Any old Pics - replicating google images, one post at a time (Part 1)

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7803

it is an amazing painting

7804

I love this one

John Dillon Street - Francis Matthews

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7805

And this one :heart_eyes:

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7806

Double wow :astonished::astonished:

7807

Iā€™d love that as a photo, let alone a painting!

7808

Thatā€™s a remarkable feat of painting

7809

Iā€™m going to have to try and source a print (of a painting pretending to be a print).

My head hurts !

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Perhaps the fact that itā€™s a painting allows him to do things that would be very difficult with a camera ? The sky is very dark compared with some of the other blacks in the image. Real-world skies above towns and cities, especially when itā€™s raining, are greyed by stray urban light scattering off the cloud, and the rain itself. But the effect heā€™s achieved - of an inky darkness looming over a deserted streetscape is wonderful. I donā€™t know how easy it would be to achieve with digital processing of a camera image, even assuming you could find a city lit up but without a soul in it.

VB

7811

That is the corner of Georges Street and Dame Street in Dublin. You would pass it walking from Trinity College to Dublin Castle if you have visited Dublin. Temple Bar where all the eye-diddle-diddle Pubs are is basically just behind you in terms of the painting. It is very, very good.

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Sammy Davis Jrā€™s mother Elvera Sanchez Davis.

First time Iā€™ve ever seen a photograph of her.

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Roky Erickson and his mum Evelyn 1966.

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7814

Wow ! She is beautiful.

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7815

A very troubled guy and a sad tale.

7816

It certainly is

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Contestants in the Miss America pageant participating in competitive ironing, 1954.

Fuckā€™s sakeā€¦ :confounded:

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7818

Thought that was Straya 2004 for a second.

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Competitive ironing is still a thing. Some years ago at the IFA show in Berlin, Philips was letting you take on the Dutch national ironing champion at ironing a shirt. The champ had an ordinary iron while you got to use the latest and greatest ā€˜smart iron.ā€™ The good news for gender progress was that that the champion was a (really nice) bloke called Bart.

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I can only imagine the size of the body count if you told 8 Strayans to do some ironing.

7821

Yes I can imagine with the feral ones, but wot about the domesticated variety?

7822

Eh? What the fuck are you on about? Domesticated Strayansā€¦pppffffttā€¦