Tantamountains

20 Responses to “Tantamountains”

1. On April 1st, 2008 at 12:14, Brad O'Farrell said:

   I don’t think I get it. But it looks cool.
2. On April 5th, 2008 at 14:51, alessandra said:

   i like the way it can look like sea water/foam
   depending the way you look at it
3. On April 6th, 2008 at 07:14, monika said:

   it would be nice to see more of the reasoning behind the images/concept. I find the altered ocean horizon resembles a rock cross section more so then a Mountain scape. I think your onto something
4. On July 8th, 2008 at 14:24, Ralph said:

   Very nice. I can imagine how the Earth would look like if it’s all altered.
5. On August 2nd, 2008 at 09:20, Alejo said:

   i, i’m alejo from Argentina…
   Awesomehow, can i know how do you get this idea? i know it’s too much to ask, but, never in a million years i could shape the mountains in my mind to twisted into the ocean… well… maybe it’s cuz i’m not an artist, but would like to know
   (sorry my english)
   • On August 2nd, 2008 at 14:26, JK said:

     Explaining how I came up with any of my ideas is difficult at best, as they seem to pop into my head seemingly from nowhere, but I do remember that the impetus for this specific project was looking at a thumbnail image. I thought it showed a flattened mountain, but when I looked at the full-size it was just a typical flat landscape photo. And so I set to making what I believed I had seen in the thumbnail.
6. On October 29th, 2008 at 10:50, Joy said:

   i like the way the ‘Paramount’ logo looks like heart in the bottom picture.
7. On November 2nd, 2008 at 19:31, Tessr said:

   Wow! What do you use to edit your photos?
   • On November 10th, 2008 at 23:58, JK said:

     I use a javascript file I wrote to do most of the legwork in Photoshop. Then I go back and hand-tweak some things that the script gets wrong.
8. On November 10th, 2008 at 19:58, b e said:

   bravo
   my comment is a bit too short
   what a pity

   bravo
9. On December 25th, 2008 at 11:38, linda said:

   this is so cool..you really are a special kind off artist..really cool ideas:)
10. On January 10th, 2009 at 15:48, Rebecca said:

    This is wonderful.

    I’m trying to get into scripting myself. I’m a graphic design student but so far I’ve been self taught in scripting.

    I’m amazed by the work you’ve done.

    Do you accept internships at all at your studio?
11. On January 20th, 2009 at 13:49, Condoms Girl said:

    As both a mountaineer and photographer I find these images somewhat compelling. Wonder what it would be like to climb the flattened ones. CG
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13. On March 26th, 2009 at 22:45, Emma said:

    I’m curious what you did exactly to flatten pictures like that (i’m okay at drawing art, but picture anatomy is beyond my capability, or mind set at the very least)
    Larissa (whom I believe is your niece, we’re buds) told me you did lots of concept art, and that i would particularly like the drawings and photo arts. I do agree.
    • On August 17th, 2009 at 13:38, JK said:

      The mountains were flattened using javascript code I wrote to affect images in Photoshop. The code analyzes each 1-pixel-wide column of pixels in the photo and looks for the vertical location where the sky meets the mountain, based on the shift in colors. Let’s say the first column’s location is 300 pixels from the top. The code remembers that number and goes to the second column and looks for the vertical location again. This time it’s 306 pixels from the top of the image. The code then moves that full column up 6 pixels so that now the location is at 300 (306 – 6), the same as the first column. And then it moves on to the third column and finds the key point at 302 pixels. The code moves it up 2 pixels to 300. And then on and on until all the columns are moved up or down to 300 to flatten the image.
14. On August 13th, 2009 at 12:33, KiMo said:

    I don’t get the hype. I don’t think this is that great. What is the purpose of these images? what would you even use them for? everyone has their opinions, which is great… mine is just that I don’t think these images are anything special.
    • On August 17th, 2009 at 13:40, JK said:

      I had no idea there was “hype” around this project.

      Thanks for your opinion, but your queries are confounding. Perhaps a quick google search would help you answer these questions better than I could in an email reply: The purpose.
      • On September 6th, 2009 at 05:50, Britt said:

        You are my favorite for that last response.
        I spit out the water I was drinking when I clicked on the google link!!!

        Your art and motivation are inspiring! Keep it coming!
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