Cool Pictures 14: no , it wasn't me who painted Mona Lisa

[Arakhor]

It appears to be virtually naked too. The neck lump (and the lack of antlers) makes it look rather like a camel.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Female moose don't have antlers.

Here's the source article from my local online newspaper.

 

[Arakhor]

Huh. I didn't realise that female elks don't have antlers. Reindeer do, so I just assumed that elks did as well.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

When your feathers have that wind-blown look and you can't decide whether or not to be embarrassed about it:

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Shodo Yukawa

 

[Valka D'Ur]

King penguin parent tends to their chick:

 

[EgonSpengler]

When your feathers have that wind-blown look and you can't decide whether or not to be embarrassed about it:

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He's clearly a fan of the New Romantic subgenre of '80s UK New Wave.


Spandau Ballet, c. 1981.

 

[Kyriakos]

3d render, made with Blender.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Georges Lacombe

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Charles de Batz de Castelmore (but you probably know him by another name).

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Comrade Ceasefire

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Comrade Ceasefire
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The statue - I kid you not - looks to me like Kevin Sorbo posed for it. I don't think he ever played D'Artagnan, but that's where my mind went.

Of course the actor I'm used to in that part is Michael York.

 

[Kyriakos]

The long duck and its various types of mimesis. From here.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

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The long duck and its various types of mimesis. From here.

Defunct link?

 

[Birdjaguar]

And now back to our regularly schedulred program of cool pictures.

Changes in the path of the lower Mississippi over the decades. This is one section of a map tracking those changes of the lower Mississippi River.

Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)

Artful, detailed maps of the Mississippi’s meander belt created by US geologist and cartographer Harold Fisk.

publicdomainreview.org

 

[Kyriakos]

Defunct link?
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It's the "Long Duck", a current hit at Reddit pixel art
Try the link again now, I think it should work.