Notes:
- Post title from Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive: A Novel.
- Images: Levitae, Rik Oostenbroek via Behance. “Ever since seeing Avatar by James Cameron, for the first time I’ve been amazed by the night scenes in the woods of Pandora. As a artist I never really payed attention to sculpting more realistic things, but this idea kept knocking on the door for over 6 months. It’s a 50/50 combination of Adobe photoshop and Maxon Cinema 4D. All colors are real life painted canvasses and used as color map to make the color transitions more natural.”
- Rik Oostenbroek is a 22 year old self-taught Dutch freelance artist, designer and art director based in Hilversum, The Netherlands. For four years, Rik has worked as a freelancer on some of the biggest brands in the world including Nike, Mazda, ESPN and Viacom and his work has been used in advertising the world over: from Hong-Kong to New York, London to Paris, Amsterdam to Milan. Find him on Instagram here: rikoostenbroek
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Can’t decide which is more astounding…the beauty and creativity of his images or the fact that he’s attained this level of success at the age of 22. Go Rik!!
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Yes to both!
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Wow. On every level
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22?! Unreal.
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Yes. And I can’t draw a stick man.
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ethereal
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It is!
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Avatar is the real world. I need to see it, today.
Thank you
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Yes. You do. Today it is real.
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It is exactly what the doctor prescribed!
Laughing….
Thanks for the laughs DK.
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Also, this will be the 50th time I’m seeing it.
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Wow!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
WOW!! … “Rik Oostenbroek is a 22 year old self-taught Dutch freelance artist, designer and art director based in Hilversum, The Netherlands. For four years, Rik has worked as a freelancer on some of the biggest brands in the world including Nike, Mazda, ESPN and Viacom and his work has been used in advertising the world over: from Hong-Kong to New York, London to Paris, Amsterdam to Milan. Find him on Instagram here: rikoostenbroek … “
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Wow is right.
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I am curious about the word ‘not’ that you added to the quote. The images are beautiful, by the way, whether unintentional or not.
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In retrospect, you are right. “Not” has now been deleted!
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Thank goodness! I thought I was imagining things.
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I’m here to serve! 🙂
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not bad for a 22-year old!
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No kidding!
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