Dream Realm
Nov 30, 2015 11:08:37 #
It's fun manipulating an ordinary image in the editor into something surreal. No, this image does not make much sense. But dreams don't always do!
Nov 30, 2015 12:04:56 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
rook2c4 wrote:
It's fun manipulating an ordinary image in the editor into something surreal. No, this image does not make much sense. But dreams don't always do!
Very unique 2c4, I like it very much. Looks like a wall hanger to me that would bring forth much discussion.
Nov 30, 2015 12:13:32 #
rook2c4 wrote:
It's fun manipulating an ordinary image in the editor into something surreal. No, this image does not make much sense. But dreams don't always do!
Imaginative!
The purposeful imbalance lends well to the total effect.
One more rule effectively "busted" to good effect!
Dave
Nov 30, 2015 13:04:56 #
Nov 30, 2015 13:23:46 #
Frank2013 wrote:
Very unique 2c4, I like it very much. Looks like a wall hanger to me that would bring forth much discussion.
Thank you Frank, I'm glad you liked it!
Nov 30, 2015 13:34:59 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Imaginative!
The purposeful imbalance lends well to the total effect.
One more rule effectively "busted" to good effect!
Dave
The purposeful imbalance lends well to the total effect.
One more rule effectively "busted" to good effect!
Dave
I think it's much easier to get away with bending the rules of composition on surreal images such as this. The viewer practically expects it! An alternate universe has it's own rules.
Nov 30, 2015 13:47:02 #
R.G. wrote:
Very surreal - and I haven't a clue how you did it :) .
Here's the original image I used as the source. As you may notice, I didn't employ all that much editing to produce Dream Realm.
Dream Realm - source image
Nov 30, 2015 13:53:37 #
rook2c4 wrote:
Here's the original image I used as the source. As you may notice, I didn't employ all that much editing to produce Dream Realm.
Amazing - and I still don't know what that thing on the left is :)
I wonder what it is about doors that adds so much to the surreal content of this kind of stuff.
Nov 30, 2015 14:07:41 #
R.G. wrote:
Amazing - and I still don't know what that thing on the left is :)
I wonder what it is about doors that adds so much to the surreal content of this kind of stuff.
I wonder what it is about doors that adds so much to the surreal content of this kind of stuff.
The thing on the left? Just a floodlight pole, the same as the thing on the right, but with the floodlight structure on top just outside of the frame.
I don't know what it is about doors either, but I thought this image simply needed one installed to be complete! :D
Nov 30, 2015 14:24:37 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
rook2c4 wrote:
I thought this image simply needed one installed to be complete! :D
And you were correct.
Nov 30, 2015 22:22:25 #
R.G. wrote:
Very surreal - and I haven't a clue how you did it :) .
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Agree, and don't even know what it is! Oh, sorry,ans. wasn't there when I clicked in. Think it still needs to be 'splained though...(.or maybe not, if you so choose of course...)
So where's da door??
Nov 30, 2015 23:49:41 #
jenny wrote:
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Agree, and don't even know what it is! Oh, sorry,ans. wasn't there when I clicked in. Think it still needs to be 'splained though...(.or maybe not, if you so choose of course...)
So where's da door??
Agree, and don't even know what it is! Oh, sorry,ans. wasn't there when I clicked in. Think it still needs to be 'splained though...(.or maybe not, if you so choose of course...)
So where's da door??
Jenny, it's not that I don't want to explain the image's meaning, but rather that it has no specific, explainable meaning, other than being an imaginary, surreal scene - of the sort you may perhaps encounter in a strange dream. A fantasy universe that seems to follow a similar, yet different set of physical laws we are familiar with.
However, I will reveal this to you:
The primary influence for this was a scene from one of the original Outer Limits tv episodes. I honestly don't remember which episode it was, but it doesn't really matter, as my goal was to loosely emulate the surreal feel of that scene, not copy it. And that is also why I chose to render the image in black & white, just like the tv show!
Where's the door, you ask? Take the yellow pill, and it will magically appear.
Nov 30, 2015 23:51:30 #
rook2c4 wrote:
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Where's the door, you ask? Take the yellow pill, and it will magically appear.
Where's the door, you ask? Take the yellow pill, and it will magically appear.
I thought the pills were red and blue, but now we have a yellow one? Morpheus isn't going to like this... S-
Dec 1, 2015 00:03:05 #
St3v3M wrote:
I thought the pills were red and blue, but now we have a yellow one? Morpheus isn't going to like this... S-
I see you are not easily tricked, St3v3M!
:)
Dec 1, 2015 11:40:39 #
St3v3M wrote:
I thought the pills were red and blue, but now we have a yellow one? Morpheus isn't going to like this... S-
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You folks are getting so far-out I can't follow anything anymore! Who is Morpheus? Am I an anachronism or has Linda from Maine sent me into another dimension? Dave just illustrated the obvious axiom of converging parallel lines a few days ago and I expect the theorem to follow soon to explain that what converges in front of us must diverge if we turn around 180 deg. At least he made sense on that one, laf. If you can see it in your viewfinder then it must be true. But invisible doors and yellow pills are really quite scary, and more so if someone named Morpheus is involved!!
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