Comments on Dark Roasted Blend: Modernist Art in Camouflage

I always thought that dazzleflage was pretty cool ...

2009-08-03T13:11:42.914-07:00

I always thought that dazzleflage was pretty cool to look at and something that might serve a useful purpose today. Watching a program on sharks a while back some scientists conducted an experiment where they tossed two pieces of wood, one shaped like a seal and one a square. Naturally the shark attacked the seal shape but pretty much ignored the square because it didn't look natural. Imagine if you were to do a dazzle pattern on a wetsuit and/or the bottom of a surfboard and actually make it visible when viewed from below I wonder if it would help to prevent surfers and snorklers from being mistaken for seals by sharks since their outlines would be completely broken up and look completely unnatural to a hungry shark.

Dom, article adjusted, thanks

2008-12-09T10:12:00.000-08:00

Dom, article adjusted, thanks

Not sure if that last comment was meant as a contr...

2008-12-09T08:23:00.000-08:00

Not sure if that last comment was meant as a contradiction, but just to clarify: no-one would say "the Her Majesty's Ship Whatever visited port today", and even if "popular usage" saw a lot of people abusing the language in that way, it would not suddenly make it acceptable :-P

actually popular usage has made "HMS So So" totall...

2008-12-09T07:35:00.000-08:00

actually popular usage has made "HMS So So" totally acceptable.

Avi, the picture caption that reads 'The HMS "Sarg...

2008-12-09T06:47:00.000-08:00

Avi, the picture caption that reads 'The HMS "Sargus"' should say 'HmS Argus'. HMS, standing for His (or Her) Majesty's Ship, does not have 'the' in front of it.

Is this the best camouflage in the world? I think so!

..the dazzle effect , effected to the opel ka...

2008-04-15T10:09:00.000-07:00

..the dazzle effect , effected to the
opel kadett , transforming it into a fiat strada !!!

WELL , I THINK THAT THE CAR WITH THE DAZZLE PAINTW...

2008-04-15T10:05:00.000-07:00

WELL , I THINK THAT THE CAR WITH THE DAZZLE PAINTWORK IS AN OPEL KADETT , NOT A FIAT STRADA .

They will definitely have a hard time being hit by...

2007-12-12T09:03:00.000-08:00

They will definitely have a hard time being hit by torpedoes.

BTW, we have received some emails pointing out that we misidentified the HMS Argus as the HMS Sargus. I'm sticking to my theory that this, too, was part of the camo.

DELTA INC 'DAZZLE' BE@RBRICK

2007-12-12T07:05:00.000-08:00

DELTA INC 'DAZZLE' BE@RBRICK

Dutch graffiti artist 'Delta Inc' has produced a D...

2007-12-12T07:03:00.000-08:00

Dutch graffiti artist 'Delta Inc' has produced a Dazzle Be@rbrick for the Kubrick toy range.

http://www.mrmule.com/archives/2005/02/kubrick_jest_de.html

FAKE, just a photoshop geek gone wild. Just kiddin...

2007-11-28T16:49:00.000-08:00

FAKE, just a photoshop geek gone wild. Just kidding, somebody had to say it.

thanks for all that info... pink is the best camou...

2007-11-13T14:21:00.000-08:00

thanks for all that info... pink is the best camouflage in the desert. Goes well with tanks, too.

I need to repaint my bedroom, and Medium Lavender ...

2007-11-13T14:17:00.000-08:00

I need to repaint my bedroom, and Medium Lavender Mauve Grey looks just the ticket. Hurrah for battleships.

Bedrooms aside, dazzle camouflage actually turns out to have been pretty effective, as slow joe crow points out. It was meant to confuse rather than conceal, and did its job very well. (After all - we did *win*.) Many of those patterns created one or more fake bows, which confused submarine periscopes trying to aim for the ship's weakest spot. I do wonder whether the general designs chosen would have been different if the prevailing artistic movement at the time hadn't been modernism (and if you look at paintings by people like Bawden and Ravilious you can absolutely see where those boldly hatched patterns came from aesthetically).

Pink is a popular color in the military. Robyn Mil...

2007-11-13T10:30:00.000-08:00

Pink is a popular color in the military. Robyn Miller, co-creator of the game Myst, has a truly wonderful article on other pink military vehicles here.
http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2006/04/war_pink_peace.html

One of the primary objectives of dazzle camouflage...

2007-11-13T10:10:00.000-08:00

One of the primary objectives of dazzle camouflage was to prevent effective use of optical rangefinders. It was also important to confuse observers as to course and speed so many camo schemes incorporated false bow waves or false bow and stern outlines.
As an aside, sometimes camouflage can be too good. The multi color scheme developed for the Denny Steam Gunboats in WWII was so good that two gunboats ran into each other while on patrol because neither one saw the other.

The British army used pink for desert patrol vehic...

2007-11-13T08:30:00.000-08:00

The British army used pink for desert patrol vehicles during the Second World War and continued to do so for some time after. Not just slightly pink, either, but /very/ pink. They were known as Pink Panthers.

http://www.4wdonline.com/Museums/BMIHT/PinkPanther.html

As fas as I am concerned, camouflage is applied to...

2007-11-13T04:33:00.000-08:00

As fas as I am concerned, camouflage is applied to equipments in order to avoid being noticed.