Bead Me Up Scotty (and a better pic of Snape)

[tripperfunster]

Newest bead creation.
This seriously looks a hundred times better in rl, but I took a ton of pics of it and they all look like crap. Much more photographic in rl. Anyhoo, I'm really happy with it. My brain is still churning around the thought of making something WAY bigger ....




And a better picture of Snape from last week.



Thanks for lookin'!

Comments

[chibinecco.livejournal.com]

The problem's just in the nature of the computer screen and of the medium itself. On a screen, it looks enough like pixels that your mind sees an EXTREMELY pixelated image, where in real life you see the beads for what they are. A way to improve it would be to give it context, lay it out on the desk of in your hands and let us see your fingers. No guarantees there. But his is basically an optical illusion. when something looks "like that" on a computer screen it USUALLY means horrible resolution, the brain's filling in the gaps incorrectly

Science asside, I LOVE these. They're fantastic. You've done a GREAT job with the likeness and the monochrome. I'm TERRIBLE at monochrome usually XP

[shatfat.livejournal.com]

Is this a response to a deleted comment? Why are you dissing on pixelation? Similar techniques are used in 4-color printing. In fact, your eye/brain is doing the same thing, just at an amazingly higher resolution. No image has perfect fidelity, nature of the universe, and digital images have the highest information loss, hence the need for enormous bit storing and transmitting infrastructure to support images with a high degree of verisimilitude. (Not to mention the compression algos and even MORE information loss.)

Pixelation or images made up from an amalgamation of other images is a common technique in 20th century art. It is also the technique used for post-it window displays and wall art (google that some time--it's cool).

Techniques such as mosaic (which originated in antiquity) and pointillism (19th cent) also bear some similarities.

I googled around and found several images of Lincoln head portrait mosaics done in pennies. There are also many portraits of US presidents created digitally from a grid of photographs. I think there are some famous ones from the 80's (now they are trivial to do) but I couldn't find them quickly on Google.

[chibinecco.livejournal.com]

Um... I was commenting on the artist's own observations:
This seriously looks a hundred times better in rl, but I took a ton of pics of it and they all look like crap. Much more photographic in rl. Anyhoo, I'm really happy with it. My brain is still churning around the thought of making something WAY bigger ....

I apologize if I was misunderstood. I intended no offense. I greatly enjoyed the art and was merely making an observation and a suggestion to how the pictures may retain their "rl awesomeness" when photographed. Though, to be honest, they're pretty awesome as is.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (and no, I didn't mis-read your comment, fear not!)

I think what you said is true, but it's also a matter of the beads reflecting the light oddly in a photo, where either they don't in rl, or you brain adjusts for it.

I've actually found that the smaller the image, the more photographic it looks, hence me framing them with a thick black border.

Someone suggested scanning them instead of photographing them. That might work, but I can't find the cord for my scanner. :D