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Chromattix — The Showdown After the Countdown
Published: 2012-12-21 12:16:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 44880; Favourites: 3172; Downloads: 0
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And it just had to be right before the weekend...Typical
Anyway, if you are sitting there and viewing this then that means either you are still alive or Heaven isn't as exciting as you hoped (either that or Hell managed to live up to expectations
).But at least it also means the past few days of my life weren't wasted either. Since to get this done on time it was really just work and do this. I had been planning on making a special submission for this date since over a year ago yet somehow I still managed to leave it to the last minute, though I wasn't expecting to be as busy as I am now. Thankfully I was ale to save a lot of time on the city by using some old building models I really should re-do by now, but with so many together in a dark setting they worked surprisingly well. I did also use some "real" ones though from some photo's I took a few years back too...I knew someday I'd need them, even if that someday was the last day
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I don't know what will get the human race first, when god comes or a nuceler war.
Any way this is on ansome picture, it look like someone toke a picture of it while it was happening.
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I think it'll take a lot to kill us all Even the world's nukes all going off is bound to leave at least some behind, and if there's enough to breed and rebuild - humanity will come back. Like bacteria really - if you leave just one cell behind you will soon have a thriving population of them again later 
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What a way to put it.
I have to ageriy with you on that,if nukes go off their will be people who go into underground shelters and live.
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If we are viewing this while we are still alive, does this mean, that we are now living in a postapocalyptic world?
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Yep...and amazingly we still have internet, so now I don't have to kill myself
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awesome!!! I want it as my wallpaper today xD
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You did an incredible job and this is a masterpiece!
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Any real apocalypse based on Maya dating would occur at the change to winter in the same timezone as the original culture, which would be the same as the eastern USA since the homeland of the Maya was east Yucatan and east of that in Guatemala and other such places. But the Maya never said anything about the end of time, only about the end of the calendar period. Anything else is a modern invention to make money out of it.
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And lets not forget the leap-year phenomenon too - which I'm surprised didn't come up by now already 
I do think it really was as simple as "this calendar ran out, we'll make a new one when we have to" like what we do every year 
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So it did. 
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KABOOM!!!
Sokka (from Avatar: The Last Airbender) was right, mushroom clouds are "friendly" after all.
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excellent depiction of end times
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It reminds me of the pilot of "Battlestar Galactica".
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As strange as this sounds considering the contents of my gallery - I actually don't watch many sci-fi shows/movies, including that 
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It's an awesome series, so try to watch it if you can. The pilot itself will make you want more. The global annihilation of the world of Caprica will make you think of your piece.
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hmmm thats what I was gunna say!!!
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This is really amazing
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Adding a second one was a bit of a last-minute decision, as I worried it would take away from the focal point of the main one. Then I realized that it's big enough to not have to worry about that, and the only thing scarier than one massive explosion - is two!
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Sorry for the late reply. But yeah it was a good decision. I really like the multiple explosions. That way it seems that there are more than one dangerous places and that the world really is about to fall apart. if you had just one explosion, it could also be a bomb or something like that. I really like the outcome. The style and the way you did it is brilliant as usual. Oh and congrats for surviving the end of the world...again
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Here's a thought - what if it being the "last day" was literal? Not as in the end of the world, but that final day looping on itself endlessly, like the movie Groundhogs Day?
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I never saw that movie. But it would be weird, though if time finds some random point and just keeps repeating on itself from there, then we all wouldn't have any memory of it. Waking up and doing the same daily activity we did thousands of times already would still feel like the first time...So I guess it wouldn't matter
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True, but just in case at midnight tonight im going to peer outside the window. If I see a mushroom cloud like in this wonderful piece you made or if the sky flickers for a second like an old lightbulb going bad, im posting about it, xD
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12-21-12 - This piece has been showcased on my profile page as today's daily feature. Thank you for making such great art.
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That's awesome...and I love the ironic contrast between this and the festive Christmas CSS you got around it 
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People talk about the apocalypse like there is no tomorrow.
It looks great! Since the real apocalypse will not happen I enjoy your artwork instead!
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I gotta admit - that comment is clever enough to warrant having a stamp made out of it 
Yeah I never bought into it myself. If I did I wouldn't have spent my last days on Earth working on something that no-one would have been around to see
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Wow. I can't...whoa. This is truly amazing work. <3 I was supposed to be dead..let's see.. about an hour and some minutes ago. Still alive and drawing. 
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Lol, still alive and drawing was how I spent half the day too. Nothing unusual
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A pretty nice view for the last moments
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epic is the minimum standard which i expect from you... and this is beyond that standard 
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It is the minimum standard I hold myself to...and all it costs is my sanity
Unfortunately me going silent on dA is not my normal behaviour, so things aren't going as smoothly as they did for so long before. Lately it's all been work and commissions. Next year I gotta promise myself to not take on more than I can handle, since I hate going so long without doing any of my own pieces. Now I'm left with just days to whip up a Christmas one
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i'll leave you with this mentality that i'm approaching life with atm: the only way we can truly show ourselves that we are growing as individuals is by setting goals and challenges and achieving them. this way we know that we are growing and becoming a better person and are getting closer to out personal life goals.
for you time management is the challenge, and finally getting a wrap over it will show you that you have grow intellectually and are able to organise your time and life
hope this will help chief
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Whoah. 
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Mushroom clouds are always so amazing and sometimes even beautiful in photographs...Though we can all agree that none of us would ever want to witness the real deal
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Yeah indeed. And it's ironic that one of the most spectacular sights in the world are those of destructive symbols (like a mushroom cloud).
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