Thread: Portraits. People from any time any place.

Originally Posted by cyrille

portrait
/ˈpɔːtrət,ˈpɔːtreɪt/
1.
a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.

Roman emperors brought to life.



Augustus.





Tiberius.






Nero






Roy Keane.





John Goodman/Walter Sobchak

Inuit & friend.

What a babe.


24 year old Jap biker chick with tens of thousands of followers.






Turns out to be a 50 year old Japanese man using some Face App.

















Nabbed by a user using Nev App.

^ did some sick come up having found out after you'd knocked one ooooot?

August 7, 1982. A line drive foul ball hits a four year old boy in the head at Fenway. Jim Rice, realizing in a flash that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, sprang from the dugout and scooped up the boy. He laid the boy gently on the dugout floor, where the Red Sox medical team began to treat him.

When the boy arrived at the hospital 30 minutes later, doctors said, without a doubt that Jim's prompt actions saved the boy's life. Jim returned to the game in a blood-stained uniform. A real badge of courage. After visiting the boy in the hospital, and realizing the family was of modest means, he stopped by the business office and instructed that the bill be sent to him.

"You first."

At least I hope that is the title of the photo.


1997.

Black man bites off ear.




Surprisingly lives to tell the tale.

We all used to put cards in the spokes of our back bicycle wheels and pretend to be Ivan Mauger back in the day.

Originally Posted by cyrille

the spokes of our back bicycle wheels

*ding*ding* syntax error

Anybody remember the 3 speed (possibly) bikes from the 80's that were a kind of low-rider style, and had a computer panel of sorts on the crossbar, that was possibly just a big plastic box that had some buttons on it? Maybe it said different things, or had different flashing lights or something?

Without doubt that was the coolest thing to be seen cruising the streets on as a 9 year old.

raleigh chopper?
raleigh chopper - Google Search

Originally Posted by Edmond

Anybody remember the 3 speed (possibly) bikes from the 80's .

Sorry. I was on a Harley by then, sonny.

Originally Posted by reinvented

raleigh chopper?
raleigh chopper - Google Search

Very close.

It was actually a Raleigh Vektar.









Christ. Imagine cruising down the street as a 7 year old on that in 1985, your yellow Hulk Hogan bandanna flowing in the wind. The boss of the hood with one push of a button.




Think we know what Armstrong's next impulse buy is gonna be.

(can I grab a go off it bud )

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Sorry. I was on a Harley by then, sonny.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Christ. Imagine cruising down the street as a 47 year old on that in 1985,

....

Originally Posted by Edmond

Very close.

It was actually a Raleigh Vektar.

Ahhh you'd have been a shoe in for a Velocette LE in the day, CHIPS UK 1960's stylee

And to think that THAT^ was produced by the same country that made the Vincent Black Shadow!

^ No one in the last 50 years understands WTF was going through the designers mind apart from ...... the word Lulu

Its was so slow you couldn't even run down a burglar, not even one still pulling his tooose ooop

Auto-Polo.




Invented before Health & Safety.

A pub on Rochdale Road in Manchester from the late 1800's. Love the name, "Exiles of Erin" (no guessing who the customer base were). Maybe one or two of SA's relatives there?

Originally Posted by PAG

Maybe one or two of SA's relatives there?

Possibly SA himself.

In 2001, in a match between Bayern Munich vs Manchester United by UCL, a fan of the English team invaded the uniformed field and pretended to be one of the Manchester United players, the most impressive thing is that for a while nobody noticed, and even took photos with the team.