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Posted on 10/07/19 11:20:09 AM

josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 763: Saving the planet

DavidMac wrote:

josephine harvatt wrote:
And here is the second

And both close on brief.

By way of a change

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Posted on 11/07/19 00:52:37 AM

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Ball Street

Posted on 11/07/19 00:58:06 AM

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Too Little Too Late

Posted on 11/07/19 1:25:21 PM

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Re: Challenge 763: Saving the planet

Eva I love your work: it encapsulates--perfectly--the refined aesthetics and artistic merits of your work. The site owner is going to like this one! It's the Gold Star for you

WARNING: this animation may take 10 to 15 secs to open and scroll correctly.

There's gold in them thar hills: black gold! from which wonderous materials like plastic are made; plastics that are designed to last and last, and last...

The animation also represents an "earthquake" somewhere in California.

Posted on 12/07/19 02:49:24 AM

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Posted on 12/07/19 02:50:57 AM

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I had food poisoning for three days so I didn't do what I had originally planned.

Well, it is circular. See the animation for more information: http://vimeo.com/347650556

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Posted on 12/07/19 08:29:47 AM

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Cheers, Michael. I think it looks refined because I used high res images...

Posted on 12/07/19 08:36:03 AM

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Re: Challenge 763: Saving the planet

First to attempt to save the planet this week was Ben Mills, with a novel take on population control. Polar Coordinates - a clever way to spin that crowd around. good idea. The text is hard to read, though; I wonder if that extreme distortion works as well as it should.

A couple of spherized montages from lwc, featuring the “bad guys” - jets, cars, McDonalds - up against healthy outdoor living. But marshmallows? Not sure about those!

A tiny planet from GKB, with a very effective village scene in the middle (I suspect it’s Ditchling). I like the distorted planes. Entertaining motion in the animated version.

A political message from Ant Snell - nothing to do with global warming, for sure, but a nice take on a global problem.

More politics from DavidMac, with a planet-sized trump consuming the population. A great mixture of textures, and a very evocative piece of work.

I like the way that Josephine Harvatt’s first image is so neatly balanced with the second - a very effective pairing. Not sure painting the lounger brown makes it look like it’s wood, but the message is strong and clear. Very much on-brief, and well executed.

A splendid explosion of vegetables from Eva Roth, with an image that has real exuberance. Personally, I’d have let the leaves and splashes break outside the circle for a more dramatic effect.

A host of messages in Frank's packed entry, with good and bad jostling against each other. It might have been clearer if you’d separated the good and bad into opposite halves of the globe; there’s a lot of powerful imagery here, but it’s a little hard to tell which side some of it’s on.

Spherized banking from Mariner, with the buildings towering over us and engulfing the planet: a neat contrast with the second entry, which has Wall Street sinking beneath a Florida swamp. Those Red Cross flags are a very neat addition. I like the lichen on the street sign.

A dramatic animation from michael sinclair, featuring a vintage oil derrick. The shaking ground is especially effective. I think it might have been more striking without the moving clouds though, which to me are something of a distraction.

A graphic entry from srawland, whose solution to the Irish Question is to delete it entirely. (Along with Iceland, Crete, Sicily, Norway and many others.) A clever animated version, with sticky cakes spinning into vegetables - and a great soundtrack, as always.

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Posted on 12/07/19 09:36:14 AM

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Thanks Steve. Please don't give us any more circular stuff - it's far too challenging!

Posted on 12/07/19 09:46:05 AM

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Re: Challenge 763: Saving the planet

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More politics from DavidMac, with a planet-sized trump consuming the population. A great mixture of textures, and a very evocative piece of work.

To be honest it was a cop out Steve. I really couldn't get my head around the real brief. Done on a bad day in a pessimistic mood ......

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Posted on 12/07/19 10:34:18 AM

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Thank you Steve - I had planned to substitute a wooden chair but perhaps unsurprisingly couldn't find one at the right angle - I would have tried to grain the "wood" but sadly ran out of time

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Posted on 12/07/19 11:23:53 AM

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