More Photoshop Phollies

Among several summer projects I'm trying to improve my Photoshop-fu. These experiments demonstrate how far I have yet to go. But they're a start...

Hamburg, Germany Fountain 1

Hamburg, Germany Fountain 2

Hamburg, Germany Fountain 3

Hamburg, Germany "Miniatur Wunderland"

Cat-Lion Hybrid

Globe-Coconut Hybrid

Dog-Bird Hybrid

Turtle-Teddy Bear Hybrid (by special request)

Parthenon Pix

I'm getting really excited about next week's lecture on Plato's Apology and Crito - so much that I've been digging through pix from our 2011 Acropolis visit. Maybe I'll add a couple to the presentation!

Bonus! Here's the reproduction "Parthenon" standing proud in Nashville.

Paris Street Art

Today I'm wrapping up my collection of street art found during our 2011 European Grand Tour. Our destination? Paris!

(Photographs by Andrew Wood)

Genoa Street Art

Time to share some more street art gathered during our recent European tour. Today's destination, Genoa. Elsewhere I've described other dimensions of our visit. Now I'm focusing on the bits and pieces of Italian ephemera you won't find on postcards.

Multiple Marx

Patty Hearst

"Take them and throw them all."
- Likely a variation on "[You all] take it [the Body of Christ] and eat it."
[Thanks to Michael Hirsch and his friend Silvia for translation help.
Thanks also to Jeff, Roslyn, Lisa, and Tezee for their advice!]

[caution photomontage]

(Photographs by Andrew Wood)

Memento Park (Budapest)

One of the highlights of last year's Grand Tour was the opportunity to visit Budapest's Memento Park: a collection of statues and other relics from the Communist era. While I've already written about that day, I've yet to post the pics we took from our visit. Time to catch up to the future worker's paradise that never came!

Republic of Councils monument (Kiss István, 1969)

Soviet-Hungarian Friendship (Búza Barna, 1975)

Liberation Monument (Kisfaludi Strobl Zsigmond, 1947)

Liberation Monument (Kisfaludi Strobl Zsigmond, 1947)

Lenin (Pátzay Pál, 1965)

Lenin relief (Szabó Iván, 1970)

Béla Kun memorial (Varga Imre, 1986)

Republic of Councils Pioneers memorial plaque (1959)

"Stalin's boots" reproduction (Ákos Eleőd, 2006)

Soviet Heroic memorial (Mikus Sándor, 1970)

The Heroes of People's Power memorial (Kalló Viktor, 1983)

The Heroes of People's Power memorial (Kalló Viktor, 1983)

Unnamed sculpture awaiting installation

Unnamed sculpture awaiting installation

(Photographs by Andrew Wood)