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Here's another cheery post-apocalyptic cityscape, in much the same vein as the New York image from a while back. This time, as you see, it's London, and if you're as visually pedantic as yr hmbl bloggr, you will notice that apart from the buildings and bridges being all shot to shit, the course of the River has been, like, all straightened out, and the distance and scales of the H of P, St Paul's and Tower Bridge are all wrong. Pretty though, isn't it?
As before, I have no attribution I can provide (if you know who's responsible, please leave it in the comments). I can tell you that it's from somewhere in the bowels of a gamers' site called hellgate.incgamers.com, and it isn't mad fresh…
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Ski resort, Dubai
Dubai, as noted previously, is expected to become a major exporter of apocalyptic omens, portents and casual weirdness for that arbitrary portion of the coming century that we can describe — with due trepidation — as "foreseeable".
I passed over the picture from the same set that recalled Edvard Munch's Scream, in favour of this more generally surreal version of L.S. Lowry as directed by Cronenberg; the effect is somewhat lightened, perhaps not in the best possible way, by the fact that the DRB post is titled Goblin Attack!, after other business, unrelated hitherto.
(Note my utter lack of interest in the technicalities, either in the how-exactly of the installation, nor the (no doubt impressive) specs for the keen sliding-about sports anorak. I'm strictly here for the Signs-of-the-End-Times ambience.)
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