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"MC Mechanic" Masterpiece: One Hand Fixes the Other
Posted by Brian Lam at 8:45 AM on November 18, 2007
I just found Shane Willis's MC Mechanic piece via Joel@BBG. Photographer Shane Willis made this homage to Escher's Drawing Hands 1948 litho, yet his process included not looking at the original. He wanted to infuse his own style and impression of Escher's original so did his by memory. I'm inclined to think this looks like Luke's replacement hand, engaged in peer to peer hardware review. Shane's work is genius, and Joel's not too shabby for still managing to dig up stuff like this after all these years of Gadget Finding. [Photo.net via JJ]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
psyc
Posted November 19, 2007 10:17 AM
pretty average photoshop...
howdytex
Posted 10:04 PM 17/11/07
Now that's quite a hand job.
howdytex
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:01 PM 17/11/07
Hey sorry to have you knuckle under to this kind of minutiae, but would copies of this picture be called hand prints?
strider_mt2k
P3nnst8r
Posted 9:44 PM 17/11/07
@rb67:
It is? Are u sure it's not just a black and white image?
P3nnst8r
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 8:44 PM 17/11/07
@Pope John Peeps II: Aw c'mon, it's a good piece.
Kaiser-Machead
rb67
Posted 8:22 PM 17/11/07
@P3nnst8r: too bad it's a drawing ;)
rb67
P3nnst8r
Posted 5:59 PM 17/11/07
Damn, those hands look amazingly realistic. The people designing the iLIMB should invest in his techniques, lol.
P3nnst8r
strider_mt2k
Posted 5:07 PM 17/11/07
I think that's a concept we can all grasp.
strider_mt2k
Pope John Peeps II
Posted 4:57 PM 17/11/07
Umm. I hadn't realized genius was just copying another genius.
Pope John Peeps II
GizFanAlpha
Posted 11:20 PM 17/11/07
Well, I guess this is another way you could say something is a "hand drawing"
GizFanAlpha
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 12:37 AM 18/11/07
Photoshoped picture... not drawing, not piece. :P
Interesting... though not exactly original.
Escher is immortal though. Hows that Escher game going, I wonder...
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
deso
Posted 5:46 AM 18/11/07
its a very weak photoshop imo.
Plus copying esher...tjeezus ye dont have enough imagination to make something unique yourself?
Weak.
deso
vitamincm
Posted 7:47 AM 18/11/07
Is that the arm from the first Terminator that Skynet found?
If so, it looks like it's already "self aware".
vitamincm
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:37 AM 18/11/07
Just stop it.
It's an adaptation, not a rip off.
Christ people, it's okay to have fun with art.
strider_mt2k
SLee233
Posted 12:10 PM 18/11/07
69!
SLee233
discounteggroll
Posted 11:11 AM 18/11/07
subliminal prejudice against lefties is what shot out first in my mind. pretty cool though
discounteggroll
Pope John Peeps II
Posted 1:18 PM 18/11/07
@Kaiser-Machead: Well, the original is genius. This is just cute.
Pope John Peeps II
nospamsam
Posted 1:30 PM 18/11/07
"Hey Buddy, can you spare a hand?"
"Sorry, my spare hand is in the shop."
nospamsam
spinner
Posted 8:03 PM 18/11/07
What is with the "JJ@BBG" and "via JJ", not afraid of sending readers to a not-really-competing blog?
[gadgets.boingboing.net]
spinner
Brian Lam
Posted 11:01 PM 19/11/07
@spinner: Joel is a buddy, and I address him casually as the former editor of this blog, and a friend. It's short hand. I think the link is there for people to see, and click on. What are you getting at?
Brian Lam
Jonko
Posted 7:30 PM 17/11/07
Those hands probably look amazingly realistic because they are actually real. The piece is a digitally edited photograph. Willis is a photographer.
I like the idea of the piece, but it loses points because it isn't entirely original. The quality of the piece is good but not amazing; some of the editing doesn't look quite right. These are all my opinions, of course.
Jonko