dazzle ship camouflage, classic or dud?

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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

five months pass...

Dazzle make-up.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/hiding_from_big_brother_with_style

nickn, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

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


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