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Monday, April 20, 2009

I need a vacation

Animal Fun: which photo is natural and which is photoshopped?
Hyena ...

Ostrich...

Which of those animals is most closely to related to the cat family and which to the dinosaur family? Am I likely to see either of them on my camping trip this week into the wilds of Nevada?

Animal Art Fun: which of these pieces is by Andy Warhol and which by Jeff Ham?



And now for something REALLY scary:
Sometime ago, I used an artistic website (long since forgotten) to alter a photo of myself sitting in an empty cafe into a "Modigliani" style. The above is what they came up with. Yes I guess the horse-face features are Modigliani, but where is the beauty so evident in the following Modig clip? (warning: female nudity)...



If you just can't enough Modigliani, here's a longer clip (at apprx 4:35, I swear Shirley McClaine's ancestral twin is posing, or maybe she really has lived previous lives?) ... Why did he elongate faces, why is his perspective of the nose and neck so odd? Why are the eyes so dead and/or sad? Why are the mouths so squinched up? Maybe someone with an art background has a clue. I certainly don't.

I have not forgotten about my MMM series. After we return from this week's camping trip, I hope to get back into it. Sometimes you just have to walk/run/hike away from it all for awhile.