Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The Dioramas: fox and skunk






I have been working on a variety of diorama pictures. These are an example of something I would totally make for real, if I could. Since here they are, and I am showing you them, I sort of can make them, but physical versions might be even nicer. 

I have made a lot of these diorama images for a show I am having at my library, all featuring my library throughout my career, but these below, having nothing to do with the library, might be the best versions of this method so far. 

They feature good old fox and skunk, classical mainstays of clerkmanifesto.







































































































































 

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Variety pack, my co-workers

 





As so often has been happening in the current generation of photo generation and ai photo editors, I am chest deep in experiments. I am never entirely satisfied with how I end up showing these wide ranging collections to you, but I always love showing what I'm up to here, so I am ever fiddling with how to do it. I have a new idea for this go around: I will show you small related but more diverse groups of pictures. 

Today to start off, since it is what I started working with this round, I am going to show you a random selection of portraits of my co-workers done in various styles. I took some pictures of my co-workers to create some Moebius style sci fi versions of everybody, which seemed to go over well with everyone, and certainly pleased me. But I since branched out into a range of other styles, and while I might usually stick to a collection of the Moebius pictures in a first post like this, I will instead start with an assortment across various styles today to try and give you a taste of what the portrait range I'm working with is like.

I am also working with a lot of non portrait images. But we'll come to that later in addition to exploring these studies some more.