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One of the problem with wind farms is that they are quite ugly, but not any more with the introduction of the Giraffic Park Wind
Generation Company.
Now instead of a forest of sterile concrete posts you can choose to have a heard of oversized giraffes reaching into the wind with their necks outstretched.
Other
long necked creatures under development.
Giraffic Park
https://sodabred.tu...s-a-half-baked-idea [xenzag, Jul 26 2010, last modified Feb 16 2018]
BA609
http://www.flugzeug...a609_aldobidini.jpg wings swing and big props used for vto [xenzag, Jul 26 2010]
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The illustration is particularly good. Are you a trained giraffic
artist, or did you base this on a photogiraffe? |
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Thanks. Scanned from a scribble in my note-book, then a half hour of photoshop to clean it up a bit. Original based on two of the many examples on google images as reference. |
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Trumpeting elephants? Giant spitting cobras? What about a field of Tupolev Tu-95's on a stick? |
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For good measure, and to add a surrealist touch, could we
have a few 1940's desk fans, with enormous cast-iron bases,
gold lettering, ultra-wide blades and big wire cage? We
could then tell tourists that yes, it's windy because of the
big fans. |
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[Max] Those are probably already done by Bruce McCall .... one of favourite artists. [Shudderprose] I already made a model of a BA609 on a pylon some time ago. If you don't know this aircraft see link. |
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//lready done by Bruce McCall // |
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He has some books out.... very clever, funny and really nice technique. |
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See first link..... I'm going to gradually restore all of the illustrations I had posted, before Google abandoned Picassa.... grrrrr something's wrong. I need a geek..... fixed (for now) |
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