dazzle ship camouflage, classic or dud?

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http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/images/dazzle3-600.jpg

http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/images/type25-600.jpg

http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/images/dazzle2-600.jpg

fukcing classic fux0rz!!1!!!!!DO NOT ARGUE or bridget riley river monitor willsort you out!@#!@#

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gotouring.com/razzledazzle/images/mahomet-600.jpg

good grief!!1!!1!!1!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c833/c83394n2f6u.jpg

But I would think that's great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand this. Are the ships supposed to hide in front of an OMD end cap?

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

That's one of my favourites!! did u see them on the tour they did for that one ned? it was fukcing great.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Couldn't have seen that, as I was eleven and in upstate New York at the time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic!

These weird designs broke up the ship's silohuette on the horizon. However, sonar was discovered almost as soon as this sort of camoflauge was discovered, rendering it moot. The period during which military ships sported these cubist designs was so brief that almost no one remembers it happened.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

They should still paint ships like this! Practical or not, it's effin' k-classic!

― Bill E (bill_e), Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not very relevant, but it just struck me how similar that album cover looks to this one, from the mighty eska:

http://www.gringorecords.com/images/records/waat007.gif

i'll go back to sleep, now.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I very well remember at the beginning of the war being with Picasso on the boulevard Raspail when the first camouflaged truck passed. It was at night, we had heard of camouflage but we had not seen it and Picasso amazed looked at it and then cried out, yes it is we who made it, that is cubism.
Gertrude Stein Picasso (1938)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the most classic things EVER. I can hardly believe this, it's so fantastic!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Nelson: "I see no — OMIGOD MY EYES!! I mean my eye!! I mean my OTHER eye!! Blimey kiss me Hardy. Emmaluvscake. Etc"

*dies*

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Fanatastic, love it. The idea that a subcaptain my poke up his periscope and go - "surely that cannot be a ship, it is painted so garishly" and not fire at it is brilliant wrongheaded psychology. What actually happened was a sub captain would poke up his periscope and go "surely that cannot be a ship, it is painted so garishly - fire one torpedo just in case."

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

subcaptain my:

http://www.moominshop.com/pclittlemylarge.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I want my house like that.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

he idea that a subcaptain my poke up his periscope and go - "surely that cannot be a ship, it is painted so garishly" and not fire at it is brilliant wrongheaded psychology.

Surely the point was that all the op-art visual effects would confuse the sub captain so that he couldn't make out the ship's range and heading.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

[insert feeble joke abt sub headings]

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

BUMP

http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com/daz022006_final.gif

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

classy dan, did you plan your party for exactly 3 years from the last post on this thread?

― Graham Gouldman (Graham Gouldman), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

far out

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

3 years ago I read those posts and thought, Dazzle Ships, hmmm. If I name my new party that, everyone on this board is gonna think I stole it from them. So I will wait for exactly 3 years, and Dazzle Ships will arrive.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

that's a great poster

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

WOW

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Pash beat me me out by several years:
beardo house - not idjuts / lindstrom - harvey, rub'n'tug, map of africa

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

did somebody say Dazzle Ships?

We have Beppe Loda tonight.

http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

alright! tacos nearby!

― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's not just a camouflage, it's a font!

http://www.myfonts.com/images/family/larabie/dazzle-ships.gif

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

The physiological effects on the crew were profound. Almost all of the crew were violently ill. Some suffered from mental illness because of the experience — behavior conforming to schizophrenia is described in some accounts. Still other members were missing — supposedly "vanished" — and allegedly five of the crew were actually fused to the metal bulkhead or deck of the ship.

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

philadelphia experiment i presume?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

loose lips pappa wheelie!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 August 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

ME WANTEE

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

i say merge philly experiment and dazzle ships into one legend...

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

I saw His Girl Friday again at an AFI screening last night and noticed that Rosalind Russell's outfit in the opening scenes is basically dazzle camo.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/2005/100movies/images/his_girl_friday.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I kinda like the spiral camo on this disguised 2010 6-series test mule

http://photos.leftlanenews.com/photos/content/february2009/priddy-6-series-3.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:23 (sixteen years ago)

Whoa, that's HUGE.

But it's also BEAUTIFUL and even though I can't really be bothered with cars... WANT!!!!

Maybe I'll paint the bathroom in spiral dazzle camo. Yeah.

― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:27 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

RISD discovered by accident that they have a pretty massive collection of dazzle ship art. Apparently the exhibit just closed, but there's some smallish images up at http://www.risd.edu/dazzle/

And goddamnit Internet, where is the high-res scanning? Why aren't there posters available of this?

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

UPDATE: apparently the exhibit has been extended for another week. Someone has to go to this...

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

ha, if you google the names on those design cards it's easy enough to find actual photos of the ships

for instance
K I Luchenbach
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/i03000/i03057.jpg

― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 09:56 (sixteen years ago)

OK nobody has, so I will, especially as I dug it out THIS MORNING!

http://www.merryswankster.com/images/OMD-Dazzle-Ships-125863.jpg

― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 10:05 (sixteen years ago)

was too obvious 8)

the painting (Dazzle Ship In Drydock, Edward Wadsworth) that inspired that cover is here:
http://sarahbaumann2.blogspot.com/2008/02/visit-to-leeds-city-gallery.html

lots of the painting of these ships was done in birkenhead docks, hence their fascination with them

― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:02 (sixteen years ago)

(oh, EW was instrumental in the design of the ships rather than just recording the results)

― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:06 (sixteen years ago)

(it would have been too obvious, but I literally did haul it out this morning)
Coincidences, Whoo.....

― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 11:07 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/spectrum-war-sucks-front.jpg

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

Aw yeah!

― Germanic Street Preachers (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:24 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Comminwealth Projects in Los Angeles has dazzled shipped their building. (Building photos after the ship photos.)

Commonwealth Projects

― nickn, Thursday, 2 June 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

just back from tate britain where they have these prints for sale (limited giclee prints of original woodcut print, or something)

http://www.fineartcompany.co.uk/limited-editions?artistName=Edward-Wadsworth

(link not actually to tate, but somewhere else)

― koogs, Friday, 3 August 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

splinter camouflage:

http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter4.jpg?w=1000&h=679

http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter1.jpg?w=1000

http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter5.jpg?w=1000&h=750

― ledge, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:03 (twelve years ago)

http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/splinter6.jpg?w=1000&h=662

― ledge, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:06 (twelve years ago)

that last one just looks like digital camo - is pixels rather than polygons.

anyway, more splinter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K32_HMS_Helsingborg_Anchored-of-Gotska-Sandoen_cropped.jpg

― koogs, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:12 (twelve years ago)

Top plane is ace, makes it look like it's made from lego.

― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 18 January 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Dazzle-ships_in_Drydock_at_Liverpool.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 January 2013 15:54 (twelve years ago)

dazzle ship camouflage, classic or dud? (cough)

― koogs, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:11 (twelve years ago)

finartcompany link is dead. so here's another.

http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/prints/artist/24

― koogs, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)

img post or gtfo imho

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:25 (twelve years ago)

http://i46.tinypic.com/2e5mcuh.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2m5kxdz.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/166yq7r.jpg

― 1.5GB of audio-destroying fluff (los blue jeans), Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:19 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/07/this-century-old-british-warship-got-a-new-dazzle-paint-job-to-commemorate-wwi/

― koogs, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)

those pipe shapes are very Leger-esque

― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:41 (eleven years ago)

it's not a great job, is it?

i liked this when i saw it (it's Chelsea Arts Club):

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3899/14537073285_654662170a_z.jpg

― koogs, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:56 (eleven years ago)

We had in-laws visiting from overseas last week so were doing touristy things, went on a Thames Clipper past the warship, it looks pretty cool from the water.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 09:36 (eleven years ago)

Oh, we saw that on our Thames Walk the other week. We were wondering what that was about. My companion insisted it was graffiti art of some kind, I said it was Dazzle Ships. In a way we were both right.

― Branwell with an N, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:09 (eleven years ago)

This is effectively the opposite of dazzle ships, but one editorial test I took had me summarising Warpaint, a guide to acceptable paints for Royal Navy ships. A hauntingly & hypnotically dull document.

― woof, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:28 (eleven years ago)

My uncle used to build boats for the US navy, and I remember looking through some of the paint catalogs showing paint chips and milspec numbers for like 9000 different shades of orange which all looked exactly the same to me. A particular boat might spec for, say, any of 4 of those numbers, and they'd have to find a supplier who did one of those 4. The other 8996 colors, which looked exactly the same, were unacceptable.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:34 (eleven years ago)

i hope there are bad procurement officers who just buy job lots of grey paint off ebay because it looks about right and it says it's weatherrproof.

― woof, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:15 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

Dazzle make-up.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/hiding_from_big_brother_with_style

― nickn, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:51 (eleven years ago)

http://blog.emscdn.com/media/2013/03/dazzle/DazzleFashion500.jpg

― they could at least have the decency to groove (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:24 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

Not dazzle, but this seems like a good thread for it.

https://www.boredpanda.com/abstract-illusion-graffiti-murals-peeta/?utm_source=bp_art&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR2xqSOsn-wPs5ztqz11cND5bXWc9sSjL_dhMerSxzR1k0t29O8Uu91fXZk

― nickn, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:40 (six years ago)

Thought this revive was going to be about juggalos and members of KISS evading facial recognition.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 12 July 2019 03:09 (six years ago)

same

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:30 (six years ago)

Sorry to disappoint.

― nickn, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:34 (six years ago)

five years pass...

Totally loving Taylor Swift's suit, which is designed to break up her shape against the background, thereby making it difficult for German U-Boats to calculate her range, speed and direction. pic.twitter.com/qBBGoOLLg4
— Emma Manzini (@EmmaManzini) February 1, 2023

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 20:22 (one year ago)

https://progresnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rishi-sunak-3-1720175166-640x360.jpg

― koogs, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 20:56 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

Out of all the developments in drone-to-drone aerial combat a return to dazzle camouflage wasn't one I saw coming https://t.co/pGut0BCWEp
— Black 🇬🇱 Site (@UnseenOps) August 23, 2024

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 August 2024 19:41 (one year ago)

three months pass...

https://mil.in.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/468412261_980394824128100_5610888758933766048_n-1.jpg

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/boats-of-the-ukrainian-navy-received-dazzling-camouflage/

Ukrainian warships were covered with “dazzling camouflage” to disguise them from enemy visual observation.
The Ukrainian Navy posted photos of the equipment.
The new camouflage was applied to small armored artillery boats (SABs) and Island-class patrol boats.
The fleet command decided to use the “dazzle camouflage” livery for painting.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 1 December 2024 08:52 (one year ago)

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