Whoever is doing this is probably pretty passionate, I don’t think they start you off doing these kinds of buildings as a rookie.

Yes that was my guess as well. Lovely place.

https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=Wz217ihcQ2VYjqWc

If this was a film set the machine making the haze would cost 20k and each of these tubes would be 3k.

The firefly ones are great.

Probably become a vegetable from the brain damage/concussions/broken spine. Rocket league.

Right, I’m all about my protein and low calories but tuna/salmon should remain a couple times a week max because of that.

Can confirm, this could be my cat. Also notice they all have the “M” on the forehead.

This holds true across pretty much everything, you’re always better off doing a moderate amount of effort regularly over a longer period of time than going all-in for a short period, it’s just being human. Ever since we were hunting mammoths by slowly walking behind them, rather than sprinting.

Piano is maybe a slightly easier learning curve at the very beginning if you’re just trying to play with one hand and sound like a 4 year old, but these curves cross real quick. It’s much easier to sound decent with a guitar, which sounds like what you’re trying to do.

You’ve got a lot of good advice all over this thread, up to you to listen to it!

Oooh, you touch my tralala.

There’s a place for both. I’m French and I don’t like it when you take traditional dishes or items, butcher them and still call them the original name. However it’s totally fine if you want to update the recipe, make it a fusion with something else, or whatever else you fancy, but just give it a different/updated name.

Did a quick check and yeah I was massively exaggerating, you can get some in the 600k to 1.3M€ for small ones with mooring in the center, which is still pretty unaffordable for normal people but not as outlandish as I made it out to be. The points about additional costs to the city and the mortgage stuff remains though.

I might be slightly exaggerating depending on how big it is and location but yeah everything in Amsterdam is crazy expensive. The toilet situation is pretty normal these days I think? I think they get plugged into the normal sewer systems, the days of it just falling into the canals are long gone (but that’s also a part of the yearly expenses along with mooring costs, property taxes and so on). Also you can’t even mortgage these things normally because banks consider them high risk so you get less advantageous terms (higher costs, bigger down payment, etc).

Love Scotland and the Scots (one of my best mates is one, and I visited many times), but it has the unfortunate flaw of being part of the UK indeed… I guess the obvious option that is similar-ish without having that flaw is Ireland, but personally living in the Netherlands I’m only really considering a move if it’s to somewhere truly different (tropical, etc).

You probably picture that as a cheap bohemian lifestyle but these things will cost you like 2M€ to buy + untold yearly fees lol.

Yeaaah way better!! Nicely done :)

You asked for it! I see a lot of potential but it’s not quite there. Maybe you could’ve crouched down a little more so the top of the base would’ve been separated from the horizon, I feel like this would’ve given the statue a bit more power. Overall, I don’t know what your options were depending on the location but I find the composition a bit weak, the statue has all that power in it but I’m not feeling it in your photograph. In black and white composition is even more important and should be your primary focus while shooting. In terms of post-production the contrast is maybe a bit lacking, and the details inside the statue are getting a bit lost, either expose a little higher so the sky goes whiter and we get more details in the statue, or maybe crushing everything more to get more of a silhouette look could work.

This. Well really it would be sleep more, spend more time with my kid, work out more, but more importantly, start playing WoW again lmao. Probably also move to somewhere I like more, our house is fine and all but I’d GTFO of the west and go live somewhere chill.

As someone with 0 knowledge of Linux (and very little of programming/command lines in general), this thread reads funny AF.