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[–] artwork@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thank you heartfelt for the share... Ineffably magnificent work of art... ingenious marvel of great experience expressed... and human effort and love...

May I ask what is the location of the miracle?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anthony chapel at garvan gardens in hot springs AR.

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Roger that! Appreciated! I haven't been in USA much (for just 2 months accumulated for works), residing mostly in Europe and Asia, but dear I so much hope to at least once visit... such miraculous places... and see such an effort of human work alive...

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck me do you use some flowery language. I hope you comment half as much as I do, cause I could read this shit all day.

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thank you, @YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today !
And I wish you success, stability, safety, and peace, too!

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Not OP, but that looks like Anthony Chapel in HotSprings, Arkansas, USA.

[–] Basherblade@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Been to the Mildred B Cooper chapel and the ThornCrown chapel In Arkansas. This feels like they have to be in that same school of architecture.

Very much not a religious person but there really is something special about these buildings. Gives the perfect nature is a religion vibe.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago

This is actually the sister chapel to Thorncrown in eureka springs!

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I feel like I've seen this place used in a tv show.

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Either this or one very similar was in True Blood, the Fellowship of the Sun church.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Secret cut scene from the Red Wedding episode.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Something something throne made of swords

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Looks like a chapel by the same architect was used in the first kelvin timeline star trek movies

[–] SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 6 points 2 months ago

It is both brutalist and highly natural. Like you got caught in Spider Pope's webs. He is going to spin you up, read you your last rights, and then inject you with venom as your last moments are angelic and terrifying.

Watch out. As soon as you retrieve the idol from the alter those blades are going to start falling. If you run flat out down the nave you might be able to slide under the portcullis just before it grinds shut. Don't forget to grab your hat.

[–] Arixoida@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 months ago

Being here in a rain storm would be my dream

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Note to self: looks like a place of quiet contemplation, but whatever you do, don't bring the cat!

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dunno who dv'd you but you're absolutely right!

You know one of dem little shits is going to try and get on those rafters! And that thought scares me.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 2 months ago

Before scrolling fully down I thought it was a corn field nearing harvest time... 🙂

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Well I know where to go on the next road trip. I'm just up in Missouri a few hours away.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I gives a bunch of spears feel along with a nature feel. Would be perfect for nordic especially odin.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn, the religious have fine taste.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 months ago

it looks good but the acoustics seems to be bad

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Wasn’t this in the first season of Sliders?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

The metal bars up there are what is keeping that roof from collapsing over them. Science and engineering protection mind washing.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it looks like an unfinished house. Good try, but it doesn't work.

[–] craneum_@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

It hurts to look at

just one pigeon could wreck the place of it got inside.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude in þe cap nicely demonstrating þe reason why caþedrals (and þis chapel) are designed like þis: it instinctively draws þe eye towards þe sky, makes you tilt your head back, and reminds one of how relatively small one is.

Such a lovely design.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's up with the þ symbol in your comment? Odd thing to go out of your way to use?

[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They claim its to poison AI models, but its been repeatedly proven to them that it doesn't work. They also claim to want to bring back older English symbols like this too, not only has it been pointed out they're using it wrong many times, but in my case and some others, it just makes their comments an illegible mess. Ultimately they're just one of those edgy Lemmy personalities.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it's specific to Piefed after looking for more examples. Something baked into the code for that particular fediverse host?

[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

No, nothing to do with piefed. I did read that at one point there was actually a hard code to turn that symbol back to normal text, but that's hearsay, as if it exists its not enabled. Said user is manually typing it in in this case

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Idk man, I find it harmless and whimsical. Bonus points for making me actively read too. I kinda like seeing these off the wall nuts & niche comments.

[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I try to read it, I can't parse it as anything other than a "p" or "b" so its not so much making me actively read as it is utterly confusing. Is that a me issue? Sure, but i've seen other comments to that same effect in the past too.

So I don't see it as a fun reading excersize, there's plenty of that already without adding strange characters to the mix here.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Not a you issue. I'm the same way. But I just like having to use my brain in a different way sometimes.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

Its the old version of the digraph TH, and some are trying to revive it. I find it pretentious and cringy, like that guy I once knew who insisted on pronounced Schedule with an "SH" sound.

[–] Nidandelsa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

It’s a letter for “th” called thorn. I’ve only seen it on old tombstones.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

The thorn character represents the two TH sounds in English. THought and THose.

They are trying to bring it back, I guess. Odd but fun.