Bus Art Estyle
I’ve always been fascinated by the bus art in Sri Lanka. Cerno has documented this pretty well, including a gallery on Flickr. They generally involve some fantastic combination of locations, Eiffel Tower, Temple Of The Tooth, and dragons, for example. I think they are wonderful pieces of imagination, though not quite as art as the old-school painted designs on lorries. Photoshop without aesthetic training is like a monkey with a switchblade. I’ve always wanted to do my own and now that I have a functional monitor I tried one. This is a collage of skylines and images, all fully legit and Creative Commons licensed for this purpose. It is the Sydney Opera House being attacked by a Lego sea monster during a lightning storm over the city of Vancouver/Miami/Hong Kong/Seattle/New York/opolis. The moon has also fallen down. And the whole thing is on top of Niagara Falls.
This is obviously not especially well done or even creative, it was just fun. I think it’s a lovely street estyle. Anyways, these are the sources. Each is better than the final result.
- Sydney Opera House – Vermin Inc
- Lego Dragon From Disney World – Palindrome6996
- Manhattan, 1936 – New York Public Library, via Flickr’s Common’s (stuff outta copyright)
- Miami Summer – Doolittle1989
- Full Moon at Perigee – Kukkurovaca
- Niagra Falls By Night – Insight Imaging
- Space Needle – ttstam
- Evil Clouds Over Vancouver - Stuck In Customs
- Hong Kong Skyline – James Cridline
This stuff is all cool for non-commercial derivative works as far as I know, under the liberating Creative Commons licensing system. The Flickr search for that stuff is a lifesaver for doing legit editorial work as well. This is a link to the advanced search I use, with all the relevant boxes checked.
Today on the 
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That diet of pure fresh Apple has affected your mind?
Here is a challenge .
Can you actually convince a SL bus to carry your super duper picture ?
Thank you for the mention :D Have almost forgotten about my bus art stuff lately.
Had a brain wave and threw up a quick simulation of what the artwork in this post would look like on the road
Note – its VERY quick and crude
Dominic: Think he’s definitly under the Apple Juice influence – happens a lot with new fruit users specially with some Adobe products mixed in ;)
Ann: :D here’s what it would look like.
Seriously though – you ought to try and sell some ideas to Anura Advertising – from what I recall they seem to do all the graphics on the buses in Colombo.
Dude, That’s awfully awesome. But you can’t even come close to the awfulness of bus art. I’m Sorry. :D
@Dom
I am terrified of this apple zombie juice. It feels like joining a cult
@cerno
that’s hilarious, ‘Indrajith Travals’. One would customary name it after ones kids, though that doesn’t apply to me. I think all of those designs are custom, I think the guy says he likes the Temple Of The Tooth and dragons and the Statue Of Liberty and his kids names are Anusha and Kalpurna and they put that all together.
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[...] Opera House, waterfall), put their kids name on it, and boom, you’ve got some bus art. I made some myself once. So, in that sense, Jackie has made [...]