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Fixing A Hole
Published: 2006-06-07 13:59:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 19720; Favourites: 667; Downloads: 366
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Copyright 2006 C. Novack. All rights reserved. No permission granted to reproduce or use any part of the photo.You can buy this as a print, metal print, canvas or acrylic print at chrystyne-novack.artistwebsiteβ¦
Full title is Fixing A Hole (Where the Rain Gets In). Photo took 11th place in the DPC's Beatles Challenge.
Idea was to tackle a Beatles Song or Lyrics. I took the song Fixing A Hole and put a nod to "the sea of holes" from the movie Yellow Submarine and a bit of Magritte tossed in.
Thanks to my husband for being a patient model.
Set up and prep time took about 1.5 hours - ironing the white tablecloth, cutting out the black holes from black paper plates (which are a tad uneven), glueing a mop handle to the bottom of an open umbrella, taping the cloth to the house wall outdoors and taping the holes to the cloth...very sweaty work in the tropical sun. The hat was a lucky find at Party City - it was exactly what I was looking for AND the last one.
Cheers.
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Stops my mind from wondering- maybe he's wondering why his umbrella's upside down! 
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This amazing work has been featured here: [link]
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Thank you
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AHWWWW Thanks a million hon 
u are an amazing artist!! so.. CONGRATS
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"To stop my mind from wandering"
Absolutely brilliant! Love it.
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Love it!
It looks like what the fellow in the painting "The Son of Man" (the one with the man in the bowler hat and the apple over his face) does in his spare time. Perhaps it's his brother?
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That is exactly one of the inspirations from Magritte I wanted to 'infuse' in the photo 
I did do another photo shoot this past Feb. with what I call my "Topsy-Turvy Man" (because the umbrellas are upside down). I may post it here because I do plan to make a 2010 calendar featuring some of my works (Fixing A Hole will be in it)
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This is neat! I thought this was a painting until I saw the notes. Congrads on the win.
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This is totally awesome! Congrats on your DD - it's well deserved!
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loved the composition.very well balanced.eyes travels vry smoothly from one end to another end of the picture plane.great job done.
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I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in, and stops my mind from wandering, where it will gooooo...
Beautiful!
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Wow, what a great picture! When I saw the small version of this picture I actually thought of yellow submarine
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for some reason, this reminds me of Mary Poppins
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Magnifique! very good idea, and funny concept. I imagine that the Beatles are for something... no?
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go
I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong
See the people standing there who disagre and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door
I'm painting my room in a colourful way
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong
Silly people run around, they worry me
And never ask me why they don't get past my door
I'm taking the time for a number of things
That weren't important yesterday
And I still go
Fixing a hole where the rain gets in
Stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go.
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Thingst that happen in the black-and-white world of polygons!
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this is one of those inchanted things that makes you use your head. i've looked at it for quite a while and still don't trully get it, no matter how i look at it. but it's wonderful because it is so simple from the viewer's point of view and yet it demands so much from the viewer's imagination.
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This is wonderful, I'm so happy it got a DD and I could see it.
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This does look photoshopped as many have said, but I think that is only because we cannot see a big enough version to see whatever minor imperfections there are bound to be when working with white surfaces, especially cloth ones, outside.
This is a wonderful concept that I would NOT have understood if not for your explanation. Thanks for sharing!
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Great concept.... but to be true the background just looks like a lot to much Photoshoped.
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I thought the same thing though it says it's not a photomanip. ;> >
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maybe because a lot of contrast and shaprness correction it might look like a Photomanip...
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"I've got a hole in me pocket" Very nice job!
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this is an amazing picture. I really like the concept.
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thats really cool i love how you do this
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Wow. Sometimes, you look at a picture and it takes you a second to realize how completely, geniunely impressive it is. That's how I felt when I saw this.
Excellent work.
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wow. this is fantastic. lovely idea, great concept.
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