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The Booo Krooo was an adult animated TV series. Lex Johnson was the producer/animator working in collaboration with Matt Mason (writor) and Julian Johnson (Art). Taking hints from underground music culture and the intersection between UK Garage and Grime, the 3 episode web series was shortly co-signed by Missy Elliott after her PR team asked to feature the artist as part of the campaign for ...
@Swanny18: Hi, "dazzle ship" has been used for a century in multiple reliable sources to mean a ship, naval or merchant, painted in dazzle camouflage, and it has properly been redirected to that article. The current article might reasonably be titled "Dazzle art ship" or something of that sort, but the original name is not available, and I'd be ...
Gloire was designed by the French naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme as a 5,630-ton broadside ironclad with a wooden hull. Her 12 cm-thick (4.7 in) armour plates, backed with 43 cm (17 in) of timber, resisted hits by the experimental shooting of the strongest guns of the time (the French 50-pounder and the British 68-pounder) at full charge, at a distance of 20 metres (65 ft).
The ferry is the regular boat used on the Manchester Ship Canal cruises, held over most weekends during the summer months. MV Snowdrop in dazzle livery, in May 2015, departing from Seacombe. In January 2015, the ferry was selected as a "dazzle ship"; she was given a unique new livery inspired by the First World War dazzle camouflage.
This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Snowdrop (ship, 1960) in dazzle colours. You can see its nomination here .
Dazzle makes ships MORE conspicuous." No, it doesn't. It breaks up the shape of a ship's hull, hiding the fact a ship is present, which is exactly the point. Only at comparatively short ranges are dazzle-painted ships more conspicuous; if they were at longer ranges, dazzle wouldn't work, & indeed would be counterproductive.
The first OMD release in the wake of parent album Dazzle Ships ' critical panning, "Telegraph" also received negative appraisals. [3] Mike Gardner of Record Mirror described the song as "a well-recorded piece of nonsense that doesn't show any ideas apart from starting and ending", [4] while Smash Hits journalist Dave Rimmer called it "jolly, jangly, deliberately obscure and dull as proverbial ...
The Essex-class ships were much larger than the preceding Yorktown-class aircraft carriers, which allowed them to carry more aircraft, armor, and armament. [2] The initial ships had a length of 872 feet (265.8 m) overall and 820 feet (249.9 m) at the waterline, although this was revised to an overall length of 888 feet (270.7 m) in the "long-hull" sub-class when the bow was reshaped to ...