Interesting Things Numbers Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten

 This was captioned 'Experienced in desert weather flying, a British pilot lands an American made Kittyhawk fighter plane of the Sharknose Squadron in a Libyan Sandstorm, on April 2, 1942. A mechanic on the wing helps to guide the pilot as he taxis through the storm.' here http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/world-war-ii-the-north-african-campaign/100140/ I found it on tumblr however. I think it's interesting because the clouded backdrop and the mouth painted on the plane, the composition of the one human you can see in the photo and the plane in the background give the photo a simple but evocative narrative. The backdrop because it's an ominous sand storm, something you'd recognise from movies/ stories and because it creates an eerie bubble round the subject so behind is left to your imagination which is already piqued because of reminiscing about sand storms in movies. The painted teeth look interesting because of the movie recognising thing and because it's not pushed as the main subject of the photo like you usually see details like that. It's just left there subtley adding some drama without making the image too ridiculous/ OTT. That I also find interesting, the plane decoration not looking too ridiculous, it's given something supposed to look scary and outrageous a more subdued aspect also, which is a useful thing in an image to stop it looking too blunt.
I think decoration on war vehicles is cool myself, I like how it gives them more personality, colour and emotion, also they tend to be powerful/ nonchalantly symbolic images.

This is interesting because he has such a weird expression, and it's a really old painting but the way he's composed and what's picked out on his face makes it look slightly modern (anachronism is cool) and inhuman which is disconcerting. Maybe also that it's such a strained looking profile view.
Also I love the subdued looking detail on the clothes and how the background looks closer to the forreground than it should be.
Andrea Mantegna: Ludovico Gonzaga 1474

I like the strict perspective and the sharp lines, how everything is getting drawn back to one vanishing point and how that teamed with the mass of repetitive detail confuses your brain a bit, it's hard to decide if it's a pattern or a 3D object and that makes it sort of awe-inspiring and alien/warped which fits the subject really well. It's really well made and it looks like a lot of work was put into it. The airybut odd (because it's green) colour scheme is really lovely as well, I find it interesting because how it's got a load of gradients and they are quite strictly related to the lines and depth, with hardly any white space, is different to colouring you usually see, not so subtle, lots of block colours, kind of minimalist. This really stands out.
It's by Philippe Druillet

This image is interesting to me because it's such a good idea, showing the exit wound exploding bullets, it's made the gore a lot more tangible. I also like how the messy organic gorey background is framed by the cold, hard, 3D looking bullets in the foreground. Having the bullets all fuzzy and with grey lines helps you look at the two parts of the image seperately, also makes the whole image more decorative having one part studded with the other so whever you look there's interaction. It's weird having a sequence within an image coming towards you, not from side to side of top to bottom. I can remember seeing other things composed like that, coming towards you but this is more elegant looking (because the bullets form a nice streamline pattern, or that there's only two things in the image so it's cleaner maybe) and it's like a narrative happening towards you not just a scene.