Sometimes images can just take your breathe away

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

[J-BAR #18287]

If you put enough Jameson's into your Irish coffee, you'll see things like that.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Yeah, that'd do it~!  

[Cypress Sun]

 

19 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

If you put enough Jameson's into your Irish coffee, you'll see things like that.

 

That's stuff that dreams are made of.

[Alpo]

2 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

 

That's stuff that dreams are made of.

I thought this was the stuff that dreams are made of.

 

[Cypress Sun]

8 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I thought this was the stuff that dreams are made of.

 

 

 

[Pat Riot]

[Rye Miles #13621]

[Subdeacon Joe]

7 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

 

That's stuff that dreams are made of.

 

I thought that was Absinthe. 

[sassnetguy50]

19 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

How many times have you been rear ended in your driveway?

[Subdeacon Joe]

Marble. 

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

SJ, where/what is that?

[Rye Miles #13621]

48 minutes ago, sassnetguy50 said:

How many times have you been rear ended in your driveway?

Exactly zero

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, sassnetguy50 said:

How many times have you been rear ended in your driveway?

Place I used to live, the street made a 90° turn. One night I hear this horrendous crash, go outside and look. Some guy had not made the turn. It just driven straight across the street up into the yard head on into a pine tree.

 

So I can absolutely understand that "rear-ended in your driveway" thing. Somebody not paying attention and not making the turn.

 

For the longest time a fairly busy street ended at a T intersection. And on the other side of the cross street was this giant oak tree. We called it the killer oak. Late at night, half drunk, people be charging down that busy street and blow through that stop sign and go right across the street into that oak tree.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

SJ, where/what is that?

 

https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-chapel-and-the-veiled-christ/the-veiled-christ/the-statue

 

died in 1752 and only managed to make a terracotta scale model of the Christ, which is now preserved in the Museo di San Martino. So Raimondo di Sangro appointed a young Neapolitan artist, Giuseppe Sanmartino, to make “a life-sized marble statue, representing Our Lord Jesus Christ dead, and covered in a transparent shroud carved from the same block as the statue”. Sanmartino paid little heed to the previous scale model made by the Venetian sculptor. Both in Modesty, and in the Veiled Christ, the original stylistic message is in the veil, but Sanmartino’s late baroque feeling and sentiment permeate the shroud with a movement and a meaning far removed from Corradini’s rules.

 

https://allchronology.com/2023/08/12/the-veiled-virgin-a-masterpiece-of-illusion-and-artistry-carved-in-stone/

 

 

And another one 

https://academiaaesthetics.com/gallery/la-pudicizia/

 

 

https://medium.com/@oshmanlabby/three-artworks-that-got-the-artists-accused-of-alchemy-3086e919ca6

 

For more like these search "gossamer marble statue. "

 

[Alpo]

"The veiled Christ"?? Beardless?

 

Those three pictures are obviously two different sculptures, but I thought they were both supposed to be women.

[Rye Miles #13621]

Longhorn steer in Ohio!!! This is right down the street from our cowboy shoot. Firelands Peacemakers!

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

21 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

Wasn't she in the 300 movie? I'm pretty sure she was.

[bgavin]

Photoshop is a big help here...

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 7/27/2024 at 8:41 AM, J-BAR #18287 said:

If you put enough Jameson's into your Irish coffee, you'll see things like that.

Or if you put enough coffee into your Jameson's.  

 

Nah!  That doesn't make sense

[watab kid]

some pretty cool images starting with that OP shot - yup very inspiring 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

I know what you mean. 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 7/27/2024 at 10:49 AM, Pat Riot said:

Look at the background all around this and tell me "Where is this car?"

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

2 hours ago, Rooster Ron Wayne said:

I know what you mean. 

 

Definitely a female mammal.  (See how observant I am?)