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  • dsl145, on 04/11/2008, -4/+54Would you really want to fish in that water??
    • vroom101, on 04/11/2008, -3/+81. "Sea of Garbage": http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/sea-of-garbage.h ... ( www.odditycentral.com/pics/sea-of-garbage.html )

      2. "Is this the world's most polluted river?": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new ... ( www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=460077&in_page_id=1811 )
      • berryhill, on 04/11/2008, -3/+1I am confident there's a goatse hiding in the picture.
    • TrevorPace, on 04/11/2008, -2/+6No...but seeing as that is actually downstream it wouldn't be AS bad.
      • encumbent, on 04/11/2008, -3/+4I'd kinda want to be upstream, but that's just me :)
      • woofers07, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2It wouldn't be as bad, but the fish are still spending time in all the waste before they move up the river, sorry hypothetical river.
      • kmalik, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1good eye, i'm impressed.
      • raynar, on 04/11/2008, -2/+1embiggen? Nice...
        • Starch, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
        • Mongolai, on 04/11/2008, -0/+10It's a perfectly cromulent word.
    • Zera, on 04/11/2008, -7/+2LOL, what's wrong with fishing in pipeland, with 947 drain pipes per mile of river.

      -Oh right, that's what you do when you can't come up with other interesting things to look at in digital art.......
      • WoollyMittens, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5I'm surprised you found the precious time to annoy me with your pointless whining.
    • xptoast, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1and....background:)
      • jaznova, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1My new desktop.. until I come across the next cool *****. Who's gonna bring a HDR of that old Prodigy album cover?
    • sjl127, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Where's the middle class guy?
      • TheImmigrant, on 04/11/2008, -0/+10He DOESNT EXIST!
      • andreegal, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1its just the thechies and the anarcho primitivist.
    • TheImmigrant, on 04/11/2008, -6/+6Ron Paul Can fix this
      • sjl127, on 04/11/2008, -5/+4No he can't because he can't get a fair election.
        • dawgma, on 04/11/2008, -2/+9It was fair. The people spoke and they didn't want him.
        • TimmyGUNZ, on 04/11/2008, -2/+6Because America doesn't want a nut job with ideas that will never ever come to fruition the system isn't fair?
          There are things that are wrong with the election process, but Ron Paul not being taken seriously is not one of them.
    • Di0genes, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I don't get why everyone is assuming the water is polluted. It looks perfectly clean. It isn't that hard to imagine that flying cars might succeed the elimination of pollution.
    • jemka, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1The level is off. Water on left is flowing from left to center/right. Water bottom right is flowing to center/left.

      Doesn't add up.
    • radoxist, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2actually the question is not "if you want" but the question is "if you have to" :) But I don't want to make the river polluted too much, too depressive...that's the point
    • OaklandMatt, on 04/12/2008, -0/+2US/Mexico border in 100 years?
  • skarbreeze, on 04/11/2008, -1/+159More of this guy's work, very good stuff:
    http://radoxist.deviantart.com/gallery/
  • urbannomad, on 04/11/2008, -0/+83The bottom village reminds me a lot of AOE 2, anyone else agree?
    • sexybobo, on 04/11/2008, -3/+6This is a in game screen shot from AOE3
    • twertyto, on 04/11/2008, -1/+11Actually it made me think of something from Final Fantasy 7. Its been too long I forgot what.
      • alexforcefive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3It's red XIII's village
      • Sunsetter, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Wow, I was thinking the exact same thing. The city of Midgar and the small village outside of it, Kalm.
      • Bega, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I was thinking more along the lines of junon
      • Myonosken, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I thought more XII's tribe village. Jahara?
    • tas08, on 04/11/2008, -9/+4Half-Life 2
      • afidler, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3Obviously, then, I must have been playing a different version of HL2...
        • sexybobo, on 04/11/2008, -1/+1Install the FAKEFACTORY mod V7 it is a 6 gig download and a 16 gig install but this is the kind of detail you get out of it.
    • Zlorp, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2totally, at first i was pretty convinced that it was a video game screenshot
    • HayString, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I pulled my first all-nighter playing that game...and I didn't even mean to.
      • klipseracer, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I hear that. I used to love DM on a plain map :)
    • SerifTheRobot, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Hoclama?
  • swrostmore, on 04/11/2008, -5/+300Credit the artist(s) for ***** sake!
    • MrBabyMan, on 04/11/2008, -6/+138Apologies, you are of course, correct. Radoslav Zilinsky did this piece entitled "Worth Enough?"
      • badwithcomputer, on 04/11/2008, -48/+21didn't i warn you about this *****? do you think i'm some kind of keyboard warrior who can't back it up in real life? i'll back it up all day like a road trip in reverse. watch your back because my brothers aren't named parker, i'm not milton or bradley and i damn sure don't play any games. i'm going to hack your submissions page and change everything to gay porn (not that there's anything wrong with that) and then i'm going to come to gendale and show you my version of a drill down. it's where i tap my elbow twice with my strong hand before dropping it down with fury. simply put, don't ever do this kind of ***** again unless you have amazing medical insurance. consider this a generous warning.
        • rouge568, on 04/11/2008, -1/+53wtf?
        • Niallgriff, on 04/11/2008, -5/+7Dude calm down, he most likely got the pic of stumbleupon, thought it was cool and submitted it. Not that big a deal.
        • gameyharp, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8"show you my version of a drill down" WOW
        • sephiroth965, on 04/11/2008, -2/+8That had to be copypasta. What the hell is it from?
        • IllBeBack, on 04/11/2008, -5/+7Well, I have to say that that was an awesome way to violate Digg's terms of service and illegally threaten harm to MrBabyMan, while leaving documented evidence for him to use in charges that he could press against you if you ever followed through with any of the things in your post.
        • twertyto, on 04/11/2008, -3/+3Don't feed the trolls guys. badwithcomputer pulls this crap all the time. I'm just wondering when the banhammer is going to come down on him. Check his profile for proof and then report him.
          • badwithcomputer, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5dude i talk to babyman on im- it's a joke. i was just getting overly upset for something that OBVIOUSLY shouldn't really bother anyone. especially not to the point of driving out to glendale which is something i would never wish on anyone.
          • twertyto, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Ok don't beat me up please.
        • bitterbug, on 04/11/2008, -4/+3Wow, I want badwithcomputer to come to my front door and try this macho "I'm an internet badass crap."
          Heh, the last time one of those lame "internet beefcakes" threatened me, they claimed they were coming looking for me with a 9mm. So I gave them my address. Funny they never showed. He did eventually come to my building to see a girl that lived on another floor, but oddly timed it when I was out of town. Turned out he was 105 lbs soaking wet, and 5'3". No gun either.
        • ligyron, on 04/11/2008, -0/+9oh ***** the internet is here
        • Rheic, on 04/11/2008, -0/+9You people have no sense of humour.
        • mali1, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8I have to say I laughed pretty hard. The internets are serious business, you know.
          "didn't i warn you about this *****?": that's ***** GOLD!
        • skyroket, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8How the ***** is this guy getting dugg down? That was badass!
        • kjcdude, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1lol, arent mr baby man and bad with computer like bff?
          They're both top submitters
    • thokks, on 04/11/2008, -4/+2John Candy
    • xtekian, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Ok, how on earth did he manage to put in so much detail... that is incredible. Too bad this picture isn't wallpaper friendly!
  • ChronicColonic, on 04/11/2008, -4/+125Dugg for 'embiggen'.

    http://science-community.sciam.com/blog-entry/Scia ...
  • MrSkyGuy, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5See that guy playing golf in the hay bales? Yeah.. that's me.

    Awesome picture.
  • akman003, on 04/11/2008, -3/+28How is this artist not famous??
    • Zera, on 04/11/2008, -12/+3Because Digital art is dime a dozen... this one's just really super high res..... the city in the background is just blurry to give the impression of complexity
      • Zaeboes, on 04/11/2008, -1/+0The city in the background isn't blurry, that's a light filter.
    • Abaddon1125, on 04/11/2008, -2/+36Because people want to claim that digital art is a dime a dozen, when really it is just as difficult to produce as traditional media. It's too bad digital art carries with it the stigma of being "easy" or "cheap" when it is neither.
      • Zaeboes, on 04/11/2008, -4/+6It's cheap because it can be printed out by the millions and no one copy is "the original" thus it loses its value at auction.
        Very good work and just as hard as traditional work though, I will give you that.
        • danesis, on 04/11/2008, -3/+4ever heard of signing it and getting it authenticated?
      • Zera, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5Not cheap OR easy....... digital art is just really plentiful.... it's everywhere, there are so many digital art websites that you could literally start looking at it now, and view images at one per second continuously for months. This is good... certainly better than most digital art, but it doesn't really stand head and shoulders above the rest.

        See this for an example of something that made the artist famous:
        http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_dam ...
      • Namaha, on 04/11/2008, -1/+4Seriously, this particular artist put in so much detail to this work. There's even little rainbows on the rapids in the lower-right corner.
    • swrostmore, on 04/11/2008, -9/+2Believe it or not this isn't really on par with professional digital art, at least not the kind that would make the artist "famous."
    • richenloaf, on 04/11/2008, -1/+7I think he is probably not famous because, although he is obviously technically proficient, his work isn't conceptually challenging.
      • volonix, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Dunno why you're getting dug down, this is completely true.
    • akman003, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1I blame Hillary
  • strobelite33, on 04/11/2008, -0/+26holy hell. that reminds me of brave new world; when they go to visit the savages and it's this completely different world juxtaposed to the 'future world'. insane picture.
    • SuperSloth, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1That's exactly what I thought. It looks exactly like I pictured Brave New World. Amazingly well done.
  • Xoti, on 04/11/2008, -12/+125Im pretty sure its photoshopped.
  • Jiggernaut82, on 04/11/2008, -7/+25I love how this picture combines both modern society and the less than privileged almost 3rd world country feel. Creating the idea that one is so much more superior than the other, and that at best they must live off our waste. Very powerful!!
    • MagikOvenMit, on 04/11/2008, -2/+6I don't get why this guy is getting dugg down... This is actually a kind of important topic.
    • mattjumbo, on 04/11/2008, -1/+22It's odd how different people interpret art. My impression was that the smaller, rural town had chosen to live that way and there was a kind of symbiosis and respect between the two.
      • Di0genes, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8Mine as well. The village seems idyllic, not oppressed.
      • la7crosse11, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3Yeah, reminds me of a hobbit/shire area. It's be hella fun to run the fields and not be cramped up in the city life.
      • Intamin, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Sure, but if you look at the huge wall and the fact that the waste is running off into the village's water supply/fisheries...it's easy to interpret it differently.

        I agree with both, really, the beauty of art.
    • lotsa1s, on 04/11/2008, -1/+9The contrast is indeed very striking, but what is also interesting is the way such simple things such as a little feast and fire excites the village people and brings them joy. How they can live in contentness and happiness in the shadow of the city, without exuberant materialism, and flying cars, and gigantic spires of metal and glass that cut through the sky. Without pumping millions of gallons of polluted water into nearby river systems.

      They've no need for such "advances" in technology and science to live their lives, and in fact look warmer, happier, and more living then the cold materialism that the city people exhibit. The people in the flying cars seem to be racing to get somewhere, while the ones in the village seem to have already found it.
      • radoxist, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Nice written! Yes I meant something like that by this, but everyone could answer that question "worth enough?" for yourself...
      • edwartica, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2The catch 22 though - health issues. How many of these people will live past 50? I'm guessing not too many.
  • Darrelc, on 04/11/2008, -1/+36I would love a jigsaw of this.
    • buddypriefert, on 04/11/2008, -1/+7File>>Print, take paper to Kinko's. Order jigsaw. Pay. Take home. Enjoy.
  • JLecker, on 04/11/2008, -4/+5I think my favorite part is the giant ass-dome that covers the whole city. You can see the faint outline of it in the sky.
  • Simonft, on 04/11/2008, -2/+17Hey, that's cheap, the ant in the bottom left is missing a leg!
    • antdude, on 04/11/2008, -2/+1What ant?
    • Duggan360, on 04/11/2008, -1/+3You forgot to add '/Joke'
    • ever0095, on 04/13/2008, -0/+0I'll admit I looked for the ant for about 5 seconds.

      But I've been drinking.
  • TJ11240, on 04/11/2008, -2/+204Dubai in 3 years
    • TheImmigrant, on 04/11/2008, -3/+5tell me about it that place is crazy! There building all sorts of luxuries, all the while expoliting cheap replaceable indian/paki/filipino labor.
    • Scaryclouds, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1One building looks reminiscent of the the Burj Dubai, directly to the right of the large building closest to the foreground.

      There is another building that looks a lot like the taipei 101.
      • radoxist, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I haven't any inspiration in any of Dubai building. All of the building are my improvisational designs...
    • Pogojoe, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5Pfft. Dubai now...
      • Intamin, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Sans flying cars--but that's why he said 3 years. :)
    • solid12345, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1And in 3 years no one will still be living in it!
    • jordwest, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1The building in the front looks a little like Tokyo's proposed Sky City 1000.
      Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-bBuBT1oYU
  • ictharus, on 04/11/2008, -1/+12Reminiscent of Ergo Proxy - for sure
    • sephiroth965, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5That's the first thing that I thought off when I saw it.
    • CydeWeys, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2That's also the first thing I thought of when I saw it. I'm glad at least two other people on here have seen Ergo Proxy.
    • XianPalin, on 04/11/2008, -1/+0Make it three.. I had to go look up the name of the anime, but definitely thought the same thing.
  • thepatster, on 04/11/2008, -7/+2Reminds me of Star Wars
  • debuffplx, on 04/11/2008, -3/+21I wish MMORPG could look this awesome.
    • MasterGrief, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5Give it time.
    • synyster, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2try eve, it pretty amazing if you like futuristic and space stuff
      • kenjura, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Not that EVE has cities, because it doesn't have planets, just big spherical holograms you can warp through.

        Seriously, EVE is a great game, but the graphics are as far ray-traced CGI as any other video game.
  • z3021017, on 04/11/2008, -1/+7Top half = my new wallpaper
    • Chairboy, on 04/11/2008, -2/+10Bottom half = the part of the girl many Digg'ers will never see in person?
    • buddypriefert, on 04/11/2008, -1/+0Top half of my big ass monitor = image
  • jakatan, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8reminds me of "lost coast" from half-life 2
  • Deveak, on 04/11/2008, -3/+43This is what Dubai will look like in 10 years, plus a working death star.
  • pradaaddict, on 04/11/2008, -3/+7everyone is saying it reminds them of a videogame. it reminds me of HL2
  • zephyear, on 04/11/2008, -1/+23god i would love to live in that city

    FLYING CARS MAN
    • Kraemahz, on 04/11/2008, -1/+10Flying Cars Man seems like a lame superhero.
      • Zaeboes, on 04/11/2008, -1/+2Better than The Procrastinator.
        • GrantTheGr8, on 04/11/2008, -1/+3Never heard of him. I was gonna wiki him but I decided I don't feel like it right now. Maybe later.
    • RonBurgundy76, on 04/11/2008, -1/+2I was always a bigger fan of Powdered Toast Man, myself.
    • Intamin, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1I would love to live in that village! Sheep! I love sheep...
  • d0ugfunny, on 04/11/2008, -1/+1wow this is awsome, very good. Some of those buildings are really sweet
  • Aliminator, on 04/11/2008, -1/+3fallout 3?
  • NikoKun, on 04/11/2008, -2/+17Talk about class gap...
  • bobbybebob, on 04/11/2008, -10/+155Very Nice.
    Mirror: http://uploadingit.com/view/528718_17tki
  • onionlayer, on 04/11/2008, -1/+8I was thinking China.
  • Alix7, on 04/11/2008, -4/+45DUBAI?
  • protodon, on 04/11/2008, -2/+5Who would've thought they'd ever build stuff like that in the Riddemark.
    • apollyon, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5You win the "Best Obscure Literary Reference of the Day" award.
      • protodon, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Yaaay!! I'd like to thank my not having a life and...well there's really nothing else.
  • TBADrift, on 04/11/2008, -1/+4This picture is stunnnig, I keep finding new things to look at. Amazing work.
  • Kallius, on 04/11/2008, -5/+36Dugg comments for Skarbreeze and Bobbybebob providing working links. Buried for Mrbabyman linking to a crap-ass server that can't take more than 10 views.
    • PHiZ187, on 04/11/2008, -1/+8If he is such a Digg god, then he should know to snag a mirror of sites before he submits something. He could put it as the first comment...
    • Kloud, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4And he would know to source his work rather than stealing images from Deviant Art just to feed his lust for Diggs.
  • smurf22, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1As far as the rest of those details go my favorite is the lines in the sky the planes leave.
  • Vorin, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6i say screw the windmill.. take advantage of the falling water and construct a water wheel or two!
    gotta do my part to bring these simpletons into the 21st century
  • AsSubtleAsABrik, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4I wish it were wider instead of taller, would totally have found a new background if so.
  • pugs909, on 04/11/2008, -0/+11mrbabyman just camps on reedit
    • 10GunSalute, on 04/11/2008, -2/+2Whenever I come across one of MrBabyMan's submissions, I browse through its thread just so I can see everyone rip on him
    • Tetraca, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1***** camper.
  • equin, on 04/11/2008, -6/+3Temporary Mirror: http://www.vwire.net/digg/worth_enough_2500.jpg
  • kinseyincanada, on 04/11/2008, -2/+12Mirror: http://radoxist.deviantart.com/art/Worth-enough-73 ...
  • TheWorm, on 04/11/2008, -0/+24I'm disappointed that this isn't going to be a videogame.
    • Rodalli, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Looks like it could easily be the setting for an RPG. Reminds me very much of Midgar in Final Fantasy VII.
      • o0Taggart0o, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1My goodness the idea does really remind me of Midgar, too. Makes you wonder if this will ever happen...
        • Tetraca, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1Something like it happened: Rome and Germania.
  • buddypriefert, on 04/11/2008, -9/+1Caption: Republicans vs Democrats
  • tripledjr, on 04/11/2008, -1/+9Makes me wanna play FF7 hardcore. amazingly well done picture.
    • Kloud, on 04/11/2008, -5/+1Stop being a tool, it's 2008. Play Crisis Core for the PSP ffs.
      • solid12345, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Actually to not be a tool you'd disregard this pathetic FF7 milker with no connection to Sakaguchi at all.
    • stepfresh, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1or use psx2psp and convert the ffvii iso's to psp eboots.. im currently playing through ffix on my psp. great times.
  • Kto859, on 04/11/2008, -8/+2When you see it, you shall shat brix.
  • randomstupid, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2thats taken from out the back of Papakura
  • dakilla91, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7Way to go digg...we brought MIT's website down!
    • J3EBS, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Don't worry we're just giving them more reason to develop a faster-faster internet.
  • Selenica, on 04/11/2008, -3/+0Very symbolic way of representing the upper and lower(peasant-like) classes.
  • grantmoore3d, on 04/11/2008, -6/+3Honestly time.... it's really amazing and I can't do even close to that, however... it's not really all that detailed.
  • catachip, on 04/11/2008, -2/+21I never heard the word "embiggen" before I came to Digg.

    My friend tells me it's a perfectly cromulent word though.
  • exomni, on 04/11/2008, -0/+21City 17?
    • Intamin, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1After Gordon's finished with the Combine, of course...
  • tehknotte, on 04/11/2008, -2/+6Embiggen that ho
  • Bviper, on 04/11/2008, -3/+16Man, this really makes you think. The people in the bottom half are probably more happy than the family in the flying sedan.
    • Zaeboes, on 04/11/2008, -10/+1Last I checked, happiness is not dependent upon location-- unless you are really pathetic.
      • itsinmyeyes, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Last I checked, you have lived in one place your entire life.
      • Kloud, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Could you have interpreted that comment any worse?
  • rodbotic, on 04/11/2008, -0/+17this reminds me of The river that divides Manhattan from new jersey
    • sovietninja, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3However, this river doesn't have mutant fish or turtles.
    • tmattoneill, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2would you be referring to THE HUDSON?
    • karan1003, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1tell me about it. Those silly new yorkers haven't stopped though; they keep coming in anyway
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