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Hello.
My name is Brendan and I'm dead set on showing off a recently completed painting of mine wherever I can. I would come out strong, I thought, and make a blog entry.
Unfortunately, I don't have too much to say about the painting except that it was done primarily in Photoshop, with a little help from modo on the water. I've been staring at it for a long time now and I'm at a loss talking about it, you see. Instead, I intend to fill some space with a rant about the ill-begotten "Date" tab in Windows Explorer.
The date tab is a curious thing and is to be confused with neither the date created, nor the date modified tabs. It's simply the date tab. It has no purpose other than to deeply annoy you when you're trying to find the latest version of a certain file. Microsoft decided that "date modified" and "date created" were far too simple and understandable, and implemented the anonymous date tab to obfuscate interaction with the OS. What they found was that, with its implementation, people were spending more time in windows compared to other applications and they deemed this to the greater benefit of their customer base. The idea, as with many of their ideas, was conceived by two pubic hairs having an argument inside a giant vat of earwax.
And this is my latest personal work:
Buoyancy Troubles:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/GAXep.jpg)
And detail shots:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/0WKLy.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/6A1YM.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Ge60S.jpg)
With great thanks for your time, and with many apologies if you'd like it returned.
Brendan Noeth
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This is awesome!
What inspired it?
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Very very cool concept and love the art.
Although the sword is a huge turn-off for me. It just doesn't fit, for a multitude of reasons. (style of sword doesn't fit the rest of the painting, the clothes they are wearing don't fit with someone carrying a sword, let alone going anywhere that they knew might be dangerous..) etc etc.
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I don't know, I think it's very fitting.
We don't know what the hell it is, we don't know what the hell it's for. The girl knows, and the girls wants it badly, and that's what matters.
A wild guess is it is the only thing capable of penetrating those balloons, and she wants it badly it order to save her friend/family that is being lifted in the background.
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On September 20 2012 08:42 HungrySC2 wrote:
Very very cool concept and love the art.
Although the sword is a huge turn-off for me. It just doesn't fit, for a multitude of reasons. (style of sword doesn't fit the rest of the painting, the clothes they are wearing don't fit with someone carrying a sword, let alone going anywhere that they knew might be dangerous..) etc etc.
Seems to me the sword is for poking the balloons =D
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How's it possible for balloons with a total volume of about 10 L to lift a roughly 50 kg human?
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Is this based on the horror manga by Junji Ito?
Forget what it's called...gonna go look it up.
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On September 20 2012 09:06 airtown wrote:
How's it possible for balloons with a total volume of about 10 L to lift a roughly 50 kg human?
Having the air be 40000 times as dense as ours =)
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How shit that's awesome! Love it!
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Very wonderful work, and I especially love the motion and immediacy implied by the bubbles/splash, though the perspective on the balloon/ball thingy still growing in the water is strange (if it's behind the fish and the rising person, shouldn't it be smaller/darker rather than larger/lighter?)
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very cool dude  . I like the photo a lot, and also the art direction and style are very interesting with the overdrawn lines :O.
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Thought this was a toilet blog... disappointed.
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Hello.
Thanks for the kind words - on the whole people seem to like it so I'm happy.
I really do mean to say as little as possible about the painting and any supposed backstory or explanation, but I'll try and answer some of the questions here:
Z-Boson - The painting was not inspired by anything in particular - I wanted to do an very technical piece with lots of different surfaces and had an initial idea of something falling into water, beyond reach. The rest I just kinda made up as I went along.
HungrySC2 - I'm sorry the dagger is a turn-off. I agree it doesn't seem to 'fit' but that's exactly why it's a turn-on for me. It's anachronistic and lends the painting some bohemian edge, I hope.
airtown - More importantly, why would plants invest so much energy into creating balloons in the first place?
WaveofShadow - It's not based on anything, and I was pretty surprised to see the works you brought up there. It does prove that a lack of knowledge makes you liable to plagiarizing things you've never seen. Thanks for the posts.
krndandaman - They certainly didn't start off as sperm! But the similarities are undeniable.
Also, a pseudo-timelapse gif:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/jdBZ5.gif)
And thanks again!
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Man, that manga was crazy... sorta sad that the conclusion is so.. inconclusive. Still awesome though.
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Man, this is so cool.
You are a pretty talented dude
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