Is it possible to find high res images of Walter Wick's art? These are the well known childrens books "I Spy" and "Can you see what I see?"

>>7985184 (OP)
I've struggled to find high res images online, maybe they have some copyright protection.

I used to love these as a kid, so comfy

I love this shit.

There must be something about autistic brains that are interested in this sort of thing, the way everything is arranged and the colors are just satisfying to look at.

Waifu2x, photo mode, low noise

I wonder how Stable Diffusion or the others would handle this.

>>7985184 (OP)
maybe AI could upscale it

>>7985184 (OP)
I see what you mean. I struggle to find his work even at the resolutions you've posted. I suspect that he has been very careful about allowing his work onto the Internet in anything like high resolution. Or, even "better than medium" resolution.

>picrel
For example, I found this one embedded in a Wired article about him. While it's decent in total pixels, the quality has been gimped. Even the filename specifically says "lowerqual" in it. When You open it, it looks reasonably good, has an 82% JPEG compression, which is respectable but not great or pro.

However, you can immediately see the image is rotted with upscale artifacts and just blows all sorts of detail with "approximated worms" wiping out all crispness and lines. Looks like someone wiped grease all over the lens and shifted the colors under artificial light. It looks "good enough" for someone looking at it on a 6" or 8" phone screen, but put it up on a decent 2560x1440 graphics monitor and it just makes your eyeballs scream in pain.


>>7991870
No. Upscales are cancer and destroying available image quality on the entire Internet. Every fucking zoomer retard is "upscaling" shit all over the place and poisoning search results so original images don't even show up in search results anymore. Just rotted out, cancerous sewage.

>>7991291
>Stable Diffusion
Is part of the cancer. It's shit.

>>7991946
Compare to the near-perfect crispness of this photo at original image quality. JPEG compression at 93% helps a fair bit, but there has been no upscaling. Probably hasn't been more than cropped to the dimensions he wanted to post it to his blog.

If you can't spot it immediately, use your browser to view the image at 200% and it should become very obvious.

>>7987950

it reminds me of simple times, being a child. not a care for the world.

>>7991946
Would scanning the books help?

bump :D

>>7993140
where did u get it ?

>>7993239
The artist's own site. Cropped it from this foldout image.

>>7985184 (OP)
waltuh
we need those images waltuh

>>7985184 (OP)
Bump for interest. I fucking loved the spooky night / haunted mansion one as a kid.

>>7995665
Not now, Mike...

>>7987950
I spent hours looking at this picture as a kid

Blessed thread, op

>>7987950
Autism isn't real.

>>7991948

>>8005840
Keep telling yourself that, bud.

These I spy wallpapers unlocked a hidden memory in my brain

>>7995702
That is by far the best one.

>>8012107
where are you finding these ? all the archived versions on internet archive have terrible PDF compression

>>8012270
I use Google/Bing/TinEye to search for pictures and identify the best copies, plus various URL tricks to obtain the largest possible resolution. (If you see qualifiers like "-scaled" or "-640x480" or "?w=1024" in a .jpg URL, you can often strip them out and get the original source image.)

>>8012107

>>7985376

blessed thread, bump
convince me not to buy all these books for myself for a trip down memory lane

>>8020132
>convince me not to buy all these books for myself for a trip down memory lane

Well, you could probably take that trip for free at your local library.

>>8022315
thats a good point

>>8026146

> I spy a pie, a monster's green legs,
> Six butterflies and a bird that lays eggs.
> A turtle, a clam, seven long snakes,
> Four forks, three knives, and a pan to bake cakes.

> I spy three jewels, a mirror, a purse,
> An otoscope and thermometer made for a nurse;
> Two crocodile tails and an alien's head,
> Three frogs playing leapfrog and a bug that is red.

> I spy a TV, four stars, and four hearts,
> A crosswalk, a 60, and four arms hacked in parts;
> Three kinds of fruit, a pan in the sun,
> A metal detector, a hat, and two kinds of gun.

> I spy a paw print, two flags, and two balls,
> A TV and two walkies for making some calls;
> A flask, a suitcase, and eleven flowers,
> And if you're like my kids...
> You'll be here for hours.

> I spy a sponge and a carton of juice,
> A fairy's wings and a moose on the loose;
> A surfboard, two radios, and notes from a lab,
> A monkey, a turtle, a clam and two crabs.

> I spy a skeleton missing his head,
> A hot dog, a hook, and a quiver that's red;
> A lizard man's face, a horse and two drills,
> A sea monster's hair and two hundred-dollar bills.

> I spy a beard and two topless carrots,
> A chicken, an arrow, and a couple of parrots;
> A scorpion, an owl, a map and a sun,
> Both Start and a Finish, and now the game's done.

I love this thread!!! Plz moar if you have moar!!!

>>7999024
Any more from the princess series? I think I had the book as a kid

>>7985184 (OP)
Yes it is. You might need to reach out to him personally.

>>8013162
damn thanks for the tip.

>>7985376
Same. The haunted house and Christmas ones were my favorite.

> Original PNG (12 MB)
https://files.catbox.moe/gsuion.png

> I spy a cow, a neat golden bow,
> A long sideways S, a pair of eighth notes;
> Nine tasty donuts, zzZ,
> Two bike wheels, and three golden keys.

>>8008949
Autism is not real, retard, it is a "condition" engineered by normalfags to tell themselves that they are superior; the reality is that autists are the Supreme Race. Keep on coping, chud.

Does anyone more have images from "I spy: Fantasy"? That's' my favorite one

> 1882 x 4000
https://files.catbox.moe/oi3aif.jpg

posting in a legendary thread.
this is the only one I've got, but it's in 4k and hasn't been posted to this thread yet

https://files.catbox.moe/x4g6ce.png

>>7985287
Same image in better quality

Walter Wick
"Flatland from Can You See What I See?: Hidden Wonders"
2021

Seeing this image makes me feel warm inside. I would legitimately get prints made of some of these and hang them in my house just so I could be reminded of my adolescence when I walked past.

>Train to the Stars was a final project for my Material & Texture Creation course back in Fall 2019. I was inspired by the photographs found in the "I Spy" and "Can You See What I See?" books that were like dioramas or play sets, which had a sort of nostalgic and whimsical atmosphere to them.

>Software Used: Maya, Photoshop, and Redshift

Anyone have the space base made of kitchen items?

Can't imagine spending thousands of hours and using that considerable talent to make those chaotic, brightly-coloured, headache-inducing paintings.

artists are gonna be artists, I guess

>>7985184 (OP)
man i love these, these are the definition of 90s art!

pdfs of the ispy books must have high res images right, we could extract from them

>>7995702
Same

>>8042810
This was my favorite to look at. Seeing all the roads twisting with cars every which way was so cool. >>7985185 was also very cool.

>>8053918
>Can't imagine spending thousands of hours and using that considerable talent to make those chaotic, brightly-coloured, headache-inducing paintings.

It's cool that you're so dazzled by his command of composition, lighting, and optical illusion that you think these are paintings, but Walter Wick is a photographer. Here you can see him setting up some shots: >>8025063 >>7991948

They just seem too magical to be real, is all.

gonna use a bunch of these for jiggy threads on /v/, thanks all

>>8053916

>>7990171

>>7985184 (OP)
Somewhat higher res.

>>8055985
I loved this book the most as a kid

>>8064808

>>8010068

>>8037172
imagine being such a fucking pathetic loser that you are intimidated by people who cant make eye contact.

Get a fucking grip dude, you admitted you are more pathetic than spergs. YOU are the problem.

>>8042810
This was one of my favorites as a kid. It's got such a cozy look to it, especially with the miniature people sprinkled throughout. It's busy, yet sleepy and dreamlike. It reminds me sleeping with a night light as a kid.

>>8071400
wrong thread chill out

>>7995702
I had the PC game I bought from the scholastic book fair. I used to play it with my mom and my little brother. My grandma on the other hand would collect I Spy books and that was a highlight of Grandma's house too.

>>7985184 (OP)
Bump

>>7990173
Holy nostalgia, that clown just triggered so many hidden away memories. There were some fun CD-ROMs of these games back then, I should rev them up one day

> I spy a gold coin, three balls with red stars,
> One yellow beetle, and two other cars;

> A cactus, a flower, a comic, a hat,
> Twenty paw prints and one jailed trash cat.

>>8078127

Fuck I bet he can ride dick like a rampaging bull

>>8088213

bro wtf

blessed thread

What genre is Walter Wick's art? Photo collage or prop and set piece art or what?

I remember playing the I spy PC games when I was a child but I never actually owned or read any of the books.
For anyone who has both are the picture riddles in the games only ones lifted right out of the books or did they also have exclusive ones?

Thanks OP and the rest of you anons, these gave me so many happy and warm memories and honestly brought a tear to my eye

>15.5 MB
https://files.catbox.moe/crvgj4.png

>>7991946
Based unintentional anti-ai Walter Wick

>>8014155
This image makes me feel intensely in a way that hurts, its actually actually painful, like a real aching in my solar plexus. Beheadings, cartel victims, suicides, corpses, general gore- I sleep. But this? Real shit. Does anyone else have images that make them feel this way?

>>8063462
wow

>>7985288
using Upscayl
>https://files.catbox.moe/r62e3p.png
Also, these captchas are getting fucking nuts.

>>8099123
upscale? more like upchuck, it looks terrible.

>>8099125
to be honest I agree. I can't find another upscaler that's both free and easy to use, though. :(

>>8099130
the problem isn't that you're using a cheap upscaler, it's that all digital upscaling is cheap. it doesn't work for pixels because it's doing complete guesswork, unlike when you have something like an original film negative that can be blown up as big as a billboard and not suffer any of the drawbacks.
don't waste your time trying to get that goose to lay a golden egg, because it's not even a goose it's a gander.

> Welcome to my bookshelf, let's play!

> strawberry
> (2) rubber duckies
> superman logo
> viking
> (2) number 9s
> wizard
> (6) Godzillas
> (3) Lego vehicles
> (2) Captain Picards

> bonus: the word "gay"

>>8015488
This book was definitely my favorite one. I think my favorite detail about the book was that each page foreshadowed the next one.

>>8097485
>Does anyone else have images that make them feel this way?
umm not that one lol

>>8101548
And a nice John McCain toy

>>7990173
nice

>>8093206
I remember that one from my childhood, one of my favorites

>>8014155
>Inspired by « Clouds » from Walter Wick

>>8070953
I had that sword, its was fire.

Incredible thread, OP. I think nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, like depression and self-righteousness....but wow this whole thread has had me tripping down the memory lanes and it was fun. I had/stillhave no friends and read lots of books when I was young. Sometimes I'd get tired of thinking stories out and looking at letters and would crack open one of these books, play the finding games and sometimes just stare at the pictures for hours, imagining myself to be a tiny toy soldier or the driver of a little car in some toy world filled with random shit. I did this off and on until I was 11 and then some faggot at elementary school had to point out that I was "reading little kids books" when that little white nigger couldn't even read a sentence on a billboard without stumbling. It bothered me that the book got attention focused on me so I put it away and forgot about it for 30 years, but now this thread has me thinking I will go read one this weekend. I really liked the ones with glassy objects. There were a couple with marbles that were galaxies of aimless adventure for my young mind. Thanks for sending me down a wave of nostalgia! I'll go watch cartel videos later to detox, gotta stay a psychopathic money-chasing adult or die, at least there's one day a week to pretend to enjoy myself. I really liked this image
>>8093206
I almost started daydreaming away at work, imagining what it'd be like to live in a tiny toy car superhighway world and just drive forever

>>8107383
be the person you want to be - lifes to short to be someone else.

AI upscaling = garbage.
Just do high res scans or take high quality pictures of the images with a decent camera and good lighting.
Scans are ideal but taking a picture of the book can turn out fine, like this spread from Fun House.

>>8101548
Ily anon. I'm so stoked to do this.

>>8109399
Alright, I'm losing steam. I might have to revisit this. I have:

> strawberry
Check
> (2) rubber duckies
Only found 1 of 2. The second one is going to drive me crazy
> superman logo
Check
> viking
I found 2 things that could* be what you are referring to. One is tough to say because many of the details are obscured, another is "viking-esque".
> (2) number 9s
I found at least 5, of which I would say 4 are totally fair even for non-autists
> wizard
Again, I may* have gotten this one, but details are obscured and the thing I am looking at could be something else.
> (6) Godzillas
5/6 found
> (3) Lego vehicles
check, check, check
> (2) Captain Picards
check, check
> bonus: the word "gay"
I got 2, though one is kind of tough to make out.

Great I Spy though, m8. Cheers

Bump for the nostalgia

>>8101548
> Hitler