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29 Jan 07
29 Jan 07
Originally posted by Bosse de NageThere's bundless oportunity for planetary graffit, but my vote would be for carving a huge letter into each planet and wait until they align to spell out rude words.
The Martians were wiped out by a cosmic ray for their poor taste in constructing a gigantic smiley on the surface of their planet.
What other tasteless landmarks could be constructed in this vein?
29 Jan 07
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Originally posted by Bosse de Nagethey're building a similar world map of isles there too. that's a bit tacky.
Am I alone in finding the Palms Islands of Dubai, as seen from space, super-tacky?
http://epod.usra.edu/archive/images/c0009.jpg
but I like the palms. far nicer than the usual geometric crap with straight lines. maybe they could've been more organic in shape though... if you look at them from closer (google earth), the sea has a nice hue. it sort of brings david lynch's wild palms to my mind, for some reason.
29 Jan 07
Originally posted by wormwoodI suppose a nice orderly shape is necessary. There is the traffic to consider. At least they're not as bad as Mount Rushmore.
but I like the palms. far nicer than the usual geometric crap with straight lines. maybe they could've been more organic in shape though... if you look at them from closer (google earth), the sea has a nice hue. it sort of brings david lynch's wild palms to my mind, for some reason.
I wonder what sort of monstrosity Le Corbusier would have dreamt up, given the chance?
29 Jan 07
Originally posted by Bosse de Nageor oscar niemeyer 😀
I suppose a nice orderly shape is necessary. There is the traffic to consider. At least they're not as bad as Mount Rushmore.
I wonder what sort of monstrosity Le Corbusier would have dreamt up, given the chance?
a colossal set of feminine squirm of white conrete, no doubt. that would've been excellent! 🙂
the architecture of today is so boring. there should more crazy magicians and less engineers.
29 Jan 07
Originally posted by wormwoodSomething along these lines, perhaps?
or oscar niemeyer 😀
a colossal set of feminine squirm of white conrete, no doubt. that would've been excellent! 🙂
the architecture of today is so boring. there should more crazy magicians and less engineers.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/planet-miller.html
29 Jan 07
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Originally posted by Bosse de Nageexactly. (although the engineer in me is complaining about the
Something along these lines, perhaps?
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/planet-miller.html
I just love it when star trek and alike have that kind of 'futuristic' design. 🙂 there's nothing like the future in the 60's...
art deco is cool, catfoodtim. 🙂 there was even a picture of our train station http://www.decopix.com/New%20Site/Pages/Directory%20Pages/Intro.html in the link you gave.
the movie 'chronicles of riddick' had some nice massive art-deco spacecrafts piercing through the blackened sky btw...