rubber baby duckie chuckie
by clay

Comment by jonathans:
use more red food coloring next time

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by clay:
little pubert will shine through the hate, for he had sexual relations with your mother

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by hokie:
Real bile....hehe

Keep at it clay. Your style is yours man and you definitely go where few others tread. You are the young photographers messiah :-)

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by clay:
one of my first ones was where i threw up some bile for real. but that got old real quick, plus it wasnt very good.

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by hokie:
Ryano, listen.

There is a lot to photography other than shock value. I actually like clay's photo's a lot. He has intensity and I count a lot for that.

I think his flame picture was one of the best I have seen.

That being said, in order to capture the intensity of shock you have to get the tech stuff right to help focus the audience. Plus shock benefits from being spontaneous and not staged. I think its evident by the number of comments that this photo did one of the hardest things and thats grab the audience but lost them because it felt rigged for the shock.

Like pretensious rock like Marylyn Manson sucks but real rock like Rollins Band is intense.

Take that photo of the Vietnamese getting his head blown off. Intense. But if it were staged for a rock album it would have been pretensious. Even if the rock band had actually killed someone in the act! Since it was a photo of a real human tragedy the image was shocking, powerful, provocative, etc..

I guess what I'm saying here is even if this guy got his face punched for the camera just to bleed all over the place ( I once did a photo for an album where the guy drove a nail through his hand..for real) it would take a lot for it not to seem staged and lose its effect.

Overall I like the concept though.

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by clay:
going down the list:

its not overexposed, i adjusted the levels. this is what its generally looked like to me when i throw up in my restroom. except lots of sweat and nothing will come into focus.

yes, i got it all over my camera. i didnt cover it.

my shirt did get pink when i adjusted the mid tone levels. i figured i would settle for that since it made the walls and mirror the way i wanted it.

its ramen noodles and red food coloring, which is still on my toilet.

it was a spur of the moment idea, and it all happened in less than 10 minutes. expect a dead cat in the mail soon, langdon.

the best comment:
karmakiller - 5/5/2002
this is sad.... what is going on? only a score of 1 for you!!!!!

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by AnAUTiger:
Shouldnt this one have been entered in stop motion?

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Comment by langdon:
I hope you didn't spend too much time on this.

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by karmakiller:
this is sad.... what is going on? only a score of 1 for you!!!!!

rubber baby duckie chuckie
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Comment by SBeach3999:
Very, very unique!