The Cool Picture Thread

[Scowl]

Since we're kind of starting over with the site, let's start putting in all the useless, brainless fluff that any internet message board needs in order to thrive. Let's start with cool pics. I'll go first.

Some of you have probably seen this one before:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p82bc0ec7d04fd78ab00f05a402916b69/ea5d2bc6.jpg

[Scowl]

As I understand it, the dude who owns this house in China refuses to sell his property, and apparently no one can do anything about it.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p4023291fd30cd823238558baa3c29a4d/ea5d2bc3.jpg

[awong]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/aw614/DCF_0014.jpg
saw this on my way to school one afternoon caught it with my phone

[atlasien]

http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/works/00000022_01b.jpg

http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/works.htm?id=22

[vsoy]

Problem solving is an important skill in the working world and how you approach it is the key to success :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/vsoy/work_flow_chart.jpg

[Scowl]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/p680672e2cad3d41ebcb90fa6dcea1d9a/ea5735cf.jpg

[silkie]

This is for all the architects out there who've dealt with bad contractors:
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h15/ekachai_4646/StairtreadfromLeader82.jpg

[lopan]

This is for all the architects out there who've dealt with bad contractors:

^ I have no idea what this means. I'm sure it's funny/ frustrating and i want to know! please explain.

[Dialectic]

Silkie, that was brilliant. Atlasien, what the hell is that?!

[silkie]

^ I have no idea what this means. I'm sure it's funny/ frustrating and i want to know! please explain.

Hey Lopes, sorry I didn't explain.
The stair that you see in the picture is a product of a contractor building literally from the visual information on a construction documents. The Dotted circle are detail callouts, and the diagonal line leading to the circle with the numbers tells the contractor "for a blowup of this detail, go to drawing #xyz on sheet #abc." But the contractor interpreted the line as, "the architect wants to do a stair that has a landing with a diagonal cut."

[lopan]

^That's hilarious. I knew it was hilarious. :)

[atlasien]

what the hell is that?!

I found it shrinkwrapped on a popsicle stick in the dried snack food section of a Japanese convenience store.

Actually I have no idea :) it's on a webpage for a museum of imaginary creatures. Here are some more of them: http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/room.htm?no=2

[silkie]

^That's hilarious. I knew it was hilarious. :)
yeah, now that I am booking out of this gosh-darn masochistic profession, I can laugh a bit more...:D

[lopan]

it's on a webpage for a museum of imaginary creatures. Here are some more of them: http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/room.htm?no=2

Those are pretty awesome. Actually, now i'm a bit hungry... !

[Scowl]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pd77fe85702655581167d5e348a464d2e/ea5735ca.jpg

[nskripchun]

An interesting photo gallery of Maya Lin and her work at the Tacoma Museum of Glass:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/artsentertainment2003622123

She's also involved in a local project to memorialize the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest region:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html

[awong]

a korean jehovah witness...
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7408/dcf0105wy2.th.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcf0105wy2.jpg)

[Scowl]

Just saw this on another site, and I had to post it here.

http://forthfreak.net/fatalerror.gif

[Ike]

I give you a new reason to puke:
Mich-Ann Coulkin!

http://www.geocities.com/rebelwerewolf/Personal/mich_ann.bmp

[theme]

http://208.116.9.205/10/graphics/pics/pictures_diving.jpg

Second from the bottom cracks me up.

[Scowl]

Hm, looks like time for a new avatar...

http://themot.org/gallery/d/652-2/errorbigbutts.png

[Scowl]

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x121/LanchiaoABC/n1667910102_53528_1382.jpg