Shooped (?) (but awesome) watch gizzard

Unknown source, unknown provenance, and it's gotta be a shoop, but what a goddamned thing this would be, were it real.

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copperwatt

Strikes me as more “rendered” than “shopped”.
Bozobub

Why does it have to be fake? I’ve seen quite a few “faceless” watches like this.
http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

I think I just found Waldo!
Chuck

No winding required. It’s powered by the entrapped soul of a college student who disappeared while cycling through Europe not long ago. It happened in the woods near that creepy watch maker’s house.
http://www.facebook.com/matthew.urso Matthew Urso

shooped like Salt n Peppa?
http://twitter.com/antnisP Antonis Pappas

I can’t fathom why are people so many people willing to pay top dollar for a RubeGoldberg contraption, that can easily be replicated by an RC oscilator and four counters.
- zieroh
  
  Yeah, seriously. And for that matter, why would anyone pay good money for a piece of canvas smeared with pigment, when a picture from a smartphone has much more resolution, detail, and realism?
  - http://twitter.com/antnisP Antonis Pappas
    
    Apples and oranges.
    - Boundegar
      
      Apples and apples, IMO.
joseph zizys

there are at least two more of these… but I have no idea who made them, they are from as far back as 2009 tho.
joseph zizys

Pretty sure they where made by a studio called Seagullsfly from Rio, so it might be by Fabiano Feijó…
joseph zizys

Allright Cory, I will stop bothering you now, they are definitely by Seagulls Fly, for a 4WD magazine advert, in 2009, see http://www.touchpuppet.com/2009/07/31/seagulls-fly-creative-agency/

So you can thank me for taking a little bit of magic out of the world in order to give credit to a now defunct creative company :)
- Dave Horton
  
  Nice investigative work, zizys.
Sam Feinson

Am I the only one bothered by the placement of the knives and forks?
- http://www.facebook.com/JeffreyKarter Jeffrey Karter
  
  Yes, yes you are.
  :-)
- Rich Keller
  
  Personally, I’m disconcerted by a lack of spoons. If I need that many knives, there had damned well better be some soup coming.
  - cellocgw
    
    “There is no spoon”
  - Jonathan Roberts
    
    Is that ironic?
    - C.J. Hayes
      
      Maybe. But it’s probably nickel silver or stainless steel.
Bodhipaksa

Judging by the wallpaper-sized images, it looks more like a large-scale model rather than anything watch-sized: http://www.top-walls.com/wallpapers/2012/11/Eiffel-Tower-Guitars-Stick-Figures-Watches-1800×2880.jpg
ukegap

But not nearly as authentically badass as a Dudley Masonic pocket watch. http://www.oldwatch.com/dudleyse2cu.jpg
vermes

I dislike stuff like this. They could have easily consulted a watchmaker or even an watch fan to make it look like a functional watch.
http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

I agree with Copperwatt, Sam and Rich.

Yes….too many knives, no spoons, and it’s all on the WRONG SIDE of the plate.

My guess? Rendered by a youngster whose culinary experience is limited to drive up window meals :)

That aside, the image is decently rendered.
Robert Cruickshank

I resolve to used the term “watch gizzard” whenever possible.
gellfex

When I was a pro modelmaker in the mid 80′s this was the kind of thing that was frequently made by hand in giant scale for advertising photography. Rather than someone at a cheap workstation PC noodling a 3d model, picture a roomful of people cutting and sanding by hand (it was even pre-lasercutting) to make this, say 18 inches in diameter. And folks wonder where all the jobs went…
beafdog

pedantic comment to follow:

Photoshopping is normally understood to mean digitally compositing more than one image. This is pure digital illustration.

PS I too like the term “watch gizzard” but the word “shooping” makes me want to spit.