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City of Delusion by ~TheOnlyFallacy:iconTheOnlyFallacy:

Categories Digital Art > Photomanipulation > Conceptual

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©2006-2009 ~TheOnlyFallacy
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Burn this city of delusion
break this wall down!
:sing

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Guantanamo Bay:

Beating; punching with fists; use of truncheons; kicking; slamming against walls; stretching or suspension (to tear ligaments or muscles to cause asphyxia); external electric shocks; forcing prisoners to abase and to urinate on themselves; forced masturbation; forced renunciation of religion; false confessions or accusations; applying urine and feces to prisoners; making verbal threats to a prisoner and his family; denigration of a prisoner’s religion; force-feeding; induced hypothermia and exposure to extreme heat; dietary manipulation; use of sedatives; extreme sleep deprivation; mock executions; water immersion; “water-boarding”; obstruction of the prisoner’s airway; chest compression; thermal burning; rape; dog bites; sexual abuse; forcing a prisoner to watch the abuse or torture of a loved one.

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Work on and off for around 3 days. I like it alot

This is a statement.
IT IS NOT, however, a political statement.
It is a statement about America

The best way to be patriotic is to use our freedom of speech.

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=Genesis-Orbit Aug 22, 2006, 9:08:25 PM
Nice, few things you can improve on though. The floating city seems to be on something very rocky, it doesn't exactly fit the terrain's environment all that well. 2nd is the size of the floating city, I think if you reduced the size it would seem more realistic becuase the rock (again I know) seems to be very up close cause of the detail, and the terrain at the bottom seems to be a very large area becuase those trees are extremely small. Something else to give it the depth of illusion would be duplicating the floating city, reducing the size, and blurring it to show that it isn't in focus, and very very far away. Just an idea, you don't need to do that last one, but it could be cool :)

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One heart , One voice, One love, One spirit
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~theblacklotus Aug 22, 2006, 9:10:07 PM
the big cities are being overused but I like the overall composition.
the message is clear. :)
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~TheOnlyFallacy Aug 22, 2006, 9:13:54 PM
thanks for the great crit :)

though i didnt want to shrink the city because making the city really took almost all the time in this peice... to get the city to look realistic yet have a distordet perspective like i wanted, and making the ground was a big challenge. Therefore if i shrunk it would kinda make the effort i put into those parts unesscesary =/

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~TheOnlyFallacy Aug 22, 2006, 9:15:52 PM
thanks, but what do you mean overused?

in my expereince ive only encountered somthing similar to this twice... once was this underwater thingie, and the other was a photomanipulation by luka skalabrin

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`katat0nik Aug 22, 2006, 9:34:42 PM
Lovely image, really makes you think:thumbsup:
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=Genesis-Orbit Aug 22, 2006, 9:42:53 PM
That is true too, well, I'm not talking about a significan't shrink, maybe just a 25% reduction (75% of the original size) of the city with a slight sharpen to aid the loss in detail? I'm almost convinced doing that might make a big difference, but it's your peice, not mine. Good job once again :)

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One heart , One voice, One love, One spirit
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~TheOnlyFallacy Aug 22, 2006, 10:12:46 PM
alright ill try it :)

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~punkypine Aug 22, 2006, 11:39:55 PM
nice job, what skyline is that?

and the bottom looks really cool.
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~binka4wing Aug 23, 2006, 2:09:36 AM
I do like this picture a lot. It makes me think about how America keeps itself on a high cloud, morally and otherwise. Very much like the floating city.

I feel that to make the imagery stronger, the ground holding the city up should be more... murky? muddy? unpleasant? but that's just my opinion.

Very nice work over-all =D

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I am random, not insane.

There's a difference?

...No, not really.
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~0bsessi0n Aug 23, 2006, 5:29:45 AM
pretty awesome i must sayy. great job =)
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