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Published: 2004-04-27 10:20:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 6442; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 1648
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Description Started with an innocent newspaper collage and turned into this...

Had fun with all the fish tho'.
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Comments: 83

frosk [2006-03-20 10:23:49 +0000 UTC]

oooh this is so cool

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brek3 [2005-10-24 01:00:49 +0000 UTC]

fish n chess? this is me! fave!

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vwake [2005-08-08 06:35:22 +0000 UTC]

::>

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naymeequillo [2005-08-06 14:42:45 +0000 UTC]

FISH totally ROCK!!

Wow... Nice piece there... I think I'm jealous!!

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brek3 [2005-01-11 19:55:24 +0000 UTC]

love the checkered fish

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futb0l [2004-11-19 09:39:41 +0000 UTC]

whoa - awesome man

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Avinash [2004-11-10 19:05:01 +0000 UTC]

iam not sure what to say about.very innovative,very expressive,very different indeed.

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quickreaver [2004-11-04 14:25:24 +0000 UTC]

Wow! How'd this fly under my radar?? Cool stuff, truly...such a quirky and appealing graphic style, you have. I dig it.

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sans-soleil [2004-10-27 02:16:38 +0000 UTC]

apparently colors and cardboards are more important to people than the meaning of this work

so this community finally "discovers" you. congrats!

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madhs In reply to sans-soleil [2004-10-28 05:42:32 +0000 UTC]

thank you... i think...

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Starkid69 [2004-10-27 01:19:23 +0000 UTC]

Hey I wanted to let you know that this piece really fuckin kickass man \m/.

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endless-wave [2004-10-25 14:53:00 +0000 UTC]

that is so friggggggggggin awesome.

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msfeistus [2004-10-25 03:48:52 +0000 UTC]

It's so hard for me to choose what I like most about this ... the way you left some ink free in fish shapes toward the bottom of the orange article ... or the checkerboard fish, with the faded shapes in the black squares ... or those beautiful drawn fish at the top ...

Either way, it's a beautiful piece, and I can tell a lot of work and effort went into it. Nicely done, and well-deserving of a DD.

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Auquicu [2004-10-25 02:35:41 +0000 UTC]

Great original idea!
Nice work!

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Auquicu [2004-10-25 02:35:27 +0000 UTC]

Great original idea!
Nice work!

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bej [2004-10-25 02:26:40 +0000 UTC]

Cardboard as a break from the norm ... yes, it is, it is also more readily and cheaply available than canvas boards or making a frame and stretching canvas over it; I totally feel ya on that. Now that you've piqued my curiosity I'll have to rummage through your other works.

Cheers!

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feef [2004-10-25 01:36:22 +0000 UTC]

As a lover of orange and blue, I find the texture throughout the piece really makes it pop. The way it all bleeds together and melds, just brilliant. Gorgeous piece, no quips here.

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digitalchipp [2004-10-25 01:30:44 +0000 UTC]

mix all these ingredients
mezcla todos estos ingredientes

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myny [2004-10-25 00:25:46 +0000 UTC]

love the colors
love the idea
love the love..

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jmecor64 [2004-10-24 23:45:11 +0000 UTC]

Unique. I really fond watching fishes used in chess.
Great stuff I'll be checking your gallery.

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NoNotNopeNah [2004-10-24 23:35:05 +0000 UTC]

what a wonderful concept. and i love the colors too. fun. i wish you'd have a print of this.

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purple-carrot [2004-10-24 23:12:43 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome
i love the textures from the cardboard and the paints
sunburn?
getting rid of tanning?
scented sunscreen spray?
very strange but i love it

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scarlet-starlet [2004-10-24 23:08:52 +0000 UTC]

awsome and wonderfully creative piece!

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basalt [2004-10-24 22:19:26 +0000 UTC]

this is bizarre and beautiful! the paint and pen-sketch look is really appealing

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spectatrix [2004-10-24 21:35:01 +0000 UTC]

Tis quite cute, and it certainly looks like it was fun to do, congrats on the DD! I especially like the lil silver blue fishies.

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Raventhird [2004-10-24 21:29:03 +0000 UTC]

Amazingly abstract and surreal. Fantastic idea.

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KPEKEP [2004-10-24 21:23:50 +0000 UTC]

Nice work !

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Mr-Kantz [2004-10-24 20:56:34 +0000 UTC]

awesome

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qda [2004-10-24 20:01:23 +0000 UTC]

coool

looks like a calendar
fun!

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quilha [2004-10-24 19:31:51 +0000 UTC]

Amazing! I liked it!

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theperfectlestat [2004-10-24 19:29:17 +0000 UTC]

Very cool. Interesting style. I like it.

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sesquipedalian [2004-10-24 18:45:09 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful - especially the colors. I've always liked coming across the odd project on cardboard, and the flying fish remind me of James Christensen. :^) !

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carrotrope [2004-10-24 17:39:06 +0000 UTC]

oh man, this is awesome. fantastic work! great hatching work and real interesting composition. +fav for sure.

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malrose [2004-10-24 17:22:52 +0000 UTC]

wow. it's so different from all the rest of the stuff you normally see on DA. awesome job. it's really hars to stop looking at it. it's so full, and yet you laidit out perfectly. will stop babbling incoherently and just give you a

~Ri
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." --Voltaire (1694-1778)

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anitha [2004-10-24 17:07:51 +0000 UTC]

Strange, I'm certain I commented on this about two months ago. Did you delete this and resubmit this, or something?
It certainly is a very interesting and creative piece. Somehow, the cardboard adds quite a bit of personality to this, and makes it seem a little more human and friendly than it otherwise would. The orange and the blue colours, on top of the brown of the cardboard, really go well together.
It's interesting the way that, at the bottom, the fish are all nearly identical, and laid out so perfectly in rows. They seem to almost be prisoners in those little checkerboard cells. As they go up, they become a little more unique and alive, and then, once they get past that newspaper barrier, look completely alive, and almost realistic. The ladder, as well, gets more lifelike as it comes up out of the newspaper.
Personally, I like the top part the best, with it's detail, the rich warm colours, and the way the colours seem to drain down from the fish and flow along the wall to the floor. In contrast, the bottom looks a little bland (in my entirely subjective opinion. ). The texture on the blue fish, underneath the article on lentils, though, reminds me of the ocean near where I live, with the bits of green kelp floating around, and because it almost looks like a window to another scene, it draws my attention to it.
Overall, though, you did a fantastic job on this. It definitely deserves the DD.

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madhs In reply to anitha [2004-10-25 05:55:47 +0000 UTC]

thanks so much for your time and the insightful comment.
Reactions/interactions like this make it all worthwhile.

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Flamsmark [2004-10-24 16:40:25 +0000 UTC]

sorry for the useless comment, i just didn't want to fav it without ommenting. wonderful piece.

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Flamsmark In reply to Flamsmark [2004-10-24 16:41:00 +0000 UTC]

damn me and my useless typos

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YumeUchiYume [2004-10-24 16:16:47 +0000 UTC]

Oooh, fish!

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osandstorrm [2004-10-24 15:58:13 +0000 UTC]

Interesting. The checkerboard portion in the lower half of the image seems to evoke a certain Escher tesselation, but then it would have had the fish entering the black tiles displayed with more prominence. The article about suntan was an interesting choice for a collage background, as was the cardboard. I have seen cardboard artwork before, it's a wonderful medium to work on, more people should try it. The horizontal/vertical positioned fish in the center are interesting, all chaotically moving in opposite directions, not at all a unified school of fish. The uppermost group fish seem as if you were attempting to draw them with realism, but needed more art reference photos/diagrams to study. The ladder in the upper right is especially intriguing, perhaps it is the ladder aside a dock, leading down into the water, symbolising the gap-bridger between two entirely different realms, which the fish have learned to somehow climb so that they now move above the dock as well as in the dark checked depths below the water.

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madhs In reply to osandstorrm [2004-10-25 05:53:34 +0000 UTC]

your time is appreciated. much much appreciated!
the whole thing kind of evolved from a crafty collage exercise... and if i were to (and i should) revist this, your comment would make the most detailed reference 'notes'.

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yajido [2004-10-24 15:14:09 +0000 UTC]

thakyou... u've calmed my heart with this piece... anything i can do to thank ya? .. yeah perhaps a fav..

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stigmatattoo [2004-10-24 15:13:51 +0000 UTC]

+ha haaa... great to see you here! good job on this one, i really like the colors and the contrast of the free top against the structurated bottom. the texture and tone of the cardboard makes a great background. congrats on the Daily D, my friend.+

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madhs In reply to stigmatattoo [2004-10-25 05:49:52 +0000 UTC]

thank you... now I'm ridiculosly pleased!

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blunt28 [2004-10-24 12:50:28 +0000 UTC]

i love it...so sincere, original...great work!

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MissingPerson [2004-07-05 17:26:02 +0000 UTC]

kind of MC Escher like, i love the colors and how it's split into three progressions, but it's pulled together by the fish and ladder. loverly dahlin, loverly.

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spoooky [2004-05-26 13:02:39 +0000 UTC]

it's so pretty.!

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Aristocrat-knights [2004-05-19 03:55:30 +0000 UTC]

that is absolutely craaaazy!!! super cool though.! well done

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quickreaver [2004-05-17 01:18:28 +0000 UTC]

Cool stuff; fish ARE fun. A bit slimey, but fun, nonetheless.

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BlueLoserPony [2004-05-01 04:38:41 +0000 UTC]

that reminds me of the tessellations that M. C. Escher did, but this is so much more vibrant. wow. i just love the colors, and the textures it shows... how do you do it?

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