[Hiipi]

Made for a newspaper in Finland. The article was about the Expanding EU... All Photoshop. And please do speak your mind if you like it or not... I know the subject itself isn�t one of the most interesting ones.
But don�t you just like the squirrel!



Close up:


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[Matthew]

hehe at first I didn�t see the squirrel and was like hmm what is he talking about but then I saw the squirrel lol, beautiful this one. I really like the perspective being bent upwards like that.
So ruorsi is the finnish term for sweden, cool.

keep it up
have a nice weekend
Matthew

[Mikko K]

Nice work, great technique.

My only crit is that it's little hard to "read", maybe the gap between the old EU and Baltic countries could be stressed. Then again, all those nice details force you to look at it long enough to realize what's going on, stitches and everything. Good stuff, keep it up!

Hey Matthew, it's actually Ruotsi

[noxi]

Where the hell did we came up with a so un-cool sounding word like Ruotsi? Ok, offtopic. We do have tons of other ugly words too.

All Photoshop? Phew, that makes my head spin cos that looks very nice. The paper looks too cool and real to be true. I thought that is was a photo with drop shadow. heh...

Oh, my crit: very annoying image size. "Nox the scrollbar h8er"

[swooch]

looks great. only question is: What size does this newspaper come in? That image will have to be some 30x30cm (square feet (foot?)) if you are to see what those little dots round the needel are. (the people)

[bjotto]

very nice, one thing on th big version though, the gap between "tsekki" And "saksa" is white but the bakgraound is overall grey

EDIT: nice that the colour of the thread is yellow and blue, Sweden brings Europe together

[Duracel]

yes, very nice

so "Saksa" for Germany / Deutschland(as we call it ourselves) is strange ... doesn't make sense in my eyes(so there is no culture or anything in our history wich sounds like it).
Has this a special meaning in your language?
Maybe it means "tribe, people" in your language, which is the same as "Deutsch" (Deutschland = Land of the people/nation)

PS: im really interested in the answer ... so well, im always interested in etymology.
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[Hiipi]

Oh Bjotto... As always you swedes think too much of yourselves. It is also the colours of EU! And it will be printed almost full page, meaning around 42 x 50 cm so I reckoned the "dots" will show. At least I hope so. They were okay with it on that end and I guess they know what they are talking about.

And Noxi, I did cut corners a bit. Scanned a crumpled up paper and used that as a "map" to render the material. Sooooooo I guess not all Photoshop then.

And what comes to the background, I just dropped a gradient there on the bigger pic before posting here. Dunno why. Original bg is white.

And thanks ya all!
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[Hiipi]

Duracel - Sorry to disappoint you but I have no clue. I tried to look it up on the net but couldn�t find anything useful. Finnish is a very strange language, said to be the most difficult one to learn in the world. And we have those strange translations a lot, Finland in finnish is Suomi and has absolutely no relation to the english equivalent. And has no meaning itself. I dunno, I just speak it...

BTW. Coming there to spend the summer in Germany! In Ulm to be presice... (where the squirrel is sitting... On the tallest church tower in the world. It is nice, big and thick. )


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[Mikko K]

Duracel,

I think the word Saksa comes from the old Anglosax ("anglosaksinen" in finnish) term, which in my understanding, meant the British/German people. Just guessing. Finnish language has little in common with swedish or german which resemble each other. If I rememeber right, some small tribes in Russia have similarities with the finnish language along with the language they speak in Hungary. Finnish is like some tribal mumbo jumbo compared to other European languages that have more to do with Latin.

Edit: to make it little clearer, the Anglo part should mean England and Sax Germany, which would be Saksa in finnish (no X letter used in finnish)

[Duracel]

Yeah, that makes sense - thanks.
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www.duracel.de Gallery

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[bjotto]

well, everyone knowes that Sweden is the center of the earth, right?


for people intrested in the history of the finnish language and a lot of other crap

Finnish is allmost the same as the language they speak in Estonia, some things are very diffrent though. I think the finnish word for wedding means funeral in the language they speak in Estonia, might be the other way around or completly wrong, I can't speak finnsih. I once knew how to say "pear ice-cream cone" but I forgot it. Also, finnish and swedish share many expressions, since Sweden and Finland had a shared history for a quite some time.

The rest of the european languages have more in common with Indian languages then with finnish, hungarian etc.

well, all just go to sleep instead of continuing to ramble

[Tinusch]

I R FROM AMARICA!!!!1