>>11819724

>5th column

Color revolution?

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>>11819268 [lb]

>It looks like a destroyed or toppled obelisk to me

Found something I did not know about the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The (rejected) 2001 Monolith is on display by Tower Bridge

Posted on 7th July 2012 Posted in geekery

It may not look like it, but this 11-foot wide sculpture is the original model for the iconic Monolith used in the film, 2001 and it is on permanent display in St Katherine Docks, next to Tower Bridge.

When Stanley Kubrick wanted a monolith for the making of 2001, he commissioned a local plastics firm, Stanley Plastics to cast the monolith out of a solid lump of transparent plastic. However Kubrick was disappointed with screen tests and the sparkling clear polymer block was eventually rejected as a prop in favour of the dense, black basalt that was imported from Scandinavia and is now such an icon of film history.

Personally I am quite pleased as the black monolith is more mysterious a shape in large part to being opaque. A transparent monolith would have lacked mystery.

Anyway, that unwanted, and quite massive lump of perspex then sat in the Boreham Wood film studios until the Bratislavan born, London resident, sculptor Arthur Fleischmann acquired it.

His interest being no doubt the fact that this was at the time the largest single block of perspex ever cast – and he was a noted artist working with plastics. The block was kept in storage by Talbot Designs until Fleischmann received the commission to make a crystal crown for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Celebrations in 1977.

In 2000 the Crystal crown was moved from its original home and moved just a few metres to the north elevation of the Thistle Hotel (map link). A plaque to commemorate the resiting was unveiled by Joy Fleischmann that year.

Sadly, mounting it on the wall means what was once a glassy transparent sculpture now looks more like a translucent lump of cheap plastic. I really hope that one day it can be free-standing again, as the photos of it in that guise look quite stunning and truly deserving of its title “the crystal crown”.

Oh, and what happened to the original Rotunda space it sat in? That has been converted into a branch of Starbucks.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2012/07/07/the-2001-monolith-is-on-display-by-tower-bridge/

>>11819758

https://qresear.ch/?q=watermark

>>11819772

>It's one of them, isn't it?

As in one of the original 'meant' to be props? Sure would seem so.

Regardless it's still interesting.

They Crowns emblem is just…wtf. like [they] wanted them to be the "god-like" as the monolith was depicted in the 2001: A Space Odyssey film.

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>>11819793

>The missing letters are UT

Universal time?

How does one force word-wrap for each post. Any CSS tricks? I'm already using the JS baker tools.

As it seems when an article is posted it fucks the whole orientation the page layout.

Getting tired of having to shift+scroll like I'm reading punched tape.

>>11819950

No worries.

You have to pay attention to not only the no-tables but these aswell;

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>>11819704

Carry on Anon.

o7

>>11820051

You have that meme/grpahic anon at hand? I would sure like to look at it.

>>11820149

>I didn't save it. Dumb ass mistake. Sorry

Any of these?

These people are sick.

SICK<>KCIS

[K]orean [C]ulture and [I]nformation [S]ervice

The Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) is an affiliated organization of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism[1] of the South Korean government and runs 32 Korean cultural centers in 27 countries. The goal of the organization is to further enhance the image of Korea's national brand by promoting Korean heritage and arts through these cultural centers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Culture_and_Information_Service

>This I believe MAY have something to do with this;

<Dark web child abuse: Hundreds arrested across 38 countries

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-50073092

More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplaces", investigators said.

The site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times.

It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence.

But on Wednesday, officials revealed that 337 suspected users had been arrested across 38 countries.

US officials unsealed nine indictments against the site's owner Jong Woo Son, 23, from South Korea – where he is currently in prison.

The UK's National Crime Agency said arrests had been made in the UK, Ireland, America, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic and Canada - among others.

The site, named Welcome to Video, was run from South Korea and had nearly eight terabytes of content involving child abuse - enough to store hundreds or even thousands of hours of video footage.

Prosecutors said the site had offered videos of sex acts involving children, infants and toddlers – and specifically asked users not to upload videos featuring adults-only pornography.

The site was "one of the first to offer sickening videos for sale using the cryptocurrency bitcoin," the UK's National Crime Agency said.

It was taken down by an international task force that included agencies from the UK, the US, South Korea and Germany after operating for three years.

It was discovered during an investigation into paedophile Matthew Falder from England, who was jailed for 25 years for sharing abuse tips and images on the dark web.

In the UK, seven men have already been convicted in connection with the investigation, including Kyle Fox who was jailed for 22 years last March for the rape of a five-year-old boy and who appeared on the site sexually abusing a three-year-old girl.

Suspects were identified after crime agencies traced the site's cryptocurrency transactions back to them.

About 23 children have been rescued from active abuse situations, the joint task force said at a press conference about the operation.

They are continuing to trace other children seen in the videos.

"Dark web child sex offenders…cannot hide from law enforcement," the UK's National Crime Agency investigations lead, Nikki Holland, said.

"They're not as cloaked as they think they are, they're not as safe as they think they are."