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post #1 of 25
8/27/02 at 12:17am
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Here is a link to a photo I did a while back.

You can also vote for it if you feel like it.

Mine is called Trap. It has the face with the grip suffocting.
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post #2 of 25
8/27/02 at 12:20am
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<a href="http://www.broenink-art.nl/duel/horrorduelPHOTO.html" target="_blank">http://www.broenink-art.nl/duel/horrorduelPHOTO.html</a>

woops
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post #3 of 25
8/27/02 at 2:10pm
I voted for the other one.

Sorry, not much into your collage. Maybe if it was grittier and less defined.
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post #4 of 25
8/27/02 at 2:54pm
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Well I'm always open to negative feedback but you're saying it should be grittier and less defined?
Did you even fucking look at the photograph?

It's blurred out of focus - how's that for less defined
and it's got specks of dust and scratch marks on the surface of the phtograph- how's that for gritty?

What are you even basing your criticism on?

By the way it's not a collage it's a photograph taken with the aperature exposed to allow the light in the background to create the repeated pattern effect.

jesus fucking christ
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post #5 of 25
8/27/02 at 3:00pm
Sorry, I thought your's was the digital manip.

The grave stone picture is cool.
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post #6 of 25
8/27/02 at 3:04pm
Wait, after reading your first post. No, I don't like it. And I don't take back what I said either.
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post #7 of 25
8/27/02 at 4:05pm
I like the gravestone pic better too, though neither of them are particularly "horrific". Trap is disorienting and the other's just a graveyard. And if you can't take criticism then don't open yourself up to it.
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post #8 of 25
8/27/02 at 5:52pm
I think your photo is pretty cool, cabal. Looks like a Butthole Surfers album cover.
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post #9 of 25
8/27/02 at 6:13pm
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Thanks Zman.
I've been in art school for the past three years so I can more than take criticism. I can take it like a bear can take an infant from a crib. I did this photo about 8 years ago but I'm still partial to it. Nevermind the fact that I'm not a photographer. I accept that everyone has their own opinion. I was just miffed at getting criticized for lacking elements that were more than ample in my image. But hey it's ok.

Hey Brian. Why is your website titled fantasticrealms.com? Your website revolves around your obsession with work out programs, your diet, and cars.

Uhhhh....
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post #10 of 25
8/27/02 at 6:27pm
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Thanks Surgeon... that's what I was thinking. It really doesn't make any difference one way or the other but I'd like to think mine is a little more original than a goddamn tourist shot of a friggin graveyard.
That "Duel" website is kind of lame anyway. It's all about the wenches n swordsmen eatin chickin and jousting f ing rooster squaw and what not.

It's interesting seeing your stuff getting voted for or against though.
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post #11 of 25
8/27/02 at 6:35pm
Hey. You can't take that I didn't like your picture, fine. But when you ask for opinions on your photo, that is what you got.

Do I care what you think about my site? Its your opinion and your entitled to that. Just don't go taking out my rejection of your photo on my site.

What I said about you're picture is that it looks like a collage, a digital manip collage. What I was saying about being grittier, I meant. And about being less defined, I meant. I didn't like it, and even if you changed those elements, I probably still wouldn't like it.
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post #12 of 25
8/27/02 at 6:53pm
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cabal:
I've been in art school for the past three years so I can more than take criticism. I can take it like a bear can take an infant from a crib. I did this photo about 8 years ago but I'm still partial to it. Nevermind the fact that I'm not a photographer. I accept that everyone has their own opinion. I was just miffed at getting criticized for lacking elements that were more than ample in my image. But hey it's ok.

Hey Brian. Why is your website titled fantasticrealms.com? Your website revolves around your obsession with work out programs, your diet, and cars.

Uhhhh....
"like a bear can take an infant from a crib" - clumsily and messily?

And nice to attack a brother's website when he didn't ask you for your opinion (which as he said you are entitled to). While you did ask him for his.
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post #13 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:04pm
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No, I can take that you don't like my pic. I was just griping about the reasoning behind your critique. Am I not allowed to stand up for my art? Should I just let you shit on it and say more please? NO. I'll gladly accept negative feedback but I have the right to respond. But what this boils down to is a difference of taste. You don't like the photograph. Hooray! Guess what? I like apple pie and you hate apple pie. So what?

Anyway the reason I was asking about your website is that a random stranger might decide to type in fantasticrealms.com expecting something a little more... ehm. fantastic then your work out programs and race car pics. so ... back to the question... why did you pick that domain name? It's slightly misleading.
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post #14 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:07pm
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capteucalyptus....quite trolling.
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post #15 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:38pm
cabal, because its a work in progress, and something that needs to be re-designed.

Its going to be a spot for a short stories I have written, etc. The pics and stuff are personal items and need to be moved to my personal pages.

The site is long overdue for needing work. Most of the content is an offshoot of another domain that I moved over to this one.
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post #16 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:45pm
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Oh ok.
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post #17 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:51pm
I don't really see either of them really being that much horror. I guess that it is their dark natures but that doesn't classify it as horror for me. I do think that yours does show potential though. I do alot of photography that I manipulate with the computer. They are almost all horror related. Here is an example of some of my horror photo/ computer work: <img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid13/paba71694fc8c0bc0e37205a0e938fc89/fdd7338a.jpg" alt="" />
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post #18 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:52pm
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I see you're a fan of Douglas Adams. I attended a lecture at Butler University last year that had Ray Bradbury and Douglas Adams. It was great getting to see Adams narrate one of his short stories live on stage. I can't recall exactly but it involved a single small robot being left to guard a planet from an oncoming enemy. It's ironic that between the two Adams would go first. Bradbury looked in pretty bad shape on stage.
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post #19 of 25
8/27/02 at 7:54pm
I honestly don't have any idea who this Adams is.
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post #20 of 25
8/27/02 at 8:02pm
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cabal:
capteucalyptus....quite trolling.
Trolling was not my intention. You seemed to be over reacting to Billy's (and any) criticism of your work. I called you on that, on attacking Billy's site (as that is what I percieved, apologies if it wasn't your intention), and on a bad simile.
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post #21 of 25
8/27/02 at 8:04pm
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BillJohnson:
I don't really see either of them really being that much horror. I guess that it is their dark natures but that doesn't classify it as horror for me. I do think that yours does show potential though. I do alot of photography that I manipulate with the computer. They are almost all horror related. Here is an example of some of my horror photo/ computer work: <img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid13/paba71694fc8c0bc0e37205a0e938fc89/fdd7338a.jpg" alt="" />
Now that's what I call horror.
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post #22 of 25
8/28/02 at 8:00am
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Bill... awesome picture! Sorry that previous message of mine was directed at Brian. Douglas Adams was the writer of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" He died in his prime last year unfortunately.

The trap photograph is more on the side of bizarre than traditional horror. It shows a person grimacing while having a vice grip suffocate them. I guess that's not really horror.

I have been collecting pictures of abandoned insane asylums, factories, subway tunnels et. I might try doing some photoshop work along the lines of your image Bill. By the way I think you're the best goddamn artist around here. Great to see your stuff.
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post #23 of 25
8/28/02 at 9:43am
Thanks Cabal, I wish that we had better locations to shoot stuff around here, but unless I want to get some creepy trailer homes.... . But seriously, I wish that there were some old asylums, etc. around here. I'm actually doing some asylum themed work for Netherworld this year (a haunted house that I used to be part owner of) A friend had gotten me some cool photos in Ohio and I'm going to do something with those. Meanwhile, here is a link to some cool photography of old buildings that I found : <a href="http://www.oboylephoto.com/" target="_blank">http://www.oboylephoto.com/</a> . Check out the asylum flash movie. I thought that it was great.
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post #24 of 25
8/28/02 at 11:14am
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You might find some use out of this site.

<a href="http://www.abandoned-places.com/" target="_blank">http://www.abandoned-places.com/</a>

I've been picking out pictures from there for reference. I'm making a ten page comic based on a character lost in a haunted woods. They come across an abandoned asylum and are cut into little pieces by a mad surgeon with a giant head. It will be fun to draw.

I'd love to take part in constructing a haunted house. I had an offer to paint glow in the dark murals at the "Dark Armies" haunted house in Indianapolis. I was busy though. Here is a link to a model that stands about a foot tall. I plan on constructing it to ten feet tall sometime. It would look lovely in a haunted house.

<a href="http://www.broenink-art.nl/duel/phantomator.html" target="_blank">http://www.broenink-art.nl/duel/phantomator.html</a>
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post #25 of 25
8/28/02 at 4:39pm
Thanks for the link. Haunted House stuff can be fun, but is often frustrating. It's a lot different from film work in that everything has to be alot more durable and fire retardant. I've had a lot of work destroyed over the years, due to that. Just keep that in mind if you decide to do some HH stuff.
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