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Posted on 01/03/19 08:51:23 AM |
Steve Caplin
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Challenge 745: Half a kettle
On a recent visit to my favourite tea shop in Ely, Norfolk, I noticed this bizarre half kettle hanging from a hook on the wall. I can’t imagine why anyone thought it worthwhile to manufacture half a kettle. What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half? High res is here. |
Posted on 01/03/19 2:13:51 PM |
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4903 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
This is going to have us all going off half cocked ........ _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 01/03/19 3:26:57 PM |
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Maybe it's meant for one of those tiny houses where storage space is at a premium. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 01/03/19 3:56:14 PM |
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4903 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 01/03/19 4:08:56 PM |
josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2593 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
For someone who only wants half a cup of tea? I'll get me coat... _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 01/03/19 4:12:44 PM |
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4903 Reply |
Challenge 745: Half a kettle
My gas and electric bills? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 01/03/19 8:12:36 PM |
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Steve said objects. I don't think bills count. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 02/03/19 11:38:22 AM |
Ben Mills
Luminous Luminary Posts: 570 Reply |
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Posted on 02/03/19 1:21:14 PM |
Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Subtle and clever Ben. Nick |
Posted on 02/03/19 7:36:27 PM |
GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3704 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
I’ve half a mind to enter this Challenge. Unfortunately I’m half a world away on my hols. Fortunately I missed half term. _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 02/03/19 9:15:19 PM |
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Look at it this way... you're half-way home. |
Posted on 02/03/19 9:17:12 PM |
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2615 Reply |
Not half the price
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Posted on 03/03/19 6:19:31 PM |
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4903 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
More perspective games for Steve ....... Although it's hardly what Milne could have had in mind, I thought the idea of sitting on a staircase that ".... isn't really anywhere!" lent itself to a stair that couldn't actually exist. I once met Christopher Robin in the late 'sixties. He was a very introverted and shy man. He disliked his father's books and what they had done to his life, especially as a schoolboy when he was mercilessly bullied. He said his father was in fact a very distant and cold father in reality. On the same occasion I also met Ernest Shepard the illustrator - by then well into his eighties. He regretted bitterly having sold Disney the rights to his Pooh illustrations and felt they had utterly failed to understand their whimsical nature and had completely vulgarised them. (I can't help but agree). He could deliver minutes on end of vitriol on Disney without drawing breath!! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 03/03/19 8:01:09 PM |
Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1563 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
David, your perspective work is indeed intriguing. |
Posted on 03/03/19 8:03:11 PM |
Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1563 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Steve asks? "What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half? " |
Posted on 03/03/19 8:30:35 PM |
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4903 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Thanks Frank. It gives me huge pleasure to try and manipulate our perceptions. Not sure why ..... but 'tis thus. I can only agree wholeheartedly with the message in your own image ............ _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 04/03/19 10:34:23 AM |
josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2593 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
I may not have time to contribute this week but as ever I am enjoying everyone else's work. David, I have every sympathy for Shepherd - never a fan of A.A. Milne ("tonstant weader fwowed up" as Dorothy Parker said) but Shepherds illustrations were sublime - the Disney version is a complete travesty. _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 04/03/19 11:56:26 AM |
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4903 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Although as an adult they seem so terribly twee, I loved the books as a child. I still have my dog eared, scribbled in copies from then. Written mostly between the wars they are a reflection of another era. As you say, Shepard's illustrations were sublime. He had an old leather suitcase full of originals and my job was to photograph them. To handle these first hand was a sensation impossible to put into words. As part of the same job we visited all the sites (100 acre wood, Pooh sticks bridge, etc) from which the illustrations were drawn. Almost fifty years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 04/03/19 4:35:53 PM |
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
_________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 04/03/19 7:48:05 PM |
Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 491 Reply |
Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
A lot more technically challenging than I had expected this one. There has to be an easier way to enjoy half a bottle of wine |
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