Why do Christians always look like Christians? Why do they all have that neat and tidy dress code that makes them stand out in the crowd like they aren’t supposed to be wherever they are?
For me it’s the plasticine look and distorted proportions. The whole messiah-with-your-kid angle didn’t really register with me until BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed posted after me. (Although now that I think on it, isn’t that sort of portraying some weird fantasy that your kid is dead and gone to heaven? That* is* creepy.) I was well aware that there was a lot of hideous Photoshopping going on to create jarring oversaturated caricatures of people hanging out with Jesus.
It’s *aesthetically *creepy to me. Others may have other interpretations.
I gots to go along with Mangetout. Those pics were really dumb, but they didn’t strike me as particularly creepy. Craft shows and flea markets offer mountains of that type of imagery of Christ.
That one I would call
Jesus from the Black Lagoon!
It’s probably worth noting then, that from the standpoint of the doctrines of most forms of Christianity, Jesus isn’t regarded as a ‘dead guy’.
Well, yeah.
But he isn’t a life-sized Ken doll with a beard and a sparkling clean K-Mart toga either.
It’s not just creepy, it’s… disrespectful. And I’m an atheist!
Not all of them do. Most Christians I know look like pretty average normal people. Then again, I don’t know many Mormons, who all look like either Mitt Romney or Harvard students.
I think part of the creepy factor for me is that the people are ungrounded. What are they standing/sitting on? Air? And why don’t they cast shadows?
Oh, I don’t like it - I think it’s tacky, cheesy, tasteless, and generally of poor artistic merit, but creepy? Not very.
Certainly that makes the images look very unnatural.
That is some TERRIBLE image-editing work. Absolutely terrible. I don’t call it “Photoshop” because it’s an insult to Adobe that their product is used so horribly.
If that’s all it takes to sell crap to people, I am in the wrong business.
I went to high school with one of those people. Some things (people) never change.
Somebody should really tell Barry Gibb that his image is being used in this manner.
Well, I think there’s probably some sales leverage on the Christian angle, despite the crappy artwork - I mean, you love your kids, right? And you (the hypothetical Christian customer) love Jesus, right? So why would you be ashamed to commision me to paint a picture of Jesus hovering with your kids? You’re sure you’re a proper Christian, are you?
“Name?”
“Ken Jacobs.”
“Occupation?”
“Jesus model.”
“Next!”
You guys, I worked really, really hard on my Joey/Jesus. At least as hard as that “artist” works on her stuff. Come on.
Is this a euphemism for masturbation?
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Coincidence? I think not. Another example of divine intervention.
Another thing I notice is that Jesus seems to like overuse of the high-pass filter in his artwork. That’s right: the details are being obscured. What’s he hiding?
This SO deserves to be nominated for an Awful Link of the Day on Somethingawful.
No, he’s Ken Jacobs, Jesus for Hire!