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Don't Get It, But Love It!
Do You Remember When This World Was Ours?
Living & Dying in the Afterword
by Justin Mezzell
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Us 'artistes' sometimes produce things that make people scratch their heads. We get these strange, abstract ideas in our brains, then express them in a way that doesn't make much sense to anybody. Many people are perturbed by these weird ramblings, almost as if the artist was trying to demonstrate superior insight, or even worse, communicate in some sort of code. Perhaps that's indeed what's going on some of the time, but it's usually not what I see when I look at art. Usually, I just like to take it on it's esthetic merits alone.
I admit that I don't really 'get' what Justin Mezzell is trying to say with 'Do You Remember When This World Was Ours?', but man does he ever say it well. This is the sort of combo photo/illustration work that gives me goosebumps, creating nearly photo-realistic worlds that feature elements tantalizingly beyond reality. More than any other technique I've seen, this kind of stuff transports you to another world; one that could just almost be real, and looks so dramatically cool that you wish it was.
Mr. Electric Pickle
Has anyone come across this video before? If so, you've already met my good friend, Stefan Powell.
If not, allow me to provide the briefest of introductions. Stefan is more than just a pickle fryer. He's a photographer, systems consultant, painter, multi-media artist, filmmaker, computer genius, and economics aficionado. Furthermore, he's both a former vice-president of one of Canada's largest media companies, and a current clothing store proprietor.
Stefan is one of the few really brilliant people I know, so that makes him a treasure in my eyes. He's got one of those beautiful minds, filled with curiosity, interesting perspective, and a passion to create. It's a mind equipped with a sharp logical faculty but an extraordinarily skewed perspective, making his outlook on the world continually fascinating. His brain, while occasionally the source of lectures that require external interruption in order to reach conclusion, is an indefatigable organ. He's always curious, always making something, always doing. It seems, from the outside, that his mind is completely unable to come to rest.
Dragons
A hand drawn image (done in Illustrator and Photoshop) done at a huge scale. I started this months ago and forgot to finish until just now. The final image is massive. The blown up images at bottom are there for reference and are actually scaled DOWN to 35%.
