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My painting "SEAPODS" - (24" X 24", Acrylic on wood panel, Framed: 32" x 32") ... will be exhibited , and available for sale, at the "Espionage Miami 2013" group art exhibition, in Miami Beach Florida, during the Art Basil USA exhibitions, (December 6, 2013 – January 31, 2014) ... Harold Golen Gallery - 2294 N.W 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33127 Wynwood Arts District.
My banker shot for my Photo a Day taken through my bedroom window because once again I didn't know how my day would pan out. I very rarely see gulls flying around my home but I expect that it's because my local chippy has closed due to Covid-19, as has Mac Monstrosity , I mean MacDonalds ;-) 2 miles away from me.
On the Granville Island dock looking at the monstrosity of the Granville Bridge crossing False Creek and into the Downtown core. Captured yesterday on Granville Island, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ August 29, 2017 😮
I'm on a mission to make turquoise icing (my absolute favourite colour for all things), but keep ending up with everything from teal to seagreen. This is another failed attempt!
I just bought a basketweave tip and was playing around with it. This monstrosity was the result.....
Weel 34
Theme: Architecture
Taken August 25, 2012
This is the Royal Ontario Museum, aka the ROM. It was previously just an old building, but they decided to jazz it up with this crystal monstrosities. It has made at least one list of the ugliest buildings in the world. It's definitely interesting combo of new architecture stuck onto an old building....
This is the spanky new Grandstand at Epsom Race Track where the Derby is held every June in the UK. To me, it looks like an uneasy cross between an airport control tower & the inside of a fancy, minimalist bathroom. Give me back the crumbling Victorian monstrosity that I used to wince at as I sped by in the haste & vigor of childhood.
This cork is only 8mm wide!
A visit into my garage store provided a bit of plastic tubing - small rainwater pipe!
A rolled-up piece of card from a cereal packet provided the basis for a second tube that just fitted inside the first.
The lens from a magnifying glass was pressed into the card tube - unbelievably it fitted.
Stuck a piece of card with a hole in the middle onto one end of this monstrosity and an m4/3 - m42 adapter on the other end, with the help of a rubber band.
We now have over 9 inches of something even Heath Robinson might have approved.
I then screwed it onto my little GM1 camera body.
Attached camera and 'lens' to a tripod.
Illuminated my little bottle with its 8mm wide cork.
Turned on the camera, aligned everything, moving tube and then bottle to get something in focus. Took two photographs and this is the second.
OK - just a bit of post-processing - but you can see the uncropped result.
Question: why bother with using an expensive lens when using scrap material can get you results like this?
Well I finally did it. I paid a visit to that monstrosity of a shopping mall that is near us. I only went because I was looking for a birthday gift for our Gareth and the shop I needed was there. Anyway I parked and headed in to Hockey Life. I was no sooner there when a spider the size of a guinea pig ran out in attack mode. (Kevin claims it was more the size of a dime and it just happened across the floor but I know an oversized attack spider when I see one!) Well needless to say I reacted to this attack as any sane person would and the resulting commotion and chaos was quite astounding. However the spider was disposed of, which was the main thing, and I am sure the mall can be restored in due time.
In my previous post you can see the huge cliff boulders that always present a danger.
Here we are on the trail below the cliffs and this boulder is evidence of the danger. This monstrosity came tumbling down and settled on the trail. Not sure when this took place, long before we moved out here, I'm sure.
Thanks for looking
For years I poo-poo'd going on a cruise on one of these mega-monstrosity ships. Well, our dear friends wore us down after a decade of cajoling. We joined them on a 7 day cruise. This was not a photography trip. However, I found opportunities for making images. Despite my years of apprehension the experience was quite relaxing and enjoyable. Their veteran cruise experience made it so.
This image was taken from a diving pier opposite the cruise ship pier in Mahogony Bay on Roatan island which is part of Honduras.
this monstrosity is on the N Commons of Allegheny Center, in the North Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Does anyone know what it is?
The 643 Westland crew heads off down the branch after pulling 30 odd empties off the hind end of 218X at George. Let the 218X go with the blue monstrosity for this matched consist. No doubt BP approves!
With BrickWorld Michigan coming up on September 23-24 (at Suburban Showplace in Novi), I am making a final effort to finish this monstrosity for display there.
The walls are almost complete but the roof remains to be built. The tower is currently lacking two upper levels plus a curved mansard roof. The incomplete building plus the base as seen here weighs in at 140 pounds (63 kg)
My cholesterol went up just looking at that mountain of fries.
One thing the Pima County fair in Tucson is certainly known for is coming up with some pretty outrageous food items. A grilled turkey leg wrapped in bacon, deep fried candy bars, and this monstrosity, Megafries. Pretty much an entire fryer basket stuffed with fries (chips), cooked up crispy and dumped on a plate.
We didn't stick around to watch this fellow devour this mountain of curled potatoes, my heart couldn't take it.
It looks like he was documenting his gastronomic undertaking, maybe to impress his Facebook friends back at the Boca Del Vista Retirement Community and RV Park?
Why are drones so damn fun to make? Seriously...
The left one is actually another one of my mechanical Nazi monstrosities, specifically an evolution of the thing on the left. Now it's more accurate to the source material, at least. The blue guy to the right was more inspired by the drones in Batman: Arkham Knight but they don't really look anything alike. Really I was just trying to use some different parts to make it, like the steering wheels for fans or the robot arm for the body (which you can't really see here, annoyingly).
"So does he just stand there all day?" Vermko titled his head back and looked up at the towering monstrosity.
His companion shrugged. "I think so? I certainly don't remember seeing him anywhere else."
The two of them continued staring at the tall being.
"Maybe he's just a statue..." Vermko began.
Kronk turned his head and looked directly at Vermko.
"Nope not a statue." His companion quickly stated.
“A spiffing way to go to war I decided as we powered through the veldt. Mr. Roberson’s patented Triterrortops steam powered terrible lizard replica was performing above the expectations it has been set by His Majesties Royal Calvalry Corp. My report to the Generals will be that the vehicle has proved more then adequate to combat the clone-vat monstrosities of the Zimbab bio-shamens.
The noise is reasonable as all three of us were capable of hearing each other over the roar of the steam pipes and the clashing gears if we raised our voices a little. The back of the steam beast also proved astonishingly fine as a gunnery platform, this afternoon we dispatched over half of a shocked pride of lions before the roaring animals had gotten out of range of our rifles! It was jolly good fun watching them run for their lives. Yes, God willing, with machines like this and with the innate superiority of our race The Albion Empire will soon conquer this dark and uncivilized continent!”
The above is an extract from the personal journal of Sergeant-Major Flashman Von-Gerbil. Like most of the Albion forces in West Africa he died in the Zimbab 'Double-Helix' uprising that led to the eventual African annexation of Europe.
Just a quick edit. What's your favorite Lambo ever made? Mine is this monstrosity and the LP670-4 SV.
... of this year's "ugly bus" competition is this monstrosity. Yep - I know it's only February, but if I see anything more hideous than this thing before the end of 2022, I'll be very surprised. Pass me the sick-bag, please.
BIG 822
Higer Steed (B26F)
Big Lemon, Brighton
Old Steine, Brighton
23 February 2022
Maybe Deen has the flat upstairs? 172213 approaches the gloom of the Joe Lucas staff car park at Spring Road in Birmingham with 2V22 the 11.19 Whitlock's End to Worcester Shrub Hill service. The two storey derelict concrete monstrosity is all that remains of this once proud company.
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I think you could pose and take pictures in this monstrosity, in a site street of Tianjin Road in Shanghai. In the comments Rutger told me what it is, I really thought it was just a home-made failure...
This is the monstrosity of a building designed by Ceausescu, president of Romania, until his overthrow and execution on 25 December 1989. it is the building in the world with the second largest floor ground floor area. I went in a small part of it which is used as a museum.
It’s not a pretty way to commence today’s episode, but I need to start by reporting the fact that for most of my adult life, my legs have been decorated with an ever changing array of bruises. Sometimes they appear in unappealing clusters, now and again the odd angry red welt, and more occasionally than I’d like, I find myself sporting a pancake sized monstrosity that fortunately remains mostly hidden from small children and others of a sensitive humour. It’s really not an engaging sight, but it’s a regular affliction, about which little can be done. “What’s up with him?” you’re no doubt wondering. “Is he unwell? Does he suffer from some as yet unexplained affliction for which a cure is yet to be discovered? Will he make it to Iceland in September as planned?”
The answer to all of the questions you’ve been asking yourself thus far is that his legs would soon return to their intended state if he did what most people of his age had done and stopped playing five a side football twice a week. I can’t help it. It’s just something I’ve always done because I love it, and I’m not yet ready to hang up my trainers, even though the pool of regulars has undergone a seismic demographic shift since we returned from lockdown twelve months ago. When the arrival of the pandemic put everything on hold, most of us were over fifty. Within three months of the resumption of hostilities, a sudden raft of old age retirements saw an influx of youthful types, fitter and faster than those they’d replaced. In the meantime, the stamina levels that enabled me to run non-stop for an hour and still feel fresh, helped by two completed marathons and several halves in the months before lockdown had been replaced by a lethargic indolence that saw my running career all but finish completely. I was never that keen on running unless I was scampering after a ball to be honest.
But why the bruises? Well I never said I was the most skilful of footballers. Try anything too elaborate and I usually end up lying in a heap on the sports hall floor. What I could do though was run about making a nuisance of myself and getting in the way of the more gifted players, blocking their efforts with whatever part of my body I could place between the goal and the ball in a hurry. While others totted up their goals, I counted the purple and yellow patches on my shins and thighs as if they were badges of honour. At least they were complementary opposites on the colour wheel.
But those days seem like a thing of the past now. And with the loss of fitness, the bruises I used to collect began to dwindle too. Until the last two weeks that is. Suddenly the right knee has an interesting pattern radiating out over the inside leg, the result of an innocuous jarring sensation early into a game a couple of weeks ago. The following week the knee appeared to have passed inspection without any noticeable issues, but in the final burst along the sports hall the left calf gave out. The next morning, all the colours of the rainbow were present, if not in the correct order; and the calf itself was very tender.
So on Friday I did the unimaginable. I declared myself unfit to play. I really don’t like missing out, as besides a bit of walking and scrambling about on cliffsides to bring you pictures I’m not doing much else to keep myself in shape these days. Sometimes it seems more sensible to allow oneself to properly recover rather than risk a longer absence from the action. It’s just that I’m not always entirely sensible. My son often likes to remind me about the time many years ago when I played while in the final stages of recovery from an e-Coli infection. I got the man of the match award that evening too. I enjoy a bit of adversity now and again you know.
It didn’t take long for a replacement to be found. Young Michael’s friend was down for the week; he’d ask him. “Any good?” came the response from the group. “Jimmy spent six seasons at Burton Albion if that helps,” was the reply. For a while the Whatsapp group went silent as everyone digested the fact that our game would be graced by a former full time professional player as a replacement for a broken down old has-been with a dodgy knee and a tight calf. Unsurprisingly I heard later that Jimmy was rather good. Whether I’ll be allowed back into the circle of trust after my convalescence remains to be seen.
My own football career highlight is rather more modest. While Jimmy will one day tell his grandchildren about the day his team played Manchester United in the FA Cup or about when they won promotion to the Football League, I will reflect on the proud occasion when I bumped into the England goalkeeper at Cullompton Services and managed to hold a brief conversation with him without giggling like a star struck teenager. “Isn’t he tall?” cooed the two service station attendants, both of them old enough to be his mother as they gazed up at the chiseled jaw over a foot above their heads. “Who is he again?” He even gave me a wave from his car as he drove off, while I tried to explain to my colleague who I’d just met. Even Ali knows who he is, following his appearance on Strictly Come Dancing a couple of years ago. Paired with the almost impossibly lovely Nadiya, he wasn’t too terrible either. At least it didn’t look like she was attempting to manoeuvre a wardrobe around the floor.
The absence from the usual Friday night exertions meant that I could do something else of course, and it had been a while since I’d visited the other hallowed ground in my life. The one where I could scramble around on cliff sides. An appointment with the sea thrift was already overdue, and the light was looking promising as I finally made the decision to put the book I’d almost finished to one side and climb into the car and go. There was a stiff breeze over Godrevy, but the evening sun was catching the myriad of seasonal pink blooms as I cursed myself for not having brought the wide angle lens with me. The photo itself isn’t one I think of as a favourite, but I had to present something in the telling of this tale and it has a certain glow, much like my bruises do. A few botched attempts, a cunning hack and a strategically placed hand where it wasn’t supposed to be in order to screen out the lens flare helped deliver a result, albeit in instalments that came together in the final blend. A bit like football really. A lot of energetic frustration interspersed with the odd moment of unadulterated joy. At least my legs are safe from collisions with fast flying objects when I’m sitting up here watching the world.
Fortunately, this time it is only polystyrene model for some movie. But about 1955 was real granite and much bigger monstrosity on the same place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Monument_%28Prague%29
The dark side of history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTheG--2NE0
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning - very very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo Figaro - magnifico-o-o-o
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
It's the LAW! No - we will not let you go - let him go
It's the LAW! We will not let you go - let him go
It's the LAW! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go (never)
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me
for me
for me
for me
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh baby - can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters, to me
Anyway the wind blows...
What was once known as a 'monstrosity', apparently has received a new lease of life in the 21st century. For all the renovation though, I consider this to be a horrible beast of concrete that really brings the city down a notch. Yucky.
Still, even though I hate it I wanted to stop and take a photograph. Standing in a creepy, hidden car park with a drunk walking slowly by, I had this lovely angled view onto the area.
I wonder what public opinion on the building is? A huge block of 20-century concrete built on top of a main road, next to a pretty ugly car park. Are there any positives? Hmm.
Length: 566 m
Width: 200 m
Height: 218 m
Nobel-class cruiser was a part of FPKF global replacement & renewal program, which consisted of numerous types of vehicles and ships, including vessels like Sakharov-class carriers and Gandhi-class frigates. "Nobel"s role ought to be main artillery cruiser in the peacekeeping navy, providing cover for "Sakharov" carriers against heavy enemy capital ships and initially it was planned that the ratio of "Nobels" to "Sakharovs" would be 1:3.
"Nobel"s powerplant again was mostly the same as for the "Gandhi" frigates, but forced and with added protection. This level of unification between FPKF ships saved money on development and maintenance. On Sakharov-class it resulted in a lack of trust and therefore poor speed characteristics, but on "Nobel" modified engines perfectly matched FPKF's requirements.
Main armament consisted of 3 triple long-range gun turrets, torpedo/missile launching tube at bottom and 2 nose-mounted heavy beam guns, for defense it featured 8 anti-spacecraft turrets. If long-range and defensive turrets was in fact standard and were used on many types of ships, "Nobel"s main caliber - 2 beam guns became a source of problems on early production stage. Idea of their usage was quite simple - destroying ships under 150 meters in a single shot. But usually at the time this type of weapon was present only on big capital ships like battleships and dreadnoughts, and installing not one, but two beam guns on a cruiser even in a bit miniaturized form wasn't simple engineering task.
And so when first serial "Sakharovs" entered service, due to armament issues production of "Nobels" was further delayed, resulting in placing heavy weaponry on carriers and pushing them into more of carrier-cruiser role. When "Nobels" was ready to enter full-scale production, initial FPKF request of production in 1:3 ratio decreased to 1:5 ratio, mostly because navy was facing lack of government funding, and therefore was decided that in relatively peaceful galaxy at the period there was no need for large number of domestic artillery cruisers in peacekeeping forces.
Things changed when Insectoid wars started. Existing number of cruisers can't fulfill defense of carriers and supply ships against hoards of insectoid vessels, and their specialization on long range combat, which used to be an advantage, has now turned into a big disadvantage considering relatively light armor and current naval tactics. current tactics. "Nobels" was useful in large formations with Absolvent-class cruisers and other ships that could engage in close combat, while "Nobels" perform pinpoint strikes on damaged or significant enemy vessels. Aerodynamic shape and atmospheric cruising flight capabilities also turned out to be an advantage - "Nobels" often ambush insectoid ships using their long-range armament and clouds as a cloak or just lured enemy fleets into atmosphere, where cruisers easily could outmaneuver insectoid monstrosities and put them under the fire of planetary defense guns. After Insectoid wars Nobels faced mostly the same fate as Sakharovs - being sold to PMC's and local defense forces, where their long-range combat capabilities became useful again.
27 January 1945 - 70's after the liberation of Auschwitz. One day when we stop to reflect.
I appeal to all my Flickr friends, who join in this day of sad memory, a reflection that honors all the victims of this monstrosity, which exceeded all standards of barbarism and must never be forgotten.
Never won both an ideology and human values so little ... Never dementia and human wickedness was so deep ... this hell, hope would have been the greatest of human strength, if there was despair ...
What exactly is this monstrosity? Why, my attempt at a realistic starfighter, of course. I'll be taking more pictures, to include loadout and description shots soon. In the meantime, here's the unnecessarily long backstory:
“Good morning ladies and Gentlemen. You’re here because the Space Corps has determined you have a need to be read-in to the “HAVE SHIVER” program. I don’t need to remind you of the extreme sensitivity of this information.
“Project HAVE SHIVER was borne out of an operational need for a maneuverable, autonomous manned space fighter-interceptor to act as an additional line of defense to orbital installations and mobile cruisers. As you know, the Coalition has become adept at jamming our data link connections with long range defensive drones, all too often rendering our shorter range secondary defenses the only ones available. A manned fighter can operate 100% autonomous if need be.
“More than simply being autonomous, this fighter needs to be maneuverable. You know all too well the shortcomings of our only other attempt at a space “fighter,” the SF-7, which is enormously overweight, underpowered, and on the whole, not very adept at maneuvering. The coalition’s defenses are based heavily around kinetic weapons, which are highly effective against our current equipment. However, a lightweight fighter, so long as it detects the incoming projectile, could easily sidestep it.
“The primary weapon for Project HAVE SHIVER is a modified version of the MIM-21 Configurable Munitions Delivery Platform, colloquially known as the “Boom Box.” The most common loadouts for HAVE SHIVER intercept- or space-superiority missions are flash-expansion or radial flak configuration, employed under a shoot-look-shoot philosophy. These tend to offer the greatest probability of kill against the volleyed-saturation-style weaponry the Coalition prefers, while still maintaining a recommit capability.
“The potential for expansion of HAVE SHIVER’s mission was quickly realized, and fortunately provided for in its modularity of design. Testing is underway for employment of GKU-59 and -63 Guided Kinetic Units, and a modified T28u railgun. Additionally, last week’s raid on the Elger facility was HAVE SHIVER’s first operational delivery of a W-98 low-yield penetrator nuke. Not only was Elger a strategic Lunar observation point and launch facility, but intel had reported that a significant command-and-control node was housed somewhere in the same network of tunnels. We believe we’ve struck a very heavy blow to their command structure.
“We now have squadrons located at Boen, Killian, and Adams stations, and deployed with the 2nd Fleet. All major Earth- and Solar-orbital installations are projected to get their own HAVE SHIVER defenses within the next five years, and the new carrier under construction at L3 was designed with HAVE SHIVER in mind. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future.”
My entry for Summer Joust 2025 - 12 x 12 Vignette Category!
The witch offered up a local maiden to her ancient god. Nameless yet ever-watching, the tentacled monstrosity’s blinded eye and digested past victims told a story. Perhaps he was a fallen angel defeated in battle? Maybe he was always a wretched creature, eating whatever scrap worshippers threw to him. Whatever the case, all it knew now was hunger.
To be fair, at least they will be at a human scale and not some highrise monstrosity like we are seeing everywhere else in Ottawa. Although I'm not entirely sure which prospective Lowertown buyers are going to hike out to Stittsville to see the showroom. Heck, they might as well put the showroom in Montreal and it would be just as practical for someone without a car...
Collector
A collection of thieves, enforcers, and monstrosities omitted from the records of the Dark Hunters.
Photo edited by @the.overheating.orange
Lore entry written by @crackinbonks
One of "the Marked", which are people that either have markings, or are different looking than the powered people that look completely normal. Whether that's abnormal skin tone, or animalistic traits. The Marked also have shorter lifespans than most humans. Several of them have joined the Monstrosities in their quest to destroy humankind due to forsaking them. Every full moon, Lykos turns into a werewolf, due to the marking on his left arm. He lurks beneath the streets of Cardinal City, as he tries to survive with those that want the Marked dead.
Status: Alive, and hunting the Three Pigs down.
The New York Tribune called the new building "A stingy piece of pie ... the greatest inanimate troublemaker in New York", while the Municipal Art Society said that it was "Unfit to be in the Center of the City". The New York Times called it a "monstrosity".
But decades after it was completed, others still could not come to terms with the building. Sculptor William Ordway Partridge remarked that it was "a disgrace to our city, an outrage to our sense of the artistic, and a menace to life".
Here's a much earlier scan of the print (in APS panoramic format) of the same picture: link.
Name: Melancholy Emperor
Lenght: ca. 130 studs / ca. 50 m
Purpose: interplanetary exploration
The Melancholy Emperor uses a spherical nuclear fusion reactor as a power source for its ion thrusters and for generating an artificial electromagnetic field, shielding the ship from radiation.
As you can see by the horrible editing this is not really a serious entry, I just want to show that compared to last year I actually got something done. About two weeks in I got into a serious slump and only resumed building today so the finished product is quite rushed. After taking a few photos I noticed that the proportions on the supposed sphere are off but I hope you can see what I tried to do there.
Edit: Mirrored the image as per the rules of the armada thread, so some of the flags are wrong now. Other angles will follow when I have found a way to properly take photos of this monstrosity; in addition to its lenght of 110 cm it's over 50 cm wide.
“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities." -Andrzej Sapkowski
Taken using Nvidia Ansel.
I absolutely love the old Vancouver homes. They have so much more charm and character than the monstrosities that are now being built. If I ever won a lottery I think I might buy one of these old classics and have it brought up to snuff, while keeping the integrity of the original building of course.
The Church of the Holy Family in Indooroopilly opened in 1963. It was designed by Brisbane architects Douglas and Barnes who must have thought it was a good idea at the time. The building is claimed to be one of Australia's finest examples of Modernist architecture. The reality is more of a bizarre concrete monstrosity, with added water streaks, cracking asphalt, and metal grills.
Side-on wide angle view.
Post processed from RAW in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Operated by Locomotive Services Ltd with a smart looking rake of (mainly) matching stock, 47501 Craftsman is in charge of 5Z26, the 03:59 Crewe - Oxford ECS working
Seen approaching Culham with 47805 on the rear.
The ECS was to form a private charter from Oxford to Crewe. 805 had acovered over, newly fitted nameplate on its side,so I assume a naming ceremony was part of the days activities ?
I can't believe how lop sided that new signal monstrosity is
Some say this aircraft was inspired by an illustration the design lead of Niazi, Dr. Ahmed Kahverengiden, saw in a science fiction magazine. Whatever it came from, there is no denying that this monstrosity is among the largest heavier-than-air craft in the world.
The eye-catching double-wing planform that put Niazi on the map has been scaled to lift incredible amounts of cargo, and the Stupotransport can, over short ranges, even transport pairs of light tanks (and maybe a medium one for the promotional shot).