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Cognitive Transformation -full
Published: 2005-04-04 16:07:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 56234; Favourites: 1529; Downloads: 5279
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This is the entire image of a drawing i submited a detail of previously.24"x24" prints are available for $15 here: www.bentolman.com
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We breathe in the world and compound it with genetics. This is creativity and thought.
Nice work.
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Very cool stuff, reminds me of Alex Grey's work.
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Now that is something worth calling "ars" in its purest meaning. One hell of a job drawing that. Well, not a job, a vocation, heh.
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This is an amzing picture, im saving it to my favs, no randoms. my favourite parts of this picture are the clockwork, the woman blowing smoke , the windpipe and the brain. the butterflies are gorgeous but i could look at this picture for hours, fanatstic artwork shall be devwatching you!
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okay, i see lots of people already said you this stuff looks like the Tool artwork... (toolband.com, if i remember well) with psychedelic human bodies and strange patterns, like the Lateralus CD cover.
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Awesome.
Definitely reminds of Alex Grey's work for Lateralus.
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breathtaking! i can't comprehend how much detail and effort has gone into this. its amazing!
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My awe and jealousy overflow. The intricacies and perfection just floor me. I will buy this the second my budget allows.
I love the little shroomies, but most of all, t... I ... goddamn it I'm drooling. Instant Γberfav
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Wow. Looks like it should be on the inside of Tool's Lateralus album. Or at the very least the theme image to Third Eye.
*orders signed print*
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O_O
I don't think there is anything I could possibly say to do this picture justice....
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wonderful detail - i particularly like the column inside the head.
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This makes me think a little about Alex Grey's artworks. 
Anyway, that's quite a great work ; congratz for the Daily Dev!
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what Psychedelic art is all about
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lol...if the shit didnt fuck me up so much id smoke all day...can be great
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wow, the details are just breath taking. This is just awsome!. -N-
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did you release this in any magazine or something? iΒ΄m quite sure that iΒ΄ve seen this one before. in my opinion, one of your best pieces in your gallery
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thanks! this drawings been a few places most recently the current issue of Direct Art magazine.
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very awesome!!! great gallery! unique and well crafted work.
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your details are wicked sick. I love em. searching for a 
realy well done, it's impressive
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wow this is an amazing picture. *standing ovation* faaaaave.
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thats the first time i've gotten a standing ovation...thanks for that.
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lol your welcome
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Wow, this is a great piece. I really like the technique and the style. It looks beautiful and powerful, very original. There must be a lot of symbolism hidden in the picture.
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I am once again in awe of your details, and how thought out your piece is. The symbolism is pwefwct, as if the skil work put into the piece its self. I will most definately be favoriting this.
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excellent. theres nothing like a good smoke.
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how do you do your pieces
I mean are they drawing on black paper
how are they made.......
what are they made of.....
what are you using....
lay some love on me and show me the way
no but really you do nice clean and powerful work I would like to know what yo did this piece on and with what
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they are all done with a very fine point rapidograph (technical drawing pen, usually three sizes the 4x0 size for very fine lines, the 3x0 or 2x0 for most the lines, and a 2 or 4 to fill in the black) on white illustration board cognitive transformation is 24"x24" and the larger ones are 30"x40"
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once again, amazing. This is the first of your drawings I stumbled across, and it still remains my favorite.
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i love your attention to detail
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aww darnit... i spent hours making a hybrid wallpaper for myself from your other one, now you release the full
love the stuff your submitting, you've put alot of work into making some great pictures.
I don't know if i already said it on the last submission, but this picture and some of your others really remind me of a meeting between escher and the artist that illustrated an edition of J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition. A bit less of the 'hardness' (mathematical abstractness from escher and apocolyptical apostle/critic detachedness from ballard) that I think of those too though.
Quite amazing how much difference in feel there is between this and the smaller previous version submitted.
Have a good one (oh, i fav'd it too)
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thanks for the comment. are you talking about this image: [link]
is this a book i should get?
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yep, that's the book.. though i mean the images of that style throughout that book rather than that one specifically and the way they go together with ballard's disaffection with the way the world is.
As for getting the book, it depends on what interests you have and if you like ballard I guess.
I've heard people say they don't like that version of the book as it is heavily 'flavoured' (tainted?) by the illustrator since it essentially a graphic novel version of ballard's original story.
I don't own it right now(i read a friends copy), but i'd say it is worth buying.
For story, its not the best book: its an adhoc collection really, and i think it has a taste of affectation.
But its an interesting brainstorming book in terms of seeing how things that are presented as a new normalcy or an idealized objectivity (of applied science for example) can be far more twisted than the biases they try to avoid.
Maybe rent [link] (empire of the sun), which is based on a ballard book to see if your interested first - the images you can see of the book in the link you gave and the ideas in that movie should give you an idea if your interested in reading further. Pretty good movie for a spielberg too.
Its still a gamble any way you look at it though
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