[   Burichan   Futaba   Gurochan   Photon   ] - [Home] [Manage]

File
Name
Subject
Comment
Verification
Post Reply
  • Supported file types are: 7Z, AAC, GIF, JPG, MP3, OGG, PNG, RAR, SWF, TORRENT, ZIP
  • Maximum file size allowed is 10000 KB.
This board is about going somewhere new.
Let's move out of our Kinkade cottages.
Let's concentrate on finding the hidden depths.
Please don't be mean to people in your posts.
Please address concerns to [email protected]

To report spam or trolls click the 'Report' link or post here.


1418016554472.jpg (6.6 kb, 199x300)
6719 No.10862   [Reply]   Report  

http://supereuro.in/wall/



1405356447004.jpg (117 kb, 768x1024)
120264 No.10806   [Reply]   Report  
5 posts and 5 images hidden. Click here to view.
  No.10812   Report                
1408799288500.jpg (151 kb, 768x1024)
154506
  No.10813   Report                
1411132760594.jpg (146 kb, 1024x768)
149438
  No.10814   Report                
1411143493767.jpg (125 kb, 1024x768)
128336
  No.10837   Report                
1412509726341.jpg (113 kb, 1024x768)
115504
  No.10838   Report                
1413052025590.jpg (147 kb, 1024x768)
150445
  No.10840   Report                
1413825507428.jpg (120 kb, 1024x768)
123043
  No.10845   Report                
1414325639926.jpg (140 kb, 1024x768)
143392
  No.10855   Report                
1414949728232.jpg (89 kb, 1024x768)
91323
  No.10856   Report                

where

  No.10861   Report                
1417435487619.jpg (63 kb, 1024x768)
64608


1322337229011.jpg (456 kb, 1920x1080)
466812 No.9970   [Reply]   Report  

Is nobody playing skyrim? Or are you too hooked up to the game to post screenshots?

35 posts and 28 images hidden. Click here to view.
  No.10460   Report                
1353787122409.jpg (570 kb, 1280x720)
583194
  No.10461   Report                
1353787140002.jpg (423 kb, 1280x720)
433638
  No.10462   Report                
1353787171671.jpg (825 kb, 1280x720)
844298
  No.10463   Report                
1353787205566.jpg (613 kb, 1280x720)
627678
  No.10464   Report                
1353787231013.jpg (783 kb, 1280x720)
801574
  No.10465   Report                
1353787255266.jpg (801 kb, 1280x720)
820163
  No.10466   Report                
1353787275794.jpg (545 kb, 1280x720)
557991
  No.10467   Report                
1353787302371.jpg (1001 kb, 1280x720)
1024788
  No.10468   Report                
1353787337765.jpg (633 kb, 1280x720)
648298
  No.10860   Report                
1416227617558.pdf.unknown (567 kb)


1377122400097.jpg (729 kb, 1920x1080)
746032 No.10612   [Reply]   Report  

Just stumbled upon this artist. He specializes in drawing mundane scenes of the modern Swedish countryside, juxtaposed with sci-fi elements. And it's gorgeous.

74 posts and 50 images hidden. Click here to view.
  No.10820   Report                

My dad got the book, and it clears up some of the stuff about the background. Like why there's dinosaurs: apparently this big-ass machine has caused damage to the time-space continuum or something, which has accidentally caused dinosaurs to end up on 20th century earth. This is probably also the explanation for those pictures of a boy who crawls into a sphere in Sweden and ends up in America.

Also, the artist was contacted by J.J. Abrams, who wanted to buy the original paintings. Simon had to explain to him that there are no original paintings since they are digital, but Abrams could always buy a print if he wanted. He wasn't interested.

J.J. Abrams is kind of a dick.

  No.10821   Report                

>>10820

> J.J. Abrams is kind of a dick.

wonder if he was looking to lock up an interesting story/setting, using the original artwork as a claim to exclusivity, or just wanting "the" artwork as opposed to a copy.

international shipping's not so bad at $20, so a copy can join my ghibli book of nausicaa watercolors as the start of a collection.

  No.10822   Report                

>>10821

If he was interested in the setting, I think he'd tried to offer Simon Stålenhag a job instead.

To me, it just feels like Abrams saw that these pictures were popular on the internet, so he decided people would think he'd be cool if he had the originals. Yes, I really do think he's that shallow.

  No.10844   Report                

so my copy of the book arrived, and leafing through it there's a few paintings that haven't been posted, plus some b&w sketches of the mecha. there's also a lot of text in swedish, and a scan/ocr/translate job doesn't seem impossible. like to do it without damaging the book though.

even with the exposure in the wired article and various big blogs there doesn't seem to be any english translation available. that might renew interest in the world behind these paintings and drive some more sales, maybe even get somebody interested in developing the setting with stalenhag involved.

it'd probably be best to ask his permission, but that may not be practical with the language barrier. then there's the question of where to post it, etc.

  No.10846   Report                

>>10844 I could volunteer to do an unofficial translation right here, but I don't have a copy of my own.

Read through my dad's copy though, so I can fill you in on some of the "fluff".
Overall, it's less worldbuilding and more short, fictitious memories of people growing up in the area on top of this gigantic, fictitious particle accelerator built in the 1970's. Most of the little snippets of stories take the form of schoolyard rumours, stuff that a friend of a friend claimed to have seen etc.
Also a LOT of depressing deaths, for some reason. And many of the most interesting pictures don't get stories, or they get stories that don't really explain anything. The focus is on creating a nostalgic, melancholic feeling, not a detailed world.

Anyway, really short summaries about some of the stories accompanying the pictures:

>>10620 A power plant on a little island only inhabited by a crippled hermit, called the "hotel" by the locals. He dies alone, and the plant is abandoned.

>>10622 Local man grows a plant he calls "moonroot", which he claims can cure all kinds of ailments, including cancer. THe plant only grows in moonlight, so he constructs this gigantic device in his barn that catches and stores moonlight (ignore the fact that none of this makes any sense, since moonlight is just reflected sunlight).

Click here to view the full comment.
  No.10847   Report                

>>10626 These aren't powerplants at all, but rather instruments meant to check on the water levels or something to prevent accidents with the accelerator deep underneath. They're called "Moomin trolls" by the locals due to the round shape and white colour.

>>10773 There's a short (like twenty sentences or something) story about someone seeing this robot in their yard. It's probably escaped from the complex somehow.

>>10671 After the accelerator has been working for a decade or so, rumours start popping up about weird noises in the forests, strange piles of sand appearing out of nowhere and so on. An ice cream truck is found crashed by the roadside, smashed up and with the driver missing. Soon, it becomes public knowledge that dinosaurs are moving around freely, probably brought by a time anomaly caused by the particle accelerator.

>>10614 Part of the old abandoned infrastructure built around the project. A local small-time criminal was found drowned there once.

>>10722>>10726>>10745>>10747>>10796
While the accelerator was mainly a Swedish project, they got a lot of help from the USA, who had experimented with similar technology in the 1960's. One of their many contributions were these strange spheres, that still litter the countryside. They're no longer powered or connected to anything, but every kid in the area claims to have seen flashes of light coming from inside the spheres, or know someone who found a sphere that was strangely warm or leaked water for several weeks, much more than they could possibly contain.

Click here to view the full comment.
  No.10849   Report                

>>10844 I'd say that a scan isn't necessary, since it's not a comic or something. This is an art book, so the pictures are the main attraction. So I don't think we'd get in trouble for translating the text (which really isn't a lot), since you'd still need to buy the book yourself to get the new art and high-quality versions of the pictures.

If you really want to I could send him an e-mail though. He also knows English, if you want to do it yourself.

  No.10850   Report                

>>10849

so today I learned Bug Pope can read swedish... thanks for the descriptions, though the purpose of the text saddens me a little. it seems an interesting setting to explore.

my thinking was more an experiment in machine translation followed by editing the results into idiomatic english. that's worked for me with song lyrics in the past, sort-of, and might force me to learn a rudimentary grasp of swedish grammar.

  No.10851   Report                

Swedish is my first language, actually. Translating this would be easy.

You could try with a machine translation, but the tricky thing with the translation (which applies to all good translations) is that you need to make sure the mood, or flavour, of the text doesn't get lost in translation. And this book is all about mood.

Several of the stories don't even really deal with the technology and stuff at all, for example >>10618 is just about the narrator remembering a fight he had with another kid. >>10639 is mainly about how one of his classmates used to do this weird sound with his mouth, and how it became kinda like his catchphrase.

>>10617 is an article that follows one of the employees of the fictional department that runs this whole thing, as he does his usual rounds checking up on the sensors and other devices spread around the area.

>>10635 A farmer bought out-dated machines that the project didn't need anymore, but they quickly turned out to be unsuitable for farm-work and were too expensive to keep running, so now they're just rusting away in a field.

Click here to view the full comment.
  No.10854   Report                

And they do have things like technical details, technobabble on exactly what some of these things are and how they work, some mentions of the politics and so on. But it's not the main focus. The goal seems to be to create the feeling that there's a whole lot of stuff going on behind the scenes and you just get a brief glimpse of it, and I think that's a good approach for something like this. It leaves a lot to the viewer's imagination, just like the art itself (again, there's no text for some of the more dramatic pictures, like >>10672>>10680>>10783, and I think that's intentional).

Also keep in mind that the summaries I've posted are just from memory, and I condense ten or twenty lines into a couple of sentences, meaning I leave out of a LOT.

Oh, and there's a new picture on his website.



1413992841414.jpg (668 kb, 750x1334)
684384 No.10841   [Reply]   Report  

kanji wallpaper

  No.10842   Report                
1413992888960.jpg (457 kb, 750x1334)
467549
  No.10843   Report                
1413992914623.jpg (985 kb, 750x1334)
1008251

kanji sushi



1412477503730.jpg (473 kb, 2048x1430)
484021 No.10823   [Reply]   Report  

Just some random pix I've collected from here and there recently.

3 posts and 3 images hidden. Click here to view.
  No.10827   Report                
1412478123944.jpg (314 kb, 2880x1798)
321996
  No.10828   Report                
1412478201127.jpg (899 kb, 2253x1352)
920226

I think this is a torii partway up Fuji.

  No.10829   Report                
1412478234503.jpg (359 kb, 1800x966)
367683
  No.10830   Report                
1412478289773.jpg (1068 kb, 1600x1200)
1093309

Old [Adult Swim] eyecatch.

  No.10831   Report                
1412478316295.jpg (128 kb, 1280x856)
131079
  No.10832   Report                
1412478381042.jpg (442 kb, 1600x1200)
452778

Very tourist-brochure-y pic.

  No.10833   Report                
1412478402029.jpg (200 kb, 1024x768)
204867
  No.10834   Report                
1412478444386.jpg (185 kb, 3507x984)
189354
  No.10835   Report                
1412478480747.jpg (399 kb, 2000x1250)
408499
  No.10836   Report                
1412478545045.jpg (56 kb, 800x596)
56963

Small, but a unique view of the mountain.



1395461949979.jpg (204 kb, 1920x1080)
209019 No.10755   [Reply]   Report  

Uchouten Kazoku, since there seems to be a theme recently of posting backgrounds of beautiful anime. This show was absolutely gorgeous.

8 posts and 8 images hidden. Click here to view.
  No.10764   Report                
1395462376070.jpg (273 kb, 1280x720)
279541

"...after all, I'm just a frog in a well."

  No.10765   Report                
1395462443494.jpg (246 kb, 1280x720)
251405

Interesting to compare this one...

  No.10766   Report                
1395462499471.jpg (213 kb, 1280x720)
218202

...with this one. The use of colour to set moods and express symbolism in this anime was outstanding.

  No.10767   Report                
1395462548020.jpg (166 kb, 1920x1080)
170030
  No.10768   Report                
1395462580290.jpg (170 kb, 1920x1080)
174157

rain

  No.10769   Report                
1395462726474.jpg (355 kb, 1672x935)
363721

There's seriously tons more that could be posted. I'll leave it with this one of Yasaburo and Benten-sama under a stunning moon.

  No.10802   Report                

>>10769
thank you.

  No.10803   Report                

>>10802

  No.10805   Report                

Jesus. Is this from the current season? Or very old? I've never heard of it?

  No.10815   Report                

>>10805

wikipedia says "A television anime adaptation aired from July 7, 2013 to September 29, 2013 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll"

setting's pretty, but after watching it I was pissed off by relationship between benten and yasaburo, and the attitudes of the tanuki in general. too much dumb-ass squabbling and not enough self-preservation in any of them, and the one that showed some promise was mostly sidelined. the big reveal was pretty heavily foreshadowed and the redemption plot pretty shallow.

not saying I want my 6 hours back, but doubtful I'll be encouraging anybody to watch it.



1404566386275.jpg (94 kb, 768x1024)
96510 No.10804   [Reply]   Report  


1403805749153.jpg (124 kb, 1024x768)
127311 No.10797   [Reply]   Report  
  No.10798   Report                
1403951243202.jpg (172 kb, 1024x768)
175708


1401178251422.jpg (147 kb, 1024x768)
150575 No.10794   [Reply]   Report  
  No.10795   Report                
1401286826546.jpg (119 kb, 1024x768)
121914


Delete Post
[]
Previous [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ]