The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread V

[PlutonianEmpire]

How and where do I get a south park rendering of myself?

 

[Cutlass]

How and where do I get a south park rendering of myself?

http://www.sp-studio.de/

 

[kulade]

I'm looking for a certain artist. Some of his works that I remember include some kind of dusty, bleak, flat landscape, imposing cathedral-like buildings and graves/skeletons. I think his last name ended in -ski or some type of Eastern-European kind of name.

I'll double your internets if you can get me desktop sizes.

 

[Annex]

I'm looking for a certain artist. Some of his works that I remember include some kind of dusty, bleak, flat landscape, imposing cathedral-like buildings and graves/skeletons. I think his last name ended in -ski or some type of Eastern-European kind of name.

I'll double your internets if you can get me desktop sizes.

I assume these are paintings? In what time period did he work?

 

[kulade]

Yeah, they were paintings, and the artist was late 20th century-ish; he might still be alive.

 

[Annex]

Is Zdzisław Beksiński the guy you're looking for? He certainly draws a lot of skeletal figures.

His work is pretty damn creepy.

Spoiler :

 

[kulade]

Yeah, thanks allot; that was just what I was looking for.

 

[Annex]

Yeah, thanks allot; that was just what I was looking for.

Edited in a painting. No luck on finding larger ones, though.

 

[kulade]

I managed to find a pack of about 400 of his works downloadable here.

 

[Annex]

I managed to find a pack of about 400 of his works downloadable here.

Cool I wish I could paint stuff like this. Unfortunately I have no talent in the art department. Damn you, younger sister of mine!

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Has anyone heard of a woman named "Esterlee Sabbath"? My grandma says she was in the Colorado state area in the early to mid 1980's, and made a few audio tapes of her singing. No lyrics, just singing. My grandma says "she had the most beautiful voice" that every singing teacher turned her down for fear of ruining her voice. I've searched all the the internets with no luck in search of her audio tapes. My grandma says the title of one of those tapes is "call of the heart" or something like that.

Does anyone know anything?

 

[West 36]

I was thinking about the Early Middle Ages last night and now am interested in what it was like for the average person then, and any interesting history too. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and before, I guess the Holy Roman Empire. So any help is appreciated if you know of anything good to check out.
It's the allure of a sort of Dark Age, before a fully Christian West but after the Romans... just seems interesting. I'm not looking for the routes of Barbarians or anything, I know that. And if anything else outside of Europe was happening that's interesting, I'll check that out too! And obviously not the rise of Islam, I want things I don't know about!

 

[Mirc]

I was thinking about the Early Middle Ages last night and now am interested in what it was like for the average person then, and any interesting history too. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and before, I guess the Holy Roman Empire. So any help is appreciated if you know of anything good to check out.
It's the allure of a sort of Dark Age, before a fully Christian West but after the Romans... just seems interesting. I'm not looking for the routes of Barbarians or anything, I know that. And if anything else outside of Europe was happening that's interesting, I'll check that out too! And obviously not the rise of Islam, I want things I don't know about!

Well, western Europe and "outside Europe" are not the only places in the world, right? Maybe you'd be also interested in what was happening in the other parts of Europe, prior to (and continuing into) the rise of Islam. I for one am very interested in Byzantine history, especially in the part right after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. If you're interested in that at all, there are a couple of very nice things to read about it.

 

[Brighteye]

Are you looking for historical fiction, or specifically dry reference books?
Because 'The Last Light of the Sun' was a good book portraying something similar to the Dark Ages.

 

[salty mud]

Am I correct in thinking the frenulum is totally useless as a part of the male body?

 

[GoodGame]

Am I correct in thinking the frenulum is totally useless as a part of the male body?

I think courtesans knew otherwise.

 

[GinandTonic]

I think courtesans knew otherwise.

Nice girls know otherwise too, just dont advertise.

 

[Godwynn]

In London there are sidewalks with "Look Left" painted on them. I understand that in Britain they drive on the opposite side of the road, but if I am on a sidewalk looking at the street, wouldn't the traffic be coming from the right?

 

[Mise]

In London there are sidewalks with "Look Left" painted on them. I understand that in Britain they drive on the opposite side of the road, but if I am on a sidewalk looking at the street, wouldn't the traffic be coming from the right?

That's why it tells you to look left -- these are exceptions, e.g. one way streets, or on traffic islands (where you stand on a bit of pavement in the middle of the road whilst waiting for traffic to stop/clear).

 

[Sharwood]

Am I correct in thinking the frenulum is totally useless as a part of the male body?

Important enough to go to the hospital for when it gets torn.