á prospos

there's this hyper realism painter and if you're at any time around vienna, take a look at his paintings. he has a permanent exhibition in the leopold museum. his paintings are HUGE and it's quite unsettling to stand before them. you mostly don't even see the strokes.
Although I don't really like his paintings, I am really impressed by how he manages to fake the blurred photo effects only with oil and acrylic.

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh2156.jpg

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh2280.jpg

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh1729.jpg

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh1341.jpg

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh1092.jpg

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh1068.jpg

http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh385.jpg

The first one was pretty surreal. I like surrealism.

I'm having a hard time accepting the last one as a painting. I'm not saying it isn't. I'm just saying holy shit if it is.

I love that Mickey Mouse painting. I had it as my icon on MSN for a while back when I first saw it.

If you want hyper realism, check out Eloy Morales.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto..._3849198_n.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...74543883_n.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...29530893_n.jpg

http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...31478839_n.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...4_861994_n.jpg

Yes. These are paintings...

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto..._4614428_n.jpg

I just.... how can they

Oh my

Right? People carelessly throw around the term "mindblowing" on the internet, but this time it actually is.

Very very impressive.

That's the kind of realism I appreciate. Especially the reddy-brown one.

Kinda looks like his face is melting. I like it.

Am I allowed to post album artwork?

Fuck it, doing it anyways. It counts.

http://www.melodysupreme.org/wp-cont.../09/url-11.jpg

Beautiful.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls...goajo1_500.jpg

Apocolyptic, bleak, depressing. Minimalism at its finest.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc...xz0yo1_500.jpg

I don't know why I love this one so much, but I do. Very... nostalgic. Not sure why.

http://www.fieldrecords.co.kr/upfile/cover%28828%29.jpg

Loneliness in one picture.

http://www.progarchives.com/progress...1715102008.jpg

I love industrial styled art, so this one really hit home.

Uhh, I guess that's it for now.

Number 2 and 5 are truly terrific, not that the others aren't good but those two stood out for me. Those hyper-realistic pictures are absolutely god damn amazing too, how could you ever tell they were paintings if you didn't see the process!?

argh fuck I accidentally closed the tab and lost all the neat pictures I've been preparing for you. I won't do it again
so here's the link to Lou Romano's blog and
his colour scripts for "Up" and "The Incredibles"
- his talent unfortunately wasted for disney

http://louromano.blogspot.com

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM...8/s1600/41.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM...1600/CS_01.jpg

this one is hilarious

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM...I/s1600/20.jpg

some of his cooler stuff

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM...00/B2+MARS.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM...1600/MS_02.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM...1600/MS_03.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMM..._INDY%2BIV.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...00/OA_03.2.jpg

I especially adore these ones - ingeniously simple

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...1600/BK_02.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...1600/BK_01.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...1600/BK_03.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5...1600/BK_04.jpg

Some of those looks like photographs of cut-out cardboard people. I can't tell if they are or not.

that's because they are cut-out cardboard people.

I like the use of coloured light to tint the details.

I love the album art for Counting Crows, though I don't really like their music.

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/c...esert-life.jpg

http://www.coverdude.com/covers/coun...over-94327.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nginaround.jpg

I like how they couldn't decide on a name for the second one.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_70JElYVm91...et-picture.jpg

The Impressionism is one of my favourites art styles.

They're alluding to a common titular trend from the olden days where stories or shows would sometimes have two titles separated by "or". We still do this today, but we omit the "or" like "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" or "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn".

I like I Was A Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers.

I don't have anything else to add, I just really love that book.

Those are pretty bad examples though; they’re just the title of the overall series combined with a subtitle.

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is different from Final Fantasy, or The Spirits Within.

I'll give you that the Evil Dead one was a bad example, it's just the first that sprang to mind. Final Fantasy, however, had nothing to do with the games and that's a good example of contention over a title. Though I suppose you could liken that more to a cheap marketing hook, kind of like Monty Python's Jabberwocky, even though Monty Python had nothing to do with it.

I know there are better examples of modern media that do this, but I can't be arsed to think of any.

It's not exactly modern, but isn't Dr. Strangelove or:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb THE film example of this?

Yes. Yes, it is.

Yes, but I wasn't counting on Nep knowing what that is. Maybe I should stop assuming everyone is stupid.

Or maybe I should keep doing it.

I think it's annoying, but presumably my opinion is too stupid to count.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Man, what a dick.