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Inspiration & Reference
I just wanted to know if people had any links to good websites for either level design inspiration (photos, paintings, concept art, etc.) or just for architectural reference. We had a thread like this on the old qmap, but we know how much good that does us.
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RC Plane With Camera Flying Over New York 
Ok, it's not great but brings some nice ideas perhaps...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpaJOGIhcyE&feature=related 
Truth Vs Fiction Part Xxi 
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0076.jpg

Lessee.
A masculine huge-jawed hero testpilot and his comic sidekick small mechanic guy test fly a german war booty aircraft.

A woman is involved too.
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0069.jpg

But the real beauty is the aircraft, perhaps the best looking ever constructed in the history of aviation.
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0064.jpg 
Oh Forgot 
Today's Post/modernist Architecture Link 
And 
at the other end of the timeline, Opacity hasn't been killed in the collapse of an old insane asylum yet and now has 100+ albums:

http://www.opacity.us/ 
Re: Coolhunter 
This bank:
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design/What--A-Bank-/

It's like walking around in an ipod 
 
That bank is SO not going to go bankrupt. It probably has its own time travel device built into it to prevent such catastrophes.

Also, to get an account there the bouncer has to think you're cool enough. 
Lovin It 
Plastic Bank 
Shit won't stick on it.

Sadly, what happens when that surface is tarnished? You can't change any panels or grind out or anything, since it's monolithic.

And it also probably turns yellow with time.

Plastic summer cottages were marketed in Finland in the sixties. You don't see any around...
http://www.kiasma.fi/site/pop/pop.php?tid=61&lang=fi&mo
But there were different ones... 
Hmmmm. 
*Melts his way in to the safe.* Muahahaha. 
Cat Tracks! 
List Of Rotary Steam Engines 
Lotsa great inventions here... except that most of them didn't work out too well.
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/rotaryengines/rotaryeng.htm 
Have No Fear 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_JLIhZLxg
The future is here. Hovering rocket vehicles popping all over USA. Showdown in November.
Soon, space travel will not be the same as it used to be. 
Random Suggestion 
suggestion for someone else to make for Q1SP, maybe speedmapping session:

Pyramids in Antarctica (as in, they were built so long ago that it was tropic there at the time), as in Lovecraft's AtMoM, or even (maybe) in the Bob Dylan song Isis. 
In The Bob Dylan Song Isis. 
One of his best 
Stuff You Probably Know About II 
Holy Shit 
Some of those pics are really great! 
Great Link 
I'm now inspired to go travelling again right now!

amazing pics. 
Home Sweet Home 
Site Of The Guy Whose Pics Lun Linked To 
heaps more photos here, sorted by country.

http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org/ 
Shop Till You Drop 
A Few Futuristic Transportation Themes 
Rollercoasters are the way of the future - you can do tight turns with high speed since the track can be tilted.
http://www.brusa.biz/news/news.php?l_sel=1&idm=4&idk=9

There's been a huge number of fascinating concepts for mass transit but something always comes in the way:
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/romag.htm

Here's a more general history with a huge number of cases http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/history.htm 
Addendum 
Finely Lacquered Hardwood Crateware 
 
That does not inspire me. That makes me suicidal. 
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