Topic: Imagery Unload (Read 168333 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #700 on:** August 06, 2010, 11:59:53 AM »

I prefer to think that it exposes a hard truth about the time we're living in.

Classic · « **Reply #701 on:** August 06, 2010, 12:06:54 PM »

Sand and hard living does that to a body.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #702 on:** August 06, 2010, 12:24:56 PM »

Yeah, it's a real reminder that our everyday fancy-schmancy hair care products and skin care products and orthodontics and complex prosthetics and reconstructive surgery and cryosurgery are really all very recent things.

Mongrel · « **Reply #703 on:** August 06, 2010, 12:49:13 PM »

And the nutty standards we've developed as a result.

You know those crazy generic hive people that were a staple of 70's sci-fi? Obsessed with cleanliness, all freakishly beautiful, living in some hyper-controlled society? They were a recurring them in books and movies and some TV shows through the late 60's and 70's. That's us now.

Okay, not so much the antiseptic universal white singlesuits and shaved heads. But y'know.

EDIT: the funniest part is that that OTHER sci-fi meme about us abandoning the physical sphere for cerebral, computer-based pursuits was also right. Only our pursuits are still drivel (and sadly feature no telekinesis... yet) and instead of becoming rakishly thin with bulbous heads, we're all just morbidly obese.

I'm getting this mental image of William Shatner laughing at everyone for some reason.

Brentai · « **Reply #704 on:** August 06, 2010, 06:25:40 PM »

You are probably focusing on the photos from rural Vermont and New Mexico coming off the ass-end of the Great Depression. I don't blame those people for looking just a little bit haggard.

There's a shot of a city street in Boston (#6) that should give you a clearer idea of what more relatable, urbanized people were like. It's not very clear on the faces but they're obviously not as sun-damaged and tired as the farm folk. If anything the only real difference is they all dressed about a million times better.

Friday · « **Reply #705 on:** August 06, 2010, 06:39:53 PM »

The final picture is amazing.

I mean, they all are to one degree or another, but man.

François · « **Reply #706 on:** August 06, 2010, 06:48:52 PM »

The black people seem to look at least marginally better, though.

~~man i hope this post don't make it seem like i'm trying to draw ridiculously uninformed conclusions from a tiny non-sample or 'nything like such~~BREAKING NEWS, BLACKS HAVE ALWAYS HAD IT EASIER THAN WHITES, AM I ON FOX YET

Mongrel · « **Reply #707 on:** August 06, 2010, 08:14:58 PM »

How about some colour photos, almost as good, from 30 years earlier. From Russia. I'd heard of these before but never knew there were so many or that they were this good. Wow.

Also, regarding earlier comments. Look at some of those pictures. Like # 56 or #68. Those kids look almost identical to any you would see today.

Büge · « **Reply #708 on:** August 06, 2010, 08:47:31 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on August 06, 2010, 06:25:40 PM

You are probably focusing on the photos from rural Vermont and New Mexico coming off the ass-end of the Great Depression. I don't blame those people for looking just a little bit haggard.

Yeah, okay. That makes a lot more sense. It's like those photos of people from the dust bowl.

Quote from: Mongrel on August 06, 2010, 08:14:58 PM

Also, regarding earlier comments. Look at some of those pictures. Like # 56 or #68. Those kids look almost identical to any you would see today.

Kids get a free pass.

Quote from: Mongrel on August 06, 2010, 08:14:58 PM

How about some colour photos, almost as good, from 30 years earlier. From Russia. I'd heard of these before but never knew there were so many or that they were this good. Wow.

Wow, everything looks so... clean. There's no cars. Heavy industry hadn't taken a foothold yet. World War I was still a few years away. Socialism was in its infancy.

Those people really had no idea of what was to come.

Brentai · « **Reply #709 on:** August 06, 2010, 08:56:48 PM »

Rasputin was only beginning to literally rape the government...

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #710 on:** August 09, 2010, 07:37:44 PM »

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #711 on:** August 09, 2010, 10:06:38 PM »

The filename explains it all, really.

Smiler · « **Reply #712 on:** August 10, 2010, 07:15:16 AM »

Ziiro · « **Reply #713 on:** August 10, 2010, 05:42:25 PM »

The Saint's row 2 experience.

Bal · « **Reply #714 on:** August 10, 2010, 07:15:47 PM »

He's not dressed like santa, and he didn't shoot him. False advertising.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #715 on:** August 13, 2010, 08:08:37 AM »

So the city of St. Louis has started putting new signs on its overpasses:

I for one cannot wait until the city is flooded and overrun with homicidal mutants.

Mongrel · « **Reply #716 on:** August 13, 2010, 08:34:04 AM »

I don't get it.

A quick Google search shows that's a semi-common name in Missouri, so I'm guessing it refers to the street on that overpass?

I mean, it's an ugly sign and St. Louis is a shit town, but I don't see anything that really merits a party on Mount Megeddo.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #717 on:** August 13, 2010, 09:40:17 AM »

I refuse to explain my jokes!

Frocto · « **Reply #718 on:** August 13, 2010, 09:51:49 AM »

I think I get it, but if it's a Bioshock joke then, fuck, man

Mongrel · « **Reply #719 on:** August 13, 2010, 10:16:17 AM »

Well, I give up.

Here, have An 8-year old prodigy. Who gives a rat's ass if they're not avant-garde. He's already got anything I ever did beat, so good on 'im.

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