Meow House Theatre

… performed by bunnies.

That’s what goes on over at one of my favorite sites, Angry Alien, where artist Jennifer Shiman has created “Bun-O-Vision” using Flash animation and which she has turned into “The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library… in which a troupe of bunnies parodies a collection of movies by re-enacting them in 30 seconds, more or less.”

I’ve been watching the site for years and today someone reminded me of it, so here’s a post!

You’d be amazed at how much of the movie’s storyline and fine detail can be crammed into 30 seconds. My favorites include:

Resevoir Dogs (unbleeped), Titanic, and Jaws. But I think the funniest one is Brokeback Mountain.

Go visit! It’s a nice little place when you need a break during work.

This is why there are not many “bad” pictures when you have Photoshop. You can always take some blurry old thing and turn it into something beautiful.

Before: this is a pretty useless picture. It’s not a bad composition except for that building jutting into the frame at the top (that’s really the left of the picture; I left it oriented wrong because that’s how I used it for the distortion in PS). It’s too blurry to use though and the coloring is kind of blah, although if it were sharp the coloring could be changed to make it more interesting. But as is, it’s not worth anything.

And after:

This would be really pretty overlaid on top of another picture, with the opacity lowered so that the other layer showed through. These effects were accomplished by duping the bottom layer and filling the background with black; then going to Layer 1 and using a soft brush to roughly erase the street, snow, and buildings (so that the black background showed through–doesn’t have to be perfect or exact), changing the opacity, and then using

the distortion filter in a few different ways: polar coordinates, shear, and twirl. Then duping and/or re-layering and changing the opacity on the new layer(s) again. I just took some ice-skating shots and I bet these would look really nice on them. I’ll have to try it.

I could play with Photoshop all.day.long. I need to find a bag of unmarked untraceable bills so that I can start doing that.

20 textures: some are 400×400; some are 100×100. It’s easy to resize down. Also there are some larger banners designed primarily for LiveJournal but are applicable to other sites as well.

Download them at deviantART.

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Photoshop textures.Capri.07

I name my Photoshop texture sets. No plain-old numbering system for me. That’s so dull and the-same-as-everyone-else. I like to give them names, either before I make them, and then I create something that evokes that name; or I create them first and whatever they turn into tells me what the name is. Usually they have a name inside them, which comes out when the piece is all finished.

Yes I’m weird. No, I don’t drink absinthe.