Pictures of your locale

[Nordic]

This is from a few years ago, but it should be looking about like this right about now (mid April):



It's not literally in Los Angeles, but out in the desert, the part they call The Antelope Valley. Takes about an hour and a half to get there.

[DrEvil]

This will be the view from outside my house in about two months :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3% ... 007%29.jpg

Btw : Wikipedia has got it wrong, that picture is not from the Nærøyfjord, but the Aurlandsfjord (Same county but a half hour drive away). And the Nærøyfjord looks way better

[Nordic]

Down the street and around the corner from me. Had to take the car to the shop and walk home. It's amazing what you can see when you walk!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Nordic, your pics are amazing. That last one especially. It looks like Cuba and by God you have an eye for framing stuff perfectly. You also have a very cool car (on previous page) but that's off-topic.

I got menaced by a Chupacabra recently:



Horrible creatures, I avoid them whenever I can.



Oh!



Zombie kids have claimed this area as a playpark:



"Well why didn't you warn us before?!?"

[AhabsOtherLeg]

This will be the view from outside my house in about two months :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3% ... 007%29.jpg

Btw : Wikipedia has got it wrong, that picture is not from the Nærøyfjord, but the Aurlandsfjord (Same county but a half hour drive away). And the Nærøyfjord looks way better

Holy shit... Did they film some of Attack of the Clones there? Not being sarcastic, it looks almost exactly like the place where Hayden Chistensen and Natalie Portman's infamous and agonising "I don't like sand" scene was filmed:



Unless you've seen the film (and if you have, my condolences) you'll just have to take my word for it that the area they are standing in looks just like where you're moving to. That's awesome.

[MayDay]

Just showing off. This is where I hang out during the day-



And at night:

Only in 2012- looking for a picture of my locale turns up a picture of me being brutalized by the local laws.

[brainpanhandler]

The fields in the park are dotted with fairy rings although there were no above ground shrooms at the time. I'm curious to find out what grows there though.

A young man named Timothy Johnson discovered the ruins of the ancient settlement in December of 1835. In January 1836, N. F. Hyer conducted the first rough survey of the site, and published his discovery in the Milwaukie Advertiser of January 1837. According to Lapham:

"The name Aztalan was given to this place by Mr. Hyer, because, according to Humboldt, the Aztecs, or ancient inhabitants of Mexico, had a tradition that their ancestors came from a country at the north, which they called Aztalan; and the possibility that these may have been remains of their occupancy, suggested the idea of restoring the name. It is made up of two Mexican words, atl, water, and an, near; and the country was probably so named from its proximity to large bodies of water. Hence the natural inference that the country about these great lakes was the ancient residence of the Aztecs."[5]
Hyer wrote, "We are determined to preserve these ruins from being ruined." However, in 1838, President Martin Van Buren refused a request by Massachusetts statesman Edward Everett to withdraw the site from public sale, and it was sold for $22. In the following years, the surface was plowed, the mounds were leveled for easier farming, pottery shards and "Aztalan brick" were hauled away by the wagonload to fill in potholes in township roads, and souvenir hunters took numerous artifacts.

In 1850, Increase A. Lapham, an author, scientist, and naturalist, surveyed the site on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, and urged its preservation. At the time, the stockade was still standing, though not in the condition it had once been.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztalan_State_Park

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Beautiful place MayDay, but that fucker kneeling on the back of your neck should be sued forthwith, especially with such clear evidence. Positional asphyxia is one of the main causes of death among arrestees, among all their various other methods of causing it.

For example, an officer may pin the suspect’s body to the floor with a knee on their back, and another may immobilise the suspect’s head by kneeling on their neck.
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/20 ... -can-kill/

Oh... it's legal now. Fuck's sake. That's crazy.

[DrEvil]

This will be the view from outside my house in about two months :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3% ... 007%29.jpg

Btw : Wikipedia has got it wrong, that picture is not from the Nærøyfjord, but the Aurlandsfjord (Same county but a half hour drive away). And the Nærøyfjord looks way better

Holy shit... Did they film some of Attack of the Clones there? Not being sarcastic, it looks almost exactly like the place where Hayden Chistensen and Natalie Portman's infamous and agonising "I don't like sand" scene was filmed:



Unless you've seen the film (and if you have, my condolences) you'll just have to take my word for it that the area they are standing in looks just like where you're moving to. That's awesome.

Don't think that particular spot was filmed there, but the ice planet Hoth scenes from the first trilogy was filmed at Finse ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finse ), which is in the neighbouring county.
Oh, and I already live there. Have lived there my entire life. I was just looking forward to when it looks like in the picture, which looks like it's taken in june/july sometime.
Just do a google image search for one of these if you want the local highlights (we get about half a million tourists a year, so I don't have to take any pictures. Yay):
Nærøyfjord, Flåm railway, Aurland valley, Gudvangen, Undredal

[AhabsOtherLeg]

You live ON HOTH!

Do you realise how cool that makes you?!

Please tell me you own a Taun-Taun.

[chump]

[IanEye]

http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/blog/IanEye/index_b-188.html

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there's no goin' back to that

i'm so numb can't even react

didn't say it's not ok

but we aren't dealin' the same way


it's the last thing on my mind

still you won't let things unwind

spinnin' tight around your head

can't you hear a word i've said?


when you call it's just not fair

it's the last thing you should share

i can't deal i'll let you know

still i wish you'd let it go


i'm tellin' you for one last time

it's not just you the problem's mine to hide

i waited as long as i could

if you need it sure i would drop by

i'm takin' away a lot of stuff

i'm tellin' you it's rough
but not goodbye























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[Allegro]

^^^

Thank You, IanEye.
I wept.

~ A.

[IanEye]

well, Allegro, coming from you that means a greal deal to me.
Thank you in return.



That Dinosaur Jr. album is a key one in my WalkMan development, that is for sure.



"tonal spectrum analysis" what does that mean? i often pondered.
great use of "chorda tympani" in that album.
tuned drums!?! wild.

well, eye'm sure you've got things to do.




thanks again Rigorous intuition,
Ian.
(horse radish)
(sour mash)

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[Nordic]

Just up the street from me in godless Los Angeles.