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News & ArtsThursday, July 2, 2009
Chow / Visual Art / Nerd Good Art Represents Real Life
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:26 PM
As everyone knows, Frank Frazetta is the greatest artist in the history of the world. Consider his painting to the left, "Cornered." It has it all: A half-naked buff man, an even-more-than-half-naked woman bent in such a way that her caboose is hanging out, and a motherfucking dinosaur. I'd like to see Jackson Pollock beat that.
Slog tipper Lara informs us that Meat Cards (the only company in the world that prints business cards on beef jerky) had a Frank Frazetta-themed contest to give away their first few business cards ("you will be one of about twenty people in the WHOLE WORLD with your own business cards made of meat and lasers.")
All you had to do was re-enact a Frazetta painting in real life, with no Photoshopping allowed, and the judges determined a winner. The winner earned free Meat Cards. One of the winners, who reproduced "Cornered," is at the right. There are many other photos, some featuring fine women with their cabooses hanging out, at the Meat Card site, and you should check it out.
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"No Photoshop allowed" kind of suggests a little extra attention to composition, but they ARE winners. Fun stuff.
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CLICK ON THE GODDAMN LINK. Find the picture, it will take you to flickr for a bigger one.
sigh....
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I looked at the other entries. I guess post-comet-impact landscapes are a little hard to find.
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So I have to say I'm hugely disappointed by the reenactments. There isn't a single buff, drool-worthy guy in any of the photos sent in. *sigh*
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/28760809@N0…
http://www.meatcards.com/images/frazetta…
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Frazetta has an interesting story, which you can get from Netflix, and Scarecrow probably has it too.
I never understood the fascination with dinosaurs though. They bored me since a young age. Dragons and fantasy creatures I couldn't get enough of, but dinosaurs are lame.
It's funny how, even at that age, when it was all about my boner (it still is), I looked down on Boris Vallejo. All he ever painted was shiny boobies, both male and female. Frazetta's paintings at least had some story to go with the boobies and that made them more interesting to me.
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They documentary also talks about how the original Conan The Barbarian movie was basically a series of Frazetta paintings put to film, which is why it holds up so much better than a lot of 80's movies that seemed like a good idea at the time.
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