The Great Airplane Strike

by Richard Astley-Clemas

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The Great Airplane Strike

Created on a computer from 2 unrelated images scanned from magazines.The huge highway billboard was blacked out and text added to suggest an element of comedy into what is in reality a plane crash disaster-the sign was then rotated to make it look part of the accident

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Photography Mixed Media Movies/Music/TV disasters

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Rob Slijkhuis 04 Jul 2007

It's a military aircraft; 'next time go by train...' Do I miss something here...?

Richard Astley-Clemas
Artist Reply: You look at it 4 ways 1 Artistic license 2.Creating art from images in order to convey unintentional humour 3You imagine that a railway is near by and the plummetting aircraft has wallopped the sign carrying it forward till the crash 4 A tribute to Paul Revere & the Raiders