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Posted on 05/04/10 8:18:07 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
I will be there Sophie  Looking forward to seeing you and others who can make it. Thx |
Posted on 06/04/10 10:37:33 AM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
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Posted on 06/04/10 8:11:16 PM |
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jwhite
Collage Critter Posts: 274 Reply  |
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Posted on 07/04/10 4:47:28 PM |
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eblyth00
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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
i got this exerpt out of Steve's new book how to cheat in microsoft paint.  |
Posted on 07/04/10 5:33:48 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
Brilliant  |
Posted on 08/04/10 08:40:06 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
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[quoted] eblyth00 wrote: i got this exerpt out of Steve's new book how to cheat in microsoft paint. Fantastic 
_________________ The most beatiful thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all true art and sience. - Albert Einstein |
Posted on 08/04/10 09:02:50 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
_________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 08/04/10 11:29:16 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
Hello everybody! Great, great idea, this week, and great, great realisations!! Here's mine! Better view here : http://laddition.deviantart.com/art/Vogue-159991403  _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
Posted on 08/04/10 4:58:53 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
Rock and Roll! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 09/04/10 08:16:22 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
A lot of fun this week - and well done to Josephine Harvatt for spotting the spoof Gordon Brown piece in the Guardian (although a couple of points off for not realising it was me that did the spoofs). I've spotted GKB's politics surfacing before, and his current entry makes his views on our Prime Minister abundantly clear... a terrific satirising of his face, with especially fine teeth! Don't count your chickens, Gordon, there's life in the other Gordon yet... Very tickled by the braille radar display in the second entry - especially the subhead! The Financial Times story in the third entry is excellent - but remember that newspapers use indented first lines, rather than spaces, to mark paragraph breaks. I liked Carlo Alessandro Della Valle's idea of straightening up the Leaning Tower of Pisa - and a clever blurring of the text. But it was the second story on the page that really appealed to me! Vibeke's Moa is a beautiful piece of work - the bird is cunningly hidden amongst the foliage, as if it really has been caught by a stray cameraman. But really, further comment from me is irrelevant - it's already in the text. I loved the spoof video you dug up. Good to see nerdtron back after a long absence - with a nicely composed dummy magazine cover. I like the elements here, especially the Linux penguin - and cool reflections. But watch the relative perspectives of the laptop and the printer: they don't occupy the same visual space. Clever work from Ben Mills, with detailed text covering the tracking down of Osama bin Laden in a Holiday Inn in London - and I liked the neatly out-of-character detail of him regularly buying a double whisky and pork scratchings (and if you aren't from the UK and don't know what pork scratchings are, then don't ask - you're better off not knowing). A subtle montage, as well - and I like the political references. Looks like an intriguing image from Jonvee Leo this week - I'd really like to see it a lot bigger. Sounds like a good set of super powers, too. I enjoyed tooquilos's nicely distressed newspaper page, and was intrigued to see who would be behind the shroud - and the nicely composed animation shows the unveiling in a very clever way.Perhaps the glasses should have appeared before the beard, on the Poser model? I see Jota120's still working on the caveman Challenge... a very neat reworking of the cover! How to cheat in caveshop, eh? Now there's a book just waiting to be written. A very fine job from salfordnurse, whose intricate toying with scale has produced a very convincing unearthing of a skeleton. A truly seamless montage - it would certainly have fooled me! I really liked Deborah Morley's image showing Gordon Brown trying to copy Putin's fitness look - and, you know, that's really a rather appealing body for him. A good reworking of the Number 10 website - but don't distort html text! A very cute mermouse from Josephine Harvatt, with a perfect matching of bodies and tones. And I liked the professor's quote that they're playing with Cod - and the extra gags in the comments! A beautifully composed montage from Nick Curtain, with London Bridge relocated to Snowdonia - or, as Nick has it, Llondon Bridge (but that's probably just the Welsh spelling). My only observation is that the expanse of blue water could probably do with a reflection of Snowdon behind it - but that may just be asking for a bridge too far. A fantastic knitted helicopter cover from brewell - what a great idea!And I like that we can still read the Navy insignia through it. Good work. I liked Sophie's Roman unearthing in Tunbridge Wells - although I'm not sure 'Tunbridge Wells has got talent' would be that much of a TV draw. You do need to watch your column widths, though, and especially the gutter between the second and third. A fantastic newspaper mock-up from james - all the more so because of the long delay before the animation starts, so it really takes us by surprise. And the flapping ears at the end are priceless. Now that's really a jumbo to inspire! Wistful thinking from jwhite... free upgrades? from Adobe? I'm surprised Photoshop didn't refuse to create this one, as it refuses to open scanned banknotes... Really funny work from eblyth00 - the great thing is that those are all points I make, but the application to MS Paint is hilarious. I seem to be sporting a fine set of dreadlocks in laddition's Vogue cover. Very good choice of typeface for the main headlines, and a very tasty cover! |
Posted on 09/04/10 08:22:44 AM |
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laddition
femme fatale Posts: 585 Reply |
Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
Thank you very much, Steve!!! _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
Posted on 09/04/10 08:35:15 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve. Don't worry, I'm just as cynical with any other politician..........David Cameron included! The Braille radar spoof has been in my head for many years now and I finally got the chance to put it to good use. Gordon _________________ Why isn't 'phonetic' spelled the way it sounds? |
Posted on 09/04/10 08:44:41 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply |
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Thanks Steve and you're absolutely right about the Mt Snowdon reflection. I looked at the image on Tuesday just before I left for London and spotted the error then. Incidentally, a great presentation on Tuesday evening at Foyles - really enlightening and informative. I cannot wait for the book to arrive. Nick |
Posted on 09/04/10 11:15:01 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
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Thank you Steve - I thought your "Step outside posh boy" posters were absolutely hilarious - I hope you are getting a cut from the sale of the T shirts ! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 09/04/10 12:14:29 PM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply  |
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Thank you so much Steve! _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 09/04/10 1:46:31 PM |
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eblyth00
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Re: Challenge 294: April Fool
thanks steve. |
Posted on 09/04/10 8:43:44 PM |
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salfordnurse
Intensive Illustrator Posts: 207 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve!!!! |
Posted on 09/04/10 8:43:46 PM |
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salfordnurse
Intensive Illustrator Posts: 207 Reply |
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Thanks Steve!!!! |
Posted on 10/04/10 7:56:28 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve, I was a little puzzled, having completly forgotton what I wrote in the text. Senior moment._________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
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