Inspired and is a parody of the "Got Milk?" ad campaign. Shot using natural diffused light from North facing window with no reflectors. Slight warming from room lights.
Also, it was a direct response to my Industrial Nude, "Industrial Bronze", and a question as to why I couldn't use a fat, middle aged hairy guy as a model and make art.
Yes, that is melted cheese stuck in my mustache and yes it DID hurt getting it out.
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Place: 78 out of 107 Avg (all users): 4.1986 Avg (commenters): 5.1364 Avg (participants): 3.9474 Avg (non-participants): 4.2609 Views since voting: 15213 Views during voting: 835 Votes: 287 Comments: 109 Favorites: 15 (view)
God this shot is still awesome. I don' care how many 1's it got. When I was thinking about coming back to DPC after a long break, this was one of the images I remembered. THAT IS ART.
LOL.... nice to know it's still being remembered after all this time. I posted it on Facebook a while back, ofcourse it got deleted.... LOL
God this shot is still awesome. I don' care how many 1's it got. When I was thinking about coming back to DPC after a long break, this was one of the images I remembered. THAT IS ART.
Rule 2.3.4 : You may NOT expose your buttocks in the same frame as any dairy product, including artificial cheese slices and especially Squeeze Cheese.
Mooooo! This is indeed a brilliant shot! A little yellow curd humor to loosen up all the tight asses around here! (and technically a very well lit photo, a bit of wall shadowing but the wrapping seals the deal LD)
Just looking through the comments (I don't recall if I ever had before) - Did that guy say there is no cheese in this pic??? ROFL!
On one hand, I am hoping this pic will be supplanted by the next, great contraversial one, but on the other hand, this may live on forever.
JAJAJAJA!!! I just looked at this now... I am literally droping tears of laughting!!!... really... It`s like the most funny picture ever, and the comments just make a whole experience of it!
Really not sure what a young man with no shirt, pants yanked down, sitting on a floral couch, with a pink wall as background has to do with promoting sliced cheese. Obviously theres a form of humor here i'm missing.
Wow that is such a funny concept. The pose and expression are wonderful and the pink wall is just the ocong on the cake. If there was a ribbon for the most funny comments left you'd have it for sure !
what a wonderfully funny gift you gave when you posted this shot.. you must be a very interesting human - I agree with the others who said this shot made them laugh out loud. - you are good for the soul
I should own up and say I was one of the people who gave a high score for this - 8, in fact. Now I'm just wondering if that's a real tattoo or a fake one?
I'm ashamed, so very ashamed for voting low this photo (no, it wasn't 1 neither 2, neither 3). I hope adding this to my favourites will fix the damage.
No matter how this ended up scoring, you pulled off an amazing 71 comments! That has to be up there in the higher records! This photo made me laugh then wonder why I laughed! I think folks should lighten up and realize this entry was VERY creative and VERY brave!
God help us if you admit to "cutting the cheese" while making this shot! LOL!
I'm still cracking up reading ALL the comments. This is just a laugh riot. People who can't laugh at this need to lighten up. I didn't know if you were modeling cheese or cutting the cheese! Oh damn, my eyes are tearing up now.
This is just so wrong on so many levels. However, I keep finding myself coming back to it- again and again and again. I think this has pointed out a serious flaw in my character- or perhaps just a masochistic streak. Can someone help? I had intended on speaking to the technical merits of this photo, but can't seem to rid myself of the shame that I feel just from viewing it.
Say Cheese!: The old photographer's clichรฉ is now a challenge topic. Use cheese as the subject of your photo to make your audience smile.
I hate to be playing English teacher here or come off as a DNMC critic, especially that English is NOT my native language but dissecting the description makes it pretty clear:
USE CHEESE as the SUBJECT of your photo to make YOUR AUDIENCE SMILE.
Based on the capitalized letters I had the following expectations in this challenge:
1. There would be cheese (even if implied) in the photo (Cheddar, Swiss, Gouda...etc). This cheese would be the SUBJECT of the photo. (Subject - Synonyms: matter, topic, theme. These nouns denote the principal idea or point of a speech, a piece of writing, or an artistic work.)
2. This is open to discussion but by Audience I would assume either the voters, or, someone in the photo looking at cheese
3. the photo would be somewhat funny as to make me smile.
After reviewing your photo, I feel it does not meet the challenge either because there is no cheese in the photo or because it's not funny. Yours is particularly tasteless.
Well, i found it to be funny, and as far as i can see that's cheese in the shot right? Keep up the good work, sometimes a bit of humour beats a bland well executed shot any day!
Oh so you're the one! I remember browsing, not voting for the challenge. I saw this, and I don't mean to be rude or anything, I thought it was rather hilarious! Very daring, I admire that in a person. The cheese-tache tops it all off, so my hat comes off to you for that. Hold on, you got a low 4 for this? Man, voters here are seriously crazy. I would thought this would break a 5. It's a really cute picture. I would have thrown you a definite 6. Such a slutty pose, yet so innocent looking. I meant that as a joke by the way.
LMAO! Not only the picture, the comments also, too funny. Man I just can't stop laughing at this picture. 60 ones and it still got 13 10's talk about a point spread. This thing deserved a 10 for the pure "cheesyness" factor... LMAO still...
LMAOO, you got balls! I would have given you a 10 for balls and the laugh if I had voted in this challenge...Now I'm not going to eat cheese for a long while! ROFL.
I am not at all disappointed in the low score this photo recieved for several reasons. The most important is that it recieved kudos from photogs I respect.
I knew from the start that this photo would either top or flop. I suspected many international voters would not recognize my parody and I knew that it would be found offensive to many.
But, I shall not hide, I am happy because I showed you all my butt! HA!
OH MY GOD fotomann! WHAT were you thinking? LOL......
60 one's??? WHAT IS THAT all about? WOW! You certainly shocked me! LOL...
Ok, I will PM you with my address for my ribbon? :) At least I will get one from you. :( I got 5th, but I really thought I would ribbon this time. I am just slightly disappointed though. At least I got some kind of a star? Now I know what those are for.
Sorry, I'm not voting this challenge, but this picture is PRICELESS! I absolutely love it. The model's expression is one of satiric perfection. I'd give it a 10, but I don't want to vote on 20% of the rest to make it count. (I didn't like the challenge before it even started). Still, had to comment and leave you big kudos. I'll be excited to see who had the guts to pull this off...
Do you really have pink walls? or is there quite a cast to the picture?
Say Cheese!: The old photographer's clichรฉ is now a challenge topic. Use cheese as the subject of your photo to make your audience smile.
I hate to be playing English teacher here or come off as a DNMC critic, especially that English is NOT my native language but dissecting the description makes it pretty clear:
USE CHEESE as the SUBJECT of your photo to make YOUR AUDIENCE SMILE.
Based on the capitalized letters I had the following expectations in this challenge:
1. There would be cheese (even if implied) in the photo (Cheddar, Swiss, Gouda...etc). This cheese would be the SUBJECT of the photo. (Subject - Synonyms: matter, topic, theme. These nouns denote the principal idea or point of a speech, a piece of writing, or an artistic work.)
2. This is open to discussion but by Audience I would assume either the voters, or, someone in the photo looking at cheese
3. the photo would be somewhat funny as to make me smile.
After reviewing your photo, I feel it does not meet the challenge either because there is no cheese in the photo or because it's not funny. Yours is particularly tasteless.
Really not sure what a young man with no shirt, pants yanked down, sitting on a floral couch, with a pink wall as background has to do with promoting sliced cheese. Obviously theres a form of humor here i'm missing.
I don't even know what to say. The background is distracting?? I wish the cheese were unwrapped. Good lighting. The pants look dirty to the right of the photo, minor distraction. Oh, and interesting interpretation of cheese.
Oh dear! hehehe....still, atleast it fits the challenge in a few ways! There's cheese...and it's definately cheesy! The wall in your background is quite dirty which is a shame.
ooh... thats a bit disturbing :) The lighting is a bit flat and I would have used a different background, its too busy. Top marks for the bravery tho! 7.
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