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Monday 30 November 2009
November 2009 - Sarkozy in history (HTCIPS)
There was no starting image this week.
The brief:
During the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, French president Nicolas Sarkozy posted images on his blog showing him to have been present on the day, chipping away at the wall with a pickaxe. But was he really there? It seems he may be distorting the actualité just a little. You can read the full story here and here.
Of course, it's possible that Sarkozy was present at other groundbreaking historical events as well. Would you like to suggest a few appearances he might have made? You'll have to source your own Sarkozy images. There's a good selection here to get you started.
Finished work:
The brief:
During the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, French president Nicolas Sarkozy posted images on his blog showing him to have been present on the day, chipping away at the wall with a pickaxe. But was he really there? It seems he may be distorting the actualité just a little. You can read the full story here and here.
Of course, it's possible that Sarkozy was present at other groundbreaking historical events as well. Would you like to suggest a few appearances he might have made? You'll have to source your own Sarkozy images. There's a good selection here to get you started.
Finished work:
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Monday 23 November 2009
November 2009 - Fill the moat (HTCIPS)
The original:
The brief:
I'm grateful to Nick Curtain for this week's Challenge. Nick's just spent some time photographing Hampton Court Palace (you'll see a number of his photographs on thefullmontage soon).
One of his images shows the original moat, now dry and empty. Can you fill it with water? As it's surrounded by walls I wouldn't expect much turbulence on the surface, so we might expect a degree of transparency in the finished result...
Finished work: (you have to know me to get the full significance ...!)
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Thursday 19 November 2009
November 2009 - Queen's Grove (HTCIPS)
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The brief:
Queen's Grove is a street in Hampstead, London. The road sign has been in place for at least a hundred years, and it's clear that when it was placed here the builders had run out of the correct letters, and had to make do with odds and ends.
Can you rearrange the lettering to make a phrase more appropriate to the location? Or could you just correct the missing characters? Any other embellishment you care to add would be of interest too, of course.
Finished work: (based on an anagram)
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Monday 16 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Sunday 1 November 2009
October 2009 - Halloween! (HTCIPS)
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The brief:
Looking back through the archives, I see the last time we tried pumpkin carving was a full five years ago. Time to refresh the vegetable! Here's a classic complete pumpkin. Can you carve this into a design more suitable for the Halloween holiday this weekend?
Finished work:
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Shameless bit of self-promotion here; this is the comment I received on the forum:
Seriously clever stuff from katew, both in inspiration and in execution. Her jailed pumpkin is a tremendous and lifelike achievement: if I didn't know better I'd thin you actually carved this. In fact, the closer I look, the more I can't believe this is all Photoshop... tell us your secret, Kate!
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