New Photospoofs
As many of you know, I like to engage in "photospoofing", particularly in the context of the contests sponsored by Woot.com. My skill is very basic and so I can't really hope to compete for awards with the expert nerds that complement each other on fancy things like adding reflections and complex shadows, but it still is a good outlet for a creative sense of humor. Anyway, when I've got entries I'm especially proud of, I like to post them here too, for others to enjoy.
The contest this time was based on the old actor's adage "Never work with children or animals." The task was to adjust or create a film or television screenshot, recasting the key characters as children or animals. Predictably, most of the other entries have gone the route of placing monkey and kitten heads onto the bodies of well known human characters. I, however, felt there were two different, and I feel much more thoughtful and sophisticated, ways to take advantage of the humor potential. I put two entries together.
The first:
Admittedly, most people who aren't English teachers like me probably won't get it. The screen shot is of the character "Dill" in the film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The relevance is that Harper Lee's book was a fictionalized partial autobiography, and indeed she did grow up close friends with Truman Capote, on whom she based the character "Dill".
Okay, so, realizing that was probably too oblique, I made one more generally accessible:
See, if I was a real nerd, I could have made the shadows on young Jodie Foster match the shadows of the lambs. But I'm a nerd in other areas, so I'm outta luck.
Anyway - I'm surprised I'm the only one so far who has made an entry attempting to capitalize on the idea of using a childhood picture of a former child actor to lampoon the context of a film in which that same actor performed as an adult. I guess I'm missing the "kitten heads on human bodies is cute" gene or something.
The contest this time was based on the old actor's adage "Never work with children or animals." The task was to adjust or create a film or television screenshot, recasting the key characters as children or animals. Predictably, most of the other entries have gone the route of placing monkey and kitten heads onto the bodies of well known human characters. I, however, felt there were two different, and I feel much more thoughtful and sophisticated, ways to take advantage of the humor potential. I put two entries together.
The first:
Admittedly, most people who aren't English teachers like me probably won't get it. The screen shot is of the character "Dill" in the film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The relevance is that Harper Lee's book was a fictionalized partial autobiography, and indeed she did grow up close friends with Truman Capote, on whom she based the character "Dill".
Okay, so, realizing that was probably too oblique, I made one more generally accessible:
See, if I was a real nerd, I could have made the shadows on young Jodie Foster match the shadows of the lambs. But I'm a nerd in other areas, so I'm outta luck.
Anyway - I'm surprised I'm the only one so far who has made an entry attempting to capitalize on the idea of using a childhood picture of a former child actor to lampoon the context of a film in which that same actor performed as an adult. I guess I'm missing the "kitten heads on human bodies is cute" gene or something.
posted by Greg J. Hipius | 1:00 PM
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