Although I prefer to produce images in a series, I occassionally just make stand-alone images for special occassions or just for the hell of it.
Possibly my favourite of any image I've worked on is this one, the VT Home Edition board game. I actually put a lot of thought and effort into this one.
This Che spoof was done for Pickled Onions back when he was hanging out on the forums
This was a custom job for unravelau a while ago.
When Johny Rockfish first joined, a few people gave him a hard time for having a passport photo showing him holding up a "poor defenseless fish". (sheesh). So, to preserve the peace, I just made it more politically correct.
I actually thought this was a pretty cool image. But the overwhelming lack of respsonse leads me to believe others disagreed.
During a forum that spun out of control, a few people started making their passport photos into Katmosphere. So, I had to go overboard and morph her with Mona Lisa. This is possibly the fastest photoshop image I ever made. The face placement, the hair masking, and all the details were completed in under 7 minutes.
In yet another forum-gone-haywire, I saw that Larry wished he had a hat like RexVaughan's. So I gave him one.
Here's one that has never seen the light of day before. Why? Because Pieter_jan came up with the same idea and used it as his passport photo for a while. I didn't want to appear to be copying him so I had no choice but to shelve this one. Great minds...! :-)
I forgot all about this one... I took an old VT staff photo and put it on the bodies of... well, you know.
Just a barely funny pop-culture joke.
I thought Wendy67 might enjoy being zombie-fied. It 's the ideal way to get guys to stop hitting on you, I suppose.
Following the Verona meeting I sensed that mapakettle was uncomfortable with pictures of himself showing up on the net. So, I put his mask on for him. (and gave him a smile)
And here's another customized passport photo. I forgot the details around this one, but I think it was that Haldane's cat had to wear a cone, so I gave her a "sympathy cone" to wear.
I must confess that I found this to be absolutely hilarious. Not so much the image, but the concept that anonymous members would gather at a meeting... and they'd all look like Richiecdisc. Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. This one fell totally flat. I put them in the water because the big Manhattan Beach party had just wrapped up.
Just a little messing around. Again, I thought this was hilarious, but I realized I was the only one laughing.
Following the theft of "The Scream" painting, I decided to make this image for Jeff.
Not to try and steal anyone's thunder, but this picture was intended to be a part of a project that Frank and I were going to launch called "VT Enquirer" back in 2003. But laziness allowed a certain someone to start it before Frank and I did. But I am not bitter, Claes did a great job of it.
Another not-so-successful attempt. I was trying to combine every passport photo dumpymotel ever used into one image. But I gave up.
During the invisibles feature, I created this image from a movie and asked VTers to guess which movie it was. No one ever got it. Any guesses? (Man, this was a bad chop)
And quite possibly the least-funny of all the images I've done for VT.... I put Larry's face on Roger Ebert. It's not funny because... well, it just looks like Larry in a suit. Totally missed the mark on this one.
