Neo-Luddite

[einsliga]

[pmamtraveller]

Head of Medusa by Davide Calandra and Edoardo Rubino (c. 1926)

[captain-price-returns]

The "peace deal" doesn't exist btw. It's just an agreement to stop fighting and then figure out the terms of defeat later. What's really going to happen is that Trump will agree to every demand, one by one, spaced out weeks at a time, to make the defeat less obvious. Iran won.

[rebbellsinchad]

Iran won? What? They got bombed by Israel with US supplied weapons. What did they “win”? War is horrible and innocent people died?

[bruzum]

[bubbleteavangelist]

I want to go to the gym but i keep thinking about the germs

[rebbellsinchad]

Because it’s wet?

[bubbleteavangelist]

Other people are sweaty and touch stuff i will need to touch

[rebbellsinchad]

Exactly

[nubbsgalore]

lightning strikes the grand canyon. photos by (click pic) travis roe, dan ransom (timelapse), rold maeder, david ponton and doug koepsel  

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[petermorwood]

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

[bubbleteavangelist]

I want to go to the gym but i keep thinking about the germs

[rebbellsinchad]

Because it’s wet?

[crap-userrname16]

[rebbellsinchad]

This happened right after it wished it was the fastest turbine ever.

[magicratfingers]

some of u will love this

[cosmonautroger]

[iamhavingsomuchfun]

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.

[fantasmadelaciudad]

like this shouldnt be possible.

[sillyspirit]

Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts

Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up

[thejabberwocki]

might be the best road sign i've seen this year

[porterdavis]

[grayheartart]

USAID cuts killed 600k?

I don't think it did, mate.

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

They feed off their own propaganda. Last year when USAID was being cut they all screeched about how it “could” lead to all these deaths across the third world.

And now they just screech about how it did, in fact, kill all those people.

No evidence mind you, just the assertion.

[rebbellsinchad]

I have it on good authority the porter davis sniffs his own farts

[hybridmindthoughtsreloaded]

Nothing but smoke and Russian BS. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[rebbellsinchad]

What does grok say about the cia led coup of the ukraine government in 2014

[fnordseer5]

they're always making you log in to shit

[correctopinionhaver]