There’s gotta be a weird story here… Though quite possibly all in the artist’s mind.
A tiny church with a long dock out back, and a man standing on it under a street lamp.
And either all that is in the back yard of the house where the woman is washing dishes, or the streets in that neighborhood are about 8 feet wide… too narrow for a car.
Those are called mammatus clouds… Like sacs of ice on the bottoms of other clouds.
According to my friend Mr. Google… various sources… they’re uncommon, but when they do occur, tend to follow heavy storms or tornadoes, rather than auguring them.
However, they can portend ice, hail, lightning and sometimes snow.
The artist is Achille Beltrame.
I’ll leave you to look him up, but a warning, whether through coercion or sympathy he drew many pro-axis power propaganda illustrations throughout WW II.
They are virtually inescapable in any article about him, and while they are well done they make me feel uncomfortable for some reason.
I suspect AI. The ship is an odd composite of modern & very old, passenger & cargo vessels. That derrick is right for a WWII cargo ship; which wouldn’t have deck chairs in that area. The rigging to the left of it is off an old sailing ship. The raised part of the bow looks like nothing real, and that little piece of railing on it is just weird.
I would feel uncomfortable too…..In my opinion, WW2 was a clear case of good vs evil.
naturally, no country is 100% good or evil—but the Axis powers, not only started
the bloodshed, but they murdered far, far more people…
Hmmm … Before I go looking to find out, if I do… I’ll take a shot.
Pretty sure about nine, guessed at a couple of others….
so some could be wrong….
Starting in the back row, L-R…
I feel I should recognize the first two, but I don’t, at the moment. Then there’s Princess Diana… then what could be a bad picture of Bessie Smith but she’s usually prettier than that, so I kinda don’t think so… Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, don’t recognize the blonde.
The one a bit below the others I don’t know. At first I thought Florence Nightingale but probably not.
Next row dressed like Scarlett O’Hara but doesn’t look like Vivien Leigh… Could be a bad pic, or someone else.
Don’t know the lady with the prison number(?), but behind her, Gloria Steinem, then Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Bettie Page.
They bought the old ‘London Bridge’ by mistake. Not too surprising as most pictures you see of London and the Thames include Tower Bridge, so it tends to get thought of as ‘London’s Bridge’
Fun fact, Tower Bridge is actually of iron/steel construction, and the stonework is just a shell covering the ferrous bits.
The owner of the development has always said he never thought he was getting the Tower Bridge…
He went to London and looked at what he was buying before he invested… I think a million pounds.
…
It was being sold because it was weak…
So he actually had only the exterior stones removed and shipped to Arizona, where they were applied to a new, concrete duplicate of the bridge.
Even more insane, they installed the bridge on a peninsula, then had a channel dredged underneath, so it would be an island.
…
Then he built a shopping center that supposedly looked like a fake “Olde English” village, and used the whole thing to market properties in his development.
That’s One Times Square, also sometimes still called the New York Times Building, a 25-story skyscraper built in 1903–1904 as the headquarters of The New York Times.
But I also read that the newspaper moved to West 42nd Street in 1913, and other businesses have been headquartered in that building.
So I don’t know what was in there that day, or who was actually hosting the scoreboard.
His last house (designed with a fairy tale theme by Vogel and his architect brother) is open to the public
The picture is a link (Tigressy won’t need it, but all being well there should be a translation option box show up in the right hand corner)
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
1 month ago
Something you don’t see every day: A vegan horror movie.
Cabbages and cauliflowers with their heads cut off, carrots ripped alive from the soft earth, potatoes wrenched alive from the ground, tumbled underwater, skinned and sliced, and dumped into boiling oil!
Thanks for the reminder that this is out there ! ! !
Lyrics
Michael Rennie was ill
The day the Earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It came from outer Space
And this is how the message ran
Science fiction (ooh-ooh-ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh-ooh-ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh-ooh-ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh-ooh-ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide
Said George Pal to his bride
I’m gonna give you some terrible thrills Like a
Science fiction (ooh-ooh-ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh-ooh-ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh-ooh-ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh-ooh-ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I wanna go, oh-oh-oh-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
By R.K.O., wo-oh-oh-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row, oh-oh-oh-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
This could well be the cartoon showing in conjunction as it was made in 1956 and movie theatres usually played the latest ones.
Warning:
This is the most depressing cartoon I have ever seen that’s supposed to be funny (it also does not fit with the “normal” of Tom and Jerry cartoons).
.
There sits your three year old.
Sure that he’s not sleepy, and he shouldn’t have to take a nap!
We’re watching a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old on Saturday from 10AM until midnight. Fun times (well, yeah, actually). Pray for me. {^¿^}
William Conrad.
Leonard Koscianski
He appears to be making light of the situation…
http://www.instantrimshot.com
There’s gotta be a weird story here… Though quite possibly all in the artist’s mind.
A tiny church with a long dock out back, and a man standing on it under a street lamp.
And either all that is in the back yard of the house where the woman is washing dishes, or the streets in that neighborhood are about 8 feet wide… too narrow for a car.
.
Captioned:
Mayhem is a photograph by Aaron J Groen which was uploaded on September 13th, 2020.
HERE.
I think Aaron Groen must have used filters on his lens to get the effect.
Reminds me more of an old Popular Mechanics that showed how to add clouds to a photo with cotton batting..
he did
Thanks for that.
Possibly a “jell”? I noticed that the green in the bottom half is greener.
I think it’s greener because whether a filter or a gel, it’s very translucent, so the color underneath shows through.
If it were opaque, of course, we couldn’t see the image.
The streaks of light between the clouds are almost white, so when covered by the filter you see something close to its actual color.
Laid over the clouds, it mixes with their reflected blue from the sky, and below, with the green of the grass.
One more good storm should do it.
I expect to see a witch on a broom and some flying monkeys any minute
Those are called mammatus clouds… Like sacs of ice on the bottoms of other clouds.
According to my friend Mr. Google… various sources… they’re uncommon, but when they do occur, tend to follow heavy storms or tornadoes, rather than auguring them.
However, they can portend ice, hail, lightning and sometimes snow.
..
“Noah. How long can you tread water?”
This is being sold to us under false pretenses. I don’t think those people are having any fun at all.
I beg to differ; the cad about a third up on the right seems to have the situation well in hand.
Yandex for providing the text, Google for translating the relevant part:
“The dramas of the sea the transatlantic Company hit by a formidable wave. (Drawing by A. Dectrame).”
Rouge wave?
There’s a rouge but what he’s doing with his hand isn’t ‘waving’.
The artist is Achille Beltrame.
I’ll leave you to look him up, but a warning, whether through coercion or sympathy he drew many pro-axis power propaganda illustrations throughout WW II.
They are virtually inescapable in any article about him, and while they are well done they make me feel uncomfortable for some reason.
I suspect AI. The ship is an odd composite of modern & very old, passenger & cargo vessels. That derrick is right for a WWII cargo ship; which wouldn’t have deck chairs in that area. The rigging to the left of it is off an old sailing ship. The raised part of the bow looks like nothing real, and that little piece of railing on it is just weird.
you must have difficulty communicating verbally with your tongue firmly planted in your cheek
I would feel uncomfortable too…..In my opinion, WW2 was a clear case of good vs evil.
naturally, no country is 100% good or evil—but the Axis powers, not only started
the bloodshed, but they murdered far, far more people…
they and their regimes had to be stamped out
.,
Okay, I got a few…
Yup!
Nope, but I got Annie Oakley
Hmmm … Before I go looking to find out, if I do… I’ll take a shot.
Pretty sure about nine, guessed at a couple of others….
Starting in the back row, L-R…
I feel I should recognize the first two, but I don’t, at the moment. Then there’s Princess Diana… then what could be a bad picture of Bessie Smith but she’s usually prettier than that, so I kinda don’t think so… Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, don’t recognize the blonde.
The one a bit below the others I don’t know. At first I thought Florence Nightingale but probably not.
Next row dressed like Scarlett O’Hara but doesn’t look like Vivien Leigh… Could be a bad pic, or someone else.
Don’t know the lady with the prison number(?), but behind her, Gloria Steinem, then Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Bettie Page.
I thought the blonde to the right at the back
But I’m probably wrong.
All I can say is that if you’re right, that’s a terrible picture.
The redhead in back row – Annie Oakley/
Woman with prison numbers – Rosa Parks
Yup! I had the first, but i couldn’t remember Rosa’s name.
Thanks… I knew Annie Oakley immediately but somehow left her out of my list!
I’m embarrassed that I didn’t recognize Rosa Parks.
,.,
And Tower Bridge was the bridge Lake Havasu City thought they’d purchased!
Seriously? 😀
Yup!
They bought the old ‘London Bridge’ by mistake. Not too surprising as most pictures you see of London and the Thames include Tower Bridge, so it tends to get thought of as ‘London’s Bridge’
Fun fact, Tower Bridge is actually of iron/steel construction, and the stonework is just a shell covering the ferrous bits.
The owner of the development has always said he never thought he was getting the Tower Bridge…
He went to London and looked at what he was buying before he invested… I think a million pounds.
…
It was being sold because it was weak…
So he actually had only the exterior stones removed and shipped to Arizona, where they were applied to a new, concrete duplicate of the bridge.
Even more insane, they installed the bridge on a peninsula, then had a channel dredged underneath, so it would be an island.
…
Then he built a shopping center that supposedly looked like a fake “Olde English” village, and used the whole thing to market properties in his development.
In the Arizona desert, miles from anywhere.
And people actually bought them.
I know. I lived there. Worked on the golf course.
Old man McCulloch was a wheeler-dealer.
Wow, I didn’t know you’d been there.
I’ll sell it to you for five thousand dollars.
…
I think I dated her in the 70’s…
Dead Head, i’m guessing.
Dead everything 😁
lol
I’m guessing you did a lot of drugs in the ’70s. 😉
Mostly beer…
It’s sad that teenage girls feel they need to go on dangerous fad diets just to fit into their prom dresses.
Take her to In-N-Out for a double-double… STAT!
No movement, but it flashes when i scroll.
Interesting.
At first it reminded me of when the cat tried to hide behind the Venetian blinds , and they got all bent.
no fair using a helicopter!
Should be easy — it’s all downhill…
I just hopped in the stream and rode it all the way down.
Yes! You only have to wade around a few big rocks, and you’re on the landing beach.
My 1st thought too. Then I saw the waterfalls. Soooo, get out before each fall and rejoin the stream after.
Or go down in a barrel
Times Square, 1919
Looks like every office gets a window in that middle building. Or is it a hotel?
Ok, I checked that too….
That’s One Times Square, also sometimes still called the New York Times Building, a 25-story skyscraper built in 1903–1904 as the headquarters of The New York Times.
But I also read that the newspaper moved to West 42nd Street in 1913, and other businesses have been headquartered in that building.
So I don’t know what was in there that day, or who was actually hosting the scoreboard.
Gosh… There are so many people, and such crowded traffic, I thought it must be some sort of celebratory parade.
But WWI ended in 1918… so I googled the image …
Wikipedia has captioned it .. unbelievably enough (though I believe it)….
“Thousands gather outside The New York Times building in Times Square to get World Series results from a remote scoreboard in October, 1919.”
If you look closely, you can see they’re all turned towards that white scoreboard on the end of the building.
the national pastime
Spot the joy-riders.
Rose Breasted Grosbeak
in flight
We see those occasionally.
What the heck is that? Bark Choy?
His last house (designed with a fairy tale theme by Vogel and his architect brother) is open to the public
The picture is a link (Tigressy won’t need it, but all being well there should be a translation option box show up in the right hand corner)
Something you don’t see every day: A vegan horror movie.
Cabbages and cauliflowers with their heads cut off, carrots ripped alive from the soft earth, potatoes wrenched alive from the ground, tumbled underwater, skinned and sliced, and dumped into boiling oil!
Sounds like a horror movie to me!!
Loew’s State Theatre (1956)
“And Michael Rennie was ill, the day the earth stood still… 🎶..👄…♪♪”
(I just corrected my autocorrect, which I didn’t notice had autocratically “corrected” the word “ill” to “there” and destroyed the rhyme.)
“Claude Reins was the Invisible Man…”
So I see…or not.
I remember that day . Rennie and Patricia Neal spent the duration of it in an elevator—-
Otis , I believe
and
Thanks for the reminder that this is out there ! ! !
Michael Rennie was ill
The day the Earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It came from outer Space
And this is how the message ran
Science fiction (ooh-ooh-ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh-ooh-ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh-ooh-ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh-ooh-ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide
Said George Pal to his bride
I’m gonna give you some terrible thrills Like a
Science fiction (ooh-ooh-ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh-ooh-ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh-ooh-ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh-ooh-ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I wanna go, oh-oh-oh-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
By R.K.O., wo-oh-oh-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row, oh-oh-oh-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Richard O’brien
Science Fiction – Double Feature lyrics © Druidcrest Music, Druidcrest Ltd.
This could well be the cartoon showing in conjunction as it was made in 1956 and movie theatres usually played the latest ones.
Warning:
This is the most depressing cartoon I have ever seen that’s supposed to be funny (it also does not fit with the “normal” of Tom and Jerry cartoons).
BLUE CAT BLUES
Our little local theatre got “Love Me Tender” soon after it opened. One of several Saturday matinees I remember going to…
Meanwhile….OMG!
Terrifyingly colossal canine cabbages!
Unbelievably bad behemoth Brussels Basset sprouts!
The mind boggles!
These vicious vegetables are definitely NOT good for your health…. or the health of your precious canine companions.
….
Quick! Cook them! Cook them quickly, before they exact retribution for our centuries of wanton vegetable eating!
Is it too late to apologise for that half a bag of …. sob…. frozen baby peas I had with dinner?
PLEASE! I didn’t know any better!
…didn’t know any butter?
All packed with vitamin K-9