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Aloft02
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
Fetal!! 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0
Fetal!! 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0
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Jaana
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
Rgirl, that sounds perfect, and the URL is a very good idea! Great that you will email him.
Marjaana
Rgirl, that sounds perfect, and the URL is a very good idea! Great that you will email him.
Marjaana
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rgirl181
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
"Kulik for the Birds" is winging it's way to IK via e-mail and snail mail as we speak. My guess is that either IK will get a chuckle out of it or decide I am a stalker:lol:
Rgirl
"Kulik for the Birds" is winging it's way to IK via e-mail and snail mail as we speak. My guess is that either IK will get a chuckle out of it or decide I am a stalker:lol:
Rgirl
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Jaana
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
Rgirl, of those two choices, I would believe on the chuckle, LOL...
Marjaana
Rgirl, of those two choices, I would believe on the chuckle, LOL...
Marjaana
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FetalAttraction
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
The best I'm hoping for is that Kulik gets inspired by my wallpaper and creates a routine to the music from "For the Birds." Hmm, I wonder how he'll portray the final splat.
The best I'm hoping for is that Kulik gets inspired by my wallpaper and creates a routine to the music from "For the Birds." Hmm, I wonder how he'll portray the final splat.
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rgirl181
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
Fetal, ITA! It's almost too much too hope for, but I'm going to wear my lucky panties; stand on my head; and wear my ruby sneakers and click the heels together three times while saying, "There's no skater like Kulik, there's no skater like Kulik..." Hopefully my magical thinking will do the trick!
Rgirl
Fetal, ITA! It's almost too much too hope for, but I'm going to wear my lucky panties; stand on my head; and wear my ruby sneakers and click the heels together three times while saying, "There's no skater like Kulik, there's no skater like Kulik..." Hopefully my magical thinking will do the trick!
Rgirl
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Grgranny
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
RGirl, good thing it isn't in Kansas or you'd be ducking a tornado.
RGirl, good thing it isn't in Kansas or you'd be ducking a tornado.
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rgirl181
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Re: Kulik For The Birds (Ilia Kulik wallpaper I made)
Too true, Granny. Being in NY, I'll only be ducking out-of-control cabs:smokin:
Rgirl
Too true, Granny. Being in NY, I'll only be ducking out-of-control cabs:smokin:
Rgirl
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FetalAttraction
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Behind the Scenes at Fetal's Lab
I've had like two people ask me how I make my wallpapers, so I thought I'd explain with this one, 'cause the Kulik one is a bit more complicated.
Here are the three images I started out with, keep in mind I shrunk them all down immensely and not to scale to give you an idea what they looked like (the cloud one was even bigger than the wallpaper, so I had to do the shrinking):
<img src="http://jesusmuseum.com/02mb.jpg" style="border:0;"/><img src="http://jesusmuseum.com/landing_1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><img src="http://jesusmuseum.com/clouds1659.jpg" style="border:0;"/>
Perhaps the trickiest part to my wallpapers is finding the right images. First, I have to find an image of the skater I like. I have several requirements: A) It must inspire me in some intangible way. B) There must be a striking facial expression. C) There must be a feel of being in motion. D) The resolution must be high enough. E) The costume has to look decent (I can't work with ugly costumes, it just bugs me). This is the real crucial part, everything else comes afterwards.
Then I develope a concept. When I looked at Kulik's picture, something reminded me of the big goofy bird in "For the Birds," I just saw in my head a picture of the snooty birds glaring at him. To realize that, I found a decent pictures of El Snooty Birdies from the Pixar (studio who made the film) website. Then I settled on one cloud picture to use as the background.
This is where the work begins. I begin by very carefully working on Kulik's image, I cut out all the bits not of his body. Then I isolate the birdies in the same way, with the additional twist that I had to erase the big goofy bird and fill in the wires plus missing snooty bird parts. Then I copy and paste both those images onto the big cloud image. I didn't like how the colors looked in the clouds, so I tampered with that and shifted the picture around to get the perfect puffs in place. Then I put Kulik on top of the birds, and deleted just the right parts in both the bird picture and the Kulik picture to make it look like he was standing on the wire. The last part is extending the wires. Which I admit I could've done a better job with, if you look closely there are minor flaws, but I did this early morning and I'd already posted it when I noticed the mistakes. I could fix 'em but I decided not to be so obsessive. The last and final part is saving the wallpaper and posting it, and voila!
I've had like two people ask me how I make my wallpapers, so I thought I'd explain with this one, 'cause the Kulik one is a bit more complicated.
Here are the three images I started out with, keep in mind I shrunk them all down immensely and not to scale to give you an idea what they looked like (the cloud one was even bigger than the wallpaper, so I had to do the shrinking):
<img src="http://jesusmuseum.com/02mb.jpg" style="border:0;"/><img src="http://jesusmuseum.com/landing_1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><img src="http://jesusmuseum.com/clouds1659.jpg" style="border:0;"/>
Perhaps the trickiest part to my wallpapers is finding the right images. First, I have to find an image of the skater I like. I have several requirements: A) It must inspire me in some intangible way. B) There must be a striking facial expression. C) There must be a feel of being in motion. D) The resolution must be high enough. E) The costume has to look decent (I can't work with ugly costumes, it just bugs me). This is the real crucial part, everything else comes afterwards.
Then I develope a concept. When I looked at Kulik's picture, something reminded me of the big goofy bird in "For the Birds," I just saw in my head a picture of the snooty birds glaring at him. To realize that, I found a decent pictures of El Snooty Birdies from the Pixar (studio who made the film) website. Then I settled on one cloud picture to use as the background.
This is where the work begins. I begin by very carefully working on Kulik's image, I cut out all the bits not of his body. Then I isolate the birdies in the same way, with the additional twist that I had to erase the big goofy bird and fill in the wires plus missing snooty bird parts. Then I copy and paste both those images onto the big cloud image. I didn't like how the colors looked in the clouds, so I tampered with that and shifted the picture around to get the perfect puffs in place. Then I put Kulik on top of the birds, and deleted just the right parts in both the bird picture and the Kulik picture to make it look like he was standing on the wire. The last part is extending the wires. Which I admit I could've done a better job with, if you look closely there are minor flaws, but I did this early morning and I'd already posted it when I noticed the mistakes. I could fix 'em but I decided not to be so obsessive. The last and final part is saving the wallpaper and posting it, and voila!
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Jaana
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Re: Behind the Scenes at Fetal's Lab
Thanks for explaining how you did this wallpaper. LOL, there sure everything clicks together so perfectly, and Ilia´s facial expression WOW...
Marjaana
Thanks for explaining how you did this wallpaper. LOL, there sure everything clicks together so perfectly, and Ilia´s facial expression WOW...
Marjaana
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rgirl181
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Re: The Master at Work
Thanks, Fetal. Kewl. A Master class from the Master. I started doing collage in 1968 the old-fashioned way. One of these days I'm going to have to get proficient in Adobe Photo Shop. At least this is a start.
Rgirl
Thanks, Fetal. Kewl. A Master class from the Master. I started doing collage in 1968 the old-fashioned way. One of these days I'm going to have to get proficient in Adobe Photo Shop. At least this is a start.
Rgirl