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Dazzle consists in painting obtrusive patterns on vertical surfaces. Unlike some other forms of camouflage, dazzle works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed and heading. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to make it more difficult for the enemy to recognize different classes of ships.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
The Dazzle ships of the 14–18 NOW project are artworks created to commemorate the work of the artists and artisans who developed and designed the dazzle camouflage used in the First World War by ships as a defence against U-boat attack. MV Snowdrop, at Birkenhead, in dazzle livery. HMS President displaying dazzle livery by Tobias Rehberger.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is usually akin to a 14-ring musical circus — a variety of musical acts playing simultaneously on stages spread throughout the sprawling infield and ...
List of jazz contrafacts. A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was ...
The famous Miss Peaches has also recently mastered this skill, and she’s doing it with gusto! Check out this video shared on July 30 to see that good girl knocking her training sessions out of ...
Marc Chagall [a] (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985 [b]) was a Belarusian-French artist. [c] An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art ...
Forecasts show a mostly cloudy skyline, with temperatures in the mid-80s (around 30 Celsius), but there's up to a 40% chance of rain in the afternoon. Dumpstaphunk, a funk-fusion band born in New Orleans with descendants from the city's well-known Neville family, plays just before the Stones hit the festival's largest stage.