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"Surrealism" literally means "above reality". So, that's were I'm headed.
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mstudios submitted this interesting new project he's working on involving whimsical pictures of squashed cars.
I like to display a diverse range of work on this blog but too often the posts art slanted towards my own biases, which tend towards the figurative, nude and dark.
But I love finding new and awesome digital surrealists, so thanks to Mitchell for submitting this work.
Enter Mitchell:
My name is Mitchell, and my work is a photographers view of the pop-surreal, where I combine my love of photograph with my passion for the surreal. I look at a scene and say to myself, "what if", my answers are the images I composited together through my skills as a retoucher. Hopefully you find humour and imagination in them along the way.
My latest series, "The (squashed) Cars" are a homage to one of Pop-Surrealism's icons, "Big Daddy" Ed Roth. It's his influence together with that of cartoonist Robert Crumb that guide me through this series in their over exaggeration of reality. The series began with a social comment on tourists in New York City, mostly coming from the Midwest driving their pickup trucks, slightly out of shape and riding the subways. Like most of my work, the series took on a life of it's own and the following images all evolved as most of my work does all on their own. I hope you enjoy them.
Mitchell
My recent project about corruption and human nature, The Judges. It was meant to be as a sort of storyline, with a "happy end" (well, at least happy for us).
Each image is composed of many others, stock or personal photos. I spent at least 6-7 hours on each piece, so I guess it did take a bit of work :) Done in Ps CS with a Wacom Intuos 3. Enjoy!
Even though corruption spreads like plague, you still hide behind your pretty masks.
...but in the end, the innocent blood surfaces and your corruption pays the price.
AKA that magical formula for the kind of art that leaps off the canvas and devours artist and curator before consuming the rest of art history.
via reflectionofme--How to create the Droste Effect in Photoshop and After Effects--
The Droste effect is a Dutch term for a specific type of recursive picture.
An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of the image within itself in a recursive manner.
In theory, the picture in picture effect continues deeper into the picture ad infinitum, but it really only goes as far as the image resolution will allow while still being visible, but it still has the feeling of being never ending.
The advent of the digital age has taken the old Droste effect to a whole new level.
The effect is named after a particular image that appeared in various forms on the tins and boxes of Droste cocoa powder, one of the main Dutch brands.
It displays a nurse carrying a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a box of Droste cocoa depicting the same image (shown on the right).
The brand’s effect, maintained for decades, became a household notion. Reportedly, poet and columnist Nico Scheepmaker introduced wider usage of the term in the late 1970’s
In the 1950’s, one of the famous graphic artists Maurits Cornelis Escher.C. Escher took the Droste effect to another level with his incredible drawings, and mapped images to a spiral.
In the series of images below you can see how Escher starts the image with a man looking at a photo and as you look further, this image will take you deeper into a never ending loop of the same image.
Another Classic on Droste effect was the CD cover for the Pink Floyd album “Ummaguna” released in 1969.
Today the creations of the Droste effect are mostly done using digital images and there are some helpful solutions to make it easy to create your own piece. Are are some amazging examples and videos:
Further Resources and Tutorials:
via webdesignerdepot
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Creative Cow After Effects Tutorial:
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/after_effects/episodes/CowAEPodcast_Droste_ipod.m4v Because you can never have too much of that kind of art that goes into your mind and gobbles it up.
Surrealism Today is curated by Jay Gidwitz, a Providence based artist using digital technologies to create surrealistic art work.
