Portrait Mayhem

Earlier this month... i did a series of Photo Illustrations and Portraiture for our Style Section on the future of (whatever) series they ran earlier. Here's some of the better results.




UGA researcher Doug Batel and the future of human population growth.

Yes, those are Fisher-Price little people. I was asked to colorize some of them because they were all white.



Scott Shamp, director of the UGA New Media Institute, and social networking.

There's something just ridiculously funny about lego people doing social networking. Some of those lego people were mine and were fished out of a box from my brother.



Bruce Burch, administrative director of the University of Georgia's Music Business Program, and the future of music.

That's my guitar. I added the motion blur in photoshop. I also put a fresh Drokpick Murphys sticker to good use, but you lose it in the blur.



Flora Tydings, president of Athens Technical College and the future of education.

That is the Hubble picture "Pilars of Creation" projected behind her with a White Lightning on its lowest setting.



Don Porter of the Artificial Intelligence Center on AI and technology.

DLP projector right, white lightning grid spotted left



Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond and race relations.

The pose was all his idea. He grew up climbing the tree thats behind him



Biochemist Dan Geller and the future of alternative fuels.

Have you seen the $^%@& price of gas (and food!) lately!?!? The original concept of this was two gas nozzels and something out of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" but this works better, IMO. The future of ethanol is in wood and wood chips, not corn and something that impacts the price of food.

So where did the little people and the gas nozzel come from? Ebay. Now if only i can recoup my costs.