Message from @godric

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2018-11-30 04:38:27 UTC  

@Virgil have you ever squeezed cheese out of something with holes in it?

2018-11-30 04:38:41 UTC  

Some of the examples I'm looking at of IT futurism are really indulgent and gross.

2018-11-30 04:38:48 UTC  

I always liked the landscape and nature prints at Cabellas

2018-11-30 04:38:53 UTC  

There are also some stunning examples.

2018-11-30 04:38:57 UTC  

Weird school.

2018-11-30 04:39:09 UTC  

Romantic art produced much more elegant architecture or at least paired. That's something you really don't see in modern art.

2018-11-30 04:40:39 UTC  

Goodnight all.

2018-11-30 04:40:39 UTC  

Or I guess you do. Degeneracy produces garbage like melted candles or cut up plastic bottles painted yellow being a center piece for a "gallery".

2018-11-30 04:40:39 UTC  

Futurist architecture always felt like Space Rome. It had a bit of influence in the uh...goverments of Italy to follow

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517922890805542912/a54388a92b0a0397d354d4f0fa49e6e5.png

2018-11-30 04:40:57 UTC  

That...is a tasteful example.

2018-11-30 04:40:58 UTC  

To be fair at least they are trying to do something different, this right here is the epitome of modern utilitarian architecture

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517922968777785354/ugly-architecture-elephant-building-468x351.png

2018-11-30 04:41:21 UTC  

I would fight that building with my bare hands.

2018-11-30 04:41:50 UTC  

I like the neo classical myself

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517923188613840896/ministry-agriculture-building-metal-tree-kazan-tatarstan-russia-antica-11-758x537.jpg

2018-11-30 04:42:02 UTC  

Interestingly enough, the best surviving examples of Italian furturism in archetecture are actually in Ethiopia, having been built after it's anexation. Most of what was in Italy was bombed or deconstructed later

2018-11-30 04:42:04 UTC  

Ministry of agriculture in russia

2018-11-30 04:43:59 UTC  

@metasophocles @godric Soviets were masters at creating inspirational art as propaganda. Just listen to the Soviet anthem. It's an amazing work of music.

2018-11-30 04:44:17 UTC  

somebody colorized one of the more famous sketches and ngl I would love to live here

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517923804014575646/4fc25b2ba1507d649841dae1c83220d1.png

2018-11-30 04:44:35 UTC  

Space Rome is best aesthetic

2018-11-30 04:44:41 UTC  

Most agreed, art as inspiration is probably is most vital use, being leveraged by a state is essential

2018-11-30 04:44:50 UTC  

Why did we stop building beautiful things?

2018-11-30 04:45:24 UTC  

@Jacob I agree that it is masterfully composed but to be honest I associate it so much with the communist losers I knew from high school that it's hard for me to enjoy.

2018-11-30 04:45:32 UTC  

@Ben Rainsford - OH its expensive and doesnt require rebuilding in 15 years

2018-11-30 04:46:17 UTC  

*modern cannibalistic economy intensifies

2018-11-30 04:46:24 UTC  

Classical or the futurism being posted architecture isn't even expensive when you compare it to garbage modernist architecture that plagues our cities.

2018-11-30 04:46:45 UTC  

@metasophocles Dude I agree with you. The final redpill is that every side in politics exaggerates how horrible their enemies are.

There were absolutely good parts about the Soviet Union, even if Stalin and his buddies were pretty bad guys.

2018-11-30 04:47:43 UTC  

@godric That's understandable

2018-11-30 04:47:44 UTC  

I don't get how people reconcile that the soviet union was a totalitarian hellscape where everyone starved with the fact that they decimated half their continent and went to space.

2018-11-30 04:48:06 UTC  

this is a stock photo but you still the idea of the glory of mighty italian futurism

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517924764933685248/47083943-one-example-of-futuristic-architecture-in-florence.png

2018-11-30 04:48:13 UTC  

lol the idea that everyone was starving in the Soviet Union is absurd

2018-11-30 04:48:37 UTC  

German scientists sure helped getting the Soviets to space

2018-11-30 04:48:55 UTC  

@Kingfish I am starting to think it doesn't translate as well into real life as I thought.

2018-11-30 04:49:01 UTC  

Same with the US though

2018-11-30 04:49:09 UTC  

If we're going full theoretical architecture, I really liked the various culture's aesthetics in Lord of the Rings, they were all different fusions/remixes of different European cultures.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517925029711970305/Rivendell.jpg

2018-11-30 04:49:25 UTC  

It was an inefficient distribution system, but we can see that a healthy economy is not the end all be all of a healthy civilization

2018-11-30 04:49:58 UTC  

LOTR future is the ultimate goal of humanity @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

2018-11-30 04:50:04 UTC  

Since my father is a stonemason I’ll put in a pitch for brick and stone buildings

2018-11-30 04:51:15 UTC  

@godric it absolutely does not lmao

2018-11-30 04:51:18 UTC  

im mostly kidding

2018-11-30 04:51:33 UTC  

a future they never made it to. F

2018-11-30 04:52:03 UTC  

Unfortunately very little Numenorean archietecture survived the end of the Second Age. Even in Minas Tirith, only the black wall is auhentically Numenorean, with the rest of the city being constructed or rebuilt by Gondorean Kings durring the early third age.

The most intact survivng Numenorean structure in Middle Earth today is Isengard, recently given to the use of the benevelent Wizard, Saruman the Wise

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/517925760120389632/minas_tirith.jpg

2018-11-30 04:52:29 UTC  

One thing you guys need to remember is that much of the image of the Soviet Union is due to immigrants exaggerating for sympathy.

I grew up around Eastern European immigrants, I know this.

Immigrants from literally every country will try to convince you that their life was absolute hell.

Actual Eastern Europeans in Eastern Europe are more likely to give you an answer like, "eh, there was good parts and bad parts" while immigrants will go on about "waaa poor me".