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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Levitation









Performance artist Johan Lorbeer's looking down smiling, knowing he's driving me nuts.  After long and careful deliberation, I can find but two possibilities. 
  1. He doesn't look anything like Jesus, right? 
  2. That leaves us with the rollover.

Have something more plausable? 









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5 comments:

  1. BlogDog4/4/12, 6:43 PM

    Thinks he's Christopher Walken in "Weapon of Choice."

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  2. Kristophr4/4/12, 6:46 PM

    Yes. It's the old scaffolding trick.

    His "shoes" are the lowest part of the scaffold, and you can see the section that goes to his heels is printing through his pants.

    His real left hand is in his pants pocket.

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  3. DougM4/4/12, 7:14 PM

    PhotoShop1:
    Stand on something, take pic, erase the stand.
    Guy and stand go away, bring in ground crowd, take pic. Meld. (His soles and right outside ankle look iffy.)
    PhotoShop2:
    Paste in a pic of a guy. Darken the left-hand/arm shadows.
    Well, that's how I'd do it.
    In any case, I wouldn't try to put a strut through that narrow arm. I'd make a big strut from the rear. Yeah, you gotta pay an audience to play along. How do you think illusionists disappear big stuff?
    PhotoShop's cheaper... but not by much.

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  4. Cracker Barrel Philosopher4/4/12, 11:29 PM

    See http://www.myinterestingfiles.com/images/2008/05/street_performer_johan_lorbeer_10.jpg

    at http://www.myinterestingfiles.com/2008/05/johan-lorbeers-still-life-performances.html

    You nailed it O Great King, but note that the support hand is fake.

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  5. DougT4/5/12, 12:13 AM

    He's actually standing on the shoulders of a young African-American male in a hoodie who is, by definition, invisible to you whiteys until he wanders into your neighborhood, at which point you notice him and shoot him for no reason.

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