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Posted on 21/11/12 09:34:21 AM |
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tomiloi
Créateur de Caverne Posts: 87 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
You are all some joke munster. It's been very roquefort 'n roll.  _________________ This is only Love |
Posted on 21/11/12 09:40:29 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
These puns are driving me crackers  _________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana |
Posted on 21/11/12 09:53:15 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
I must stop now and get back to my day job as a clown in the circus; I have to put my other stilton. 
_________________ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana |
Posted on 21/11/12 10:15:46 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
I'll bedamned.......you gouda bleu me awhey with all the cheesy puns! Gordon, your cheese and chips look good enough to eat! _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 21/11/12 10:28:12 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Thank you Joey. They are, of course, HoTCHIPs with cheese. You are up late - is all this cheese keeping you awake? _________________ You're never too old to learn something stupid. |
Posted on 21/11/12 11:34:18 AM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1770 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
An exterminator is promised gold to rid the town of cheese stealing rats and mice, if you love your children I recommend you pay up afterwards (so goes the story).  |
Posted on 21/11/12 1:38:21 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3126 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
I tried to make a cheesy pun, but I just made a hash of it.  |
Posted on 21/11/12 1:40:21 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Russell Brand going for a pot luck supper I see _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/11/12 7:26:48 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
"Quite frankly my dear, I don't give edam", spoken by Feta Butler. Sorry, Gordon seems to have done most of the cheeses! |
Posted on 21/11/12 10:05:30 PM |
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Garfield72
Montage Manceau Posts: 353 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
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Posted on 22/11/12 1:30:50 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Sorry no shadows, due to loss of layers. some arm movement also. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/cheesehouse.gif |
Posted on 22/11/12 5:11:44 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
The Michelin Man takes a part-time job.  _________________ The journey of a thousand hours begins with a single layer. |
Posted on 22/11/12 5:15:34 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Let's not forget America's contribution to a cheesy world: Cheese that squirts out of a can!  
Can we get that in brie flavor? _________________ I aim to give pause. |
Posted on 22/11/12 8:06:53 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
PS: invade of the Blue Cheese which I like
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Posted on 23/11/12 08:54:43 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
First into the cheese shop this week was tomiloi, who has converted into a French boutique - an expert conversion, the perspective of the new cases perfectly matching the angle of the original. Most effective! I like the new signs, especially the rustic lettering over the windows. But do be careful not to use unworldly colours: the panel behind vente au détail is not a green that could be printed on a sign. I’m guessing from Ant Snell’s entry that cheese carving as an occupation really does exist - good grief! I’m amazed. I like the ideas here, but be careful not to put people in impossible positions: the man in the foreground has no room for his legs. I like the shading on the banner, but it really needs to go over the lettering as well: merge the text layer down before adding the shadows. A closed-up shop from the forum’s only current Dutch resident, Sjef - is that really how Amsterdam’s tourist district appears at night? I like the sole tuba player, who does seem a little forlorn standing all by himself. Great graffiti! I initially thought there was something distinctly Spanish about James’ entertaining cheese-sledgers - but there they are, featuring (and only just visible) on the existing sign for the shop. Well tracked down! A great new window display, too. Most convincing. But I keep waiting for an eagle to fly in and steal one of the cheeses... aha! There's the animated version, several days later! Magnificent! When you talk about losing arm movements, though, remember that - since you're using a Mac - you can always use Time Machine to retrieve an earlier version of the file, if you accidentally flatten it. I was most amused by GKB's rodent cheese rustlers, with a convincingly smashed window - I like the steps made of edam that he’s climbing up, and all the other details - the cat police officer waiting by the mousetrap (wearing cheese boots?), the no-mice sign, the warning poster, the swag bag, and the artfully reproduced lettering over the windows. Just one point: assuming the Wanted poster has yellowed with age (or possibly through proximity to so much cheese), the photograph should be set to Multiply so that we see the yellow of the background through it; the whites are too bright as they stand. And, similarly, the black of the photograph should be no darker than the lettering: 
I did enjoy the song, though. At least as much of it as I could bring myself to watch. I thought you might have appended your initials to that electrical junction box outside though. And I do like the HotChiPs in the second entry! A splendid image from Ben Mills, with Wallace and Gromit neatly inserted into the cheese shop - their colouring does mean that they fit remarkably well in there. A great position for their van, and a good selection of cheese and cracker posters in the window. And a very fine new sign! I never really saw myself in the David Hasselhof role, but sciteach's entry made me think again. On second thoughts... that cheese does look very smelly... and I do wonder about the health and safety aspect of the kids diving into it (although, fortunately, it seems solid enough not to swallow them up). Artfully altered lettering on the sign turns the shop into a swimming pool - a nice detail! An interesting entry from Linda Eckert, who has replaced the entire cheese shop with a far more entertaining toy store. Very well achieved, with shadows from the woman and her push chair on the original ground, and the angles matching perfectly. All that’s needed now is to take out all those toys and replace them with cheese... A rather splendid conversion of the shop into an up market cheese café from tooquilos, with very attractive stained glass windows - and I like the way we can still see the original shop contents through them. A raucous animated version - I had no idea there had been a heavy metal version of Puff the Magic Dragon! Don’t know how you managed to track down a man dressed as cheese. A neat paint job from Josephine Harvatt, all hinging on the pun on C'est Cheese (and not forgetting the many cheese-related puns that followed). I like the way the stripes follow the contours of the building's façade - nicely achieved! A classical makeover from Deborah Morley, with new lettering both on the door and the sign, and a tempting display of interesting cheeses. Perhaps a slight reflection of the people in the window would help to make the glass more glassy? Although that would mean seeing them from the front... A great new interior from joeysala, with a splendid assortment of cheeses (although those are certainly a sinister pair of customers). A great new sign, and I especially like the way the new doorway and step have been artfully constructed - but wouldn't the door have glass panels? A subtle and effective piece of work. A clever Pied Piper reference from Frank, with a great assortment of rats and mice arranged on the ground outside and, incredibly, standing most convincingly in the windows - very nice work! Just change the name on the sign from Amsterdam to Hamelin and it will be perfect. Looks like Mariner has experienced the non-cheesy side of Amsterdam - and, indeed, such coffee shops were everywhere. Great signs and banners, and a fine name for the café! The man outside, though- Russell Brand? - is lit on a much sunnier day than this - although your addition of the shadow on the pavement does go some way towards making the sun shine. To complete the effect, warm up the brickwork a little. A terrific makeover from Garfield72, with new signage, posters in the window, and lights over the windows. In fact the only thing you haven't done is to change the actual cheese inside, which remains resolutely Dutch despite the new French branding. Zut alors! Il n'y a aucun Brie ou Camembert? A simple but remarkably effective image from brewell. What impresses me particularly is not just the recolouring of the Michelin Man (or Bibendum, to give him his real name) but the way you've given him a waxy, distinctly cheesy finish. I really don't know how you achieved this. Subtlety indeed! One thing that's not even remotely subtle, however, is your Easy Cheese can. Urgh! Seriously? People eat this stuff? A typically off-message entry from Jota120, who has turned the whole building into a giant blue cheese - and very effective it is, too, although the shading seems a little extreme. Now if only you could change the cheeses inside the window as well... A lot of fun this week. I ricotta say, it's no mean feta. Now will someone please shut that bloody bouzouki up. |
Posted on 23/11/12 09:05:30 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Thanks Steve. The cat and the mouse, being Dutch, are, of course, both wearing clogs. By the way did you know that edam is the only cheese that's made backwards? _________________ You're never too old to learn something stupid. |
Posted on 23/11/12 09:07:29 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Steve, you said.."but wouldn't the door have glass panels?". Absolutely, but for the life of me I couldn't get the interior (behind the door) to look even remotely believeable, and so.............. BYW, I love your parting comment! _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 23/11/12 10:07:59 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3126 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Thanks, Steve. Point taken. Bet you didn't buy any cheese. |
Posted on 23/11/12 11:06:11 AM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
I hope I made it look easy, but I picked out a few of these cheeses and mapped them onto Bibendum(is that his name or his latin classification?) As far as "Easy Cheese" goes, Americans will eat anything if it's fast, convenient and has the right marketing behind it.  _________________ Is it necessary? Does it work? |
Posted on 23/11/12 11:28:12 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply |
Re: Challenge 429: The house of cheese
Come on, Bruce.....SOME Americans! _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
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