Photographs

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
Locked
User avatar
boudicca
Sister Midnight
Posts: 7427
Joined: 15 Sep 2004, 16:15
Location: embrace the margin
Contact:
Contact boudicca

Earlier this month, in Malmo, Sweden... an amazing building called the Twisting Torso. I had a lot of difficulty taking this... I was in a bus and couldn't "get it all in" before we turned round a corner. Thought I hadn't really got anything but actually I like the way it came out :)

Image

It's apartments, apparently... extremely f**king expensive ones, each with their very own wine cellar! :eek:
Can you imagine being up that thing at the height of the Swedish winter, in the middle of a snowstorm coming over the Øresund... :notworthy:
Last edited by boudicca on 02 Sep 2007, 17:45, edited 1 time in total.
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
Top
User avatar
Debaser
Overbomber
Posts: 4660
Joined: 30 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: Lincoln. UK

boudicca wrote:I've been up that
I can never understand why people insist upon climbing up tall things (whether by lift or other means). You get just as good of an idea how tall it is from the ground :urff:
Five cups of coffee just to be myself...when I'd rather be somebody else
Top
User avatar
smiscandlon
Overbomber
Posts: 2595
Joined: 05 Feb 2004, 23:52

But it took 632 years to complete! What about that famous German efficiency? :eek: :lol:
анархия
Top
User avatar
smiscandlon
Overbomber
Posts: 2595
Joined: 05 Feb 2004, 23:52

boudicca wrote:the Twisting Torso
:eek: Wow. :notworthy:
анархия
Top
User avatar
eotunun
Overbomber
Posts: 3730
Joined: 06 Aug 2005, 22:24
Location: (X,Y,Z)(t)=huh!²

<drivel modus off> That cathedral is a beauty. Try to see it, everyone who reads this. It is magnificent.







....<drivel modus on>
"These are my principles! And if you don't like the just says so, I have others, too!"
~Rufus T. Firefly
Top
User avatar
Debaser
Overbomber
Posts: 4660
Joined: 30 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: Lincoln. UK

eotunun wrote:<drivel modus off> That cathedral is a beauty. Try to see it, everyone who reads this. It is magnificent.







....<drivel modus on>
Don't get me on beautiful cathedrals...there can be only one......

Image

Every journey home, you get greeted by this in the skyline.
Image
Five cups of coffee just to be myself...when I'd rather be somebody else
Top
User avatar
Debaser
Overbomber
Posts: 4660
Joined: 30 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: Lincoln. UK

eeeeek that was a bit large...someone-else will have to tweak it I'm already at technological overload here...
Five cups of coffee just to be myself...when I'd rather be somebody else
Top
User avatar
eotunun
Overbomber
Posts: 3730
Joined: 06 Aug 2005, 22:24
Location: (X,Y,Z)(t)=huh!²

But that's nae goff... Pfft..

@Steve: German e.. e...what? Ewok?
"These are my principles! And if you don't like the just says so, I have others, too!"
~Rufus T. Firefly
Top
User avatar
Debaser
Overbomber
Posts: 4660
Joined: 30 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: Lincoln. UK

I beg to differ.....

It's got flying buttresses, twiddly bits and a vaulted whatsit...what more do you want (well spires granted, but we had them and they fell down during an earthquake - tallest building in the world at one point)
Five cups of coffee just to be myself...when I'd rather be somebody else
Top
User avatar
James Blast
Banned
Posts: 24699
Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
Location: back from some place else

this is a cathedral
Image
isn't it just breathtaking?

and Steven was fortunate enough to study there, the bitch :|
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
Top
User avatar
eotunun
Overbomber
Posts: 3730
Joined: 06 Aug 2005, 22:24
Location: (X,Y,Z)(t)=huh!²

I am kidding. But you really need to see the Cologne cathedral Debaser. When you are in it you wonder what prevents the roof from falling on you. It's almost all windows, merely stone pillars seem to hold it up.
Gothic Architecture at it's best. And a windowcleaner's nightmare.
"These are my principles! And if you don't like the just says so, I have others, too!"
~Rufus T. Firefly
Top
User avatar
boudicca
Sister Midnight
Posts: 7427
Joined: 15 Sep 2004, 16:15
Location: embrace the margin
Contact:
Contact boudicca

James Blast wrote:this is a cathedral
Image
isn't it just breathtaking?

and Steven was fortunate enough to study there, the bitch :|
And I was unfortunate enough to study next door :innocent:

They took us in there one day though, during art class... like all CRM's buildings, it's infinitely more stunning in the interior than from outside :notworthy:
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
Top
User avatar
6FeetOver
Childlike Empress
Posts: 7683
Joined: 25 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: way on down south, New London town...
Contact:
Contact 6FeetOver

@Ness - is that Westminster Abbey's "twin" in Lincoln?
I left my heart in Ballycastle... :cry: :cry: :cry:
Top
libby
Utterly Bastard Groovy Amphetamine Filth
Posts: 522
Joined: 24 Apr 2006, 21:54

Debaser wrote:
Don't get me on beautiful cathedrals...there can be only one......
Yes, this one ;D

Image

Oh Lieve Vrouwe Toren
hoog boven 't Vlaamse land
wij zijn in uw schaduw geboren
zo hecht aan u verwant
nooit zullen wij vergeten
de dapp're gouden haan
voor u, lieve toren
zal steeds ons hart slaan
bijf daar voor eeuwig staan

from our famous Antverpian singer La Esterella :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
Top
User avatar
6FeetOver
Childlike Empress
Posts: 7683
Joined: 25 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: way on down south, New London town...
Contact:
Contact 6FeetOver

Debaser wrote:eeeeek that was a bit large...someone-else will have to tweak it I'm already at technological overload here...
I'll leave that to Herr Marky-Mark, hehehe... ;)
I left my heart in Ballycastle... :cry: :cry: :cry:
Top
User avatar
Spigel
Utterly Bastard Groovy Amphetamine Filth
Posts: 615
Joined: 17 Feb 2006, 10:37
Location: Nowhere near Dublin

Image I am very fond of this one.
"Santiago de Compostela"
Last edited by Spigel on 02 Sep 2007, 18:59, edited 1 time in total.
Top
User avatar
Debaser
Overbomber
Posts: 4660
Joined: 30 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: Lincoln. UK

For a group so desperate not to have anything to do with religion...we do seem rather precious about our cathedrals :lol:

Yes, everybody's churches are very nice but mine's best ok

I'm already on photo overload otherwise 'special mention' would have to go to Gaudi's 'two catherdrals for the price of one' one :notworthy:

And yes Sinny, it is the one that was stunt double for Westminster Abbey...in fact it's going to be used again but I'm damned if I can recall which blockbuster filum
Five cups of coffee just to be myself...when I'd rather be somebody else
Top
User avatar
6FeetOver
Childlike Empress
Posts: 7683
Joined: 25 Jan 2002, 00:00
Location: way on down south, New London town...
Contact:
Contact 6FeetOver

@Ness - YAY! Yeah, I know, mainly because I just watched The DaVinci Code last night, haha! :oops: Stunning, though - I aim to see it, someday. Also, La Sagrada Família - I adore Gaudi's work!
I left my heart in Ballycastle... :cry: :cry: :cry:
Top
User avatar
boudicca
Sister Midnight
Posts: 7427
Joined: 15 Sep 2004, 16:15
Location: embrace the margin
Contact:
Contact boudicca

SINsister wrote:La Sagrada Família
That was fcuking extraordinary as well... :notworthy:
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
Top
User avatar
Obviousman
Outside the Simian Flock
Posts: 7090
Joined: 22 Aug 2004, 12:14
Location: Soon over Babaluma
Contact:
Contact Obviousman

James Blast wrote:this is a cathedral
Image
isn't it just breathtaking?

and Steven was fortunate enough to study there, the bitch :|
That looks great :notworthy:
libby wrote:
Debaser wrote:
Don't get me on beautiful cathedrals...there can be only one......
Yes, this one ;D

Image

Oh Lieve Vrouwe Toren
hoog boven 't Vlaamse land
wij zijn in uw schaduw geboren
zo hecht aan u verwant
nooit zullen wij vergeten
de dapp're gouden haan
voor u, lieve toren
zal steeds ons hart slaan
bijf daar voor eeuwig staan

from our famous Antverpian singer La Esterella :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
There you go :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
Styles are a lie.

My Facebook/My Flickr
Top
User avatar
James Blast
Banned
Posts: 24699
Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
Location: back from some place else

I think us Catholics win, well apart from the GSA which was designed by a Protestant, that elevation is still to this day my most very favourite piece of architecture, thankfully I've gotten over my snobbery of having gone to Dundee Art School (a 50s monstrosity) and can now fully adore that wonderful piece of... well what is it.. sculpture, architecture, interior design, 'living space', experience... I dunno, it still overwhelms me?

CRM rocks and don't believe the hype :notworthy:
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
Top
User avatar
smiscandlon
Overbomber
Posts: 2595
Joined: 05 Feb 2004, 23:52

James Blast wrote:CRM rocks and don't believe the hype :notworthy:
Good call. :notworthy:

I genuinely love his stuff, and not just through any form of misplaced loyalty to either Glasgow or the GSA. 8)
&#1072;&#1085;&#1072;&#1088;&#1093;&#1080;&#1103;
Top
User avatar
James Blast
Banned
Posts: 24699
Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
Location: back from some place else

My feelings exactly Steven, I went to an exhibition of his watercolours at Kelvin Grove before I started artschool (so we're talking 74-75 here) and I was captivated. Years passed and the "Toshy" explosion happened! I take a very dim view but am glad he's finally got some recognition, albeit for female adornments and a tea-room. I still recoil to this day when I see a woman with "those" earrings in.... ewww <shivers>
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
Top
User avatar
psichonaut
Overbomber
Posts: 2703
Joined: 29 Mar 2007, 20:37
Location: somewhere in time in italy
Contact:
Contact psichonaut

this is Fckin greatImage
thanks...my Lord...i'm unbeliver
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
Top
User avatar
psichonaut
Overbomber
Posts: 2703
Joined: 29 Mar 2007, 20:37
Location: somewhere in time in italy
Contact:
Contact psichonaut

big too
thanks...my Lord...i'm unbeliver
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
Top
Locked

Return to “General Chat”