The last issue of "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" was nearly a year ago. I know - that's crazy; March 13, 2012 to be exact.
In either case, for those who haven't seen my previous issues I started this series as a way to introduce my readers to the world of art through words. And by words, I mean where the artist has taken several hundred pieces of text and created a masterpiece; it could be a self-portrait, landscape or still-life. It's called Typographical Art, much like a typographical quote you see posted on a Facebook news feed from time to time. But with hundreds, if not thousands of words instead of just a few.
A Man of His Word
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Today's issue is nothing short of amazing. The artist known simply as Straye-Close
spent over 150 hours creating this masterpiece. Every whisker, every
wrinkle, every feature uses a word describing something. From the name,
Morgan Porterfield Freeman Jr., movies he's been in, characters of the
people he's played in those movies, awards he has won, and almost every
quote he could find for those films. Truly an extraordinary piece of art!
I haven't posted an issue of "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" in over 5 months. I have so many series on my blog that by the time I get to one I really want to talk about, a new story pops up, or a funny video takes it's place.
In keeping with current events I felt the best place for this post was in this series, because while the art itself does not consist of words, it does consist of a broader message. In contrast to my other posts, where the words made the art, in the portrait below, The National Post’s graphics team uses artillery shells to convey it's message.
With the death of Kim Jong-il there is uncertainty about how much support the third generation of the North Korea’s ruling dynasty has among the ruling elite, especially in the military, and worry that successor Kim Jong-un might need a military show of strength to help establish his credentials. The National Post’s graphics team explores the firepower available to the great successor.
Brilliant artist, Xiaonan Sun pays tribute to “Shawshank Redemption” by drawing Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins at the same time, one with each hand. Absolutely Amazing!
You can check out Xiaonan's work at The Portrait Art, watch videos, and also order prints.
No matter what you do, you cannot tell the girl with the ginger hair to stop smiling. Directed by Nick Scott and Produced by Michael Berliner, this cute short film will make you smile and laugh.
The film, titled, "School Portrait," features students coming in to have their school pictures taken. Unbeknownst to them, the photographer will do what he can to keep them from smiling. And he does this by having the kids say things like, "The banking crisis means I will never afford a home" or he tells a little girl, "there isn't a pet heaven". Sounds cruel, I know, but it's actually quite funny.
Simply stunning, simply breathtaking is all I can say about my fifth issue of "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words," and you can't capture it's true imagination until you click the picture and enlarge it. As one commenter put it, "Made of Words by *rawimage is just that. An entire picture made of words. I'm sure you'll agree that the level of detail is simply amazing. It's incredible what you can do with Lorem Ipsum and a lot of time on your hands." - Patgroove
This typographical self-portrait of sALuUm literally speaks volumes. He states that it took him over 8 hours to do the main drawing in Illustrator, plus an hour using Post-Work in Photoshop. A lover of photography and web-related works, the amateur artist from Melbourne, Australia admits his favorite style of art is Vintage, Minimalist.
For my third issue of A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, 21 yr old artist, Laemmen, describes himself as one who likes photography and esthetic design. He is currently going to school at the University of Arts in Bremen where he has enrolled in Digital Media.
Judging from his first typographical portrait, he's headed towards a great career...
As most of you may know, I'm a huge fan of quotations and typography.
When I used Facebook as my only source of communication with the outside world I would post them on a daily basis. The main reason I resorted to blogging was because I couldn't find issues or topics I had previously discussed, and became frustrated with that.
I came across a typographical portrait of President Obama while "googling" for some pics and wanted to share it with my viewers. The portrait, created by Dylan Roscover consists of 12,680 individual characters, and was featured on the Table of Contents page of the February 1, 2010 edition of TIME magazine.
About the artist, I couldn't have stated it any better myself:
"Dylan Roscover is a brilliant graphic designer who creates a wide variety of striking digital media pieces. This portrait of Obama uses typography to expertly illustrate the pressure and incredible burdens our president has to deal with while in office. The craftsmanship and composition of this typography portrait is remarkable and definitely deserves a standing ovation" - Taro13
I hope to continue this as a daily or weekly series, it all depends on the amount of time I have in the day. Please feel free to share your thoughts or opinions on this.
I have organized my blogs with 3 days worth of postings, so if you wish to continue reading the days before that, and so forth and so forth, you can click the "Older Posts" button /\ /\ /\ right /\ up there.
There are 3 other ways you can find interesting topics to read as well.
*Clicking on any of the links under my "Favorite Categories" section on the left hand side of your screen
*Using the Google Search bar under the scrolling text.
*By choosing a date from the drop down list on the right hand side of your screen.
Hope you enjoy my daily posts, and hope to hear from you soon.
- Blade 7184 aka Peter
