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The Great Wave Off Fukushima (history, logs, vote page)

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Artist's depiction of the 2011 Fukushima Daichii Nuclear Power Plant Disaster. What it really looked like off the coast of Japan. The Great Wave Off Fukushima. color woodcut. 1823, 1930, 2011-12. Part of The Thirty-six Glows From Plant Daichii series by 250 year old Ukiyo-e (and recently loli) artist Katsushika Hokusai. The Great Wave of Fukushima is part of a groundbreaking new series of remastered prints that comprise the (evidently immortal) artist's comment on both the tragedy of the recent disaster at Fukushima and what he (not exactly a traditionalist himself in his younger days) believes "is representative of the cultural degradation, excess, and perverse fantasy of Japanese today - as well as some floating sushi." Image credit: MeepStarLives Archive - Discuss this image

Vote	Score: 10 blow(s) by friendly tentacle monster and Mecha Kitty to vestiges of Imperial pride and common Japanese decency
Nomination:	KUN VFH POTM VFP(IMAGES⇔TALK) 05:34, June 24, 2011 (UTC)
For Votes: 11	SN+F So, I as doubtless many other depraved yet somewhat cultured minds heard of March's tragic tsunami-mediated disaster and fairly quickly my mind uncharitably drifted to the work of the legendary Hokusai. Several slight modernizations later... --KUN VFH POTM VFP(IMAGES⇔TALK) 05:34, June 24, 2011 (UTC) I really like this image. It's got a very busy, unique, colorful style that I haven't seen around here before, plus it's actually pretty funny and smart. It's like a real nice Basement Jaxx song in illustration. -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 21:31, June 24, 2011 (UTC) for By some twist of fate, I put the original (which I found on Google) on one of my articles yesterday. A ton of great details are added here. Mattsnow 21:36, June 24, 2011 (UTC) Welcome fucking back, Meep. --Black Flamingo 21:05, June 25, 2011 (UTC)  For.  For.  For. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 21:58, 27 June 2011 What. The. Fuck. -- Soldat Teh PWNerator (pwnt!) 03:36, Jun 29 For. --Sir Oliphaunte (განხილვა)   17:19, June 30, 2011 (UTC)  For. Its so bad it made me laugh. ~Sir Frosty (Talk to me!) 07:17, July 3, 2011 (UTC) Me like... -- Sir Mhaille  (talk to me)  Funniest thing I've seen all week. Yep. -- 15:43, July 8, 2011 (UTC)  An 8.5 year old late for It's so horrible, it's funny. Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 16:14, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Against Votes: 1	Against -- The Zombiebaron 16:29, June 30, 2011 (UTC) Against for now. 1234 ~ 03:19, 2 July 2011 Now I just don't get it, apparently. 1234 ~ 13:33, 3 July 2011
Comments	This is pretty good, but it'd look a fair bit better if some of the stuff wasn't so obviously pasted on top - the waves are largely in front, yes? It's mainly the reactors and the sushi and the cat-mecha's foot - they're covering up the wave elements that are supposedly in front of them. Cut out the edges of the waves, put some white speckles of foam in front and that should help. Also, the reactor stuff looks a lot more cartoony than the rest of it - any chance you could dry-brush some texture on them and possibly make the lines less thick? 1234 ~ 07:03, 25 June 2011 So I went back into the master and hand touched up most if not all of the absurd wave geometry and spent quite a bit longer than I'd like to admit adding new outlines and so forth, which in turn caused me to clean up a bunch of little artifacts that were hanging around as well as get the figures more inarguably into the water. A little layer hunting later, and the result is something noticeably much better than the original, especially if you go to the image page and load them up switching between tabs to compare the full size versions. So thank you for that; I'm a little prouder of it now. The speckles suggestion worked quite nicely for the reactors as well as the onigiri. Speaking of the offending cooling towers, these I went back and removed the (non-path!) edges and replaced them with different, completed ones that also happen to be a more aesthetically-pleasing thin (rather than sloppy cut out style for the flames). I was not sure precisely what kind of texture you had in mind, and wanting to keep it somewhat faithful to the cartoony juxtaposition that inspired the chop, ran a series of quite likely imperceptible localized blurs and tone fixes to make them further from the halftone originals. If that helps. --KUN VFH POTM VFP(IMAGES⇔TALK) 10:57, July 2, 2011 (UTC) So you're trying to make the pieces stand out, then? I'm afraid I really do not understand what you're going for, in that case, but the other things indeed look much better now. 1234 ~ 07:15, 3 July 2011