The former SW geek and modeler in me LOOOOVES this! The current artist and designer in me thinks he could have taken it in a better direction. The stone hovel doesn't make sense in this context. Is it older or newer than the wreckage? A little shanty town around the legs, with scrap metal and tarps would have been even more awesome. Still, really nice work.
Shaving nics? Look at the hair! Every twist and curl and shadow is in the exact same position. If you're gonna fake your stoopid elf ears with photochop, at least take some plausibly different source pics.
re: Photoshopping...a flash photo taken this close would also produce a heavy shadow, slightly offset to one side, depending on which side the flash on the camera is located.
While picking your life up and moving it somewhere new can be traumatic, especially for an 86 year old, I agree this is just stubbornness. If she really doesn't want the money, then sell the house, buy a new one like it somewhere nice and give the rest of the money away to charity. What kind of quality of life could possibly be maintained with a mini mall wrapped around her house?
Years ago, a former coworker, who was a Cal ME grad and genius programmer, made a powerloader costume that blows this one out of the water. He had the strap-in foot holds for walking it around, rotating beacon light on top and actual sound effects from the movie played through an internal sound system when he walked. It was sick.
The outfit I wish I had pics of was a Toy Story "costume" from an ILM party that was more of a vehicle. It was the rocket shaped grabber-claw thingy from the movie - the one full of the 3-eyed aliens. The rocket part was about 10 feet high (!) and made of sturdy metal rails. A person dressed as the 3-eyed alien climbed up a ladder and hooked into harness that looked like a big claw just below the nose-cone. The bottom portion was filled with stuffed alien toys. The whole rig was on super heavy duty casters and friends pushed it around, or at least into and out of the warehouse where the party was. Probably the least practical costume ever, but mind-blowing.
It's well-documented that Lucas re-cut movie footage from WW2 movies to edit together an "animatic" of the climactic DS sequence. I saw the side by side movies somewhere and it's amazing how the SW shots exactly match the footage. Funny that someone thought to make a copy of a copy of a copy.
What's that sound??? Oh noes, the universe just circled back on itself! Nice knowin' y'all! Well, most of y'all.
Their top 10 are pretty solid, except for Minority Report. But there are entries near the bottom I would have put much higher (Starship Troopers, 1984).
And I question certain films as even having enough of a dystopian theme to qualify, like Serenity, Pleasantville, or War of the Worlds.
Brazil is the movie that most comes to mind whenever I think that we may be too far down the dystopian road ourselves. The scene where the terrorist bomb goes off in the restaurant and they simply put up a barrier so everyone can continue eating is both hysterical and terrifying.
Side note: The most "out there" cover of "Brazil" ever has to be Sugar Plant's grungy noise-pop version with broken English singing female vocals run through a mellotron. Trippy and super cool.
The outfit I wish I had pics of was a Toy Story "costume" from an ILM party that was more of a vehicle. It was the rocket shaped grabber-claw thingy from the movie - the one full of the 3-eyed aliens. The rocket part was about 10 feet high (!) and made of sturdy metal rails. A person dressed as the 3-eyed alien climbed up a ladder and hooked into harness that looked like a big claw just below the nose-cone. The bottom portion was filled with stuffed alien toys. The whole rig was on super heavy duty casters and friends pushed it around, or at least into and out of the warehouse where the party was. Probably the least practical costume ever, but mind-blowing.
What's that sound??? Oh noes, the universe just circled back on itself! Nice knowin' y'all! Well, most of y'all.
And I question certain films as even having enough of a dystopian theme to qualify, like Serenity, Pleasantville, or War of the Worlds.
Side note: The most "out there" cover of "Brazil" ever has to be Sugar Plant's grungy noise-pop version with broken English singing female vocals run through a mellotron. Trippy and super cool.