Sunday, August 05, 2007

Relishing Life...and Death




Here it is, you asked for it! A pickle (a sweet gherkin) and an olive. Hope you like!


64 comments:

SabineM said...

FANTASTIC! Though I hate to eat Olives and Pickles, I love to see them here! Is it over for the Pickle, or does he still have it in him to kill Olive?

oRayzio said...

Wow, this is great! There's so much action captured here. I love it.

Pike Creek Coffee Roasterie said...

PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

what brand pickles did you use?

Canajun said...

You really are bent! :)
But I love it! Always check your site when I need a smile.

t.a.m.s.y. said...

Hey Terry:

Awesome as usual.

So I have a request too, although it's of a more general, bloggy nature: Would you consider adding titles to future posts (e.g., input the name of each work into the title of the post in which it appears)? It'll make your archives much more visually appealing (and less jumbled), and do the same for those of us who subscribe via RSS.

I feature you regularly in my blog's "Recommended Reading" sidebar, but Google Reader, like Blogger, tends to guess wrong on the titles. People would be more likely to click through to you, I think, if the posts were more neatly titled. Plus, post titles make search-engine robots happy, and happy Googlebots = more readers.

Regardless, thanks as always for the entertainment!

redjen910 said...

Olive it!

Lil Sparrow said...

I so look forward to coming here.

Don;t know why but the ovil and the pickle cracked me up ...absolutely priceless~!

butterfly said...

Wowsa! This one has so much movement and drama!!! That pickle really looks like a man in the throes of death...and the olive is giving it all he's got! Really great. Well done, sir.

;-D

Dmitriy said...

don't know why I noticed this, but the shadow looks like a spoon.
anyway, great job

ElizT said...

I know what that blogger Boiled Egg in a Deckchair would be shouting at the olive!

Laura said...

It's amazing - you've created such movement, Terry. I really like it!

godis said...

WHY?! I hate it when they die like this.


strange code below: "nurkpeu"
what is it, and in what language? is it perhaps the name of the olive?

carol said...

hahaha! i can't believe no one's commented on the title yet--i love it.

rin said...

Amazing work! This is fantastic!

Supernøtt said...

Funny and brilliant :-D I like!

Anonymous said...

if only ALL olives and sweet pickles would fight to the death! i hate both. yuk. you found a much better use for them. perhaps they will be the next underground scene? : P

~clamoaddeus

Sassy Pants said...

Fabulous! Now THIS is the kind of fight I'd like to see at Thanksgiving dinner (we always have a dish of both gerkins and olives) instead of the usual family squabbles.

Just_Sew_In . . . said...

COOL !!!! "Olive it" too!

We should all "Relish" life and death....priceless!

You really should get published someday in a work all your own.

Thank you and ...
Sew long . . .

Anonymous said...

Genius work yet again Terry!

Though, I am at a complete loss trying to figure out how they are standing on their own!

Richard A. Jagan said...
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Richard A. Jagan said...

Awesome! There's always so much going on in your images. You should consider joining a stock photography website such a Corbis or Getty's image and submit your images i'm sure they would love to have your photographs and hey you might even get some of them published. You can also try JPGMAG.COM and get a chance to have them published there too.

[wanT!NG] said...

LOVE your works.they're so creative.great!! :D

evalinn said...

LOL, it´s awesome!

k_sra said...

that gherkin was a jerk anyways. hey, terry, while we're adding wish list ideas about the site, is there a way to keep each page in your archive separate? meaning, when I click on next page and then select an image to see it enlarged, i'm sent back to the front page when i click "back" instead of to the page i am on at the time. hope that came out clearly enough. anyways, i just tired of clicking through and scrolling down every page again and again. (it could just be me)

love to love the olive.

Vee said...

I think that olive almost looks "surprised" at what he has done.....sort of the "Oh no" thing...

Latin Lupe Lu said...

This is awesome! The background lighting is fabulous. I personally think that the pickle is winning...I hate olives.

Colinski said...

This made me very happy this morning.

Cathy H said...

thanks for celebrating the absurd. i really enjoy your visuals!

sara said...

I smile here by myself!

Anonymous said...

very nice work!

Pike Creek Coffee Roasterie said...

Terry, To reiterate what Richard wrote, I was thinking that some of your work would be perfect to sell to www.shutterstock.com. I've purchased whimsical or humorous fruits/veggie items from them before...but the selection is VERY limited, and nothing as clever as your work.

butterfly said...

Dmitriy is right! The shadow looks just like a spoon...

I'd like to think it is the looming specter of death...coming to take the last spoonful of relish -- aka the gherkin's soul!

muuuuuaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa

Rach the Bach said...

Every time I check in to see your latest creation, you do not disappoint! This is great...I just love your stuff. Keep it up. You're awesome!

Jahooni said...

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT... you just get better and better. Was this the winner of the poll?

How about red cabbage vs yellow cabbage!

La ReinaLexa said...

He so totally shanked him.

Terry said...

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Yes, this was indeed the winner of the object nomination.

TAMSY- Good suggestion, I just figured out how to do that title thing, and will slowly convert all this.

K_sra- I have know idea how to solve that problem, but I'll look into it. I'm not computer geek at all. A geek for sure, just not with computers.

Thanks again all!

mielikki said...

I just love this one. The olive looks very agressive!

KimberlyDi said...

I watched the Patriot last night and this is the first time that Mel Gibson reminds me of an olive. (Final battle scene)

Aaron Ortiz said...

Awesome, IMHO your best so far!

orngelaurn said...

HAHAHA
that is so funny and sad
i was actually hoping the olive would die.

L.Bo Marie said...

oh my... I love this.

Spinning Girl said...

Utterly fabu.

Telemill said...

You are utterly out of your mind and a GENIUS at the same time. I love you. Your blog is da bomb!

Rob Plahn said...

Great work I love it. I too noticed the shadow looked like a spoon. At first I thought maybe that's how you suspended the art. I really like the green gradient background. Very nice.

I'd say that Olive definitely got the pickle in the middle.

t.a.m.s.y. said...

Looking good, Terry! Thanks.

On with the blather said...

Oh my that gerkin's in a pickle. While the little olive is saying "I stabeth thee". The little olive guy, he is a guy isn't he, he's not wearing the go-go boots, reminds me of Mike Weisowzki from Monster's Inc.
Love it, love it, love it. Or as redjen910 said "olive it".

Have you thought about using nuts? Like walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, etc. In the shell or out.

butterfly said...

Hey Terry...you should try to become one of the "ready made" designer products on http://www.moo.com/

It would be cool to have cards and stickers of your stuff ;-)

Radvixen said...

Whoaaaaaaa...cool blogg!!! :D
Keept it up :) .

[found it through stumbleupon :D]

Terry said...

Butterfly, I'll look into that.


Thanks for all the comments, friends.

(and Mel Gibson as an olive, Ha!! I'll have to see that movie.)

Big Orange said...

wow... Remind me not to meet up w/any olives in dark alleys...!!

TICA MACHA said...

"You love me, you really, really love me". Ain't it great to get so much positive feedback? Now, you have to take it to the next level.

Missy said...

Oh Man....that is rad.

Eu não sei, você sabe? said...

I'd loved your amazing job!

congratulations!!

(I don't know, do you know? ,rsrs)

Patrícia

Eu não sei, você sabe? said...

Ok!
On my favorites!

speedpost said...

Brilliant

yh said...

Hilarious! I love this art!

Notta Wallflower said...

I love it! It makes me want to go eat a pickle, but I still will hold on relentlessly to my hatred of olives. :-P

hannah said...

fabulous as usual!

1worklover said...

Very cool! You're an amazin' artist. Keep on tracks.

kind regards!

Miz K said...

Deliciously bizarre!

Melanie Marie said...

I'm WAY behind on my blog reading so that's why this comment is so late.

This is the BEST one you have made! You completely captured the action and it has so much emotion!

Imagine a pickle and an olive have EMOTION! Good Work!

Hello from Julia said...

you just keep outdoing yourself. !!!!!!!!!!!!

sosser said...

please please please make prints of these available for sale! i beg you! they are so brilliant and funny i want to look at them everyday.