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Title
Famous Monsters of Politics #407
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Famous Monsters of Politics #407
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Magazine cover parody of Famous Monsters of Filmland featuring Liz Cheney

Approach

Assemble components, combine and adjust in Photoshop, add text in appropriate fonts.

Results

Published at The People's Cube

Category
Photography
Title
Restoration Before and After
Category
Photography
Title
Restoration Before and After

Assignment

Restore a 50-year-old, poorly framed, stained, scratched, overexposed wedding photo.

Approach

Reframe, add or create missing parts, remove stains and scratches, adjust exposure , dodge and burn to enhance detail

Results

Client very satisfied.

Title
Blue Mound
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Blue Mound
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Create a illustration/cartoon derived from the name of an actual place.

Approach

Combine illustration and photographic elements

Results

Published at Accuweather.com

Title
Lime Rock
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Lime Rock
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Make a cartoon/illustration derived from the name of an actual place.

Approach

Combine photographic and illustrative elements

Results

Published by Accuweather.com

Title
Soviet National Lampoon parody
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Soviet National Lampoon parody
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Alter the most famous National Lampoon cover using Laika—the first dog in orbit—for a Soviet parody National Lampoon cover in Russian.

Approach

Find the correct fonts, fin all new components and adjust them, combine all elements.

Results

Published at The People's Cube

Category
Photography
Title
The Long Shadow of a Surveillance State
Category
Photography
Title
The Long Shadow of a Surveillance State

Assignment

Demonstrate how small things can make huge shadows

Approach

Carry a camera, think about the time of day and keep one's eyes open.

Results

Success

Category
Photography
Title
Waxing post-Harvest moon
Category
Photography
Title
Waxing post-Harvest moon

Assignment

Photograph the moon near dawn with maximum attention to background, color and texture.

Approach

Select the right time, select a medium telephoto lens, deploy my Canon EOS 80D and shoot.

Results

Success.

Category
Photography
Title
Wrong Turn
Category
Photography
Title
Wrong Turn

Assignment

Photograph my taxi driver and have him drive in an impossible place.

Approach

Photograph my driver, select and impossible environment, combine images and adjust light, shadow and color in Photoshop until convincing.

Results

Success.

Category
Photography
Title
Taxi Under Water
Category
Photography
Title
Taxi Under Water

Assignment

Photograph my taxi driver and have him driving in an impossible place.

Approach

Photograph my taxi driver, imagine him driving in an impossible place, combine my photo with selected location and adjust until authentic-looking in Photoshop.

Results

Success.

Category
Photography
Title
Spooky House Halloween
Category
Photography
Title
Spooky House Halloween

Assignment

Photograph a Halloween-decorated house before dawn and capture its mood.

Approach

Select the subject, choose the time, operate my Canon EOS 80D.

Results

Success

Title
TIME: What Makes Joe Run?
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
TIME: What Makes Joe Run?
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Parody Time Magazine cover.

Approach

Alter the original cover conflating the meaning of run (operate) with run (suffer from diarrhea,
assemble components and combine in Photoshop, adjusting light, shadow and color.

Results

Published at The People's Cube

Title
Qui-Gon Gin
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Qui-Gon Gin
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Create a product advertisement based on name of Jedi Master Quigon Jin and/or Chinese art of Qui Gon.

Approach

Select stock image, select fonts, create or modify symbols, combine in Photoshop.

Results

Privately collected by Red Rat Threads LLC.

Title
Eyelander
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Eyelander
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Create an "infinity mirror" out of an eye.

Approach

Select appropriate photo, alter and adjust in Photoshop.

Results

Published at b3Ta.com

Category
Advertising
Title
Old Grievance Nasty Defense anti-perspiant deodorant
Category
Advertising
Title
Old Grievance Nasty Defense anti-perspiant deodorant

Assignment

Create a parody advertisement around the term, "nasty woman."

Approach

List obvious aspects of being "nasty," select a product that either helps of hinders it, assemble components and combine in Photoshop.

Results

Published at the people's Cube

Category
Advertising
Title
Fish Wrapped with The People's News
Category
Advertising
Title
Fish Wrapped with The People's News

Assignment

Create an sarcastic advertisement for a daily newspaper.

Approach

Visualize the newspaper used in an irreverent manner. Execute in Photoshop.

Results

Published at The People's Cube.

Title
NASA opening one of the final Apollo 17 lunar soil sample capsules
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
NASA opening one of the final Apollo 17 lunar soil sample capsules
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Turn a feel-good NASA publicity photo into a science fiction nightmare.

Approach

Assemble components, alter them, combine with photo.

Results

Published at The People's Cube

Title
Fixed Attention
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Fixed Attention
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Combine something organic and delicate with something exceeding metallic and sharp.

Approach

Select elements, refine and paint in Photoshop, combine.

Results

Success.

Title
The Lenin Family's KFC Lunch
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
The Lenin Family's KFC Lunch
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Convert painting of Lenin's grieving mother into a quaint luncheon

Approach

Assemble components, combine in Photoshop and adjust color, shadow and light

Results

Published at The People's Cube

Title
Tribute to Ross Lowell
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Tribute to Ross Lowell
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Birthday greeting for Academy Award winner

Approach

Combine face with selected texture

Results

Great success

Title
Sour Lemon
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Sour Lemon
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Match a face with a fruit

Approach

Select appropriate stock photos, combine in Photoshop

Results

Purely positive reactions

Title
Kim Jong-un in an Eggcup
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Kim Jong-un in an Eggcup
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Depict Kim Jong-un's position in first summit with U.S. President

Approach

Visualize a metaphor; use Photoshop to realize it.

Results

Published at The People's Cube

Title
Titanic 1912
Category
Art & Illustration
Title
Titanic 1912
Category
Art & Illustration

Assignment

Depict RMS Titanic near iceberg

Approach

Photoshop and mind

Results

Published at Scientific American (.com)

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