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03/10/2005 11:39:32 AM · #1
Originally posted by scalvert:

The doctor says I can have a lollipop if I win. ;-)


Here's a sucker for yah! Oh, and it's surreal too!

(The image is from nataliedee.com....not the most kid/family friendly place, but fun for those of us who can stand some swearing on occasion.)
03/09/2005 08:58:24 PM · #2
Originally posted by CeeDeez:

my definition of surreal is a challenge graphicfunk and scalvert could ribbon...if they entered!


I am just appalled that you think I might have the sort of bizarre, twisted imagination required for such a challenge! What kind of lunatic do you take me for?

The doctor says I can have a lollipop if I win. ;-)

Message edited by author 2005-03-09 21:02:51.
03/09/2005 08:55:45 PM · #3
my definition of surreal is a challenge graphicfunk and scalvert could ribbon...if they entered!
03/09/2005 08:46:29 PM · #4
We had similar forum threads for the Impressionism challenge. As all art forms are subjective, the only definition that really matters is your own.
03/09/2005 08:17:43 PM · #5
Originally posted by mhommel:

I think that "Drink the Bong Water" is a good idea for a challenge in itself. Heck the movie "Tommy" made money as did "Pink Floyd The Wall". No offense to the fans, I am just saying...WTF!!!


I take it you've never seen them on hallucinogenics? ;)

Dahkota
03/09/2005 08:02:40 PM · #6
Originally posted by phreakon:

I suppose after drinking the bong water, everything will seem surreal anyway. Go ahead with those 10's.


errr that was sort of the implied point
03/09/2005 08:02:16 PM · #7
Manray said in working his sculptures, he just kept manipulating until he was pleased with the form. Then, and not before then, he identified the form and named it. I was pleased as that was exactly the process I employed in this challenge. In fact, I spent a day after I had completed my picture going through the same process with titles for the picture.

Not to worry. Not too many have been pleased with title or picture. I am currently around 4.3 and dropping. The three comments I have received variously liked 1) the title, 2) the picture, and 3) the thing I liked about the picture and caused me to stop working on it. That last comment has made the challenge for me.

A funny thing. I have only been named a favorite once and that was for my worst ranked photo which was named as a favorite by three people. Again, this did not happen with my higher ranked photos. The picture I submitted for the surrealist challenge still has a way to go, but if enough of you continue to believe that your concept of surrealism is the only possible concept of surrealism, I may actually get to the bottom. Perhaps that is my path to recognition. I do advise all of you though to read how my photo was produced after the contest, no matter where it places. The technique is capable of unusual and powerful images and I have never seen it discussed anywhere.
03/09/2005 07:51:08 PM · #8
Originally posted by jmritz:

Let me try to explain my definition of Surreal in relation to everyday life. I can walk down the street at any given time and will happen upon something that strikes me as surreal. It can be as simple as a piece of paper flying into the air and hovering for an unlikely long period of time as if it were alive just dancing around before me. Maybe the light is just right and with reflections and shadows I get that feeling that things are not real, they appear surreal.
I can look at a picture of a cow smoking a pipe with bricks for teeth and small flowers with tongues sticking out flying around like the Blue Angles and I do not get that feeling of Surrealism. Just sticking a bunch of stuff together and naming it something is meaningless. The definition of something is not the something; it is just a bunch of words with no meaning.
My 2 cents.


I'd say, your two cents are worth a buck, each.
03/09/2005 07:40:08 PM · #9
Let me try to explain my definition of Surreal in relation to everyday life. I can walk down the street at any given time and will happen upon something that strikes me as surreal. It can be as simple as a piece of paper flying into the air and hovering for an unlikely long period of time as if it were alive just dancing around before me. Maybe the light is just right and with reflections and shadows I get that feeling that things are not real, they appear surreal.
I can look at a picture of a cow smoking a pipe with bricks for teeth and small flowers with tongues sticking out flying around like the Blue Angles and I do not get that feeling of Surrealism. Just sticking a bunch of stuff together and naming it something is meaningless. The definition of something is not the something; it is just a bunch of words with no meaning.
My 2 cents.
03/09/2005 07:26:52 PM · #10
I think that "Drink the Bong Water" is a good idea for a challenge in itself. Heck the movie "Tommy" made money as did "Pink Floyd The Wall". No offense to the fans, I am just saying...WTF!!!
03/09/2005 06:29:47 PM · #11
I suppose after drinking the bong water, everything will seem surreal anyway. Go ahead with those 10's.
03/09/2005 06:26:08 PM · #12
I'm gonna drink some bong water then give all the entries a 10.
03/09/2005 06:25:53 PM · #13
And they would have all been produced by logic.
03/09/2005 06:18:43 PM · #14
If they would have just titled that as the challenge, most entries would have been spot on.
03/09/2005 06:16:18 PM · #15
Why don't we have a challenge for juxtaposing unlikely objects?
03/09/2005 06:09:05 PM · #16
I got it "bod-sledding". Tricky and clever idea, and a very interesting photo. Not surreal though. Its not too far off, and again closer than a lot of challenge submissions, but it is lacking "The ID" It lacks that freudian something. I guess you could stretch the ideas in that photo to consider it, but again, it would be stretching it.
03/09/2005 06:03:30 PM · #17
Originally posted by phreakon:

To zeuszen:

you're closer than a lot of submissions for the challenge, but not quite there yet. The picture of the childs face is the closest. Take for example your sled picture. Put a donkey on top of one sled, and a desk lamp on the other. In between the two, place a bowl of fruit and some bricks. Use your imagination! "Unnatural juxtoposition". Sleds are natural. What would be the most obscure thing you could put in that pile of snow, that relates to the subconscious mind. If you were dreaming of walking by two sleds, they most likely wouldn't be two normal sleds sitting there right? In a dream you may see the sled as gigantic, or vivid color, where other objects are not so bright.


The 'sled' image is indigo997's, not mine. Did you examine the nature of the surface on which the 'sleds' were placed?
03/09/2005 06:01:59 PM · #18
that's not snow. Look a little closer.
03/09/2005 05:57:59 PM · #19
To zeuszen:

you're closer than a lot of submissions for the challenge, but not quite there yet. The picture of the childs face is the closest. Take for example your sled picture. Put a donkey on top of one sled, and a desk lamp on the other. In between the two, place a bowl of fruit and some bricks. Use your imagination! "Unnatural juxtoposition". Sleds are natural. What would be the most obscure thing you could put in that pile of snow, that relates to the subconscious mind. If you were dreaming of walking by two sleds, they most likely wouldn't be two normal sleds sitting there right? In a dream you may see the sled as gigantic, or vivid color, where other objects are not so bright.
03/09/2005 05:42:40 PM · #20
I don't know why, but I find surrealism so depressing. (Still gonna vote and the more depressed I get the higher scores I will give. LOL :)
03/09/2005 05:26:20 PM · #21
When I think of surrial i think of soemthing "not possible", for example the paintings of Salvador Dali
03/09/2005 05:24:40 PM · #22
I've looked around a bit and found these photos, all of which, to me, have a strong surreality about them. I've also included some of my own, at the tail end of it:

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03/09/2005 05:17:11 PM · #23
You guys are doing a good job on this thread. I'll sit it out and rest my pontificator for another topic. Clap Clap! Definite shortage of the "truly" surreal in this challenge. Lots of strange stuff though. And of course, a fair sprinkling of very nice, definitely surreal, images.

Robt.
03/09/2005 04:55:27 PM · #24
Very few people got it. Very few.

I agree I saw a lot of Serene images but not Surreal. Another Justaposition
that fits is the real next to the unreal. Trees are real, warped melted clocks
are not. Granted there's a lot more to Dali than I have stated there.
03/09/2005 04:55:21 PM · #25
ah... that definition gets a 10..thanks
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