The MentalMirage Flickr Pool has now grown to be over 1300 wild and interesting photo’s, and a massive 500+ members!
If your still not a member, go join!
To celebrate this milestone, I have selected (what I feel is) the best 50 pictures in the group! This has been a difficult process, with several hundred pictures in consideration! To illustrate just how difficult the selection process has been, first it was Best 10, then Best 15, then Best 25, then Best 30, until I admitted to myself, I had to at least have a Best 50 to show just a fraction of the photo’s I thought were awesome. But a choice had to be made, and the following pictures is what I feel best illustrates creativity, individualism, new thinking, and general awesomeness! Read the rest of this entry »

I was a bit bored, and decided to do some photo retouching. Its been a while since I had the chance to do something like that anyway. What you see is the result.
The original photo can be found here:
flickr.com/photos/belleville/2894404510/in/set-7215760754…

I was cruising around Vimeo, and found some graphic show reels I thought I would share with you.
One thing that becomes evident when watching many of them, is however, that certain techniques are getting horridly overused, and you see them in every single reel. I wish people would try to be a little more original and creative, instead of just copying others. Heck, I even found a showreel, that showed an exact replica of a certain AE tutorial. Not cool.

Nonetheless, I do quite like these. So keep on reading to watch them!

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