Tied

More of Best Korea artillery show

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

Nice try Joe Yankee, gods dont die, next thing you will tell me is Stormin Norman died 

Hey! The Easter Bunny showed up! 

Yuri Pasholok and co. find and unfuck a Pak 36 barrel that's been rusting in the cargo hold of the armoured boat at TsMVS for god knows how long. Bonus appearances from museum cats and a T-34 turret traverse mechanism. http://yuripasholok.livejournal.com/5995282.html

No, this is real Dutch art:


 
I saw this painting at an exhibition last week, along with several other selections from the Old Dutch Masters.  Screw your post-impressionistic nonsense; these guys are where it's at.  They're not called the masters for nothing.

If you look closely, several of Vermeer's paintings have depth of focus effects.  In a painting.  A painting painted in the mid 1600s.
 
Dutch art in the golden age was a wholesale rejection of traditional European concepts of subject matter; that is that religious and historical scenes should predominate.  They painted portraits of the rich, middle class, even of the poor at work.  They painted women composing letters, trustees of a hospital discussing finances, and herring boats working the shoals.  If this sounds utterly prosaic and boring it's because you are living in the world they created.  Before them art wasn't considered interesting unless it was the five thousandth portrayal of the martyrdom of Saint Whatever or some siege.
 

 
Technically they were absolutely a match for any contemporary painters, even the Italians.  Stylistically they were better, being far more capable of using subtle cues of conveying intent to the viewer.  Take mister Andries de Graeff above.  Look at all the hints in his posture and the framing of the picture that this man was powerful and self-assured.  The composition is both stylized and naturalistic; the light is falling on his face so we can see his features clearly, but it is also falling on his clothing in a consistent manner that shows the texture of the cloth.  This is another cue; he's wearing an extremely well-made and expensive outfit; one that flaunts his wealth and importance even within the monochromatic restraints of Calvinist decency.  The point of view is important as well.  We're looking up at him from the ground.
 
This painting is also gigantic.  Seriously, it's like two meters tall.

its like someone came into a half eaten box of ethnic food and threw it off a bridge to land in the windshield of your car 

Imgur memes
 

Also because it's not a funny show.

My mind is numb from years of deployment. A single year seems to last seven. They say the world is full of beautiful colors. It all looks black and white to me. A question swirls around my brain - somebody stateside asked me, years ago. "Who's a good boy?" I've learned that there are none. We don't all go to heaven

your brother owns a tavor and was once described to me as being "ethnic". the only way your dutch is if your a Syrian refugee 

your brother owns a tavor and was once described to me as being "ethnic". the only way your dutch is if your a Syrian refugee 

Those jimmies are on a hair trigger

Supposedly it's a Type 62.  They did quite the job with vismodding it.
 
Edit:
Was looking into the matter a bit more, and I'm not sure about the Type 62 classification.  Ya-12 seems like a safer bet, but I'm still not entirely convinced.  Whoever built them made a couple at least, along with some Shermans that appear to be using the same base vehicle.

My mind is numb from years of deployment. A single year seems to last seven. They say the world is full of beautiful colors. It all looks black and white to me. A question swirls around my brain - somebody stateside asked me, years ago. "Who's a good boy?" I've learned that there are none. We don't all go to heaven