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Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | 1936

Charlie Chaplin, et al.

Beetlejuice (1988) dir. Tim Burton

Balboa Park in Sand Diego, CA.

Strawberries/Leaves.

Whimsy + Row

Dioramas by Matthew Albanese

1. (Icebreaker) 25 pounds of sugar cooked at varying temperatures (hard crack & pulled sugar recipes) It’s basically made out of candy. salt, egg whites, corn syrup, cream of tartar, powdered sugar, blue food coloring, india ink & flour.Three days of cooking, and two weeks of building.

2. (Fields, After the Storm) This model is simply made out of faux fur(fields), cotton (clouds) and sifted tile grout(mountains). The perspective is forced as in all of my images, and the lighting effect was created by simply shifting the white balance.

3. (Tornado) made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss

4. (How to Breathe underwater) Diorama made out of walnuts, poured and cast candle wax, wire, glitter, peanut shells, flock, plaster, wire, dyed starfish, compressed moss, jellybeans(anemones), sponges, wax coated seashells, toothpaste,clay, figs, feathers, Q-tips, nonpareils. Surface of the water was created using vinyl shower curtain, plexiglass and clear epoxy. The reflected sunlight effect was created using a video projector through fake fog. The white balance was set for tungsten allowing the sunlight to appear bright and clear while the strobes provided a deep blue shift in the fill light regions. The lens was covered with a piece of blue stretch wrap which created subtle distortions throughout the image. A total of 11 light sources were used including the projector.

Central Park at night, New York City, 1957, photo by Phil Greitzer

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Showgirls at the Copacabana Club, New York City – 1948 (Picture by Stanley Kubrick)

GIRL CRUSH

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