Yeah I don't think those things were ever meant to be aimed. You had like, 100 angry pig shepherds with long bows lined up and they all fired em off at once like a medieval artillery barage.
Nope they were absolutely aimable. You practice doing something for thousands of hours, you get good at it.
I am a terrible archer that hasn't held a bow in over 10 years, but when I was shooting I found doing it in a cadence left me with a much better spread of arrows than pausing to aim ever did. Grabbing the arrow, knocking it, pulling it, and then releasing all in a single, fluid yet thoughtless motion let's the part of the brain that is preternatural in physics take over. Even managed to split an arrow while cadence shooting, once.
For many of the more famous sculptors and painters the secret was to have a whole studio of apprentices and other assistants to do fine, tedious, detailed work and polishing and then not give them any credit.
I suspect Ives did those folds himself because if you look at his other scuptures putting extra detailed fabric folds in his sculptures seemed to be a trademark flex of his.
For many of the more famous sculptors and painters the secret was to have a whole studio of apprentices and other assistants to do fine, tedious, detailed work and polishing and then not give them any credit.
For many of the more famous sculptors and painters the secret was to have a whole studio of apprentices and other assistants to do fine, tedious, detailed work and polishing and then not give them any credit.
To be fair, that's how most of the artists we know got their start.
And then shitheads like Leonardo ruin the curve for anyone by starting brilliant.
For many of the more famous sculptors and painters the secret was to have a whole studio of apprentices and other assistants to do fine, tedious, detailed work and polishing and then not give them any credit.
Reminds me when I had to do some report on Hans Arp back in university. And you read about him with a bunch of his statements that art and his sculptures are spontaneous and direct inspiration from the head to the hand, expression of the self, blablabla and then his work process was giving his studio workers a bunch of sketches for them to make a sculpture from.
[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Hindenburgh Zeppelin last trips to New York and disaster.4:26 https://youtu.be/sZ-a8pYg7wY
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Hindenburgh Zeppelin last trips to New York and disaster.4:26
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
Probably not. I cant think of anything airships do better than planes.
Also insert classic fact about how planes are one of the safest means of travel.
[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Hindenburgh Zeppelin last trips to New York and disaster.4:26
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
Probably not. I cant think of anything airships do better than planes.
Also insert classic fact about how planes are one of the safest means of travel.
Also, that Archer episode.
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I would love airships though
any skyline is improved by a big ol' dope airship.
I believe airships would notionally at least fuck the earth to death much less than planes have but ha ha oh well cats rather out of the bag on that one
in America at least, the only reason we feel like people didn't have sex before or during the 1950s is that people in the 1950s worked super hard to convince people of that "fact"
when in fact people were boning constantly before that time period and also all throughout that time period
Hell just look at ancient Greece. Even setting aside the island of orgies (the island said to be Aphrodite's home) they were absolutely not sexually repressed in any way.
People have always been horny and will always be horny
I remember an interview with an old WW2 vet (don't remember the show/movie/doc it was from) where he was talking about what they did before the war and it was basically "fuck." The interviewer I guess was a little taken aback by it and this old as hell bro was like "nah everybody boned down hard-core back then we just didn't talk about it."
Anecdotal but I feel like that tracks. It wasn't so much the act being considered scandalous as it was talking about it openly.
PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
romans were pretty prudish comparatively
the idea of orgies everywhere was early christian propaganda intended to make folks in the territories weirded out by people outside the pomerium and biographers who wanted to make certain emperors look worse
[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Hindenburgh Zeppelin last trips to New York and disaster.4:26
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
Probably not. I cant think of anything airships do better than planes.
Also insert classic fact about how planes are one of the safest means of travel.
Not disagreeing with you but we really have no idea how far airship safety and innovations would be pushed if given the time
I wikied the first major aircrash and it took place like 40 years after the Hindenburgh incident and that took away 346 lives, if the airship industry survived up til that point I wonder that would have swung(?) public opinions around
[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Hindenburgh Zeppelin last trips to New York and disaster.4:26
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
Probably not. I cant think of anything airships do better than planes.
Also insert classic fact about how planes are one of the safest means of travel.
Not disagreeing with you but we really have no idea how far airship safety and innovations would be pushed if given the time
I wikied the first major aircrash and it took place like 40 years after the Hindenburgh incident and that took away 346 lives, if the airship industry survived up til that point I wonder that would have swung(?) public opinions around
There still are airships built today, they can't transport cargo faster than planes, they are more susceptible to the weather (winds), and if you want to move a lot of cargo slowly trains and ships are still the king.
Really, planes killed the airship. They were able to exist for a shot period of time where they could be the fastest means of safe travel, but in the 30s planes advanced enough that their time was over.
[4k, 50 fps, colorized] Hindenburgh Zeppelin last trips to New York and disaster.4:26
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
Probably not. I cant think of anything airships do better than planes.
Also insert classic fact about how planes are one of the safest means of travel.
There’s actually some really cool use cases for hybrid lifting bodies (think huge wing-shaped blimps that get partial lift from buoyancy and partially from being a wing).
The economics just don’t make a whole lot of sense for a huge fleet of them, so the idea goes unused.
If that was a tinder profile I'd swipe right instantly
As hot as that statue is, I'm actually more blown away by the skill.
I've spent a couple of weeks trying to sculpt a cloak dramatically blowing in the wind (with polymer clay) and despite being pleased with the result, if I did it every day for the rest of my life I'd never get anywhere near as good as that sculptor.
Those really look like spear tips more than arrowheads. Obviously I'm no expert. But if they are spearheads, then it could have been a royal guard type situation. Or just some really wealthy ass dudes
e: well they are arrowheads, apparently, but not actually Ottoman.
Originally mounted on a wooden shaft, this extremely large arrowhead probably served as a symbol of rank or a baton of command. It is decorated with royal Bohemian monograms and badges in addition to religious invocations in medieval Czech. It bears the monogram AR for Albert, king of Bohemia and Hungary (reigned 1437–39), and also the monogram AE, probably for Albert and Elizabeth, his queen. It is also stamped with the so-called Turkish arsenal mark, indicating that it was captured by Ottoman forces, perhaps in the campaign of 1439 in which Albert was killed, and was subsequently stored in the Turkish arsenal in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
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I mean to be fair there was a significant period prior to being "the sick man of europe" where the ottoman empire constantly and consistantly cranked out the dopest shit on the continent in pretty much every field
they were the 1980s japan of their day
if you want to read more about it then I highly recommend this book
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I am a terrible archer that hasn't held a bow in over 10 years, but when I was shooting I found doing it in a cadence left me with a much better spread of arrows than pausing to aim ever did. Grabbing the arrow, knocking it, pulling it, and then releasing all in a single, fluid yet thoughtless motion let's the part of the brain that is preternatural in physics take over. Even managed to split an arrow while cadence shooting, once.
Rather horny there Chauncey
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For all you know, that's true
ah so they were the game developers of their days
Do not doubt the power of being really horny
To be fair, that's how most of the artists we know got their start.
And then shitheads like Leonardo ruin the curve for anyone by starting brilliant.
Reminds me when I had to do some report on Hans Arp back in university. And you read about him with a bunch of his statements that art and his sculptures are spontaneous and direct inspiration from the head to the hand, expression of the self, blablabla and then his work process was giving his studio workers a bunch of sketches for them to make a sculpture from.
https://youtu.be/sZ-a8pYg7wY
Wonder if Airships would still be around in another timeline if this incident didn't spook people off forever
We have so many major plane crashes and we are still using them to travel around
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjOG5gboFU
Probably not. I cant think of anything airships do better than planes.
Also insert classic fact about how planes are one of the safest means of travel.
Damn
Also, that Archer episode.
any skyline is improved by a big ol' dope airship.
It's kinda cool how mad sexy this is though right like
We think of people from this time as being really repressed
But this statue is hot as hell
yeah, there is really no linear progression of "repressed" to "open"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrV5hc5k3U
in America at least, the only reason we feel like people didn't have sex before or during the 1950s is that people in the 1950s worked super hard to convince people of that "fact"
when in fact people were boning constantly before that time period and also all throughout that time period
People have always been horny and will always be horny
Anecdotal but I feel like that tracks. It wasn't so much the act being considered scandalous as it was talking about it openly.
the idea of orgies everywhere was early christian propaganda intended to make folks in the territories weirded out by people outside the pomerium and biographers who wanted to make certain emperors look worse
Not disagreeing with you but we really have no idea how far airship safety and innovations would be pushed if given the time
I wikied the first major aircrash and it took place like 40 years after the Hindenburgh incident and that took away 346 lives, if the airship industry survived up til that point I wonder that would have swung(?) public opinions around
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
There still are airships built today, they can't transport cargo faster than planes, they are more susceptible to the weather (winds), and if you want to move a lot of cargo slowly trains and ships are still the king.
Really, planes killed the airship. They were able to exist for a shot period of time where they could be the fastest means of safe travel, but in the 30s planes advanced enough that their time was over.
There’s actually some really cool use cases for hybrid lifting bodies (think huge wing-shaped blimps that get partial lift from buoyancy and partially from being a wing).
The economics just don’t make a whole lot of sense for a huge fleet of them, so the idea goes unused.
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If that was a tinder profile I'd swipe right instantly
Please don't waste the good silverware on severing my aorta just use the cheap stuff it's fine
As hot as that statue is, I'm actually more blown away by the skill.
I've spent a couple of weeks trying to sculpt a cloak dramatically blowing in the wind (with polymer clay) and despite being pleased with the result, if I did it every day for the rest of my life I'd never get anywhere near as good as that sculptor.
Just never cheat on her. She will literally kill you.
yeah i too am extremely turned on by it
wait what did you say?
They probably didn't need to but also you know what fuck you.
e: well they are arrowheads, apparently, but not actually Ottoman.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24852
they were the 1980s japan of their day
if you want to read more about it then I highly recommend this book