Just What Is It That Makes Today's Sheds So Different, So Appealing?
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
B&Q: With Apologies To Richard Hamilton
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wow, this really does look a lot like current avant garde web art. Of course, this is exactly what it's parodying and commenting upon.
I see someone thinks they have their vanishing point stuff down. Nice shadows too!
I thought possibly this image was made in Microsoft Paint until I noticed the cloning artifacts of the plants at the child's knees.
Oof. Obviously over-PhotoShopped. Let's see...no shadows, the lighting seems off, overuse of the clone tool, the list goes on...
I love the fact that on the original site you can zoom right in.
Love the See-Through-Rake!
It reminds me of those sticker books I used to have a kid...haha.
Awful, awful, work. Great find!
Oh, come on guys. That's just Tom Cruise with Suri in their beautiful garden.
Everybody knows that Scientologists can fly :)
That isn't Tom Cruise, if you zoom in on the original you can clearly see that it is Spock! Although Vulcans and Scientologists may not be all that different...
And further proof about the vulcan theory...just look at the "Enterprise" shed on the same website!
No comments yet about "Two sheds" Jackson? What kind of nerds hang around here, exactly? Can't you listen to some Python while you're arranging your cd's in ascending order based on the square root of the sum of the barcode? I may not fit in.
Brilliant caption :)
If you go to the original site and select the larger picture, the stones around the bottom of the larger shed remain in glorious focus at several zooms - by which time the rake is lost in a blur. Wonderful.
AHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I'm done now.
>No comments yet about "Two sheds" >Jackson? What kind of nerds hang >around here, exactly? Can't you >listen to some Python while >you're arranging your cd's in >ascending order based on the >square root of the sum of the >barcode? I may not fit in.
This is the real disaster. Arranging in ascending order based on the square root of the sum of the barcode, is of course the same as arranging in the same order as merely in the sum of the barcode.
Whoops!
come on now .The sales at B&Q aren't what they were and they have to economize somewhere .Ha ha ha .
For those who don't get the reference:
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/
It really does look like it was made by Richard Hamilton.
Oh, forgot to mention: the above link is kind NSFW.
The guy with the rake looks suspiciously like he's from a rake advertisement, and the garden looks like it's from a gardening catalog. Woe unto us that it's become cheaper to take stock art and paste it together into something that vaguely resembles reality, rather than take an actual photo of what you want to portray.
If I were intending to buy a shed off the Internet, I'd want to see an image of the shed, not of two people standing in front of the shed.
This isn't just bad Photoshop; it's bad marketing. If they wanted some human interest in the image...but I have no idea why they would.
Also, the guy who is raking with the leaf rake has nothing to rake up. The lawn is already mowed and raked. yet he looks quite eager to make another pass.
Okay, so I get the issues with the picture, but man - am I dumb or are those really obscure title/caption references? I figured it out thanks to handy wikipedia, and yes - this does appear startlingly similar to RH's piece from 1956.
Sorry, the only Richard Hamilton I had heard of before plays basketball for the Detroit Pistons. I took 4 art history classes in college, but I guess they didn't include enough pop art.
I cut off several magazines with scissors when I was in Elementary School and made a collage pretty similar to that one.
Richard Hamilton's Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? is in Janson's History of Art, so I can see why he thought it would be an obvious reference.
What exactly is a "Lad's Shed" anyway?
It's a small shed for kids. GOd knows why you'd need one, mind you.
I'm curious - is there anything in that picture that wasn't comped in?
That, friends, is an awesome caption. I GET IT. YAY!
Many thanks to my Art History professor.
Hamilton’s collage, Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, leads the round-up of pop art classics featured in today’s Smashing Magazine. Each week this international design publication presents a “Monday Inspiration” treat, and today it pulls up the same 1956 artwork referenced here. Is this a trend in the air?
The gardener vs. the zombie kid in cut-outs world.
I'm curious - is there anything in that picture that wasn't comped in?
The trees (on the right) and grass look like they might be from the same picture.
The tree on the left is probably comped in.
@ Jennifer -- I was thinking the same thing about Richard Hamilton from the Pistons. I had no clue who Richard Hamilton the artist was!
Love the Hamilton reference. He was my favorite painter.
@Fragglet: The Lad's Shed is where you use the site's equally evocative "Chain of Custody" in privacy.
The first thing I noticed was that the Lad's Shed door didn't have a door handle and seems to have been nailed shut all the way around. I guess the lad can get in but he can't get out until he loses enough weight to shimmy through that narrow window opening. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
What's great is that if you go to the original site and zoom in closely, you can really see awful outlines, terrifying artifacts, shitty clone-tool use, and really poor resolution on the child and the trees in the background.
Sadness ensues... Now.
I got the reference. . . I was amused. I kind of like the picture here, too.
they have separate house? :)
At first, I tought the man was flying, then I found out that the child would probably be burried knee deep. The helpfull zoom tool they provide us in the site showed me that the poor child only has legs... to the knees!
Is it just me, or does that little boy's head look like a miniature garbage bag?
Well-done title!
That really is one of the worst Photoshopping jobs I've ever seen.
I imagine the poor schlump who created this ad, as someone who went to art school for years only to wind up working as a graphic artist for B&Q. She or he probably created this "artistic collage" out of pure frustration.
I feel bad for this person, but I also see why his or her career as an artist hasn't really taken off.
That's not a Photoshop Disaster...
That's a collage!
What is it that makes today's sheds so different, so appealing?
Why, it's the mind-warping alternate reality with a complete lack of perspective they provide!
"Dad, stop raking. You're... scaring me!"
I don't get it. What does this have to do with the short bloke off of "Top Gear"?
aah, makes my eyes hurt. Ouch!
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