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Mark Drago
{K:10902} 9/5/2003
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Jim, yeah, what they said above. stunning. esp. like the warm tones.
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deniz kaan copur
{K:12726} 9/5/2003
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oh yeah!
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Mari Mar
{K:11469} 9/4/2003
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Maravillosa!!
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kita mcintosh
{K:18594} 9/4/2003
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very stimulating work laddie...
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Ulf Fĺgelhammar
{K:10975} 9/4/2003
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Cubism perhaps. But most of all a sensual explosion of colours. I really need this now and then.
Thanks for opening my eyes a bit more.
A transparent dream.
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Audrey Reid
{K:5872} 9/4/2003
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Hello Jim, I tried to think of something intelligent to say, but recollecting my thoughts, it was just emotional babble!
Can I just simply say I'm in awe of your creative mind, no idea how images come to you (eventhough you tirelessly explain and share). There's lots to look at in this image, tied in with the poem gives even more food for thought.
Did any of that make sense? Well, I did say I can only offer emotional babble. Nice work Jim.
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Naty Z
{K:16436} 9/4/2003
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one of the best work i've seen so far!! this is ART!
congrats Jim!
and thank you for your comments, they're so appreciated!
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Neil Shapiro
{K:2032} 9/3/2003
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Jim, you've outdone yourself on this one. This is a "new" classic! It's fantastic. I can't say enough good things about it! Wonderful.
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Gaetan Chevalier
{K:4188} 9/3/2003
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One of my prefered of your Photoart portfolio. It will go in my favorites. Excellent work Jim!
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Carol Watson
{K:5185} 9/3/2003
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I'm going to step outside of my comfort zone, be a rebel, and admit that I like the color scheme, but this is just too busy for me. Having simplicity and order is part of my Capricorn nature, so I'll blame it on that. :-) Besides, I can't rave about everything you produce (you're so prolific) else you'd get a swelled head. Ok... ready for my spanking.... ;-)
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G C
{K:12204} 9/3/2003
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You really hafta stop doing this. Just happen to have a battered, but original, copy of Surrealistic Pillow here, that I bought back in the day in San Francisco. Hell of a Picasso-esque (is that a word?) image, love this one too! Regards.
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Armen Jamkotchian
{K:5879} 9/3/2003
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Very beautiful. I like the boldness and crispness of the shapes and colors.
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Roger Cotgreave
{K:15892} 9/3/2003
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congratulations Jim on making the main page with your creative photoart, love this one, regards Roger
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Sam Norris
{K:19} 9/3/2003
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Very nice Jim. Colors are magnificient. Overall a very pleasing image. Nice image for a school music department I think. Should be rather large. Would like to know your technique on this. For my personal taste the larger eye should be toned back a little.
This is my first time on this forum, glad to see you here.
Sam
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lisa .
{K:9370} 9/3/2003
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wow, your explanation is exhausting!! im out of breath!
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Kelly C
{K:1358} 9/3/2003
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Great! Looks more like a sharper modernization of Braque, rather than Picasso.
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 9/3/2003
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Simply brilliant, Jim! Stunning work! Must have taken you hours!
Go on inspiring us with your creativity.
Kind regards, Chris.
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Bee Arthur
{K:2259} 9/3/2003
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Cool work. I really think the colors sold it for me, but the work you did with the stringed instruments is impressive too. Great job.
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Carla Pires
{K:10713} 9/3/2003
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Excellent work!!! Congratulations!!! :)
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Bernt Carlzon
{K:554} 9/3/2003
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Hi Jim,
Great Work!
(Maybe a little to gaudy!?)
ART IS THE LIE THAT HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH
/Pablo Picasso
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Igor L.
{K:7432} 9/3/2003
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AMAZING WORK, Jim!!!!
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 9/3/2003
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Jim; congratulations on having a "featured critique" photo and a nice high Ranking-- both well deserved. Your Black Viking Ship photo and this one are my favorites of your many and varied works. I'd rate it 7s across again if I could ;>) Actually, you should get 10s for originality and quality of work! Cheers. Craig
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Tiro Leander
{K:19060} 9/3/2003
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wow, this is absolutely one of your best works - so far. And it's one of those pictures where all i can say is that it's just simply great. I put it in my favs too.
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 9/3/2003
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Cubist but not quite...the best kind. And the lyrics make it even better. Just awesome!
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julio vagrant
{K:694} 9/3/2003
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true excellent, a pleasure see this; global impression and details, all work well
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Tomo Radovanovic
{K:12788} 9/3/2003
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atractive work
good idea
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Katia Cutrone
{K:12940} 9/3/2003
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Just G R E A T.
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 9/3/2003
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Jim,
This is very good. I like that her cheeck is placed where the curve of the cello might otherwise have been. I also like the various abstractions of the cello and the misplaced eyes. Maciek has a good point but you've both addressed -
Maciek's intelligence and articulation blow me away sometimes. He is a good one to have comment on one's work. Because he understands both the intellectual and emotional and comments on both. Me - I am mostly emotional. ;)
Mary
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 9/3/2003
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Hello Gregory, Maciek, Patricia et al:
Maciek:
You succinctly articulate my dilemma and anticipate the solution.
The dilemma is that real Cubism as developed by Picasso and Braque involved a reordering of pictorial space into 3D cubes, just as you describe. Achieving this with PS, even with the Liquify and Mesh functions in PS7, is no easy thing, especially with a complex image. I know. I've tried. The results haven't been pretty. (Check out the "about" box of my previous posting called "Cubist Chrysler" for a brief discussion of exactly this problem.)
My solution, at least for now, is what art historians would probably call a Cubist mannerism -- although I think, again, you describe it even more accurately as "Squarism."
In addition to reacting against Renaissance concepts of forcing three-dimension space into a two-dimensional medium, my understanding is that the early Cubist were also responding to the lavish palettes of the Impressionists -- and especially to the use of color and light as the primary visual structure for an image. Obviously, I'm not going down the monochrome path either -- at least not with the Cubist/Squarist images.
My heartfelt thanks for taking the time to comment on this one, Maciek. It's a pleasure to know someone else understands the rather obtuse underpinnings of all this.
Gregory:
Surprisingly, once you get the background, the rest really isn't all that much more difficult than any photo composite.
Patricia:
As for the Liquify Mesh, it's actually so simple that you may be disappointed.
Once you create a distortion using the squeeze, expand and rotate Liguify tools, you then simply hit the SAVE button to make a copy of the underlying Mesh, which can then be re-loaded at a later date to duplicate your distortion on other images. That's about all there is to it. In effect, it's a PS "action" for Liquify.
The Liquify tools have all the power. The ability to save the 3-D Mesh they create insures repeatability.
Thanks to everyone for the thoughtful comments on this image. They are much appreciated.
--Jim
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ADAM ORZECHOWSKI
{K:7957} 9/3/2003
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Another great art piture with superb idea. Congrats.
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Verna Absolutestockphoto
{K:2836} 9/2/2003
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Cool :-)
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Bob Whorton
{K:2740} 9/2/2003
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Great interpretation Jim... Wish I could do it.
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Patricia Eifel
{K:5097} 9/2/2003
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This is a really interesting technique. I like the integration of the musical theme with the feminine. Perhaps a tad busy for my taste-- not sure though, it is still very appealing. I'd like to learn how to use the mesh tool but I haven't been able to figure it out--not too much about it in the books I have. Can you suggest a reference Jim?
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Ana Vianna
{K:15270} 9/2/2003
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Excellent work! Very beautiful! Congrats
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Dave M
{K:9043} 9/2/2003
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Are you now channeling Picasso?? :-)
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lowell whipple girbes
{K:13151} 9/2/2003
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excellent work
me like it
regards
Lowell
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José Eduardo Cruz
{K:13180} 9/2/2003
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Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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Hakan Aker
{K:14146} 9/2/2003
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Hi Jim,great shot..i enjoyed it so much,did you do it with GIMP?ReGards,Hakan.
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 9/2/2003
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Jim; I think this is really cool. I like the subjects, the colors, and the weird, weird composition. This really is a good take off on the 'cubist' style. I see people looking through a glass window in at the instruments-- and the lighting is warm and inviting. This makes a super abstract, and being an old guitar player, the subject has special meaning to me. This is going in my fav's. Cheers. Craig
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Robert Gaither
{K:34128} 9/2/2003
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Like the creativity in this image this is an excellent composition I like it a lot.
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Dubravko Grakalic
{K:25235} 9/2/2003
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atractive work
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Anna
{K:2994} 9/2/2003
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!!!! Jim, this is such a fantastic work! As GF says, it looks so difficult... and the lyric seems to be written for this image: fragments of a face... as our memory and dreams do remember, a mix of colors, shapes and smells...
Thank you for sharing.
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peta jones
{K:12615} 9/2/2003
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I love it Jim except the top smaller eye. It stands out for some reason for me, the larger one is perfect. Excellent otherwise.
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Ronny Van Eeckhoutte
{K:12734} 9/2/2003
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The colour combination is bold and cheerful.
Most artistic composition, with a painterly quality.
Grace Slick beauty and icy blue eyes....
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Joao Vasconcelos
{K:2163} 9/2/2003
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very good work!
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Gregory Fiedler
{K:15439} 9/2/2003
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Fantastic image! I like the lines(strings)running up and down with from side to side also. Thinking it works best this way. Very pleasing work, nice to the eye! Very creative and done so well. Looks difficult. And yes, it has been to the point of creating things that you think of at night! That is where the goofy brown paper bag thing I did, saw it in a movie. Surrealistic Pillow! Jim you may be showing your age here, and I have always felt that few knew who they were. Jim, Great inspiring work and thanks for comments.
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 9/2/2003
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Very interesting this photo
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Getulio Melo
{K:6481} 9/2/2003
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Beautiful and original! I liked it.
Getulio
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 9/2/2003
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The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long
The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone
And through an open window where no curtain hung
I saw you, I saw you comin' back to me
One begins to read between the pages of a book
The shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you're hooked
Through the rain upon the trees, the kisses on the run
I saw you, I saw you comin' back to me
You came to stay and live my way
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind
You always say you won't go away
But I know what it always has been, it always has been
A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh
Most of the time I just let it go by
Now I wish it hadn't begun
I saw you, yes, I saw you comin' back to me
--Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
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