“The Great Picture” is the world’s largest photograph taken with the biggest camera in the world, and the Guinness Book of Records certified it in July this year.  Shot with a giant jet air craft hangar sized camera, measuring 13.71 x 48.76 x 24.38 m (45 x 160 x 80 ft). The photograph was confirmed to be the largest photograph on canvas, measuring 9.62 x 33.83 m (31ft 7in x 111ft).

The photo depicts the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. It is currently on show at the Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, California until the 29th of September.

The Great Picture was created over the nine months leading up to July 2006 by six well-known photographic artists collectively known as The Legacy Project, aided by 400 volunteers, artists, and experts. Working in their jet-hangar-transformed-into-camera, the group hand-applied 80 liters of gelatin silver halide emulsion to a seamless 3,375-square-foot canvas substrate custom-made in Germany. Development was done in a custom Olympic pool-sized developing tray using ten high volume submersible pumps and 1,800 gallons of black and white chemistry. The premier exhibition at Art Center College of Design, South Campus, will feature The Great Picture along with videos and photographs in an environment designed to re-create the dramatic atmosphere within the jet-hangar-as-camera where the giant photograph was made.

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I introduce a new category on darkscenario.com, called “Artists”.
In there you will find biographies of various artists, famous or not famous.
For a good start I take a very popular, outstanding artist - Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali is considered as the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century. During his lifetime the public got a picture of an excentric paranoid. His personality caused a lot of controversy. After his death in 1989 his name remained in the headlines.

Salvador Dali was born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech on the 11th of May, 1904 in Figures in Catalonia in Spain. His father Salvador Dali i Cusi was a lawyer and a notary. His mother’s name was Felipa Domenech Ferres. She would encourage his artistic talents. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School.

Dali had an elder brother who had died 9 months before he was born. It is said that Dali was often told by his parents that he was his own brother, reincarnated. Dali soon came to believe that. Dali also had a younger sister called Ana Maria.

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Today I am proud to announce a new artist showing amazing artworks in our gallery. Kazuhiko Nakamura aka. ‘Almacan‘, born in Hyogo, Japan in 1961, is inspired by surrealism and cyberpunk styles of art. He finds himself drawn to 19th century machine designs and armor among other things from that time period as motif. All of his images has been created with a portrait style while still containing a puzzle type quality. The favourite software of Kazuhiko Nakamura is Shade (a japanese 3D Software) and Photoshop (2D Software).

Kazuhiko Nakamura:

“My name is Kazuhiko Nakamura. I work as an environmental graphic designer in Tokyo while producing 3D art works in my free time. Since February last year, I have exhibited my works in 3D online galleries. This is the first time my work was selected as “CG Choice”. When I was young, I was strongly influenced by surrealism paintings and cyberpunk art, and have produced watercolor paintings, drawing, sculpture, and so on. At present I enjoy creating 3D worlds, which I assemble like a puzzle by gathering archaic pieces from my memory.”

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