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seawolf17 wrote:
The guy in the Dave Grohl photo is Serj Tankian from System of a Down, not that it really matters.

Or, as we noted in the seemingly lost-to-history thread, "Bands Formed by Mets Fans," System of Rick Down.


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I think I overworked this one cause it looks like one of those doctored pics on the cover of a supermarket rag.



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Midnight at the Hyundai Club.


WHAT AN ASS!



I mean the guy in the chair.


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A quicky while we recover from DJs awesomeness. Explain how you did that "Boris" Jeff head. That's just beautifully done.


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Zvon wrote:
Explain how you did that "Boris" Jeff head. That's just beautifully done.


It was hell. Just a desperate combination of trying out layer options (Multiply? Overlay? Hard Light?), playing with color balance, using the Smudge tool to make it look less pixellated, and the Sharpen tool to try to simulate the digital corruption in the original. I found that the best way to add shading was to select an area, take the brightness way down, and smudge it to blend it in. I'd figured out some things by the time I did the guard in the back, which I think came out better.

So who is Jeff helping to bury?


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Zvon wrote:
Explain how you did that "Boris" Jeff head. That's just beautifully done.


It was hell. Just a desperate combination of trying out layer options (Multiply? Overlay? Hard Light?), playing with color balance, using the Smudge tool to make it look less pixellated, and the Sharpen tool to try to simulate the digital corruption in the original. I found that the best way to add shading was to select an area, take the brightness way down, and smudge it to blend it in. I'd figured out some things by the time I did the guard in the back, which I think came out better.

So who is Jeff helping to bury?


I know what you mean but don't look at it like your goin thru hell. Its fun. Sure the end result is fun, but part of the fun is how you can explore (sometimes stumble) your way to interesting and amazing results if you really use a program coupled with your brain to its combined potential. I read what you say there and I don't see you going through hell. I see you exploring the possibilities. I always run shit thru filters and check out how it looks. And every once in a while I'll come across a new way to do something, or I'll try an effect that I would normally never consider and the result is amazin. Love when that happens.

No Idea what's going on in that picture. When I noticed this thread I searched google image for "historic pictures". I quickly reviewed and grabbed a bunch that looked good to use. Didn't read captions or anything. Initially I figured one of the shovel guys would become Jeff. But then I saw a guy behind them who looked to be Hitler.

Okay, that funny face Jeff head gets a lil square stache goes there,*BOOM.

I like the movie poster concept on the Buck Rogers. Esp the old timey lookin ones. I gotta make up one a those.


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I know what you mean but don't look at it like your goin thru hell. Its fun. Sure the end result is fun, but part of the fun is how you can explore (sometimes stumble) your way to interesting and amazing results if you really use a program coupled with your brain to its combined potential. I read what you say there and I don't see you going through hell. I see you exploring the possibilities. I always run shit thru filters and check out how it looks. And every once in a while I'll come across a new way to do something, or I'll try an effect that I would normally never consider and the result is amazin. Love when that happens.


Of course it's fun. It can be exasperating too, and frustrating, and with a difficult one like that it gets to a point where I wonder how long exactly it's supposed to take to stick Jeff Wilpon's silly head in a silly picture, and what the hell's become of my life. And only the fact that this is silly saves me, because it means there's no pressure, no one will know or care if I just toss it, but if it works out, great, because someone might enjoy it. And that makes it fun again. And yeah, I've learned something about the process too., and surprised myself sometimes. You know, when I first started playing with Photoshop, about fifteen years ago, it was my own face, of course, that I stuck everywhere (and my girlfriend's; she got to be Eve in the Garden, with glasses). That was fun too.

Now here's Jeff channeling the feelings of Met fans everywhere on the signing of Frankie Rodriguez. I think Jeff has moments, microsecond-long spasms, where the true horrendousness of things hits him--who am I, what am I doing here, will I have money for food tomorrow, why did I have to wear these socks?--and then he collects himself again and he's the smiling sophisticate we all love. Jeff, I'm here for you.



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Now here's Jeff channeling the feelings of Met fans everywhere on the signing of Frankie Rodriguez. I think Jeff has moments, microsecond-long spasms, where the true horrendousness of things hits him--who am I, what am I doing here, will I have money for food tomorrow, why did I have to wear these socks?--and then he collects himself again and he's the smiling sophisticate we all love. Jeff, I'm here for you.


Lmao. Lets have them holding hands.



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Holy crap. That's beautiful work. I'm only sorry you had to lose the dame from Newark.

ty. I didn't know what to do with those two on top. The lady from Newark and the guy. I was gonna put it up and ask for suggestions, then I thought maybe, if I could find a good color pic of a 60s team, that might solve that. I found colorized nice quality pic of a 60s Mets team, and if I didn't that would have come out totally different. I would have tried to do something with those two characters I covered up.


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I've had dreams like this. They're not nice dreams.


Creeeeeeeepy. Nothing acquatic has ever appeared in any dream I've ever had. What does this mean?

This was done along with those other two posted. It didn't make the cut.
I'm working my Met wallpaper for a May update so this is alls I got for now.



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I found this image on Tumblr of three French soldiers from the WWI era and the guy in the middle eerily resembles a photoshop of Jeff Wilpon.



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Is it any surprise that Jeff would start actually popping up in history?

That's the way these things work. (1) It's fun and games. (2) It gets bigger than you could have imagined. (3) It's out of control. (4) It defies all you know about time and space. (5) It's the most terrifying thing ever.

I know what I'm talking about. I've seen The Twilight Zone. It's the most unsurprising thing ever.


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We're changing history, is what's happening. Time and space, fiction and reality are fighting it out on this thread like overweight tag team wrestlers. I put Jeff in a photo with Pancho Villa a while ago, eating tortilla chips or something. But that was pointless, because they had already met, in an alternate reality that is now our reality. Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata . . . and Jeff Wilpon, Mexico City, 1914.



Kind of looks like the inspiration for the Sergeant Pepper cover, doesn't it? I think James Joyce is there too, without his glasses.


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It's like 20 people decided to photobomb the same picture at the same time.


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