Well, I'm still painting rooms in my house, so nothing current to post. So I thought I'd reach back into the archives and show you this little oddity from February, 2010. It's one of my entries into a goofy photo contest from CREATUREBOX, a fun website by two incredibly talented artists, Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin. The idea was to assemble a little cardboard monster "paper toy" they designed, called "Thorndyke", then put him into crazy locations. I didn't win any of the prizes, but I had fun anyway.
So here's the original location on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City.
Here are the monster parts...took about two hours to build...way longer than I expected.
And here's the little guy all put together. The wire was to help me get the "one-footed-tip-toe" pose I needed. With a little Photoshop magic...voila! A new fountain for Kansas City!
UPDATE! Thanks to my nephew's eagle eye, I was made aware that I had forgotten to add one other source photo for this image. I borrowed the water spray that comes out of Thorndyke's mouth from a photo of another famous KC fountain. I can't detect exactly what bits I used...I'm sure I "cloned" parts that I liked and moved things around to make it work. Thanks, Christopher!
Nice one, Cyril, like it.
ReplyDeleteHello again, John. Ha!...who's "Cyril"? Your being from England and all, I figured it was a local colloquialism.
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That is a mighty fine picture of a monster using a bidet! Hope you are well Uncle.
ReplyDeleteHa!!! Good one! :•D
ReplyDeleteHere's a dumb question. Where did you get the water stream coming out of the monsters mouth from? I figured you cut it from the fountain water below but I don't see anything similar there.
ReplyDeleteActually, Mr. Chris...that was a very astute observation! Not dumb at all. I have now updated my post to answer your question!
ReplyDeleteI made you update your blog! Awesome!
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