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Celebrity Cavemen. 20 Famous Folks As Neanderthals.



above: Caveman Willem Dafoe

While most sports fans will be busy watching large men grunt as they play the NFL Championship game tomorrow, I thought I'd introduce you to a different sort of Troglodyte today: the celebrity caveman.

The following images are entries by various computer artists from six different Worth1000 Effects contests in which they were asked to combine Celebrities with Neanderthals using Photoshop and/or other effects software.

Gene Hackman:

George Clooney:

Morgan Freeman:

Tommy Lee Jones:

Hugh Laurie:

Snoop Lion:

Kate Winslet:

Nick Nolte:

Al Pacino:

Sean Connery:

Robert deNiro:

Daniel Craig:

Harrison Ford:

Shakira:

Will Smith:

Jake Gyllenhall:

Tobey Maguire:

Sean Penn:

Danny Trejo:


I chose the above twenty images from six different Celebrity Neanderthal Contests from the past three years on Worth1000, the most recent of which ended about 3 weeks ago. My selection was based on the executions or humor quotient. Several entries were poorly executed, some looked like trolls and still others like zombies. I chose what I personally felt were the 20 most entertaining. Please note: these images have been cropped for better visibility and therefore are missing the Worth1000 watermark.

To see all of the original entries in the contests, visit the following links (there does not seem to be a 4th contest despite the numbered names):
Celebrity Neaderthals 1
Celebrity Neaderthals 2
Celebrity Neaderthals 3
Celebrity Neanderthals 5
Celebrity Neaderthals 6
Celebrity Neaderthals 7

About Worth1000
Worth1000 is the top creative contest site in the world. Every day they run lots of creative competitions of all types, including Effects contests (otherwise known as photochop or photoshop contests), photography contests, illustration contests, writing contests and more forms of multimedia.


Deliciously Different Delft by Artist Magnus Gjoen




London based artist Magnus Gjoen’s embellished objects are all created digitally, he does everything on his Mac. His graphic skills are largely self taught and stem from being a self-confessed “geek.” Gjoen keeps a digital scrapbook where he collects images including “everything from pictures of a urinal wall to a painting at the Pitti Palace.”


above: Magnus at work in his studio

To create these images Magnus first builds a virtual 3D base outlining it in illustrator, he then meticulously shadows and highlights it in Photoshop. The delft porcelain pieces require an even more lengthy process as the original flat etchings need to be layered and blurred in just the right way to give the final effect.

DELFT STAG BEETLE

Limited edition of 50, hand signed and dated porcelain inspired Stag Beetle. A play on the fierce-looking Stag Beetle, which to us humans although frightening is fragile in comparison to us.
Printed with archival ink on 186 gsm enhanced matte art paper.
$320

AK-47 DELFT

details:


A Giclée of the iconic AK-47 made to look like a piece of beautiful fragile porcelain.
An edition of only 50 printed on 308 gsm archival Hahnemule Photorag paper.
Signed and dated.
$1,095.

DELFT SKULL

Limited Edition of 30 Signed and dated by Magnus Gjoen Delft porcelain skull Giclee print on 180gsm art paper.
$480

DELFT SKULL ANGELS OF DARK & LIGHT

A large delft porcelain inspired skull with imagery of angels. Limited edition of 50.
Signed, numbered & dated
Printed with archival ink on a 188gsm Enhanced Matte paper.
$780

DELFT SKULL DESCENT OF AN ANGEL

A delft porcelain inspired skull with neo-classical imagery of angels. Limited edition of 50.
Signed, numbered & dated
Printed with archival ink on a 188gsm Enhanced Matte paper.
$360

DELFT HEART: MY HEART IS YOURS FOREVER

A Delft inspired porcelain heart. Limited edition of 60 Giclee print on 189gsm Enhanced Matte paper
$350

DELFT ROCKET LAUNCHER

Only 3 Artist proofs remaining of this print.
The normal edition of 30 all sold out.
A delft porcelain inspired rocket launcher Giclee on 180gsm Matte art paper.
$750

DELFT GRENADE

Limited Edition of 60 Signed and dated by Magnus Gjoen Delft porcelain Granade Giclee print on 180gsm art paper.
$250

DELFT SOUP CAN: WORRIES GO DOWN BETTER WITH SOUP

A porcelain twist on Warhol's Campbell's Soups.
Signed, dated and numbered limited edition of /100 printed with archival ink on a fine art 186 enhanced matte paper
$160

ORIGINAL SCULPTURE

Magnus Gjoen
Worries Go Down Better With Soup, Sculpture
Size: 3.9 x 5.5 x 3.9 in
$350

Prints No Longer Available:
DELFT SCARAB


DELFT MACHINE GUN


You can see more of his work and/or buy his available prints at SAATCHI- ONLINE
Or you can browse and/or purchase his prints here at Art Republic


About the Artist:

Magnus Gjoen's prints examines how to change peoples relationship and preconceived notions of objects. Something which is potentially extremely destructive can be made into beautiful yet fragile objects of art. It's this misconception of beauty which Magnus Gjoen wants us to see in a different light, being it weapons, animals or the human race itself. The latter which is capable of creating immense beauty but also capable of destroying it all. Taking inspiration from street and pop art and juxtapositioning it with fine art, he creates new and modern takes on old masterpieces or manipulates something powerful and strong into something fragile but beautiful. He often questions the correlation between religion, war, beauty & destruction in his art. Magnus Gjoen was born in London to Norwegian parents and studied design in London and Milan and has worked as a denim designer and graphic designer for Vivienne Westwood amongst others.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Warp Dogs by Benjamin Grelle aka “The Frogman.”




Benjamin Grelle, who goes by the moniker 'The Frogman' on the internet, is the man behind Babies With Laser Eyes, a tumblr site that introduced him to many a viewer.


above: Benjamin Grelle, aka The Frogman, has a sense of humor, some photoshop skills and as he candidly admits on his site, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

A large lovable looking bear of a guy with a penchant for dogs, his latest collection of photoshopped goodness is Warp Dogs. A collection of images of dogs hanging their heads out of car windows - jowls flapping, ears flying - whose backgrounds have been replaced with galaxies viewed at Warp Speed.

Simple and silly, if these images don't make you crack a smile, you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.










and an animated gif:



Check out more fun stuff from The Frogman here.

The Beautifully Ethereal, Surreal Work Of Artist Chiara Fersini aka Himitsuhana.




If Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron, Maxfield Parrish and Mark Ryden had a baby (or spliced their genes together), it would be Chiara Fersini.



The 27 year old Italian visual artist who is also known by the name of her site, Himitsuhana, only recently became interested in photography after a 2007 trip to Japan. A self-proclaimed "lover of photoshop," Chiara transforms her photographs into surreal, ethereal portraits. The sensual and spiritual imagery is full of romance and mystery. In many instances, the photographs look like paintings and several are self-portraits. While her images are reminiscent of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and photography, they have an edge, contemporizing them.



Chiara says her work is more than just a passion for photography and digital manipulation, but reveals her inner emotions and dreams, making them very personal. I'm only glad, she's willing to share them with us. Fiercely copyright protected, I received written permission from Chiara to share the images in this post with you.





















About the artist:


"My aim is to portray every single glance of the human soul and encourage people to dream and never stop believing in dreams."-- Chiara Fersini

Chiara Fersini (b. 1986) took a degree in Foreign Languages, English and Japanese. Since she was a child she was surrounded by art. Her mother, a painter and decorator, handed down to her the love for beauty and encouraged her inclination for visual arts. Her interest for photography is very recent; it started out after a study journey in Japan in 2007 and grew faster and faster coinciding with a falling in love with Photoshop. But photography is not just a passion for Chiara, it is the best way to show that intricate world that she feels inside. She put into her works her fears, dreams, her sorrow and joy and seeing them happening into images is a manner to feel free.

Himitsuhana Photography

The following links contain much of her work and on some, prints can be purchased:
Saatchi Online
Flickr
Red Bubble
Blue Canvas
Carbonmade

all images in this post are ©chiara fersini and may not be reproduced without her permission

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