:Well you could visit the scenic and nearby city of Coventry if you want to do that: Germany did an Elephant Conversion on an old building in the middle of a big park even  MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 05:34
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Ha, you take a building with too few windows, and attach a section and top-floor made of windows, and I guess the building averages out to well-lit?
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Ditocoaf posted:Ha, you take a building with too few windows, and attach a section and top-floor made of windows, and I guess the building averages out to well-lit? German 
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Oct 28, 2014 06:04
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Brutalism is actually a really bad choice for an art gallery that isn't showing something antique and easily damaged. Natural light is very important!
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Oct 28, 2014 06:41
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VanSandman posted:Brutalism is actually a really bad choice for an art gallery that isn't showing something antique and easily damaged. Natural light is very important! Well to be fair, that probably excludes almost everything that is painted that isn't contemporary art made with colors chosen for lightfastness. A lot of colors, especially older ones but plenty that are still used today deteriorate and fade when exposed to direct sunlight. Alizarin Crimson and Carmine red are particularly big offenders but are far from the only ones. Natural light is pretty great but I wouldn't expose 99% of paintings to it for long periods of time. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 08:09
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Splicer posted:You're right. Now I can't unsee it It reminds me of the 'overflowing wastebasket' wing of my local museum: 
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Oct 28, 2014 14:23
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It's not supposed to look good, it's supposed to evoke emotion Namely, disgust
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Oct 28, 2014 14:27
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idonotlikepeas posted:Here's one of ours: Geez, it's like if Kefka decided to start a college instead of building a tower.
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Oct 28, 2014 15:19
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The Boxbot school of architecture.
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Oct 29, 2014 02:43
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hmm. More than one mind in the shipbot?
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Oct 29, 2014 10:02
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No, those are Seraph bots, transformed by Zimmytown.
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Oct 29, 2014 10:04
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The Seraph series look kinda like Tic-Tocs in their transformed state.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think the Zimmified Seraph units look rather like the tik-toks?  e;fb. That's what I get for taking the time to read a discussion on architecture before making my comment.
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Kat, gently caress them up!
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Cernunnos posted:German Hey, we were just told we needed x amount of window surface, placement is just a nonfuncitonal detail! Here, have a house that was probably designed either by or for Coyote (or both): 
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Oct 29, 2014 12:15
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Oh god they're some combination of tik-toks and Skeksis.
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The Red Queen posted:Oh god they're some combination of tik-toks and Skeksis. Y'know, for all the talk of Lindsey in this chapter, where is she? I thought she was swimming along with the boat.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:TRIAL BY blinker STONE I'm still holding out hope that she got transported to Fun City along with everyone else and got changed in some horribly unexpected way.
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Oct 30, 2014 21:50
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She got turned into a boat. WHAT A TWIST
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Oct 30, 2014 22:21
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I hope she died.
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Oct 31, 2014 03:54
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This Halloween background is pretty spooky. I feel pretty spooked right now.
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Oct 31, 2014 07:59
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Fingers, huh? Staying in pretty space is good for dancing, but these slow time walkers make frumple. No matter, this party too slippery to last, so we can go with happy campers to germinate
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Oct 31, 2014 09:13
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Roger Explosion posted:This Halloween background is pretty spooky. I feel pretty spooked right now.
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Oct 31, 2014 09:17
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A big flaming stink posted:Fingers, huh? Staying in pretty space is good for dancing, but these slow time walkers make frumple. No matter, this party too slippery to last, so we can go with happy campers to germinate They think they are *many robots*, but it is only *fingers*.
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Oct 31, 2014 13:36
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oh hell yes, it's about to be on
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What the last panel immediately made me think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESI19h4wDo
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Roger Explosion posted:This Halloween background is pretty spooky. I feel pretty spooked right now.
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