Friday, November 28, 2003

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, so I'll post it now (or again in the case that I already posted it).



Not much to say here. It was a quick and dirty photoshop (meaning under 30 minutes) using some beksinski layers and some shameful filtering. Regardless of all that, I thought it came out rather well except for the lower left portion. The person in the picture is Molly of course. A long while ago she sent me a webcam picture looking all sad and having the words "I MISS YOU!!!" written on on her hand. What posessed me to make her look like a giant made of stone and have a giant hole in head is anyone's guess.

And I miss you too, Molly.

Saturday, November 22, 2003

And now further explanation of the picture in the post below with the help of good old IMDB

Plot Summary for Un chien andalou (1929)


"When writing the script, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali deliberately rejected anything that made rational sense, so a plot summary is something of a futile exercise. Still, here goes... Un Chien Andalou consists of seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images which may or may not mean anything. A woman's eye is slit open, a man pokes at a severed hand in the street with his cane, a man drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys and live priests, a man's hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge."

Friday, November 21, 2003

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

HEY GUYS! NATALIE PORTMAN IS HOT!



Tree roots, Anatomica Encylcopedia scans, and one eyeball from good old deadblonde.jpg I still don't think that the exposed teeth to lip ratio is correct.

Friday, November 14, 2003

I just made this for SomethingAwful

ORIGINAL



Changing "WEIRD" into Japan was the most difficult part of the whole picture. It took a lot of careful eye-balling to see how to cut apart the letters and to put them back together in just the right way. Because of that green drop shadow, making the J took a little hand crafted creativity.

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

TAKE THAT YOU EVIL BABY!

Saturday, November 08, 2003

I made a picture to sum up my feelings about the now completed Matrix Trilogy.

Thursday, November 06, 2003

See, Mickey knows what I'm talking about.

*click on picture for full size version*

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

FROM THIS...



TO THIS...



IN JUST ONE NIGHT! AMAZING!

Oh what a pair that Brian and Gurg...


Okay I guess a little description is required. Many times I've gone over to my friend Brian's house and everyone just does their own thing. Nick is with his girlfriend, Brian tuckers out on the couch, Gurg is cooking... you get the drill. So what do I get to do? I took my Gamecube home and playing Eternal Darkness on the bigscreen to scare the shit out of everyone else was my usual choice of activities. Luckily I gave brian a copy of the old Photoshop and he had the smarts for install it on his computer. One thing you should know is that Brian's computer is hooked up to the extremely large television that he inherited from his older sister. By means of a video card with tv-out, you can display anything on the computer onto a television just like it was a monitor. Additionally, Brian has a ton of photos from years past archived on his computer. That gives me plenty of source material to work from. Oddly enough, they all seem to be pics of him together with Gurg...

To make a long story short, I found a picture of Brian & Gurg wearing towels on their heads and immediately saw the cloaks of sith lords. The idea was simple, I would make Gurg into Palpatine / Darth Sidious and Brian into Darth Maul. I used actual features from Palpatine (ROTJ) to detail Gurg's face. All the while I made sure to keep intact his natural Mexican mocha skin tone. Brian, as usual, proved to be the most difficult to work with. Since I couldn't find any picture of Darth Maul that shows the bottom of his nose I had to improvise. No amount of perspective shifting and skewing would get a straight on Darth Maul tattoo pattern to go onto Brian's face properly. So I just drew it on their by hand with Brian's mouse. God how I wished I had my stylus at that point. With that layer down, I just colored his skin red and darkened everything else. After that I just changed the color of the cloaks making sure to keep that towel pattern for Brian because I thought it looked cool and goes well with Darth Maul. Add in a cheesy Coruscant background and an even cheesier greeting card message (Gurg's idea) and WALAH. Finished in about an hour. I straight up did a Lenscrafters version of a really cool photosohp.

Monday, November 03, 2003

Despite having finally gotten over my being sick today, I feel like total shit. Nose isn't stuffed up, throat isn't hurting, I'm not fatigued at all, nope this is something totally different but very familiar to me. Having spent nearly every waking moment of my life alone (when it comes to companionship and all that business) every now and then I get a special kind of feeling. It's the feeling that someone just poured hot lead down your throat and is melting through your stomach lining. You've no doubt experienced this feeling before. That feeling can be illustrated quite nicely with this image here.



23 years. 23 long, boring, lonely, terrible years. Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go have a drink.

Saturday, November 01, 2003

Hey folks. I haven't seen anyone all week nor have I left the house for 4 days. Therefore, I thought it would be a nice idea to update you on my appearance. Illness has a way of thinning me out and making me look dead.



My cheeks have sunken in and the back ends of my lower jaw are jutting out. Additionally the skin around my forehead is thinning out. If I get any worse I'll look like one of my zombie soon.