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What happens when you take a photograph and apply every Photoshop filter to it? Well, cartoonist/infographicographer Dorothy Gambrell did just that. And she applied them in order, as they appear in the Filters menu. Starting with this:

After sixteen filters the image had turned into this:

It just keeps going and going — all the way through 107 filters. As the series progresses, the image seems to lose coherence, then rebuild itself anew. Check out the whole series, and while you’re at it, spend some quality time with Gambrell’s blog very small array.
(Via Waxy.org.)
I think you may have crashed her server. Oops.
posted by Christine on 9-16-2008 at 2:02 pm
so all filters = stained granite counter top?
posted by tiffany on 9-16-2008 at 3:38 pm
Server down! Server down! I was looking forward to seeing the series :(
posted by Candy on 9-17-2008 at 11:30 am