Trompe l'oil

Posted by The Chris Valle to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

• [coryf]

  Wonder where the picture was taken, angle looks like the photographer was standing in the sun roof of the car, but that’s not visible in the picture.  Maybe a few cars back?

  • [Lupus_Yonderboy]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l'%C5%93il

  • [redjon]

    Vive le Photoshop?

• [skyhawk1]

  I thought it was a cool air brush art.

  • [eh1eh]

     Definitely. The sky is the give away.

    • [penguinchris]

      The photographer says below it isn’t HDR, but it does look fairly heavily processed to bring the sky out a bit.

• [the_engineer]

  Phases of viewing image:
  1. I’ve seen this a million times, what gives?
  2. Oh wait, some dude polished the hell outta the back of that thing.
  3. ummm this image looks sort of photoshopped… HDR?
  4. But… only part of it is HDR.
  5. Wait.. Where’s the photographer again?
  6. Oh, that’s kick-ass, I get it now.

• [Trish Bennett]

  the coolest thing about this is the name …

• [tomangleberger]

  Clarity please….
  If this is a photo, why is it labeled as a painting?
  If this is a painting, why does the Flickr user label himself a photographer?
  If it is a photo of a painting, why does no one credit the painting?

  • [Sagodjur]

    It’s a photo of a painting. The photographer may not know who the painter is. It’s likely  that the photographer was behind the vehicle in traffic and took the photo.

    It’s a gray area as to whether the photographer can claim copyright on the photo since it largely seems to attempt to reproduce the painting and arguably doesn’t add much artistic effort beyond the skill of taking a decent photograph.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Look at the spelling.  Now look at the object in the center of the image.  Repeat as necessary.

• [suburbanhick]

  Looks like a Pat Metheny album cover from the 70′s.

• [unit_1421]

   Random fact: The two most dangerous loads to haul over the road are liquid asphalt, given the high temp. it must be kept at, and milk, because the tank cannot have any baffles or other stabilizing structures inside it to prevent formation of bacteria, so milk tankers are very unstable and more at risk for a roll over. 

• [Paul Bryden]

  Fantastic painting with superb detail. Should be titled “Camion du Lait Peint, en faux trois D”.

  • [Richard Dagenais]

    “trompe l’oil” is way more clever

• [Chris Valle]

  It’s mine
   - Dunno why it’s listed as a painting 
  - It’s a single still (non-HDR) image
   - Traffic was stopped
   - That’s the real sky
   - I’m behind the steering when (FML) ©ME 2012
   - Yes, some dude DID polish the hell out of that thing – ‘How It’s Made” has a segment on how…these are made.come see my other wasted time  at http://www.chrisvallephoto.com

  love you long time

  /cvp

  • [Richard Dagenais]

     encore mieux

• [Chris Valle]

  PS – Big Ups to Rob for posting this – My actual title (you call it whatever you like) is:

  “chump-cam
  Jerk’s-eye view of the Salaryman Graveyard’

  @thechrisvalle

  PaxExeunt

  /cvp

• [Logolepsy]

  Sorry to be a pain… It’s Trompe-l’œil, not Trompe l’oil. Thank you.

  • [Michael Scheuermann]

     Isn’t it a play on words, due the truck probably hauling oil?

    • [Rob Beschizza]

      Yep :D

    • [Richard Dagenais]

       prolly pun-blind

  • [Godfree]

    I want to be pedantic too! If it had been a painting, it would properly be called photorealistic. Trompe l’oeil means “fool the eye,” meaning the painting is intended to deceive you into thinking it is something else, like a niche with a sculpture inside, or an actual window.

• [Donald Petersen]

  Boy, that would be something though, wouldn’t it, if the truck owner blew up the image and affixed it to the back of the trailer and drove around with it on there like that?  ’Cause that’s apparently what some people think they’re looking at here.

  Rob, once again you demonstrate yourself to be significantly Smarter Than The Average Bear.  And Chris Valle, you’ve taken the picture I’ve wanted to take for much of my adult life, and done it better than I ever could have, so thanks for that!

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    It would be funnier if all the cars but the center one were police cars.

    • [Donald Petersen]

      OMG.  With little red flashing LEDs where the gumball machines would be.  And a cutout… so it’s just a mirror where you, the following driver’s car, would be.

      Oh, lordy that’s brilliant!

  • [penguinchris]

     Yeah I’ve been trying to pull this off as well. My best attempt is this one.

    To those wondering how the image works (and where the photographer is), the rear of the tank is acting as an ultra-wide-angle mirror. If you look at my photo, I’m in the green car (in the driver’s seat). You get the same effect from an ultra-wide-angle lens pointed at a mirror.

• [Alan Scott]

  “It reminded me of overtaking a truck with a shiny aluminium tank, [...] all this in ’94, on the Santa Ana freeway, with Polly Borland in the passenger seat, filming our reflection in the mirrored belly of the grunting beast with a Super 8 camera.”
  –Will Self, _Walking to Hollywood_, p.172