A parable

in the beginning ...

men sought to build their main structures on hills, for various reasons:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/calvary1.jpg
pieter bruegel the elder (1525-69)


but every bastard interfered, whenever possible...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/bruegel391.jpg ditto


and gradually, buildings grew higher...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Inshoch_recon1.jpg


they tried everything ...

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which every bastard then wanted...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/bruegel481.jpgbruegel


so they looked at the hills -and got an idea...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Tower20of20Babel20lit20up.jpg



made plans - and a model...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/putuoshan0251.jpgplutoshan


and a BIG project started...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/babel1.jpg
breugel


with heavy lifting equipment...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/bruegel511.jpgditto, detail



and excellent construction workers...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/bruegel116c.jpgbruegel detail



she was really going well. You beauty!


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/dore31.jpg
gustave dore


core rise after core rise ...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/littlebabel1.jpgbruegel



apartment dwellers began to move in ...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/babel5.jpg


but it all came to nothing....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/babel4.jpg



folly, followed by tragedy


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but still they try...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/TowerOfBabel5.jpg


and will get there...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/fish1_yarra_fin_lores1.jpgjohn gollings

eventually...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/headlines31.jpg


that's it. Cecil B. De Bronte.

Lol that was a cool story.

lol... random

...that truly was the greatest thread ever told.

The cinematography was breathtaking, the sheer magnitude of the whole thread totally blew me away. How you got funding to put this thread together is a story that I would like to hear
And the production values were magnificent. Well done...lol

thank you for those v. kind words Brizbane2: actually dashed up on Saturday night for Sunday morning. guess i'm still feeling a bit grimly philosophical abt events in the world this weekend...cheers Bronte

LOL :lol:
Very creative Bronteboy!
I wonder if any developer is game enough to call their tower "Babylon"?

lol :) Cool thread.

lol :) Cool thread.

well, has caused a bit of a stir - mainly favourable- on ssc.com world forums (in Citytalk and Urban Issues). Recent responses and reply...

i get the idea, but what's the point? if it's a parable, it has a point, but I see no coherent one.

and i hope you got permission to reuse that civilization 3 picture.


great story!!!

oh hay!! i think u need to go back in time and get permission to use that art from those painters. :crazy:

Ooh, i tink forgot to do dat ....wha will happen?...


mummy ...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/childsball.jpg


but Littul Bronte neva lerned his lesson....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/childsplay.jpg

grew up wild...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/child_d9.jpg
bruegel 'children's games'(detail)



and there's a moral to this thread...

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it must be...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/1903com601.jpgThe Age


...

Pride goeth...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/ss131.jpg
sidney sime

before a Tall...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/CryingEagle_thumb.gifdvercity magazine