> > From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/06/29 Thu AM 06:27:33 GMT > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: RE: Cartoon effect > > they remind me quite a lot of a certain type of poster I've often seen > on the walls of African cafes and bars. I don't know where these > posters come from, or how to describe them in such a way that I can > google some examples. But they are composites of somebody's fantasy of > an ideal landscape. Typically they have some fresh Alpine mountains in > the background, with snow against a blue sky. This becomes a spring > wildflower meadow containing apple & pear trees in fruit (autumn!) > leading down to a tropical beach with palms, coconuts, pineapples etc. > Somewhere in the middle distance is an ultramodern city of tall glass > and steel buildings but no roads leading in or out. Everything looks > almost plausible taken in isolation, but the landscape must be on a > planet with several suns, to judge by the shadows and light. They are > horrifically fascinating. The surfaces, just like the surfaces in the > landscapes I linked to, look untouchable in the way that CGI surfaces > (used to?) look, and the colours are bright and oversaturated in the > most unnatural way, as if they're straight out of a chemical plant. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob
You can sometimes see similar things in restaurants of allegedly far eastern countries. With the added bonus of animated waterfalls.......... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > > Sent: 29 June 2006 07:22 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: Cartoon effect > > > > Actually they're not that bad if you don't view them as photographs. > > > They looked to me like some 1930's maybe 1940's calendar art. > > The fact > > that they are photographs just shows that the photographer > > didn't think > > his work would stand on it's own. > > > think > > >>that's happened to me before looking at photos: > > >>http://www.jturnerphotography.com/ > > >> > > >>These seem to me to be at least as devoid of taste as the Stepford > > >>women. Are these perhaps Stepford landscapes? > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
