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Amoeba Man
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Natural -> Artificial by Amoeba Man

June 24th, 2008 4:43 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create an artificial version of a natural product.

I remember looking at the Praxii for this task and thinking "Wow, these are really creative". I tried to do the whole "beauty of nature into artificial format" by drawing a sunset in Flash, but that turned out to be fairly disappointing (which may say something about the beauty of sunsets. Or my drawing ability).

So I tried to think of something else natural. Then I began to get on the less nature-style natural and more the "He's a natural" kind of natural- that is, talents or skills that come naturally to some people. I rather liked that line of thought, so I decided to boil this down to the most natural thing I could think of, eventually settling on emotion. Everyone from babies to geezers have emotions, they just come naturally to us. So now I just needed to think of a way to make them seem artificial. I decided to clear my mind of all thought (not a difficult task, since I wasn't doing much at the time anyways) and then force out as much false emotion as I could.

I took some pictures of me forcing a smile, a frown, and a frightened expression, as well as some anger and sadness. I tried as hard as I could to make them look artificial and unconvincing, and I think that turned out pretty well.



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Smile
Frown
Terror
Anger
Sorrow

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posted by bigglesworth on June 24th, 2008 4:46 PM

after i read this, i made a google image search for "constipation face" and was severely disappointed

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posted by Amoeba Man on June 24th, 2008 4:59 PM

And I can see why. Ew.

Also, on an entirely unrelated note, if one more person votes on this, I'll be at Level 4!

Edit: WHOOO! YRREEAAAAAAGH!

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posted by Tøm on June 24th, 2008 5:01 PM

I like this.

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posted by Amoeba Man on June 24th, 2008 5:04 PM

Thanks!

(Unlike the rest of this Praxis, that emotion was not feigned).

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posted by GYØ Ben on July 6th, 2008 5:47 AM

yes, you do look like Andrew W.K.