a fishbowl, some water, some food colouring, and a computer monitor. voila!
just to show where this line comes from, for those who weren't sure...
Wish You Were HerePink Floyd, 1975
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.
Statistics
Place: 48 out of 151 Avg (all users): 5.9062 Avg (commenters): 6.5385 Avg (participants): 5.5833 Avg (non-participants): 6.0244 Views since voting: 6838 Views during voting: 401 Votes: 224 Comments: 19 Favorites: 0
You executed the idea beautifully. I so love the blue sky behind the bowl and the upshot really works. I also considered doing this for "our" lyric (rummaged through my brain for all sorts of souls - tissue paper, toile, dye, etc and then finally chickened out and drew them, which definitely had its problems). I would have been very happy to have submitted this.
Decent score and 7 '10's. Well deserved. I think you did and excellent job of illustrating that line. A red and blue Fighting Fish swimming gracefully would really have made this shot awesome, but that's pie in the sky, because it would have messed up your souls.
This is creative and cool. I like the area where the two dyes seem to melt into one. I also like the continuity of the sky running through the whole photo. Great job. 8.
I can see where you're going with this, representing the souls with the randomly dispersing swhorls of ink and I do think it's a clever idea but visually it leaves me feeling something is missing - that it's not quite there. I can't put my finger on why. The sky background is nice too though I'd not use blue as one of the two inks infront of it - perhaps red and green inks would be better?
I like this idea, but I think it would have been more effective with a different backdrop and if you could have seen more of the fishbowl. There are also distracting dots, maybe bubbles, in the foreground and droplets of water inside the top of the bowl.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
