
Assembly Summer 2008 Graphics compo entry
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'Oops wrong class' by Juha Olkkonen


Technical categories
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PHOTOGRAPHY

 Imitating and photographing eighteen characters and using own photographic material (sunflower, landscape, piano etc.)

PHOTOSHOP

 The "big picture", overall touchup and design, photo modifications (character transforms), effects, colors

PAINTER

 Cloning several objects and the model, painting more details to the clones (creating hiresolution from lowresolution)

TRADITIONAL DRAWINGS

 Scanning some minor traditional drawings


a SPECIAL THANKS to model Elina Ltjnen for granting permission of her appearance in the "laboratory"


CONTACT INFORMATION

www.olkkonen.net
juha@olkkonen.net


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Following quotes were part of the creation process. I'll include them.

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." (Richard Feynman)

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." (Darwin)

"True change takes place in the imagination." (Thomas Moore)

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Lewis Carroll)

"No! I don't believe it! It's not possible!" (Neo)

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. (Mozart)

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." (Newton)

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that.. I know that now." (John Nash)

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." (Dali)

"**** off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may." (Tyler Durden)
	
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." (Gandhi)

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." (Elvis)

"While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world. " (Andy Kaufman)

"My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." (Forrest Gump)

"Definitely not" (Rainman)

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." (Freud)

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." (Bill Gates)

"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." (Einstein)