Awesome Pictures Thread

[apocrypha]

Brilliant. I love the way the artist used that metal pole as one of the eye stalks, very clever.

[ShenMolo]

24 Amazing Bodypaint Transformations

[TheWalrus]

I saw the hands immediately but that doesn't make it any less cool.

[Signe]

I was looking at those on fb the other day.  I thought they were pretty awesome.

[Simond]

"We need to protect the briefcase!"

[Signe]

I want to live in this abandoned house, but I don't want to live in Missouri.    

[Lantyssa]

That is gorgeous.

[Sky]

If I had a job with enough money to renovate that place, I'd deal with living in Missouri.

We have plenty of houses like that around here, but most are in slums and have been remuddled into 6 unit apartment buildings.

[Signe]

If I had a job with enough money to renovate that place, I'd deal with living in Missouri.

We have plenty of houses like that around here, but most are in slums and have been remuddled into 6 unit apartment buildings.

You are very handy though, Zeb, and I'm only good at smacking my thumb with hammers.  I miss the nail completely.  The front of that house looks like it's in pretty good shape, though, doesn't it.  The sides might be falling about but I have a feeling it's abandoned because the inside is trash. 

[Khaldun]

I saw this fucking awesome abandoned house in a little town well north of Santa Barbara a couple years back. Had all sorts of eccentric stuff on it (weird stained glass windows, gargoyles, odd tiles). Was for sale. I'd have bought it and moved in a second if I had money or a really mobile career like writing or something.

[sickrubik]

I saw this fucking awesome abandoned house in a little town well north of Santa Barbara a couple years back. Had all sorts of eccentric stuff on it (weird stained glass windows, gargoyles, odd tiles). Was for sale. I'd have bought it and moved in a second if I had money or a really mobile career like writing or something.

Define "well north of Santa Barbara". I may know this place.

[Khaldun]

It was in Los Alamos. Looks like someone bought it and did it up as a hotel or B&B--it was some sort of bizarro museum before. It was run-down and abandoned and for sale when we drove through town about five or six years ago. There were these great vintage gas pumps outside too.

[Draegan]

[Segoris]

 

[Teleku]

I love that gif, but seems like the comedic timing would be best if they waited for the text to pop on about a second later.

[Signe]

Maryland has some cool stuff.  I scare so easily that I have to wonder why I like scary things so much. 

[MuffinMan]

Is that where you were reanimated? Shambled outside afterwards and snapped the picture.

[Signe]

I wish.  That would have been a truly awesome picture if someone took a picture of my zombie self taking that picture of my reanimational birthplace.  But, no, alas, I'm still squishy.  Mostly.
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[Khaldun]

I really, really want to take a few days this fall and just travel around this area taking pictures of abandoned structures and ruins. I've actually been marking some I've seen on a map--they're often really, really interesting buildings in their own right, and what's happened to them in the time they've been abandoned creates all sorts of really compelling visual opportunities.

[Signe]

Go to New Jersey.  Half the state is abandoned asylums. 

[Sky]

The other half is inhabited asylums.

[tgr]

I'll just put this here:


http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/ballpoint-pen-drawing-by-samuel-silva

[Ingmar]

While it is completely amazing that he can do that... I kind of feel like there's a point where if you can't tell it apart from a photograph you're not really doing anything to put your own stamp on it and it loses the art aspect, you know?

[Sky]

I disagree with what you said.

[Ingmar]

I guess it matters if he's duplicating an existing photo or doing it out of his head/from a model. Do we know which it is?

[Trippy]

Existing photo.

[sickrubik]

Eh. Every artist uses source material, including posed models. The amount that it matches or not is mostly an abstract and irrelevant.

Rembrandt vs Lichtenstein, etc.

[Khaldun]

I think there's a significant difference between live drawing and drawing from a reference photograph. But that's still a really interesting image.

[Miasma]

I don't see how you could get that range of colours with just eight pens.  I don't believe it.  As in I think it's a hoax or something.

[sickrubik]

Well, my point is largely that it isn't one of two things. It's not necessarily a live model or a photograph. It's a spectrum o possibly source materials, and with that, where do you draw that line between art and not art.

Additionally, I don't see a lot of difference between a live drawing and a drawing from a ref photograph. The only (major) difference is that someone gets to go home and watch TV instead of holding the pose for a ridiculously long time.

(And yes, I use some exaggeration there.)

Now, we CAN discuss it as a matter of copyright violation. Shepard Fairey would know quite a bit about that.  

[sickrubik]

I don't see how you could get that range of colours with just eight pens.  I don't believe it.  As in I think it's a hoax or something.

Most stuff is printed in CMYK, as in four colors. (Though now it's really something like C LC M LM Y LY K.) It can be done.

[Sky]

That picture = awesome.

Jackson Pollack = oops, I spilled some paint.

 

[tgr]

I actually don't mind if it's "photorealistic", since I tend to try to make extremely hires panorama pictures myself.

[Ingmar]

That picture = awesome.

Jackson Pollack = oops, I spilled some paint.

 

Well, I think what I'm getting at is the difference between art, and craftsmanship. They don't overlap perfectly, and obviously both contain a wide range of quality. This guy is clearly right up at the top of the list on craftsmanship.

[bhodi]

Hey let's all argue about something that is, by definition, subjective.