Abraham Lincoln thinks about General Lee

Im sure General Lee was on Lincolns mind quite a bit…

Ol’ Blue Eyes and Negative Lemon

Just a quick little shop that I’m sure has been done to death already.  A young Frank Sinatra before he was Ol’ Blue Eyes.

And if you remember Scurvie, my lime sailor from a few posts ago, here’s what happens when you  can’t sleep, and decide to re-edit old pictures.

At the end of the rainbow…

So, I had to wait until Xmas before I’d be able to blog this.   It was part of a Calendar Wendi put together for one of our friends.  Basically she shot different themes for each month, with our friends son as the subject.  Click on  her link above, or her name in the Blogroll to the right to see her favorite shots for the calendar.   It’s awesome.

Since I love to photoshop things, I was asked to work on March.  Wendi’s idea was to put him in a St. Patricks Day setting.   This was a lot of fun to put together.   There were alot of different layers to this, The pot of gold, the rainbow, the field of clovers (which took about 25 layers to do on it’s own), and finally our subject, Zach.   I think this is one of my best (and favorite) shops to date.

I suppose I’ve been avoiding blogging…

There’s this one picture I want to post here, but I can’t until after Xmas. So, I’ve actually just been staying away from photoshop all together. (I think I’m addicted to the power of photo manipulation. LOL)

Anyway, so, I’ve done a couple that I’ll share…

The first was a picture of a man and a woman, standing on either side of a wall, having a seemingly covert conversation. I didn’t have a clue what I was going to do with this one, but I settled for twilight zoning them.

As I was working on this, which took about half an hour for me to get it to a point where i was satisfied, I was imagining what they might be talking about. I imagined it was the unaired original ending to the Eye of the Beholder episode. The doctor is telling his nurse how he thinks its unfair that people are segregated just because they look different. The nurse is concerned, and frightened by the doctors radical talk, and it going to turn him in to the state police as soon as she gets to a phone.

This next one was just born of a need to photoshop. Spending as little time as I have recently, I was just hungry to do ANYTHING, as long as it was my creation. I was going through some online newspaper’s mugshot page and came across this poor girl who cried herself a racoon face of running eye makeup. I thought, “Sure, she looks sad, upset, but how can I get her to be like…Creepy? Although i wanted to work on this longer, and add alot of very tiny details, I present this as a first draft, or something…I call this one Dead Tears Fall.

I think I’ll call him Scurvie!

Originally this started as a Fark contest with a bright yellow lemon slice.  I sat here and stared at it for a while, and just couldnt come up with anything except an Andy Warhol-esque thing (which may still be coming.)  I figured I’d keep it anyway, and just practice with it.  Next thing I knew, I had a cute little guy sitting there.  I figure if they’d had photoshop back in the 1600′s, this guy could have been part of a vigorous Vitamin C campaign directed at the Pirates and Sailors demographic.  He’d be Scurvie!

Random bit of creativity

It’s said that Man does his best thinking while in the bathroom.   Archimedes made his discovery regarding volume & displacement while in the tub.  So it was when I decided to visit the mens room on my break at work, and came up with this, for whatever its worth.

Used to wear six shooters hung low on the hip

Now its a 5 bar cellular in a plastic belt clip

I figured this could be part of “Wanted Dead or Alive part 2″ or something like that.  Not that I like Bon Jovi or anything…  *smiles*

I wasn’t going to complain on this blog, but…

This just has to be said:

“Spa weekends, retreats, and now billions in bonuses.   What exactly was that 700 Billion dollar taxpayer bailout for again?”

For those about to Rock!

Speaking as a guy, I think every man out there, at one point or another, wants to ROCK! Yes, we’ve been known to air guitar when we think you’re not looking, and tap out our favorite tunes on the steering wheel drums, with imaginary cymbals at 10 and 2 just above the wheel.  We want that spotlight, the masses chanting our name, the chance just once to step into the shoes of the Rock Star.  Man was just born to rock. Hell Yeah.

Here’s the newest unlockable character in Rock Band. Meet Evan the Rocker! He’s got the ‘tude down, check out that sneer! It makes me proud… *sniff*

It’s a Bar Mitzvah Battle of the Bands!

I’m loving photoshopping these photobooth pics. Here are a couple of Evan’s friends.

I may do something else with the 2 kids in with the Village People. Stay Tuned!

I put the Bar in Bar Mitzvah!

My cousin Evan had his Bar Mitzvah the weekend before last. Oy, the boy is now a man…

The Rabbi gave a beautiful Sermon. the songs they sung were wonderful. I felt the love and passion and faith with every note. Evan read from the Torah, they said nearly perfectly, not that I’d have known otherwise. It was very interesting to see the differences (and the similarities) to the Catholic church experience.

My wife was the photographer for both the Ceremony and the “after party”, with her friend running a photo booth. They set up a light colored backdrop and people stand in front and have their photo taken. It’s like a portable studio, kinda. Since there would be a lot of kids, they brought a bunch of props and stuff. Funny hats, fake beards, ect. Well, there’s one shot of Evan, in the “Groucho Glasses”, and I couldnt resist photoshopping it. Photo booths are great for photoshop. You get people clear and crisp on a white background. So nice and easy to edit into different situations. I’ll be playing with some of these photo booth pictures for the next few days. Here is the first one.

Evan Marx