My Friends - Through My Eyes

[AgentDrex]

These are not good examples of portraits but I would like to share them with you all as a testament to my progress. One day I will try my hand at professional-looking shots.

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#4 - My tribute photo to Rugerro Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust"

#5 - My tribute photo to Yoko Ono (If John loved you, then I love you)

 

[AgentDrex]

Anyone here ever watch any Deodato films?

 

[AgentDrex]

Has anyone seen a photo of Yoko looking back at the camera with most of her face covered with that long hair of hers? I know I've seen it somewhere, but am having a heck of a time finding it again...

 

[c.cloudwalker]

The only reason I'm responding to this thread is that I love Yoko. YES, I do.

Yoko has done an awful lot for the art world no matter how few people want to admit it. Fook them all.

Your photos however are not helping her or what she tried to do. For the most part anyway.

 

[AgentDrex]

Yeah, that photo was just my attempt at a photo that I thought I once saw of her when I was in high school but cannot for the life of me remember where I saw it...and I still haven't found it...all I remember is all you could see was her hair and her sunglasses...and it looked like her body was turned away from camera with her head swiveled back to face the camera...just a tribute...not trying to help her...if a photo could do that...I'm probably not the one that could pull that sort of thing off anyhow...thank you for the reply...

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Yes, that photo does stir some memory cells. But only a few cause I've burned most of them up

Now, I'll share a project of mine which you are welcome to steal. One of these days, when I have time, which may be never like for a lot of my projects, I want to do a series of photos (or paintings) based on her "Grapefruit" book. I have a notebook of ideas dedicated to this but it may never get done... and even if it did, it would probably be very different from what someone else (you for example) would come up with, so I'm not worried about anyone doing it too.

And if you get better at photography while doing that, you can then thank her when you have your show

 

[lyonsroar]

Anyone here ever watch any Deodato films?

I've seen:

Jungle Holocaust
Eaten Alive!
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley

Fantastic cinema! Worth watching merely for the historical cinema aspect. In Jungle Holocaust there's a scene in which they kill and skin a live alligator on screen. There are scenes of actual animal death in all three, but that alligator scene sticks out to me. That would never fly in today's cinimatic atmosphere. IIRC Deodato was actually taken into custody and questioned by authorities because several of the human death scenes looked so realistic. He had the actors that portrayed the dead females leave the area after shooting so no one saw them and it was percieved that they had actually died. Gratuitous nudity as well in all three. I love that several scenes in Eaten Alive! were lifted directly from Jungle Holocaust, no changes whatsoever.

 

[AgentDrex]

Been meaning to watch "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley", but had kind of forgot about that. I think I know what my weekend plan will be. Thanks for reminding me of this movie.

 

[lyonsroar]

Been meaning to watch "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley", but had kind of forgot about that. I think I know what my weekend plan will be. Thanks for reminding me of this movie.

IIRC the two females in that movie are nude for the entire last half of the film.
That one was the worst of the three.

 

[AgentDrex]

That one was the worst of the three.

That sounds great. My kind of movie then.