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I am a sucker for PhotoShop tricks.
When I saw this article on making fake model toy photographs, I had a little psycho-flashback to the good old days when Dad would drag us all along to his raging model railroading shows at the Clovis, New Mexico Po-dunk City Mall and make me cart around these gi-normous honkin’ train tables made out of cheap-ass splintery hardware store wood that he didn’t bother sanding on the legs "because no one looks at that", but took enough time to paint a lovely shade of honey-stain so I could find the splinters in my hands after half-balancing the table on my eight year old head while he wratcheted the legs on and bitched at me for not being able to hold it all level.
My favorite part of Dad’s mis-begotten eight-table grown-up version of a franken-lego? Was not that of all the things to spend time miniaturizing, he choose the most tumble-butt-ugly area of New Mexico. No, it was that the entire grand ‘illusion’ was finished off by a giant, mud-brown curtain that hung down IN PLEATS from the top edge of the table down to the floor. And it was held on with velcro.
I honestly don’t know what twisted part of me saw this article and went "Wow! I HAVE to know how they do that", but man, it was LOUD, and I just had to try it .
Apparently, I have way too many personal photos on my work computer. This is a shot I took from the top of the Space Needle while playing hookey from work last month (What? Like you’ve never done it? I wasn’t getting paid.).
That boat is adorable - but that little Pepsi sign? It’s just model-esque enough to give me shudders, remembering the plastic 1945-era 7-to-11 convenience store model that was my one and only exercise into what I can only describe as Jules’ Existential Exploration of Salvador Dali and his affect on the Super-Glue/plastic medium.
I spent about five-seconds on it this and this, and they both just make me go, "Meh."
What do you think? Does it make you want to try poking the buildings to feel see if they’re made of foamcore before the cranky 60-yr old in an engineer hat looks up from his switchboard to glare at you and yell "DON’T TOUCH MAH TOYS!!"
Or is it just a blurry photo of a boat?
Posted May 30th, 2006 by jules.maas under Seattle, Creative