quinn222

Is that how Henry Thomas looks these days? He was cute in ET

He actually is quite good looking. That's not the best picture and I had to smudge it up a lot to make it look like a low end newspaper photo.

Thanks!

That looks SO awesome! I love the bit about the Christian fundamentalists

Thanks! Can you imagine the brou-ha-ha if this film was actually made?

Wow, that looks very real! Great job on the graphics.

Thanks :-)

Thanks!

BTW, how long does it take to make one of these? This one seems to incorporate several different things, I would assume it's much harder that a single letter entry?

You're right, a plain letter or a postcard is fairly quick. The hardest part is writing the text with those. This one has a lot of layers going on. I had to make the actual photograph and that involved three orginals, the one of Henry Thomas, the one of Russell Crowe and the one with Randy and Gale. Those had to be blended and made to look like a newspaper picture.

Then I had to scan an actual newspaper, remove the article that was there and write a new one. In all of these, even if you don't see the entire article or bit of text (as here) there actually is an entire thing written.

Once I had the paper put together I had to put it on the Liberty Diner counter, which involved finding out about what colour the counter is, then I found a picture of a coffee cup at the right angle (I take my own a lot but I had this one already in my stock photos). Added the coffee stains.

Then I had to find an order pad and write the note from Kiki.

This one probably took 2-3 hours start to finish.

A lot of them don't take much time at all technically, but researching them takes quite a while. The shortest ones probably take 15 minutes, the longest probably took 12 hours. It's a wide range.