The folks over at 2pie blog have a pretty neat idea: make a snow print by pushing their faces into fresh powder on cars. The images are all concave, but make for an optical illusion of 3D sculptures!
I saw this circulating on the Net a few days ago, but didn’t get the chance to post it till now. Better late than never! Link
Adam Stanhope
Agreed. As a hardy northerner who loves the snow, this one appears to me to be a fabrication.
Adam Stanhope
I guess I should add that I’m open to being proved wrong about this.
I get the hollow-face illusion. It’s the detail that seems improbable.
Our latest snowstorm melted Christmas eve. I will try this during the next one.
Gauldar
The imprints are too perfect to be real. I don’t know if a plastic mould might have been used, but like I said, the imprints look too flawless.
Johnny Cat
You guys are funny. Take a look at his blog post, and his assertion that they are not fakes. *sigh* Maybe one day everything will be photoshopped, and displayed for its creativity, and there will be non-believers out there shouting, “REAL!”
Staxeon
LMAO! Yes, because an assertion in a blog should be taken as gospel and NEVER to be questioned. How dare we doubt anything posted on the internet.
I’ve lived in Western NY all my life, no stranger to snow. If the snow is slightly wet and the packing is right you can get imprints that show buttons or folds in your clothes (we often would fall on our ass and get up to see a detailed ass-print), but this looks ridiculously fake.
Look at the guy on the right, tell me how you get imprints of individual fingers if you karate-chop your hand into snow like that? You’d only get the edge of the hand.
otterly
This link shows people trying to
imprint thier faces in the snow
and the result…
http://picasaweb.google.com/heathery425/ThereAndBackAgainSpringFestiva l2008#5172231500056470466
JAck Gill
I have lived in Michigan for 53 years…..we get lots of snow and I have interacted with it countless times……..this is fake.
J. Gill
liphttam1
The detail is too flawless. There is a problem with the left guys arm, no doubt what it should look like.
DOJ
Here’s my proof it’s fake.
Look at the man on the right. See the buttons on his shirt? Well if he actually had pressed his body on the car, the buttons would be on the other side.
Unless of course he’s wearing a womans shirt.
Alex
Hm, I can see that the details are too good to be true. Obviously I don’t have much experience with snow …
Adam Stanhope
How deep is the snow on the car? It looks as if it must be at least the width of a hand deep – or half the diameter of a human skull.
For the other snow people… Can you imagine the guy on the left making the imprint and not accidentally pushing any snow off the side of the car?
Staxeon
Good point Adam, or the front of the car as they were getting back up. Most of that should have crumbled under their weight.
There’s just so much that doesn’t make sense. The poses are so odd, like how do you get back up without smearing the prints and not planting the one hand on the hood? Its just all shenanigans.
Christophe
My years in Adam’s New England snowy lands and in French Alps make me a non believer as well.
It’s too good to be true.
artbot
Agreed: fake-a-roo. There’s no way the people’s clothes would stay cemented in position as they are lowered into a horizontal position (on top of a car, yet!). If the subjects lowered themselves somehow (hanging from monkey bars?), there’s just no way they could leave imprints that clean. Also, considering the amount of detail present, the edges of the imprints seem very soft and blurry, which indicates a lazy Photoshop job. What betrays this is the few where blemishes and mistakes appear. Clever touch, if they’re fakes.
OTOH, a couple seem very plausible, like the hands/face only ones. But the poster’s comments are funny – what’s a point & shoot camera? I know this used to be a type of camera, but aren’t all cameras P&S now? And why no pics of them making the “sculptures? That would have sealed the deal as real for me.
I’m half tempted to replicate the effect in PS just to see what it would look like.
ted
Fake. This was something made for gullible folk with little experience of snow.
Sam R.
Lifelong MN resident and a professional graphic designer. Believe what you want about how the imprint was made, but the lighting is far too perfect to be photoshop. Anyway, I’ve seen this kind of imprint done in person. We used to do it as kids here at recess. You can see the edges aren’t as perfect as the rest. The farther in the snow goes, the better the detail you get. It takes practice, but you have to press right so that the snow on top gets compacted. We figured it out after some kids fell off their sleds and imprinted the zippers of their snow-pants.
M
haha I guarantee these are real. The Seattle-area was hit with the perfect type of snow for a high level of detail when doing these prints. I myself had a lot of fun making a bunch of these around my yard.
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First thing, about the buttons being on the wrong side. My dad has two shirts with buttons on both sides, so the person could be wearing either.
Second, about the karate chop and not being able to make fingers. If you look closely, you can tell that the person didn’t do a karate chop, but just layed his hand flat on the snow but curved his fingers a little, but the left guy is definately making a karate chop.
Third, about the snow collapsing when they got up. If the snow was wet, it wouldn’t do that. The person who posted this was just wrong about the snow, it wasn’t powder snow, it was wet snow. Wet snow also makes it easy to make detailed imprints for the same reason.
Forth, about being lowered. You can easely do this without needing to be lowed by monkeybars or whatever, by laying yourself on the hood of the car in a worm like motion.
Other give-aways that make this pictures real is the left guy, who did a poor job at imprinting himself, because the face isn’t very good; the arms of both people are obviously concave, and dont look 3-D at all; the neck of the right person looks concave as well and not 3-D; and where the other arms are Suposed to go looks very odd because they aren’t in the snow, so that a third person can lift them up when they are done.
This picture is soooo realy!
dogimo
Some of you people are pretty funny. “Been around snow all my life!” You must just not have *played* in it enough, or you’d know different kinds of snow have all different sorts of characteristics in terms how well they can hold an impression, and how detailed that impression can be. What we see here is easily doable given a good wet pack and a deep impression. Poster Sam R. is dead on – the farther in you press, the compression packs the snow together better and produces a crisper, more detailed image.
These things are ridiculously easy to make – when the snow is right.
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