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I
am fascinated by the concept of combining multiple art movements into single images. So when I stumbled upon the impressionistic/cubism work of Malcolm B on Flickr, I decided to see if I could create something similar to his abstractions. I shot the base image with a CPC 28mm f2.8 Marco lens mounted on my Canon 5D, focused to 8 inches in the UCM student Union. In Photoshop, I duplicated the layer twice, ran the find edges filter, thresholded the results, and did a motion blur in both horizontal and vertical directions. I then ran the displacement filter against the horizontal and vertical lines using the tonalities of the original image. Changing blend modes and transparency completed the effect. What I ended up with isn't that close an emulation, but is interesting.
“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history – both distant and more recent – despite the potential for our experiments to fail.” - Doug Dawson
