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Published: 2005-07-10 22:01:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 3645; Favourites: 71; Downloads: 291
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Painted over 50% of this one, hope to be painting something like ...100% eventually
Just hard to come up with an endless variety of interesting photos lately 
Modelled on Portuguese Man o' War jellyfish, the base of this piece was a hard boiled egg that eviscerated itself during cooking. I can give you a link to original photos if interested.
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Very awesome, I'm enjoying the skull structure in the jellyfish a lot - very inspirational. I wish I would have found your artwork sooner.
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Try cooking them first, or coating your entire body with peanut butter before....um....activities with our gelatinous undersea friends!!
Just a couple of suggestions
Of course, you might be referring to Loving the Stings, now that I reread your post
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Looks like something out of my nightmares only fluffy. It has a nice smile.
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It was delicious.
Just kidding, being photographed is enough of an ordeal without subjecting photo materials to a trip through my digestive system.
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This is just so bizarrely cool. 
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Thanks!! Bored at work again I was, something quite nicely alleviated by a hotplate and camera.
I don't think I ever made it past the elementary-school-age fascination with fire and food.
A 
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Okay, now you've piqued my curiosity.
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Microbiologist / Chemist for the local Water Utility.
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you are just absolutely fabulous with your manips.
magic magic magic
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HAHAHAHHAHA!!
You flatter me so.
No magic; if you look again more carefully, you will notice very tiny wires and mirrors in all of my manips that accomplish all visual trickery.
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Good Call. I'll make sure to hide the good stuff in a note when I get the urge to share.
Thanks for keepin' me straight
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Is the face of the orange fish a turtle?! 
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Ooooooooooooooooo you are close, it is a very wrinkled face indeed. It's a 3 month old Indian Rhinoceros. Stare away, glad you're entertained!!!
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A baby rhino! Wow! Do you have the original photo on hand?
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Thanks! It's amazing to see what you can create from such wonderfully textured but totally ordinary things.
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You flatter excessively.
But I dig it.
Now, if only I could remember and believe on the bad days...........
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This rocks the weird wagon till the wheels fall off ! !!! Excellent ride !!
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I'm glad your great eye and fingers were pleased, it's not everty day I meet someone who refers to themselves in the third person. I salute your generosity AND weirdness!!
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I see the egg, but man, what I'm really seeing is a pink dinosaur skull puking jizz into the water (and that little old grandpa fish lovin' it). Am I going to hell?
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Yikes. Prehistoric snowballing 
If you are going to hell, swing by my place and we'll carpool.
I'm glad your trip through my gallery / website continues, would you like a dramamine? How about a percoset?
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Only if I can trade that percocet for a working camera and darkroom - I've caught the bug! I've always resented all the dark, macabre bullshit on DA and have had no interest in incorporating such elements into my own work... until now. Who knew fucked up photomanips could be so BADASS?! I am SO ready to go be a tortured hipster for a while, thanks to your trippy, talent-filled gallery.
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Tortured? Oh, I hope I'm not too angsty - I do have to tolerate my hideously incapable Sony F828 with it's nasty purple fringing and piss-poor focussing tendencies. I'm on the cusp of another camera purchase, I have a bug to equal yours methinks. Donknow about the talent, but I trip often and painfully. That percocet is making my mind drool.
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I didn't mean any of that negetively. It's just that your style is kinda foreign territory for me so I'm not sure how to talk about it. Anyway, the Sony F828, you say? Yeah, autofocus is always a bitch, but that fringing...do you think it's specific to that RGBE sensor? It sounds familiar - I think I've seen the same effect on other cameras where there's a lot of contrast and sharp edge definition. Bah, I'm tempted to stick with film - all this stuff is too much for me to handle, lol.
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No negativity detected, and you certainly may be yourself and talk about anything any way you'd like. We foreign territory types are very wise-assish and prone to messing with people, perhaps it is I who should apologize for being a mite reactionary. And I've learned my lesson with point and shoots, I'm going DSLR from here on in
Keep your feet in both optical worlds, I find one compliments the other nicely. And say hey to Nihilist if you see him, he's one of the best
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awww the jellyfish is giving the fishy a cuddle... ummm wait, the jellyfish is a vampire and the fish looks like it's being goosed! just shows what a second look can do for you! great art!
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Thanks, sometimes I think my first look is most people's second look.
Or maybe I'm just bored, or trying too hard.
Thanks for referring to my photomanipulations as 'art', sometimes I have my doubts
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you're welcome... i think that on dA at least we all watch so many people that every morning or when you log on you're bombarded with deviations to view. each of them only gets a cursory glance at best. what i try to do is meaningfully comment on everything i watch in the (vain) hope that what comes around goes around. therefore i only watch a few... if i leave it for a day or so it takes me ages to catch up and i like to take the time to be polite.
your manips certainly are art. art is subjective isn't it. i couldn't possibly do what you do, it's creative and skilled. a long way away from my resize, crop, levels, border, add text skills. I also like your imagination and that's what makes good art good. I'm sure people had their doubts about dali and co... hell even van gogh was considered out there and personally, all these years later, i still can't see what all the fuss is about!
Keep up the awesome stuff you're doing. i've been surfing dA for about 5 months now and not seen anything half as stopdeadinyourtrackstotakealookable as your art is
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Dave, this image is fantastic
It reminds me of the Mars Volta cd cover artwork [link] for obvious reasons...
great work
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Nice to see you revert from such an unnerving avatar (although I loved it, truly).
Funny, I love the Mars Volta, but since I get all of my music from non-retail sources (read between the lines), I often never see the album covers. Thx for the tip and the
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Yeah, I would imagine these could be saltwater tropical species. Aren't most things that live in the tropics tanned, wrinkled, and retired?
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mMmhmm--guess so. cuTe fiShies.
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jelly fish with pointy teeth 
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Not too wrinkly? I gave him that loveable "rhino" look.
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Quite suberb- your endless capacity for mutation always entertains
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Thanyou very much, I assume you mean my 'creations' when you say mutation, and not this funny growth I have on my.........
Congratulations on your well-deserved and long overdue Daily Deviation, I am a little surprised at their selection out of your amazing gallery, they must have been drawn to the title
If you get a second, would you mind e-mailing your short film to me? daveoway@yahoo.com
I would certainly appreciate it. Fantastic texture in your latest posted sculpts!!!
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Thanx man, not the piece i'd of chosen for DD myself but ah well, i dont choose em! I'll mail you the film- hope ya like
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I LIKE!!!!!
If you are familiar with American videos, your short is very "Tool".
Love the effects, the fade in / fade out.
Great work
Thanks for sending the film! The very best of luck in distributing it!!
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Thanx mate- and of course i dig Tool
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Looks kind of like a weird jellyfish thing that's either puking or eating itself. Very strange....but very well done. Ha! That's almost a pun. Eggs and well done. Har. I'll stop now.
Cerulean
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I think I agree with the puking guess. I think I imagined it 'puking' out the tentacles and then sucking them back in when something becomes entangled. Kinda like a big tongue.
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Hey, that's what sea cucumbers do! I think they puke out their guts and wait for something to get tangled in them, then suck them back in. That's how they scare away predators, too.
Cerulean
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