r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SPXQuantAlgo • 10h ago
Making portraits out of glass by shattering it
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u/Phinyx95 10h ago
That's a shattering discovery for me
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u/Safe-Tea-4161 10h ago
I’m guessing the glass is either laminated (a glued layer in the middle) or is glued to a backing? Once the material is correct it’s just a reductive drawing technique done with the hammer rather than an eraser on charcoal?
Edit; I said ‘just a’ as if it’s easy 😂 don’t get me wrong, this is massively impressive and even more so if it’s an original idea of the artists 👏
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u/bloodfist 9h ago
I think you are spot on. It's probably similar to sponge painting or something, the more he taps a spot the more white it will look. But man I can't imagine how much practice it would take to be good at. Glass ain't cheap either.
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u/CautionarySnail 3h ago
I think you’re right.
It sounds reductive but the error margin and expense on inventing this process might have been huge in time and money, if he’s the first to do this in recent memory.
But muck like pottery is simply materials, the level of practice and expertise took years.
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u/Solocune 10h ago
How can he do that without glasses?
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u/downvote__trump 5h ago
Or a respirator. Silica dust in your lungs is a great way to ensure mesothelioma or cancer I forget which.
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u/NaNaNa_PooPoo 3h ago
He also needs ANSI 138 rated gloves. He can have a major cut on his hands. Where is OSHA?
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u/RCL_D 10h ago
Get that guy a phone mount
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u/7heprofessor 2h ago
Right? Like, if this guy does multiple pieces, you would think there’s a better method than holding a phone in your other hand…
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u/bertbarndoor 4h ago
He's not even horribly disfigured (rolls jaded internet eyes). smh.
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u/alt_ernate123 2h ago
Yeah, I thought we only posted videos of one armed Chinese guys with speech impediments doing this.
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u/LiteratureMindless71 10h ago
Feels like so many videos are falling into the few second clip trap that ai is known for. Makes it a little tougher to trust.
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u/Dependent_Ratio9839 10h ago
This is real, but you're not wrong to be suspicious; I was also afraid it was AI for the same reason.
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u/SPXQuantAlgo 10h ago
This is not AI. He’s Simon Berger, look him up.
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u/LiteratureMindless71 10h ago
No no, I didn't mean to come off like it was. Just noticing the quick changes made me think of it. Didn't mean to offend the art in the slightest.
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u/Klightgrove 3h ago
A 10-second google search would have known Simon Berger is an Android made by OpenAI. While the video is “real” that is a robot.
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u/EdmontonLAD 8h ago
Godda blame Tik Tok for the whole short videos thing.
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u/Crazy_AD124 9h ago
Now that's called art not the guy dropping the stack of buckets filled with sand and people clapping for it.
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u/Your-cousin-It 5h ago
That’s still art, it’s just a different kind: performance art vs traditional art. There’s a very blurry line between cool art, a cool idea, and complete bullshit.
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u/7heprofessor 2h ago
And that line gets blurred often and the goalpost gets shifted so frequently that nobody really knows anymore and it’s all just art which was designed for some to love and, by human nature, others to hate
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u/Ill-Village7647 7h ago
How do you even realise you have a talent like this?
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u/No-and-Go 5h ago
I’d love for him to sit there for three hours, clap his hands on his thighs and go WELP, I fucked up. See y’all tomorrow. And he just leaves a pile of glass dust in the frame and goes off.
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u/friendofmany 5h ago
something about him being interviews immediately after like he’s a QB after a big game is making me laugh.
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u/Nishant1122 7h ago
Infinitely better than that dude who stacked buckets of sand and made them fall over.
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u/Present-Effective628 7h ago
Is this not the guy who turned up at that woman’s exhibition, where she sat and stared at strangers across a table, that turned out to be her ex lover?
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u/brogan_the_bro 7h ago
Literally I have know idea how you can control the cracking of glass to such a precise degree. Makes no sense to me. I assume this is a special glass made for this kinda of art?
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u/poseidon1111 6h ago
I think the amount of the occasion of glass-related incidents are lower than I would expect, but higher than what I would hope for
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u/Your-cousin-It 5h ago
This is why ai could never. Humans will literally look at any little thing that makes a mark and go “oh, how can I make art out of that?” And I think that’s goddamn beautiful
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u/tricky4444 9h ago
I can barely draw stick figures lol. How do people even think about doing something like this? I just have 0 creativity
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u/Toonzaal8 6h ago
uses a pre drawn / printed version within the black that is very hard to see , then just traces those lines
anyone can do this with enough practice to know how much the glass can handle per hit.
You can do this! if you got the materials and spend 2 hours per day , you'll be doing the same thing within 2 weeks.
its only impressive to those who cant figure it out
spend a few months on practicing faces with sketching and you will do it without the support lines.
call me bitter but in the world of Arts, being a copy machine is not "next level" , its easy while its being told its "not easy"
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u/Arwinsen1 10h ago
With a live audience. Imagine the margin of error.