Michelangelo

Photoshopping the Great Masters

Submitted by deke on 14 May 2009 - 12:15am.
School of Athens

dekePod Episode 016: Hello, friend. Let's you and I get all collegiate and stuff and engage in some intellectually stimulating free-word association.

For example, I say High Renaissance. You say, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael. Very good!

But you're not done. You say, an unrivaled time of creative energy and unabashedly accurate representation of the human form. Ooh, I like that, keep it coming. The advent of secular humanism, say you, The rebirth of Classical Ideas! Read more » 

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Something Just Totally Inspirational

Submitted by deke on 27 April 2009 - 12:15am.

This isn't new (two years old), but it's new for me, and perhaps for you too. "One Blood, Many Nations," a United Nations mural mosaic painted live by Lewis Lavoie.

What I love about this piece is that it's not a computer mash-up of miniature photos that thanks to the magic of digital matchmaking render out to create a larger whole. It is instead a painstakingly planned and executed exercise in manual dexterity that involves, not several hundred images, but a scant 20. Which when placed in near each other proximity yield something else, not something better.

Full the full image, continue. Read more » 

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