― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
*dies*
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.moominshop.com/pclittlemylarge.jpg
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Surely the point was that all the op-art visual effects would confuse the sub captain so that he couldn't make out the ship's range and heading.
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com/daz022006_final.gif
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Graham Gouldman (Graham Gouldman), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
We have Beppe Loda tonight.
http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.myfonts.com/images/family/larabie/dazzle-ships.gif
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 August 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/2005/100movies/images/his_girl_friday.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I kinda like the spiral camo on this disguised 2010 6-series test mule
http://photos.leftlanenews.com/photos/content/february2009/priddy-6-series-3.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa, that's HUGE.
But it's also BEAUTIFUL and even though I can't really be bothered with cars... WANT!!!!
Maybe I'll paint the bathroom in spiral dazzle camo. Yeah.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link
RISD discovered by accident that they have a pretty massive collection of dazzle ship art. Apparently the exhibit just closed, but there's some smallish images up at http://www.risd.edu/dazzle/
And goddamnit Internet, where is the high-res scanning? Why aren't there posters available of this?
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
UPDATE: apparently the exhibit has been extended for another week. Someone has to go to this...
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, if you google the names on those design cards it's easy enough to find actual photos of the ships
for instanceK I Luchenbachhttp://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/i03000/i03057.jpg
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
OK nobody has, so I will, especially as I dug it out THIS MORNING!
http://www.merryswankster.com/images/OMD-Dazzle-Ships-125863.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
was too obvious 8)
the painting (Dazzle Ship In Drydock, Edward Wadsworth) that inspired that cover is here: http://sarahbaumann2.blogspot.com/2008/02/visit-to-leeds-city-gallery.html
lots of the painting of these ships was done in birkenhead docks, hence their fascination with them
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
(oh, EW was instrumental in the design of the ships rather than just recording the results)
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(it would have been too obvious, but I literally did haul it out this morning)Coincidences, Whoo.....
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/spectrum-war-sucks-front.jpg
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw yeah!
― Germanic Street Preachers (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Comminwealth Projects in Los Angeles has dazzled shipped their building. (Building photos after the ship photos.)
Commonwealth Projects
― nickn, Thursday, 2 June 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
just back from tate britain where they have these prints for sale (limited giclee prints of original woodcut print, or something)
http://www.fineartcompany.co.uk/limited-editions?artistName=Edward-Wadsworth
(link not actually to tate, but somewhere else)
― koogs, Friday, 3 August 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
splinter camouflage:
http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter4.jpg?w=1000&h=679
http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter1.jpg?w=1000
http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter5.jpg?w=1000&h=750
― ledge, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter6.jpg?w=1000&h=662
― ledge, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
that last one just looks like digital camo - is pixels rather than polygons.
anyway, more splinter:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K32_HMS_Helsingborg_Anchored-of-Gotska-Sandoen_cropped.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Top plane is ace, makes it look like it's made from lego.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 18 January 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Dazzle-ships_in_Drydock_at_Liverpool.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 January 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
dazzle ship camouflage, classic or dud? (cough)
― koogs, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
finartcompany link is dead. so here's another.
http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/prints/artist/24
― koogs, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
img post or gtfo imho
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://i46.tinypic.com/2e5mcuh.jpghttp://i50.tinypic.com/2m5kxdz.jpghttp://i47.tinypic.com/166yq7r.jpg
― 1.5GB of audio-destroying fluff (los blue jeans), Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/07/this-century-old-british-warship-got-a-new-dazzle-paint-job-to-commemorate-wwi/
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
those pipe shapes are very Leger-esque
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
it's not a great job, is it?
i liked this when i saw it (it's Chelsea Arts Club):
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3899/14537073285_654662170a_z.jpg
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
We had in-laws visiting from overseas last week so were doing touristy things, went on a Thames Clipper past the warship, it looks pretty cool from the water.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 09:36 (nine years ago) link
Oh, we saw that on our Thames Walk the other week. We were wondering what that was about. My companion insisted it was graffiti art of some kind, I said it was Dazzle Ships. In a way we were both right.
― Branwell with an N, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:09 (nine years ago) link
This is effectively the opposite of dazzle ships, but one editorial test I took had me summarising Warpaint, a guide to acceptable paints for Royal Navy ships. A hauntingly & hypnotically dull document.
― woof, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:28 (nine years ago) link
My uncle used to build boats for the US navy, and I remember looking through some of the paint catalogs showing paint chips and milspec numbers for like 9000 different shades of orange which all looked exactly the same to me. A particular boat might spec for, say, any of 4 of those numbers, and they'd have to find a supplier who did one of those 4. The other 8996 colors, which looked exactly the same, were unacceptable.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
i hope there are bad procurement officers who just buy job lots of grey paint off ebay because it looks about right and it says it's weatherrproof.
― woof, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
Dazzle make-up.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/hiding_from_big_brother_with_style
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.emscdn.com/media/2013/03/dazzle/DazzleFashion500.jpg
― they could at least have the decency to groove (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Not dazzle, but this seems like a good thread for it.
https://www.boredpanda.com/abstract-illusion-graffiti-murals-peeta/?utm_source=bp_art&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR2xqSOsn-wPs5ztqz11cND5bXWc9sSjL_dhMerSxzR1k0t29O8Uu91fXZk
― nickn, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Thought this revive was going to be about juggalos and members of KISS evading facial recognition.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 12 July 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
same
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
Sorry to disappoint.
― nickn, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link