Futuristic Tower Of Light (Jun, 1939)
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1939
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1939
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Futuristic Tower Of Light
TO MAKE this trick shot, an enlarged photo was made of a common 1-1/2-in. wood screw. The image of the screw was cut from the print and pasted to another made from a cloud negative. The base line of trees was painted on the combined print with water color and the combination was copied with the camera on process film. The beams of light were worked in by hand on the copy negative and the final print was then made.
Wow. That’s a picture of a wood screw. I never wood have guessed. It looks so much like a Futuristic Tower Of Light . . . .
Comment by Don — March 25, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
That would be a great design for the Obama Presidential Library!
Comment by Jexer — March 26, 2009 @ 12:14 am
Funny – I was thinking of Bush’s. I guess I was focusing on the screw, not the beams.
Comment by Toronto — March 26, 2009 @ 12:27 am
This enormous Futuristic Tower Of Light will devour us all! Aaaaah!
Comment by Dave — March 26, 2009 @ 12:30 am
Damn Photoshop’s great grand daddy.
Comment by Al Bear — March 26, 2009 @ 1:07 am
I’d like to see the futuristic tower of wood screws.
Comment by Steve — March 26, 2009 @ 1:42 am
It looks like one of the props from the Future scenes of “Things To Come”….much the same type of heraldic architecture.
Looks almost Soviet…
Comment by Al — March 26, 2009 @ 7:53 am
Charlie… Wasn’t there a ‘Pleasure Tower’ mentioned in a previous article?
Restaurant at the top?
Cars drive up the screw?
(I proposed a double helix to separate up and down traffic.)
Comment by jayessell — March 26, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
It’s a Nod Obelisk of Light, we’re all doomed.
Also, looks like doing this stuff before Photoshop was hard work.
Comment by VH — March 26, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
This would be an appropriate design for the new IRS headquarters.
Comment by John M. Hanna — March 26, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
Here’s the tower I mentioned…
http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....mile-high/
Comment by jayessell — March 29, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
That would be fun sliding down that tower! weeeeeeee!
Comment by Nomadic View — March 31, 2009 @ 5:08 am
i fail to see the purpose of this article other than to say “hey guys, look at our awesome tabloid-esque photo editing skills”
Comment by mickey — April 6, 2009 @ 8:59 am
SHOOP.
SHOOOOOOOOPED.
OMFG SHOOP.
Comment by systemic — April 15, 2009 @ 9:09 pm
It’s already been started in Chicago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Spire).
Comment by Bob — July 23, 2009 @ 1:22 am