The Awesome Pictures Thread

[D.B. Barnes]

[Gandalf Lundgren]

[Tripe]

It looks like a machine but acts like a mammal…and public transportation. Inspired by a prop from a street theater company (which was, in turn, an homage to Jules Verne's mechanical pachyderm in The Steam House) the Great Elephant is 12 meters high, weighs 45 tons, can carry 49 people on its back for a 45-minute promenade along the Loire River, and is powered by the motor from a city bus. But the not-in-Kansas-anymore part is that it trumpets, wags its tail, blinks its eyes, sprays people with water from its trunk, and has been known to pee on the sidewalk. The beast is but one of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes, a sculptural and mechanical oasis of whimsical creatures inspired by Nantes native, Jules Verne, housed in what was until recently a decommissioned shipyard and industrial wasteland.

(they're cheating a wee bit but legs are a terribly inefficient means of locomotion).

[Asbestos Bill]

Those snow monkeys are rad. Did I post one in this thread? Even if I did, it bears repeating:

Ron Gessel

[Asbestos Bill]

{oil on canvas} | Maurizio Bongiovanni

[Compound]

5th Element?

(smacksupbesidethehead)

A new life awaits you in the Off-World colonies.

[Raefire]

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[MartyS (Gromit)]

Here's what I spend the day taking pictures of:

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These guys are nuts:




These guys are completely nuts:


This is where my horse usually lives:

I was amazed there wasn't a whole lot of garbage to be picked up afterwards.
But of course one person had to lock their keys in their car so we had to wait around till after dark for them to get out so we could put the horses back in there...

[Lembach]

5th Element?

How DARE you, sir and/or madam. I will reach through this interwebz and force choke you. 

[Tripe]

I will reach through this interwebz and force choke you. 

Oh, like in Star Trek?

[Asbestos Bill]

[ScottotD]

[MartyS (Gromit)]

If anyone is interested in more pictures like the ones I posted earlier of the rodeo I just made a webpage with a bunch more:

http://www.science.widener.edu/~schultz/RodeoatMillerFarms/

I don't really like the calf roping and steer wrestling, but the other events I don't mind.

[Relaxing Dragon]

Lego figures can't look up.

Yup. Big Al says so.

[Lembach]