Quattrocento-venti

C.19

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Yoshinori Mitzutani, Birds

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Portland Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong (2005)

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Samuel Entelechial

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Yoshinori Mitzutani, Birds

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A Regional Train passes a Railroad Crossing between Flooded Fields, Nidderau-Eichen, Germany image credit: Michael Probst/AP via: The Guardian

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Hideo Tanaka — I’m Here  (acrylic on canvas, 2020)

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Zombie vermin

etsy

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The DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) just successfully slammed into Dimorphos, which is the moonlet of the asteroid Didymos (also affectionately called Didymoon). Over the next few days astronomers around the world will observe Didymos and Dimorphos to see if there has been a change in orbit from the latter. This is humanity’s first real attempt at altering the course of a “killer” asteroid, even if this one isn’t hazardous to us.

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why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

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I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

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Earth is effing amazing!

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Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[bunjywunjy]

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ergolost]

Holy shit

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and this is all on ONE PLANET

try harder star wars

[heresiae]

you kind of forget a couple of things:

when Lucas went to sell Star Wars, nobody wanted it. Coppola had to help him find producers and even with that, he only got 10millions. now, this kind of budget it’s not just ridiculously low in Hollywood standards (even at the time) but with the huge numbers of special effects that Lucas had in mind, locations had to be accessible and with cheap labor. and where do you go to have “alien” landscapes in the 70s? yeah, the desert. so they shot between Tunisia and USA (and one Guatemala trip, according to Wikipedia).

Lucas wrote about its hometown xD He was born and raised in Modesto CA, and literally took the landscapes around him and put them in its writing. Plus, please, remember, SW is not sci-fy, it’s a fantasy… who happens to be placed on several planets in a galaxy far far away, so no, he didn’t went for incredible alien landscapes, he went for the story and the spaceships.

and it was the 70s… even Star Trek didn’t make much effort in finding incredible landscapes for their story, and they were proper sci-fiction ^^’

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