Friday, December 25, 2009

Elk and Posters and Posters of Elk

A couple of months ago I came across this website. It might have been forwarded or more likely I StumbledUpon it.

You choose a picture. You upload it. Then, they send you the picture back but it's anywhere from 6 to 10 times its original size, in divisions between different printed pages.

It's awesome. I made one.

First, this is one of the ones on the website's gallery that I enjoyed.



I have a corner in my room that's completely empty right now and I'm thinking of doing something like this with it. But in the meantime, and really just to test it out, I made one of a picture I Ffffound of an elk. This is it.



It turned out pretty nice, despite the quality of this photo. I cut the edges of some of the pages and not others and overlapped. I messed up a couples times by losing the consistency of which vertical sets to cut. The bottom is pretty jagged up close because by the end of cutting the borders of 6 pages, I was pretty over it.
And here is the original.



I've really started to enjoy looking at Elk and Caribou photographs. Earlier this week I was in a Bass Pro Shops store in Las Vegas and saw taxidermy elk among other animals. Part of me felt a loss for the purpose of the animals but part of me felt an appreciation to be able to appreciate their magnificent bodies, even if they were synthetic inside. I particularly loved the Elk battle between the speed boats and the fishing equipment.

They're beautiful.

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