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The single greatest and most fascinating “futurist” architecture movement in the world right now is happening in Bolivia, where national prosperity and a dedication to works for the poor and public housing led to an explosion of colorful styles inspired by Aymara Indian art. There should be more articles about this, the interiors are just as amazing. Incidentally, most of these buildings are not for the rich or in trendy neighborhoods, but are public housing. I’ve heard this style referred to as “Neo-Andean” but like most currently thriving styles it doesn’t have a universally agreed on name yet.

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Medieval house in Argentan, Orne, France

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This 36 square meter cabin is located on a small cliff overlooking Lonconao lake, approximately fifteen kilometers from Futaleufú, Chile.

Designed by Paul Steel Bouza, Photographs by Gustavo Zylbersztajn.

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Villa Slow / Laura Álvarez Architecture ph: David Montero

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St. Vincent & Dua Lipa | Masseduction / One Kiss at the 2019 GRAMMYs

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Bjork’s Comic Adventure By: Liam Alexander @artofliamalxndr

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Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

Evidence:

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Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.

And they told you science was no fun.

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Science!

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I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.

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Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.

But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.

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you mean like

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@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares

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I shall never find peace.

Also, for what it’s worth, there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth.

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There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.

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Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.

So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic.

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So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That’s awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.

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Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post

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Elves are flat-earthers

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This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage

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This post really was a rollercoaster.

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for elves it was a straight line

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The weird and wonderful American roadtrip with John Margolies

For more than 30 years beginning in the 1960s, photographer John Margolies criss-crossed the USA documenting the roadside architecture of a pre-corporate America, taking photos of diners, weird sculptures, mini golf courses, and signs that don’t exist anymore in great numbers.

Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America’s built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to quasipsychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades and drove more than 100,000 miles documenting these fascinating and endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana.

In addition to publishing his work in a book, Margolies released his images into the public domain. The Library of Congress has posted over 11,000 of his photos online, a treasure trove of 60s & 70s Americana. Good luck spending less than 30 minutes poking around in there…

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Breuer/Lundberg Cabin. LUNDBERG DESIGN

livestock tank pool. 25-feet diameter and 14-feet deep.

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Hiroshi Nakamura&NAP Co.,Ltd. - Optical Glass House. Hiroshima, Japan. 2012

Optical Glass House was constructed beside a busy road, Hiroshi Nakamura and his studio NAP; wanted to create a private oasis where residents could still make out the movements of people and traffic beyond the walls. “The serene soundless scenery of the passing cars and trams imparts richness to life in the house,” said the architect.

https://vimeo.com/58181421