
I have to piss about in photoshop for a uni project believe it or not.. my brief is... take a household object and put it into a scene where it represents something else... ie.. cheese grate as a building... dinner plate as bicyle wheel.. etc.. I wanna use a single jointed desk lamp.. i thought of spiders leg and batwing so far.. need inspiration! fire some ideas at me please :)
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 18:53,
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Your thinking-of-ideas-for-your-uni-project bitches?
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 18:57,
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ya got me there...
Umm, "Think about scale." - I dunno, no hummus.
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 19:01,
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Umm, "Think about scale." - I dunno, no hummus.

your "What are we?
Your thinking-of-ideas-for-your-uni-project bitches" bitches?
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 19:48,
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Your thinking-of-ideas-for-your-uni-project bitches" bitches?

How about:
Giant crane at a construction site.
Some sort of moving part of machinery, like the suspension arm of a dirt bike.
The arm on the space shuttle or maybe on a terminator type robot?
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 19:04,
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Giant crane at a construction site.
Some sort of moving part of machinery, like the suspension arm of a dirt bike.
The arm on the space shuttle or maybe on a terminator type robot?

yeh I had thought about a crane.. not funny enough i decided.. yeh... hadnt thought about those space suttle thingos.. thanks..or dirt bikles... ;)
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 19:06,
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How about turning it into a custard pie? Pure comedy gold :)

if you use clever lighting effects.
If you postition it correctly pointing at a part of the shuttle, or even the earth, and then light up that part in photoshop as if the bulb is on.
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 19:35,
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If you postition it correctly pointing at a part of the shuttle, or even the earth, and then light up that part in photoshop as if the bulb is on.

or surfing... Moving the mouse or some such...
It might even quaff of a pipe if necessary.
Run it out of the arm of a T-shirt if the audience can handle that sort of thing, or the more formal sleeve of a tuxedo if the class tends to be stuffy.
Picture the lamp as a person, and put it in any predicament. Normally, lamps cannot bowl well, so you might consider this...
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Tue 29 Apr 2003, 19:33,
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It might even quaff of a pipe if necessary.
Run it out of the arm of a T-shirt if the audience can handle that sort of thing, or the more formal sleeve of a tuxedo if the class tends to be stuffy.
Picture the lamp as a person, and put it in any predicament. Normally, lamps cannot bowl well, so you might consider this...