The Awesome Pictures Thread

[wurwolf]

I like how far off the grid binary code is.

[Raefire]

http://www.zillamag.com/art/hyperrealistic-paintings-by-pedro-campos/

That's an oil painting...

[Invader_quirk]

http://www.zillamag.com/art/hyperrealistic-paintings-by-pedro-campos/

That's an oil painting...

See, this seriously beats the hell out of every painter we idolize as a culture.

[D.B. Barnes]

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"Eye Contact from Janeane Garofalo." 

That's an oil painting...

Pfft. Guy could've saved himself a lot of time if he just took a picture of some cans. Fucking idiot.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I get that cameras are also imposing a narrative on a scene, etc.  But really, I don't get the point of hyper-realistic paintings like that.

Yeah, I can appreciate the skill required to do it, but don't see the point.  Painting and photography are 2 different arts, making one look like the other isn't all that interesting.  Same with Photoshopping a photo to look like a painting, fun to play with but kind of pointless.

Have any of these been around long enough to age with cracks and such?   Maybe they will look really cool in a few hundred years.

[Asbestos Bill]

This also is a painting, and it's a little more interesting than the cans as an image, though not as hyper-realistic


Ho Ryon Lee

Would it be just as good as a multiple exposure photo? I don't know. Probably. Sometimes the element of labor adds something to one's appreciation of a piece, like Chuck Close's photo-realistic self portrait (which is also impressive just by being friggin' huge).

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Other times it's literally the only aspect, like "1000 Hours of Staring" by Tom Friedman

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Whether that kind of thing is meaningful is entirely dependent on your ability or predisposition to appreciate broad poetic ides. But, if you look at an image as a means to get people to think in a different way or to imagine something, then it's at least effective in that way.

[RVR II]

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"Eye Contact from Janeane Garofalo." 

That's an oil painting...

Pfft. Guy could've saved himself a lot of time if he just took a picture of some cans. Fucking idiot.

What DB said!

[Coragale]

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I think this one's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. The artist isn't that well known, but his stuff's pretty great.

[RVR II]

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I think this one's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. The artist isn't that well known, but his stuff's pretty great.

See, I'd display something like that in my office

[D.B. Barnes]

Penny street art in Amsterdam.

[goflyblind]

that's a disturbing demonstration of topological invariance.

[D.B. Barnes]

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[wurwolf]

These are wonderful. There is a certain madness that comes over dogs in the presence of tennis balls, isn't there? These pictures capture it perfectly.

The second picture might be my favorite. I didn't even notice the second dog at first, but the look on its face is insane.

[wurwolf]

Wallace goes absolutely apeshit for tennis balls. It's like sex to a teenager for him.  About 4 times a day he gets "play horny" and I have to satisfy him.  And the more he does it, the more he wants to do it.

I use this toy to aid in taking care of his needs:

 

Because of this, he has massive thighs.

This is why we can't have nice things.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

These were on spaceweather.com today:

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