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1 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: Something is very wrong with the universe.
2 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: It's been in a destructive spiral of spatio-temporal paradoxes for some time now.
3 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: I need to trace this back to the original causality violation that set it all off.
4 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: I know where I need to go.
5 {Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs in front of the Sydney opera House}
6 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: You know, it's bigger than it looks in photos.
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I made a special trip into the city to take the final two photos. Unfortunately even at minimum aperture the depth of field was not quite great enough to have the Opera House and Insanely Overpowered Fireballs in focus at the same time.
Yes, I could just have done it by compositing two separate photos, but then I'd have no excuse to go to the Opera House forecourt with a LEGO skeleton and lie down on the ground taking forced perspective photos now, would I?
While I was doing this, a very curious woman came up and asked me what I was doing. I said it was for an "art project", to forestall several minutes of overly detailed explanation. Her next question was, "Oh! Do you travel all over the world and do this in front of other famous landmarks?"
Now I feel like I should. I'm writing this rerun annotation in advance of a trip to Europe, where I will be in Vienna on the day this rerun goes live. I'll also be visiting Berlin, Prague, and Budapest.
Now I want to pack some Lego minifigures to take with me...
Also: The Sydney Opera House is bigger than it looks in many photos. I've visited it several times while showing overseas visitors around Sydney, and they are always surprised by how big it is when they see it in person.
It's almost exactly the same height as Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, but is both longer (185 metres compared to 130) and wider (120 metres compared to 48).
I think it doesn't look as big in photos because there's very little nearby to compare it to, as it sits out on a point of land surrounded on three sides by water, with no other buildings within a couple of hundred metres.
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