I still need to add complete descriptions and to color correct certain images, but all of my poster designs are now up at one place, at this website. This is an internal link:
https://thomasfarleyblog.com/artwork

I still need to add complete descriptions and to color correct certain images, but all of my poster designs are now up at one place, at this website. This is an internal link:
https://thomasfarleyblog.com/artwork
Another possibility. Here, I brought out the lettering, added the required lady in the clouds, moved their street sign to their front porch, and added one of the ambassadors from Hans Holbeins’s 1533 masterpiece of the same name. I thought of adding the owner to the foreground but she would have been too exuberant an element for the mood already established. Best to do that sort of thing for an upbeat version made from scratch; tough to get a contemplative and moody scene changed to sunny by dropping in sunny elements.
Lightened the turquoise colored sign. This is just a screen capture but you get the idea.
What I experience at night is just as real, terrifying, horrific, or devastating as anything you experience in the day. Deal with it.
And if you doubt me, you disrespect my condition in that you do not trust me. Yet, I never second guess anyone who comes to me with an earnest and passionate accounting of their suffering. Why am I doubted?
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Unedited transcript
[00:00:08.490] – Speaker 1
Let me talk about reality and about dreams and nightmares not being real. According to the dream and nightmare denying people, which is the vast majority of people, I think even the mental health professionals, I just woke up afternoon, heart racing, adrenaline going through me, gasping for breath. All right. Those are very real physical symptoms. That’s what that FDA cleared nightmare system for $7,000 that I bought out of pocket.
[00:00:45.990] – Speaker 1
That’s what it keys on. It has an Apple watch, monitors, your heart rate. Those are very real symptoms. Now, I can tell the deniers would say, well, it’s not reaching a level of harm that we would consider damaging. Well, okay, but you’ve just admitted if you’re just talking about the degree of harm, you’ve just admitted that, in fact, part of the nightmares, dreams are real, haven’t you?
[00:01:25.170] – Speaker 1
Now you may say, well, let’s back up. They’re not that physically harming. You can’t see a wound or some such. Well, got two divisions here. I think you have mentally damaging and physically damaging.
[00:01:46.830] – Speaker 1
We’ve all seen that physical damaging could be real. What is the benefit of an increased heart rate? What’s the benefit of more adrenaline? What’s the benefit of gasping for air? Okay, so that’s physically damaging to me.
[00:02:03.360] – Speaker 1
I can’t imagine saying anything else as far as mentally going by extension, can’t you see that the dreams, the fright, the terror over a period of years, decades, is also mentally damaging, even if you can’t see it, what we really have is a larger system. Like all large systems, you can break it down into parts. So I’m going to say you have a nighttime reality and you have a daytime reality, the daytime reality that most people experience is their world, and they can’t see into the nighttime reality that we have. But again, that nighttime reality is both damaging physically and observable, both with that night where system and in the lab, it’s observable, it’s physical, it’s real. And the mental part of it is also damaging, unless you dismiss mental health as being unreal itself.
[00:03:15.170] – Speaker 1
Psychiatrists, a psychological community will say, oh, mental health is a real problem, except when it comes to funding, of course. But I think even many of them doubt that it’s real. But it is. It’s both physically notable and mentally notable. Two different realities, nighttime reality and daytime reality.
[00:03:41.350] – Speaker 1
And I don’t question anybody’s daytime reality. I don’t want them questioning my nighttime reality.
There are probably more combinations of lighting, effects, textures, and colors possible through Photoshop as there are combinations of words in the English language.
But a language, even if depicted by symbols or icons like Kanji, can’t be compared to an art experession. Two different things. Picasso once said that if he had meant to use words to express his thoughts, he would have written a book instead of making a painting.
This poster is proof of concept: can a poster be made based solely on Instagram grade photos? Certainly yes, but other problems now take place. Lettering still doesn’t pop out of the background, still lost in the background. Blue not tough enough for the main lettering. Working on it!
Update: The poster fails for me because there isn’t enough whimsy. Not enough strangeness or humor, either. Too straightforward which is what everyone else can do.
My previous cat poster was too subtle for most (internal link) so I have spelled things out. Perhaps a good thing.
You may not have heard a choir backing up lyrics like this before. But you will now.
Spoons and foil are all he needs
A bed and some china
A lighter and some speed
It will sing you to sleep, and it will hit you awake
In the perfect life, a perfect life
The Perfect Life
Oh
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
You open up when you had me in your hands
Slipping far away with the world at your command
You sing me to sleep and then you hit me awake
It’s a perfect life, a perfect life
I only want to be here when you’re by my side
Oh I believe now, I’ll love you ’til I die
You will sing me to sleep, you will hit me awake
In the perfect life, the perfect life
Oh
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
Oh
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
Little Mike he, steps everywhere
Knives in his pockets and bullets in his hair
He has nothing to live for, nothing left to say
He’s locking all the doors to keep the older wolves at bay
Spoons and foil are all he needs
A bed and some china
A lighter and some speed
It will sing you to sleep, and it will hit you awake
In the perfect life, a perfect life
Oh
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
Oh
It goes all night
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
Oh
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
Oh
We close our mind
The perfect life, life
Is all we need
The perfect life
The perfect life
The perfect life
The perfect life
The perfect life
All we need
Songwriters: Richard Hall
The Perfect Life lyrics © Richard Hall Music Inc
From the soundtrack of Lost in Translation.
Two people between happy and sad. It’s all going to end. Does anything last?
“No,” says the Fairy Godmother to Cinderella before midnight, but, “At least you got to go to the Ball.”
[Verse 1]
Close my eyes, feel me now
I don’t know how you could not love me now
You will know, and her feet down to the ground
Over there, and I want true love to know
You can’t hide, oh no, from the way I feel
[Verse 2]
Turn my head into sound
I don’t know when I lay down on the ground
You will find the way it hurts to love
Never cared, and the world turned hearts to love
You will see, oh, now, oh, the way I do
[Verse 3]
You will wait, see me go
I don’t care, when your head turned all alone
You will wait, when I turn my eyes around
Overhead, when I hold you next to me
Overhead, to know, oh, the way I see
[Verse 4]
Close my eyes, feel me how
I don’t know, maybe you could not hurt me now
Here alone, when I feel down too
Over there, when I await true love for you
You can hide, oh, now, the way I do
You can see, oh, now, oh, the way I do