Zhora Polaroid

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As Seen In:    Blade Runner
Time Spent:    A few hours. Nothing serious.
Date Added:    April, 2004

This is piece I actully made some time ago, that I never got around to putting on my website for some reason. Oh well.

The inspiration for this piece actually came from a man who is now widely recognized as the most despised man in the hobby, Guy Raz. In my very early days in the hobby, I was invited to a party out in Monrovia. There, I met Raz, who had with him a number of Blade Runner props, one of which was a Zhora polaroid. The prop he had was nice, but I thought I could do better.

With that in mind, I made some screen captures, did some photoshop magic, and set about putting together my own poloaroid. I made it using a very different approach than was used by the other artist, therefore "putting my own stink" on it.

Though Raz attempted to orchestrate a battle between me and the original maker of the replica, it fell flat when it was revealed that I had already spoken to him, and we were in fact on good terms.

This project was one of my first critical successes, and lives on as a testament to my nutty attention to detail.