{"id":23374,"date":"2015-05-20T05:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2015-05-08T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:21:36","slug":"imaginary-sideshow-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23374","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Sideshow Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sideshow-239x300.png\" alt=\"Sideshow Photo\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Creative team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ransommitchell.com\/\">Ransom &#038; Mitchell<\/a> specialize in &#8220;photographic-based digital art scenarios and portraits,&#8221; combining makeup, costumes, set design, and digital manipulation to create wonderfully evocative art which tends toward the dark side.<\/p>\n<p>They recently did a series called <a href=\"http:\/\/art.ransommitchell.com\/sideshow\/1\/thumbs\">Rough &#038; Ready Sideshow<\/a> which used handcrafted sets and vintage props to create an old-time sideshow full of spooky freaks.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re handy with Photoshop it&#8217;d be fun to theme a party around a stripped-down version of the same idea.  Create a generic circus backdrop (or, as a last resort, use a blank wall as a backdrop and then &#8216;shop in an appropriate background), get a few carnival-type props from a thrift store, and have friends dress as sideshow freaks.  Take everyone&#8217;s photograph, then after the party you can digitally manipulate the photos to give them extra heads or tentacles instead of legs.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the rest of Ransom &#038; Mitchell&#8217;s portfolio too (a few images are slightly NSFW); their photos all seem like images from some dark fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative team Ransom &#038; Mitchell specialize in &#8220;photographic-based digital art scenarios and portraits,&#8221; combining makeup, costumes, set design, and digital manipulation to create wonderfully evocative art which tends toward the dark side. They recently did a series called Rough &#038; Ready Sideshow which used handcrafted sets and vintage props to create an old-time sideshow full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24784,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions\/24784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}