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Seamless pictures

Mitheral — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:04:18 -0800

Seamless images. Two distinct images in one transitioning without a definite border. [via MoFi]

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:09:56 -0800

I much prefer the second artist's style.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:13:57 -0800

You just blew my mind.

By: kensanway

kensanway — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:15:53 -0800

The Yerka pictures are from a book he did with Harlan Ellison called Mind Fields. Ellison wrote a page-long short story to go along with each painting. One is about a tree that allows only black people to teleport, upturning the global class system. His favorite story is about a man who turns into a monster at night and sleeps in the woods, but has a phone (?) so he can call his wife.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:19:55 -0800

Oh, excellent.

By: cleverusername

cleverusername — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:27:00 -0800

I was relieved to find out that it's not photographs just spliced together. Love the lizard-car thingy one.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:28:08 -0800

Escher 2.0

By: aladfar

aladfar — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:28:56 -0800

I thought I'd seen those images in an Ellison book before... Neat stuff. Impressive in a techincal, clever sense rather than an artistic one though. It's all rather MC Escher dorm room poster in style.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:31:35 -0800

Marvelous. But some remind of those vaguely worded pharmaceutical ads lavished on the pages of glossy mags that imply "If life feels like this you should take this". Not that I'd fill such a prescription. I want to live in these pictures.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:36:13 -0800

The Clockmouse Momma is the best.

By: Witty

Witty — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:40:54 -0800

What's the name of that artist who creates images of really exaggerted scale. For example, a castle on a cliff, but the castle, assumed to quite large (as castles go) is dwarfed by the surronding landscape... like a massive canyon or somthing of the sort. I see prints of his work in some of those "poster" shops you see in malls.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:42:39 -0800

This one is familiar.

By: Witty

Witty — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:44:16 -0800

preview Witty, preview for cryin' out loud...

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:45:10 -0800

The map is not the territory.

By: Sandor Clegane

Sandor Clegane — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:41:52 -0800

Very cool. Thanks for posting this.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:51:00 -0800

Armitage, I own that Masters of Deception book you linked to and it is a damn fine coffee table book. This peculiar type of artistry takes an internal vision that I could never understand; I can barely make impossible triangles.

By: kozad

kozad — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:13:25 -0800

I hate fantasy art and I hate faux-surrealism and I hate cute...but I can't help but love these!

By: jann

jann — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:25:31 -0800

beautiful. thank you.

By: 1f2frfbf

1f2frfbf — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:29:15 -0800

Also worth revisiting is Yerka's website. Lotsa cool stuff there.

By: WidgetAlley

WidgetAlley — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:49:18 -0800

I want to live in one of those canyon-city places. Thanks, Mitheral, this kind of art is one of my favourites; it brings back strong memories of being a little kid, for some reason. Reminds me of The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, too.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:51:50 -0800

Kudos! to you Mitheral for posting this. I haven't, although I have had it in mind to post some similar type of thing some time. But I just couldn't. It just seems so twee. I like it for the fun/puzzle/escher stuff but at the same time I feel it's very unsophisticated. I had similar prints to this hanging on my walls in the seventies. It was definitely sort of cool then, it is it cool now?

By: WidgetAlley

WidgetAlley — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:53:17 -0800

And, actually, while we're at it...

By: prostyle

prostyle — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:39:31 -0800

This peculiar type of artistry takes an internal vision that I could never understand... Eventually a heightened state of consciousness emerged in which I was no longer aware of physical internal reality or my body in any conventional sense. I felt and saw my interconnectedness with all beings and things in a vast and brilliant Universal Mind Lattice. Every being and thing in the universe was a toroidal fountain and drain of self-illuminating love energy, a cellular internal node or jewel in a internal network that linked omnidirectionally without end. All duality of self and other was overcome in this internal infinite dimension of spiritual light. I felt I had been there before, or perhaps in some way was always there. This was the state beyond birth and death, beyond internal time, our true nature, which seemed more real than any physical surrounding and more real even than my physical body.

By: jam_pony

jam_pony — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:59:07 -0800

Wonderful. Thanks for posting this!

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:34:19 -0800

Great way to paint your bathroom floor.

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:19:56 -0800

reminds me of Howl's Moving Castle.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:45:15 -0800

Interesting. I like the second page of stuff better as well. Something about them offends my taste, though. I think they're too harmless.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:18:37 -0800

Wet Spot writes "Great way to paint your bathroom floor." Could you imagine crashing at a friends place and staggering into that bathroom in the middle of the night? Yikes!