Ever wondered what your favorite movies and shows would be like if the characters had iPhones?
The work of French photographer François Dourlen sort of touches on that subject, but with a subversive, whimsical twist that sees characters like Die Hard’s John McClane crawling out of microwave ovens, or the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings movies topping an industrial tower.
Dourlen is a French teacher and amateur photographer who whimsically incorporates famous video game characters, movie stars, and superheroes into his work. In his iPhone series, though, he uses an iPhone to bring characters into the real world, often in humorous contexts.
Dourlen’s technique is simple. He just pulls out his iPhone, pulls up an image on Google Image search, and then tries to shoot the combined image with his regular camera. Using this technique, Dourlen is able to show Thor using Mjolnir to hammer in a tiny nail, transform Edward Scissorhands into a sous chef, but Justin Bieber’s face on a toddler’s body (which, come to think of it, might just describe Justin Bieber, full stop), and more.
If you like the photos you see on this page, make sure to check out Dourlen’s official site for more. His work is like a humorous combination of photography and augmented reality, and some of his juxtapositions are real knee-slappers. Check it out.
Source: François Dourlen
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “French photographer whimsically augments reality with his iPhone”
He totally couldn’t’ve done that if he’d had any other kind of phone…
You’re right, it would have to be a full screen phone. That’s either an iPhone or a blatant rip off of the iPhone (Android).
Lol, you write-off all Android phones as “iPhone rip-offs” & think all other phones are inferior to the iPhone? XD Sit-down, son…
It’s true you retard. Even Google admits it, and also that their first rip off target was blackberry.
Oh, you’re a nasty piece of work, aren’t you; to lash-out in such petty ways… Google saw the way the market was going & modified their product to conform to that new standard. To call that “ripping-off” the iPhone is like saying the second person to make a car with four wheels, a steering wheel, a gear shifting control, and three pedals ripped-off the first car with that general layout. What were Google & other companies supposed to do? Make devices with (what would, at least, be considered by the average consumer to be) inferior interfaces? Do you criticise Apple for their theft when they straight-up directly copy features from Android, or BlackBerry OS, or Windows Phone, or even WebOS? Are you even capable of acknowledging that some non-Apple hardware & software is superior to Apple’s own offerings?
Idiot, what trivial BS are you referring to? You can’t copy someone’s novel, and add footnotes and resell it like it’s yours.
Roid came out the gate promoting all manner of BS like ‘real’ keyboards. None of that lasted. It’s just a rip off.
Features? Which Roid are you referring to? Some have 1or 2 features, desperately trying to differentiate their rip off. But none of them compete across the board, few are well supported, none have and comparable ecosystem, and none are secure.
Also, you started this with you
You *seriously* believe that *all* Android phones are inferior immitation iPhones? Really? Dude, you’re detached from reality…
Without question, you freaking moron.
So, there are no ways in which any Android phones are superior to iPhones… Even if one has a better camera, or more storage, or a better screen, or louder speakers, or better reception, or longer battery life, or tougher build quality, or… Well, need I go on?
No! How many different phones are you wanting to carry? None of the rip offs compete across the board. Besides which, it’s not about specs. The iPhone cameras have great follow focus, great color fidelity, etc. the Roids are merely appealing to spec whore morons, like you. There are scores of reviews that come to this conclusion as well. grow a brain.