{"id":681,"date":"2013-03-27T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/03\/27\/artist-pushes-photoshop-pushed-to-weird-limits-turns-rust-into-planets\/"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:23:00","slug":"artist-pushes-photoshop-pushed-to-weird-limits-turns-rust-into-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/03\/27\/artist-pushes-photoshop-pushed-to-weird-limits-turns-rust-into-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist pushes Photoshop pushed to weird limits, turns rust into planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetuniverse.net\/home.html\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vxhfe0cGimk\/UVNidF3UJ6I\/AAAAAAAAAfU\/vGg5CCbaxxw\/s320\/crazyplanet.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The New Media Center is getting busy as we head into the second half of the semester, and a good number of our patrons are using Photoshop. The average user might use it to touch up a photo, add text, or do some graphic design work.<\/p>\n<p>But then there are the extreme outlier users like Adam Kennedy. Adam uses Photoshop to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2013\/03\/adam-kennedy-planet-universe\/\">transform photos of rusty fire hydrants<\/a> into stunning planetary landscapes. It&#8217;s such an out-of-the-box, unusual idea, but it works, and it looks great. This is a terrific example of photomanipulation being pushed beyond what you&#8217;d expect. There&#8217;s also something to say about the re-appropriation of urban decay to create new worlds, etc., but we&#8217;ll leave that to the critics.<\/p>\n<p>The artist has published more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetuniverse.net\/home.html\">on his personal website<\/a> and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/from-rusty-fire-hydrants-to-imaginary-planets\">currently seeking crowd funding<\/a> to continue this project. In any event, it should serve as inspiration for people working on end-of-semester Photoshop projects. Yes, you <i>can<\/i> make something as awesome as this with the right tools.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Media Center is getting busy as we head into the second half of the semester, and a good number of our patrons are using Photoshop. The average user might use it to touch up a photo, add text, or do some graphic design work. But then there are the extreme outlier users like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,245,269],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-new-media-center","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}