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Reply #6090 on: November 10, 2011, 05:29:33 AM

Is it just a painting on the side of the building?  Have trouble with her shadow.


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Reply #6091 on: November 10, 2011, 05:31:17 AM

Okay you just blew my goddamn mind.

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Reply #6092 on: November 10, 2011, 05:38:34 AM

It's a Trompe L'oeil mural by a guy called John Pugh in Los Gatos, CA.  More here.

Also, he has a book.

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Reply #6093 on: November 10, 2011, 06:19:46 AM

Looks like a mexican restaurant. Which would make it awesome x2.

2nd rapier from the bottom or last basket hilt rapier.
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Reply #6094 on: November 10, 2011, 06:22:10 AM

Awesome.

Top bastard sword.

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Reply #6095 on: November 10, 2011, 06:31:12 AM

The c.1450 knight's sword.

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Reply #6096 on: November 10, 2011, 06:49:02 AM

Ahhhh, I see.  It's a painting on the side of a restaurant.

Clever.  I thought the whole thing was a painting.

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Reply #6097 on: November 10, 2011, 07:34:45 AM

One of the two knight's swords, 1400-1450 with the dark grip.



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Reply #6098 on: November 10, 2011, 08:09:24 AM

 Heart  RL "Photoshop" scenes.  Cincinnati has a fake facade on a building downtown that is equally convincing when the paint is kept fresh.

Are we going with sword you'd use or one you'd hang up?  Use I'll pick teh top-right cup-hilted rapier.  Display I've got the Claymore, the 4th Knight Sword in Short and Full sizes and a variant of the last Swiss sword w/o a branch and twisted quillions.  Oh, and the requisite replica Katana.

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Reply #6099 on: November 10, 2011, 08:11:07 AM

I'd probably go with the c. 1500 rapiers.

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Reply #6100 on: November 10, 2011, 08:34:41 AM


That picture cant possibly be accurate. D&D taught me bastard swords dont have guards and are "hand and a half" swords. Those dont look right!   DRILLING AND MANLINESS
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Reply #6101 on: November 10, 2011, 12:38:22 PM

The first knight's sword with a dark hilt.

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Reply #6102 on: November 10, 2011, 01:20:03 PM

I'd probably go with the c. 1500 rapiers.

That'll make your arse hurt.

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Reply #6103 on: November 10, 2011, 05:43:00 PM

I'd probably go with the c. 1500 rapiers.

That'll make your arse hurt.

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Reply #6104 on: November 10, 2011, 07:37:21 PM

I like the original rapier line around 1550-1600.

Were I strong enough, I'd go for the Zwei-hander.  There's an authentic one in the Angel Swords at the RenFest that I've been drooling over for years, if I could justify that kind of expense.

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Reply #6105 on: November 10, 2011, 07:59:30 PM

The first knight's sword with a dark hilt.

Both dark hilted long swords are near perfect design.  I prefer the diamond pommeled version because of the aesthetics of the crossguard, but they're both damned beautiful. 

I spent a year considering blacksmithing to make swords.  Turns out it's not an easy market to get into.   Ohhhhh, I see.  Looked into schools and everything, finally gave up after realizing the thousands I would need to invest to basically be an iron gate/fence/railing maker that makes blades in spare time.  If wishes were fishes, and all that.  Not to mention that it is really hard work and one is destined to get burned seriously at some point.

Chicago Field Museum had an awesome 5ft ceremonial claymore about 10 years ago.  It was so fucking big I have no idea how anyone was taken seriously wielding it. 
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Reply #6106 on: November 10, 2011, 08:26:52 PM

  There's an authentic one in the Angel Swords at the RenFest that I've been drooling over for years, if I could justify that kind of expense.
Back in the 80s there was an awesome smith who made period weapons in period style. They didn't have a smith for about ten, fifteen years and the new guy uses steel and doesn't forge onsite.

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Reply #6107 on: November 11, 2011, 02:26:17 AM

Knights Sword with the dark hilt and round pommel.

I guess thats the design I grew up with equating with the term "sword" as a roleplayer.
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Reply #6108 on: November 11, 2011, 04:40:03 AM

I am (was) a fully qualified blacksmith who has made swords and such for re-enactors. It's a lot of work and the margins are pretty thin. I know a few guys who are in the business including a really good one in Brittany who does the whole thing period authentic - he even smelts his own ore using Dark Ages tech - and while they always have full order books, none of them are making much money from it.

I stayed with the guy in Brittany for a week while he made some stuff for me (a scramaseax, a spatha and a couple of belt daggers) and felt really bad when it came to paying him for the work he'd done as it wasn't nearly enough even though it was more than the usual re-enactor's market price.

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Reply #6109 on: November 11, 2011, 05:37:47 AM

Dark Ages

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Reply #6110 on: November 11, 2011, 08:57:13 AM

Dark Ages

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I'm curious....why not?

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Reply #6111 on: November 11, 2011, 08:58:44 AM

African American Ages is more PC.

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Reply #6112 on: November 11, 2011, 09:11:57 AM

African American Ages is more PC.
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Reply #6113 on: November 11, 2011, 12:40:21 PM

I'll take any of the two-handers, thanks.

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Reply #6114 on: November 11, 2011, 01:00:39 PM

Dark Ages

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Fine, he uses methods in use from the post-Western Empire period until the early middle-ages.

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Reply #6115 on: November 11, 2011, 01:42:52 PM

I'm writing a script that changes all instances of Der Helm to Dark Ages.  It's glorious!

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Reply #6116 on: November 11, 2011, 02:36:08 PM

Fine, he uses methods in use from the post-Western Empire period until the early middle-ages.
Much better.... but your terminology still confuses me.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #6117 on: November 11, 2011, 02:37:26 PM

Dark Ages

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Please, never ever use that term again. Thank you.  cry



I'm curious....why not?
Because the term is not accurate. The dark ages were not that dark. Most people knew that the earth was not flat.... etc.

I study european history, so it is a touchy subject for me.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #6118 on: November 11, 2011, 03:07:40 PM

I'm seriously interested to hear more. Things aren't exactly great now so I can't imagine how awful it must have been to live back then.

Maybe I've just been reading too far into the Culture novels recently.  awesome, for real

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Reply #6119 on: November 11, 2011, 03:11:32 PM

It was pretty brutal. There were only three channels on TV. We thought that a model spaceship that came apart to form a gun was the most awesome thing ever and The Bangles were considered prime masturbation material. You kids with your Playstation 360s and Katy Perrys don't know you're born.

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Reply #6120 on: November 11, 2011, 10:32:51 PM

Hmm sounds like you had it easy.

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Reply #6121 on: November 12, 2011, 12:24:03 AM

Having also studied history in college, to elaborate on what he said:

The term is highly discouraged in modern history courses.  The term came about from old christian scholarship.  Light vs. dark narrative.  Back when people still worshiped stupid pagan gods before we could crush them ALL under the tender loving hand of god.  Ect.  It's just too tidy of a term that doesn't explain things well.  Its nice to look at history as "Rome was great and mighty!  Then it fell apart and Europe was pure shit for a 1,000 years.  But then we got better when a bunch of Italians sat around, smoked pot while reading Greek books, and had a Renaissance", but that's not true.  Truth is that the 'Dark Ages' weren't as bad as portrayed.  Life went on much as normal after Rome fell apart.  They still retained a lot of the civilization of previous ages.  Just because scholars of the middles ages couldn't find as many books on the era to study, they decided to just write the whole era off as 'here be dragons'.

I'd elaborate more, but I'm also drinking, and want to play some more blood bowl.  But having said all that, I really like the term Dark Ages!  Its so Grimdark in an overpriced citadel way.  You can pry it from my cold dead hands history professor!
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Reply #6122 on: November 12, 2011, 03:53:51 AM

 Heh, you learn something new everyday.  I always thought it referred to the darkness of ignorance we were forced back into by fucking zealots.

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Reply #6123 on: November 12, 2011, 06:48:56 AM

The idea of a dark age originates from Petrarch, who was lamenting the extinguishing of the "light of Rome," and thus the period that followed thereafter was "dark."  It was largely a literary critique though.  I think Baronius was the first to use it regarding the study of the idea of historical eras, but even that was pretty narrow when he wrote it.

The "dark ages" weren't anywhere near that grimdark though, and were only considered so after the fact by people pushing the idea that Europe was entering a new golden age from the 14th century on.  Renaissance means, literally, "rebirth" and in that context they were referring to the rebirth of Rome and classical scholarship.  In order for there to be a rebirth there had to have been a death so they assigned it to the in-between period and called it the dark age.

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Reply #6124 on: November 12, 2011, 08:32:10 AM

Wow... what a hangover... no dead hookers so far at least...  swamp poop

Good points made by the other posters.

Let me add that the only "dark ages" I could accept are greek.

Back to pictures now ?  awesome, for real

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