who needs Fantasy when real life beats the crap out of it?

[dehro]

occasionally wikipedia leads to the most amazing/amusing discoveries.

seriously.. this guy wins all sorts of awesome awards just for looking the way he looks, I don't care if the music is crap

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Kozacka_piesn.jpg

have you seen (or found on the internet) people who genuinely look like they belong in a fantasy movie even though they aren't cosplaying?

[Bonecrusher Doc]

Very cool! But what fantasy does is selectively take stuff like this and concentrate it one setting for us to enjoy.

[Frozen_Feet]

Well, I frequently get told that I look like a vampire, and/or shouldn't exist for one reason or another. :smalltongue: And our karate club looks pretty fantastic when we train Kobudo each Wednesday. :smallbiggrin:

[Icewalker]

I like it! His hair and mustache especially. And I'm just a fan of longcoats in general. Given my circle of friends, I relate to the sentiment, and am happy that I get to see such things relatively often! You want to see fantasy in real life? Be fantastical yourself. :smallbiggrin:

[AtlanteanTroll]

I was looking at that dude not 2 days ago on Wikipedia. Coincidence? Entirely.

[dehro]

You want to see fantasy in real life? Be fantastical yourself. :smallbiggrin:

kinda hard to do when your day job is one that requires a suit, a tie and a "proper haircut"



I was looking at that dude not 2 days ago on Wikipedia. Coincidence? Entirely.
evidently, the internet isn't all that big a place, when you're not looking for porn:smallamused:

[CGforever!]

kinda hard to do when your day job is one that requires a suit, a tie and a "proper haircut"


Ahem. (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef014e60e8ab78970c-500wi) fillerfiller

[dehro]

touché!

however I was talking about hairdos and clothes..
and I doubt that I could squeeze a suppressor-equipped gun in my job description

[Brother Oni]

That's easy: 'Required to keep up to date in all advances in discreet personal security as part of normal daily duties'. :smallbiggrin:

[Reluctance]

Without the license, you're just the office's creepy gun nut. Bond only works when the world conspires to work for him.

Having said that, are you talking about fantasy style, or things that would make your average fantasy author do a double take? The former is pretty trivial since you can change clothes after work. The latter just requires peeking in on what physicists or biologists have been up to lately.

[Castaras]

You can go for smart suit clothing for your work that looks different...

Victorian suit anyone? :smalltongue:

[Dobbette]

I always have that feeling that real life (http://need-for-speed-world.browsergames.co.uk/) is stranger than every game I ever played when I watch (http://otherland.browsergames.co.uk/)"People from WalMart"

[Cazaril]

Strangely enough I've actually run across that article before. The picture was pretty distinctive. :smallbiggrin:

Edit: There's more pictures of him (like this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanyamass/4031738799/)) if you search for "bandura player" on Google Images.

Edit2: Aaaand I found a YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDQPlQXphX4) of him. :smalltongue:

[Xuc Xac]

There's no way that real life can be stranger or more fantastical than fantasy. Take the strangest thing that's ever happened in real life and add flying monkeys with lasers. Boom! Fiction wins the strangeness contest.