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Mural painting at Ensorinstituut in Blauwkasteelstraat by Case Maclaim (GER) in the context of "The Crystal Ship", one of the biggest art festivals in public spaces in Europe.
Up until Case Maclaim got involved, street art was characterised by a rather cartoonish style with bold typography. At the end of the 20th century, the German artist and his Ma’Claim Crew put a startling end to that. In fact, today Maclaim is seen as the godfather of (photo)realistic street art, as the guy who erased the line between graffiti and painting. In short, the perfect street artist to create a portrait of James Ensor – based on his illustrious 1899 Self-Portrait with Masks, but featuring the white ‘smiley face’ that often recurs in Case Maclaim’s portraits.
Source: thecrystalship.org/artworks/case-maclaim-10/
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previous mural on this wall:
www.flickr.com/photos/145400672@N02/50083937358/in/album-...
This photo was taken in the evening of 27 May 2017, when a group of us (13?) got together at Frank Lake for a celebration of spring. Great company and great picnic food. Even a few birds to photograph, including this male Ruddy Duck, who was busy trying to impress a nearby female Ruddy Duck. We had sunshine, too, until it was time to go home, when the heavens opened and down came the rain, accompanied by streaks of lightning. Thanks, Brenda, for organizing this event that went so smoothly and was most enjoyable!
"Ruddy Ducks are compact, thick-necked waterfowl with seemingly oversized tails that they habitually hold upright. Breeding males are almost cartoonishly bold, with a sky-blue bill, shining white cheek patch, and gleaming chestnut body. They court females by beating their bill against their neck hard enough to create a swirl of bubbles in the water. This widespread duck breeds mostly in the prairie pothole region of North America and winters in wetlands throughout the U.S. and Mexico." From AllAboutBirds.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_Duck
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/ruddy_duck/id
"Frank Lake, found 50 km southeast of Calgary near High River, Alberta, is a productive wetland important to hundreds of bird species. Once completely dry, this wetland has been saved from drainage and drought through a progressive partnership between industry, government and Ducks Unlimited. It is now listed as one of 597 Important Bird Areas in Canada."
Artist Nina Beier
From the Highline's website:
"Fountain composed of found bronze sculptures of women and children. The statues range in style from classical to contemporary, and all depict women and children in the nude, as has been Western art-historical convention. Water streams from the eyes of the sculptures, creating cartoonish tears that point to the fragility projected onto women and children as subjects. The artist’s crying statues reference the materialized gaze of the Fountain of Vision at the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Portugal as well as pop culture icons, such as cartoons dramatically expelling tears or even the crying emoji. The work’s title echoes the phrase “women and children first,” a Victorian-era maritime code of conduct wherein women and children, assumed to be the weakest aboard, should be the first saved in a perilous situation.
Yes, folks! Yet anothet Batcave renovation! Lately, I felt the Superheroes theme gave Batman a too cartoonish feel with all his bright, yellow detail on vehicles and the cave with it's light blue tone. I just missed the old theme's dark flair, probably influenced by the first Nolan movie. So I wanted to make my Batcave an hommage to that feel. And here's the result: some of the sections of the 2006 kit were re-introduced, bats were added hanging out in a few locations and I'm using the original theme's Batman and Robin as their main appearence. What do you say?
Samsung PL120 P&S Digital Camera
We were a bit lost through the maze of narrow streets of the Gothic Quarter. As I tried to make sense of the colorful cartoonish tourist map, my wife snapped a picture of me.
A skinny line of tall trees just off the road......logged forest all around....selective logging???
I just changed the background colour from blue to yellow.....for something different. I think it looks a bit cartoonish....altho I think it has a bit of a Zen feel, too.
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When there's no depth in your lives.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
Image is deliberately manipulated to be cartoonishly saturated, just like all the popular landscape cliques :)
Nestled among the mostly forested Hueston Woods State Park near Oxford, Ohio there is a small native prairie and wetland that was put in several years ago. It is a fantastic habitat for songbirds, frogs and at this time of year, American Woodcock.
If you have never seen or heard one of these birds before, you are missing quite a sight! With their long bill used for probing wet soil for worms and bugs and their big, chunky bodies, they are one of the most cartoonish birds you will ever see.
If their odd appearance wasn't enough, their annual spring mating display is even better. Starting in late February these ground birds emerge from woods and thickets into grassy fields at dusk to perform their nightly show. It starts with a series of nasal-sounding calls called "peents." After repeating this call up to 50 times the birds take to the sky and begin to fly in ever-increasingly large circles higher and higher into the sky. As they do, special feathers on each wing emit a "twittering" sound as the bird flaps and flutters. As the woodcock reaches the peak of his twittery climb he stalls and falls out of the sky fluttering at the last moment to land within feet of where he started where he is silent for just a moment before... "peent!" The woodcock begins again and repeats this process until the last bit of light fades from the sky.
If you've never seen it before, it's worth checking out!
Take The Piss (out of) (someone or something)
To tease, mock, or ridicule (someone or something); to joke or kid around (about someone or something). Primarily heard in UK, Ireland.
If you are so serious that you can't take the piss out of yourself every once in a while, you're going to have a hard time enjoying most of life.
It really hurt Steph's feelings to know that the group had been taking the piss out of her that whole time.
Brian was a bit of a troublesome student and tended to take the piss whenever class began.
Every now and then I get a wild hair up my backside and the urge to create a world class photo comes out. Other times I post things like this.
This was shot looking into a corner window from out on the deck. I saw the Pepper's Ghost effect:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost
and thought it might make a shot so I fired away. You may have done the same thing before in some of your reflection shots and not known that it had a name and history. I added an Old Polaroid treatment to it and this is what I wound up with.
Anyhow, I decided to take the piss out of the younger generation who would probably rave over this type of shot and give me my 15 minutes of viral fame that I so richly deserve for sharing this with the world! The only thing I could probably do better would be to make it look cartoonish and add the SL tag to it (done)!
Am I an ass? According to NIccy I can certainly be one at times. Am I having fun? No doubt about it! Any questions? Just see the first Italicized sentence above.
and she's still there!"
I re-discovered my daughters long lost Madeline stuff. I like the "comic strip" feel to this cheap little cardboard bedroom, cartoonish. I took a slight artistic "liberty" with Madeline...hehehehe
First time I've used Lightroom's Noise Reduction with AI setting. Seems to work well but I think it does also make the photo look a bit cartoonish.
Or maybe it's just my poor editing skills.
It has been my goal to capture this skyline against some real stormy clouds! I'm still not 100% satisfied with the clouds here but I guess it's a start. I have processed this image quite a bit with everything sky, water and the buildings been topaz specified or detailed to different levels. Let me know what you think of it and might bit cartoonish / unreal look to it .
Baby pictures can often be an embarrassment to people, but this youngster mimics a bird dropping to protect itself from predators...nature is so clever! See below for a cartoonish looking, false faced older instar once it turns green...
I couldn't resist taking this shot, even though I know there a lot of sky/sunset shots out there from far more picturesque locations than my kitchen window!
The cloud momentarily looked rather like some kind of cartoonish creature running across the sky...
As a side note, I know the processing may not to be all's taste, but it's surprisingly close to what was actually there. London can manage some pretty good skies when it puts it's mind to it.
This is one of my first builds in about 2 years or so. Its been forever since I've had the time to work on a build and... well maybe I just procrastinate too much. I will be working on multiple builds in the future, so look out for those. Anyways, Enjoy. :)
History of The A-Team:
The A-Team was not generally expected to become a hit, although Stephen J. Cannell has said that George Peppard suggested it would be a huge hit "before we ever turned on a camera". The show became very popular; the first regular episode, which aired after Super Bowl XVII on January 30, 1983, reached 26.4% of the television audience, placing fourth in the top 10 Nielsen-rated shows.
The A-Team was always portrayed as acting on the side of good and helping the oppressed. The show remains prominent in popular culture for its cartoonish, over-the-top violence, formulaic episodes, its characters' ability to form weaponry and vehicles out of old parts, and its distinctive theme tune. The show boosted the career of Mr. T, who portrayed the character of B. A. Baracus, around whom the show was initially conceived.Some of the show's catchphrases, such as "I love it when a plan comes together", "Hannibal's on the jazz", and "I ain't gettin' on no plane!" have also made their way onto T-shirts and other merchandise.
Appearing to stare at me with it's amazing false face (it's real head is underneath), this young guy will later turn lime green and develop a more expressive and endearing cartoonish false face!
I just wasn't prepared to forgo the opportunity of adding another two headlights to my 1973 BMW 2002 turbo.
In the end, I was surprised that the 3.0 looked so much less cartoonish than the 2002. Again, all thanks to the 8-stud design.
It is still missing an interior. Also, I was trying to recreate the chrome front bumper which the BMW 2800 cs had but couldn't manage it. Still there is the iconic aerodynamic package to aim at.
A happy family of frogs and parrots creating big smiles with their buggy eyes and cartoonish faces. Seen in a cute boutique shop in downtown Palm Springs, California. Keep dancing and tell
Spotify, SIri, Alexa, and Amazon to play some songs by JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND (use all 3 names. Blessings!
C&C very much wanted. Going for a cartoonish style here, what with using those Corroder pieces as bulky lower legs and what. Also mixing that with something resembling a Skrall-- hence the blades on the shoulders and Atakus mask. So far, I'm almost not ashamed of this MOC :P
The teased MOC from last week just has to be posted by the way, he's coming very soon. This MOC started as a tablescrap from him, funnily enough.
Oh, also: I decided to write a crossover finally, Bionice/Fate (Fate /Stay night), so this will be Servant Archer. Needless to say, he's a certain heroic spirit from Bionicle's past... Feel free to guess. Hint: color scheme.
Water Sprayed onto Perspex/Flexi Glass Blue & Red Card Behind Perspex/Flexi Glass.
To the Left Red Card To The Right Blue Card With Flash Gun To The Bottom Right Hand Side. Flash Bounced Of Cards To Give Resuling Picture.
NEW RELEASE from LENNIE
Available in different texture options and colors by a coloring hud
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/L-E-N-N-I-E-STELLA-CARTOONIS...
I used the above montage to try out a tutorial I found online that shows you how to give a photo a "comic art" effect.
www.macmerc.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=209...
I found the tutorial useful, but a little difficult to follow (maybe I have a different version of Photoshop?)
The end result didn't come out quite as cartoon-y as I'd have liked, but if I'd followed the steps exactly, it was way too much effect (probably because the original montage is as high contrast as this version), and took away from the actual picture.
Don't know them all but Dexter is a Dachshund, Flo the French Bulldog who appears in the applause for key workers video a few posts back and George a splendidly cartoonish cat who visits our garden and watches me run. The creativity of children has been one of the redeeming joys of the current period.
I did much sliding on this especially for HSS (Slider Sunday) on one of the most opulent storefronts in town (kidding). I don't think I've ever been inside this place, and I'm in no hurry. :)
For those who don't know, loonie and toonie are the nicknames of our one and two dollar Canadian coins repsectively although it is also true that most of us are loony-toons in the cartoonish sense of the phrase. Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker come to mind.
© Anvilcloud Photography
Fantasy role play can be an element, with partners taking classic dominant or submissive roles, or classic authority-figure roles such as teacher and student, police officer and suspect, or parent and child. Animal play, where one partner takes the role of owner or caretaker and the other takes the part of a pet or animal, can also be D/s play.
A classic example of a D/s role is the "sissy" maid, where an adult male dresses in cartoonish female clothing and performs stereotypical female chores such as housecleaning or serving tea. Cross-dressing in D/s does not always involve a desire to be sissified or made into caricatures of women or to serve: for example, others may desire to be made as beautiful as possible and interact on a "girlfriend-to-girlfriend" non-sexual basis.
Variation in D/s is virtually limitless and the activities take many forms, and may be combined with other forms of BDSM.
Another "Just-Before-Bedtime" drawing. Well, a bit cartoonish...but I wanted to try something crazy. Drawing with Faber Castell Pit Pen and watercolour applied with this nice waterfilled brush which I bought in Japan years ago.
the colors were great, but the light not so much. A bit of post processing help and I think I salvaged this one without making it too cartoonish.
You’re blocked! 🚫
To see the dusty disk around a young star, Webb blocked out starlight using a coronagraph, or mask. This is the first time that this disk, made of leftover debris from planet formation, has been observed in infrared wavelengths. Webb offers clues into both the history and composition of the disk.
The young star is AU Mic, a nearby red dwarf star with two known planets. Webb’s images allowed the science team to trace the disk as close to the star as 5 astronomical units (460 million miles) — the equivalent of Jupiter’s orbit in our solar system.
The ultimate goal for studying systems like AU Mic is to use Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity to observe giant planets in wide orbits, similar to Jupiter & Saturn in our own solar system. Webb’s observations mark new, uncharted territory for direct imaging around low-mass stars.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/new-webb-image-reveals-...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and K. Lawson (Goddard Space Flight Center). Image processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
[Image description: This image shows two views of the dusty debris disk around the red dwarf star AU Mic. The top panel is the disk at 3.56 microns. The disk appears as a fuzzy, blue, horizontal line broken in the middle by a black region outlined by a white, dashed circle. In the center of that region is a white, graphical star, which represents AU Mic. The actual star is blocked out in this image by Webb’s NIRCam coronagraph. The bottom panel is the second view of the disk, at 4.44 microns. The disk appears as a fuzzy, red, horizontal line broken in the middle by a black region outlined by a white, dashed circle. As in the top panel, in the center of that region is a cartoonish star representing AU Mic. The actual star is blocked out by the NIRCam’s coronagraph.]
The cartoonish eyes the films super high contrast gave these cows are quite something. Makes you wonder exactly what kind of grass they're grazing on.
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F and Takumar 35mm f/3.5, Film Washi S 50 ISO stand developped in Rodinal 1+100 for ~2 hours @ 23°C, development time and digitalized with kit zoom on macro extension tubes.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
The Tenderloin is one of the more colorful and diverse districts in San Francisco. It is also know for being one of the "seediest" areas, sporting a healthy crime rate and a population of destitute and down-on-their luck people. I'm not sure it's a place I would wander during the night, but in broad daylight, the place is tame as a kitten. I do however, refrain from pointing my camera at people that are homeless and destitute.
This rather cartoonish shot was taken mid-day on a sunny afternoon.
San Francisco CA
CALLED: 3/8
''Last week I got runner-up. Not bad at all but still, it wasn't best photo. This week was about the paranormal. I think I nailed the theme and i'm really happy how it turned out :D''
I wanted it to almost look a little bit cartoonish and the story behind it is that Fionna is chased by a ghost (or something) and that she wants to take over her body. I chosed to let Fionna do the both pictures because I didn't want anyone to take over the picture. I also think that this photo shows how versatile Fionna is.
Hope you like it :)
Walt Disney World Resort
Magic Kingdom
Fantasyland
Cinderella Fountain and Castle
This is one of my favorite shots from our recent trip. I think it's an interesting perspective, one that creates a decent amount of distortion in the foreground and background subject, but not so much that the subjects look cartoonish.
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 17/06/2023 ----------
Music !!
Well I started off with grand ideas of poking the camera at/into a piano shop ( some costing 50 - 60 thousand pounds ) and then the same with a branch of Guitar Guitar - but to get any sort of shot ( especially the guitar shop that has literally hundreds of guitars on the walls ) I would have needed to go inside and that would make me somewhat obvious !!
Rock music goes down a treat but I cannot play a note , so no musical instruments here .
Therefore , it has to be how I listen to the music - and in the car these days it is the " infotainment " module . It displays car functions , telephone doings ( don't do that - no one ever calls ) , car settings , maps and sat-nav ( don't do that either , I end up disobeying the thing 'cos I do not want to go the way it tells me ) and of course the radio - only have it tuned to Planet Rock or the BBC Local Radio . And then there is the USB player where all the music and of my choice can be found !! Strange though , the volume seems to go up double when rock music is selected .
In this instance we are listening to " When The Wild Wind Blows " by Iron Maiden .
When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, created by British artist Raymond Briggs ( author of The Snowman ) commonly known for its critiques against government issued preparations for nuclear war. Utilizing a cartoonish design, this graphic novel follows retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs, and their journey through surviving a nuclear attack on Britain launched by the Soviet Union. The novel was later adapted for different entertainment types including an animated film, talk-show radio segment, and stage play.
The book follows the story of the Bloggs, a couple previously seen in the book Gentleman Jim. One afternoon, the couple hears a message on the radio about an "outbreak of hostilities" in three days time. Jim immediately starts construction of a fallout shelter (in accordance with a government-issued Protect and Survive brochure, which he has collected from a public library), while the two reminisce about the Second World War. Their reminiscences are used both for comic effect and to show how the geopolitical situation has changed, but also how nostalgia has blotted out the horrors of war. A constant theme is Jim's optimistic outlook and his unshakeable belief that the government knows what is best and has the situation under full control, coupled with Hilda's attempts to carry on life as normal.
The Iron Maiden song "When the Wild Wind Blows" from their 2010 album The Final Frontier is loosely based on the graphic novel. In the song, however, the couple commit suicide thinking the tremors shaking up their hideout is the nuclear Doomsday they had been expecting. They are found like this by a rescue team going through the ruins after what was 'merely' a strong earthquake, on "just another day the wild wind blows".
Now have a listen --------------
Ever since I encountered my first Spicebush caterpillars last year, and fell in love with their wonderfully cartoonish false faces with big 'eye' markings, I've kept an eye out for curled up Sassafras leaves where they might be...and I've found one on the 'field of dreams' with four residents! The trick is to catch them as they leave their curled up leaves for a bite to eat...this one exited it's leaf only long enough for a quick bite and I struggled to get a shot even at a bad angle! Now I can't wait to return to that Sassafras this weekend when hopefully they will be more active!
Bought this little Shell model on Ebay the other day. Whilst obviously being a little cartoonish, its still a fun little thing. I've made a few personal tweaks to it, which you may be able to notice if you compare it to a picture of the original set.
For Reita. This image went through four applications, thirty one filters, three plug-ins. I hope you like.
I'm not typically a fan of over-processed HDR images (when I use it, I try to be subtle and often blend back in much of the original image to keep it more true to reality), but in this case I sort of like the abstract cartoonish quality it gives this scene of the Hennepin Ave Bridge over the Mississippi River.
After significant time spent in the wind tunnel, Team DB unveils a completely new nose concept featuring a heavily revised front wing and 1/2-stud longer wheelbase (extended forward toward the front for less pitch sensitivity given the increased front downforce).
This build was supposed to just be an April Fool’s day thing. My whole “DB” tangent has been about the new dark blue fender parts, and F1 cars don’t have fenders ... lolhilariousright? Problem is the standard-build SC F1 cars are so cartoonish that this build turned into trying to work up a decent-looking f1 model. It's getting there...
Fantasy role play can be an element, with partners taking classic dominant or submissive roles, or classic authority-figure roles such as teacher and student, police officer and suspect, or parent and child. Animal play, where one partner takes the role of owner or caretaker and the other takes the part of a pet or animal, can also be D/s play.
A classic example of a D/s role is the "sissy" maid, where an adult male dresses in cartoonish female clothing and performs stereotypical female chores such as housecleaning or serving tea. Cross-dressing in D/s does not always involve a desire to be sissified or made into caricatures of women or to serve: for example, others may desire to be made as beautiful as possible and interact on a "girlfriend-to-girlfriend" non-sexual basis.
Variation in D/s is virtually limitless and the activities take many forms, and may be combined with other forms of BDSM.