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A famous Banksy poster. I enlarged it as much as I can, with the best possible quality.

Could anyone give me tips regarding saving similar images in smaller size (but same resolution) ?
>> Anonymous
>>382140
...you do realize that silhouette belongs to an extended range black hawk.
Most often used in rescue operations.
>> Anonymous
>>382149
Not really, I don't. How did you figure that out?
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>>382154
By looking at the wing pylons.
Those four big bulbous things are most likely fuel tanks.
>> Anonymous
>>382165
>>bulbous

i lol'ed
>> Anonymous
>>382165
I see what you're going at.. but this helicopter was drawn in order to resemble the military power, whether it had mounted weaponry or not.
It delivers the message clearly, doesn't it?
>> Anonymous
>>382171
Ignore it. Standard American "can't think of a proper reply, so will point out irrelevant inconsistancies" response.

>>382169
You're pathetic, please leave.
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>>382171
About as much sense as drawing an ambulance to deliver a message about police brutality.

An image is worth a thousand words... if your not careful, it speaks more about the artist than the subject.
>> Anonymous
>>382182

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
>> Anonymous
>>382180
And who the fuck are you?
The image targets regular people who usually have no interest in military aircrafts, and therefore can't tell the difference really. I bet Banksy himself couldn't.
>> Anonymous
>>382182
Isn't the Blackhawk like, the symbol of American military forces?
How could you interpret it in any other way?

By the way, your images are cool as hell. fukken saved!
>> Spyffe
>>382186
Great. So much for art being enlightening. Now it can just congratulate people that they are as stupid as the artist.

Fix the silhouette, if you have any self-respect, and stop crying about the messenger.
>> Anonymous
ITT: butthurt Americans.
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>>382187
The aircraft has turned up on many battlefields, but its got many uses back in the US too. Its not exactly a clear cut symbol of modern war that the attack helicopters are.
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>> BurtGummer !!RRMHFHglFsy
>>382149

FGSFDS

Who CARES, the silhouette is a symoblic ICON representing american military might being used against innocent civilians.

The helicopter is somewhat reminiscent of the familiar russian Hind, and people identify the "bulbous" parts of the helicopter as being additional weapons.

If your going to blame someone, blame the general ignorance of the masses for not recognizing the difference.

Im sure they'll apologise.
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>>382250
The reason people easily confuse the likes of a blackhawk with a hind is because artists will choose images based on cool-factor, then inject misinformation into popular culture.

Ignorance breeds ignorance.

After we've eaten our fill of "so what, they are both helicopters" lets have a rip roaring discussion about intricate global politics!
I'll start with "so what? they are all arabs!".
>> Anonymous
Well they are.
>> Anonymous
>>382321

You utterly miss the point. Whether or not the helicopter in the picture is indeed an attack heli or a rescue heli or fucking howard the helicopter off of thomas the tank, the picture's message remains the same. Its hardly the most subtle or subversive artwork anyway, its at the kind of level that psuedo-policital 17 year olds love to draw in their shitty A-level art classes. The content doesn't have to be 100% accurate to convey the not 100% accurate message it carries. Popular culture is filled with misinformation. Who the fuck cares? It's NEVER been accurate, and it never will be. Popular culture is aimed at the populace. Also, your implication that this kind of ignorance is akin to "lets kill all arabs they're all the same as terrorists lol" is like comparing a molehill to a mountain. You are stupid, this thread is stupid and noone fucking saged this for not going in the banksy thread thats allready going on /hr/ and has been for days. Fuck damn.
>> Anonymous
>>382321

A Hind D? Colonel, what's a Russian gunship doing in Alaska?
>> Anonymous
>>382365
>>Popular culture is aimed at the populace.
That's what I've been trying to say. Thank you.

>>this thread is stupid and noone fucking saged this for not going in the banksy thread thats allready going on /hr/ and has been for days. Fuck damn.

Fuck you too.
>> Anonymous
>>382380

fuck you too
>> Anonymous
>>382380

That just has to be Pakistan... It would be... Interesting to have desert camo pattern in "artic" enviroment...
>> Anonymous
>>382393

MGS newfag over here
>> sage Falldog !2qYdimqiHs
It's a retarded piece of propaganda and the conversation regarding it is retarded as well.

A fucking transport helicopter as the icon of "american military might" hahahaha
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Fixed so you amerifags can stop bitching about it.
>> Anonymous
so you put in a hind lol

Use an american attack helicopter newfag
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>>382643
Fuck you too.
>> Anonymous
>>382650
butthurt soviets etc
>> Anonymous
>>382651
They DO have like 2000 more nuclear weapons than you do, and more powerful. They're not butthurt, they're knowing of their "fuck your shit up" status.
>> Anonymous
>>382365
So? You can still suck or not suck, be correct or be incorrect. If you're saying that it's ok to suck because everyone else sucks, and it really is like that, this thing still sucks, whether it's ok to suck or not.

And so do you.
>> Anonymous
>>382659
I have exactly 0 nuclear weapons in my personal inventory.
>> Anonymous
ITT Ignorant Liberals.

Your couch crusades are laughable.
>> Anonymous
>>382689
also jpeg artifacts.

GTFO of my /hr/
>> Anonymous
>>382140
>>Banksy

Isn't that the same fag who couldn't paint a guy holding a fucking rifle properly?
>> Anonymous
>>382689
Yeah, like Conservatives are anything more than fat white men afraid of change.
>> Anonymous
ITT Ignorant Nigger Liberals
>> Anonymous
>>382693
I think that was the point.
>> Anonymous
>>382699
How the fuck was that the point?
>> Anonymous
>>382699
obvious troll is obvious
>> Anonymous
>>382695
/thread
>> Anonymous
Americans Working Overhead to protect ignorant euroweenies from their own stupidity. Got it. Thanks!
>> Anonymous
>>382752
Korea - tie
Vietnam - loss
Iraq - loss
Afghanistan - loss

Got it. Thanks!
>> Anonymous
its not even an American chopper.. Banksy Failz hard as fuck
>> Anonymous
I love everyone in here shitting their pants about whether the helicopter depicted is used in an offensive or transport role, and then insinuating that those who're ignorant to the differences are 'stupid' simply because they've something more important to do with their lives than memorise the various aircraft used by a particular military, and in what capacity.

No knowing something is 'ignorant', not 'stupid'.

Implying people are mentally impaired because they're not sufficiently interested in a particular subject to be able to identify a fucking aircraft from its silhouette is 'stupid'.

Cheers, lads.
>> Anonymous
>>382765
You're right. It's stupid saying that something doesn't matter and is meaningless because you and you're ignorant friends don't know shit about that subject.

As for making art generally, especially when it's actually supposed to say something, the artist should do research. Else, he's going to try to contribute to a subject he knows nothing about. Which is exactly what this thread has been about.
>> Anonymous
>>382768
any helicopter suffices and the point is made!
>> Anonymous
>>382792
No. It suffices for you because you are ignorant. As soon as anyone who actually knows something about the subject sees this pic, he or she thinks the pic is subpar. It's easy to be smart when yo're surrounded by idiots. That's why there are som many smart people in 4chan.
>> Anonymous
>>382803
it's a generic helicopter silhouette fool
>> Anonymous
>>382804
A generic rescue and transport helicopter silhouette.
>> Anonymous
>>382806
with rocket pods?
>> Anonymous
LOL Amerikkans.
>> Anonymous
>>382809
with auxillary fuel tanks
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>> Anonymous
Aliens and Americans are similar. They both will anally probe you.
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>> Anonymous
>>382695
we prefer "terrified old white men" thanks.
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>>382865
fix'd
>> Anonymous
I see my image has become a meme.
Cease at once!
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>>382149
wow, you dont know what the uh-60 is used for at all. its used mostly for transport and light lifting. they also have two 240B machine guns mounted on the side of the vehicle.

>>382659
and they dont really know where half of them are or even if they do, they are in such a condition that they cannot be fired and hit a target accuratly. good job.

for your effort. a picture of saddams "Bedrock" for the kids of his brother's he killed.
>> Anonymous
>>382922
they also have two 240B machine guns mounted on the side of the vehicle.

for shooting women & chillun?
>> Anonymous
excuse 98% of the world's populace for not recognizing the diffeence between an aircraft that is used in assaults and one that is used to evacuate soldiers from said assaults...

Anyone who argues that the meaning isn't there is a stubborn and elitist faggot. The meaning is quite clear, at least to anyone who actually matters (read: not 4chan /k/fags).

Seriously, ask pretty much anyone on the street what kind of helicopter this is, and they'll say an "army" helicopter. They won't know the type of helicopter, let alone it's current military capacity nor what country uses it.

Take it for what it is --art-- and what Banksy uses --a very small amount of artistic license.
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>>382922
The military straps guns to everything, even trucks. But we would all agree that the image of a duce and a half chasing a crowd of civilians, being held up as a symbol of American military power, is a laughable one.

Which is the problem here.
>> sage
>>382944
It's still a fucking transport helicopter, even if a random guy pulled from the street doesn't know it. Ask anyone here on 4chan and they'll say you're a goddamn moron. Doesn't mean you are.

Although, obviosly, you are.
>> Anonymous
>>382953
says the guy who can't spell "obviously"

grow a pair and join up if you want to jack off to weapons all day. Who knows, maybe you'll even get to ride in your supposed evac heli after you've been shot in the cunt.
>> sage
>>382955
I've done my part in the military. And even though the 'u' key in my laptop is acting up a bit, I can still know a thing or two about a thing or two. It's general education level isn't as ridicilously low in every other part of the world as it is there in America. Random people pulled out of the street actually do know a lot about a lot of things in some countries, even about the military.
>> Anonymous
What this thread tells me is that your average group of "Politics Club" Liberals will, without question, go ahead and follow an ignorant leader cause "it basically means the same thing".

What would be meaningful in this argument would be a photograph chasing innocent civilians, a photograph he obviously couldn't find so he opted to create the image himself, and he did it wrong.

Sitting smug in his chair thinking "yeah... I showed them conservative gun-toting vandals" when the joke is on him, because of the irony of the whole situation.

The picture ironically symbolizes the whole feeling of this thread, that the general population is ignorant and runs from everything, including something that exists to save lives.

So go ahead, embrace your ignorance and be proud of it, and be like the little silhouettes in that shitty quality picture.
>> Anonymous
>383003
When you can vote and can fully understand the issues at hand, come talk to me. Until then, keep butt-fucking the GOP because you think bombs are cool.
>> Anonymous
>>383003
itt: over thinking things by far
>> Anonymous
>>383014
lrn2quot

Also, I'm in the military and I understand the issue at hand, a little something called bandwagon politics. It's nice and trendy to be against the war and situation at hand, and you are doing nothing to support your side of the argument, whereas people like me are supporting theirs in the military.
>> Anonymous
>>383020

hmmm, and by NOT being in the military, working for my local Democratic party, and attending Iraq protest, I'm doing nothing for my cause...
>> Anonymous
>>383020
people like you are the mindless cannon fodder that the right uses cuz you're too dumb to see thru the lies.
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>> Anonymous
>>383090

i lol'd
>> Anonymous
ITT: Angry Libfags
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calm down, boys.... it seems not 2 be funny....
and the Hind-fetishist: go back to /K !!!!!

greetings and fuck u!
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>> Anonymous
>>383182

At least use proper grammar if you are going to try to insult us with a motivational poster.
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>>382140
C R U S H !!

also, ITT we give a shit about proper use of file formats
>> Anonymous
>>383200
THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
P-N-FUCKING-G YOU DUMBASS FUCKTARDS. Every time I see the gross misuse of jpeg I fucking rage.
If your image has only a handful of flat colours why the fuck use a image format meant for photography? You blur the sharp lines, bloat the size, and can't fucking resave it if you need to without making it worse. Not that it stops you.
>> Anonymous
bump for kicked americunts!
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>> sage
>>383300
Say no to using MILES instead of live bullets in military training!
>> Anonymous
>>383298
IDF sucks ass.
>>383306
Haha MILES gear is the worsssst. I'd rather die.
>> Anonymous
>>383200
i think he means he's speshul ed in reading
>> Anonymous
OP here

>>383237
That's what I asked about in the first post you shitcunt. I asked for advice about proper formats for such images.
WHY DIDN'T YOU GIVE ME ADVICE ABOUT PROPER FORMATS FOR SUCH IMAGES?
>> Anonymous
>>382149
I like this person even though it probably owns a gun.
>> Anonymous
Politically neutral. Love art. ect.

Get the message of the piece. Yes, the picture shows some feeling. And, yes, The US does throw its weight around. However, an artist who tries to create a politically charged poster, but uses a transport 'copter? I know it does not matter, but you could at least had a gunship or drawn in some missiles, or had bombs falling or something. As is, anon part B is right, that it does LOOK like weapons. But part A is also right in that it questions the integrity of the artist. If the artist cannot be accurate in the CONTENT of the image, might he not be accurate in the MESSAGE?
(not saying he wrong though... or right)