found artist

this guy takes old images and combines them with newer graphic elements. very inspiring for me!

http://mendezmendez.com/?cat=9#

Research for Currency Assignment:

I found these obsolete Tennessee banknotes online, and since i'm interested in merging aged, sepia-toned, black&white imagery with newer, more colorful and modern images, i'm gonna pursue that as my visual theme for this project. Conceptually, i plan to incorporate the Tennessee of the past with the Tennessee of the present, using images of cities, landscapes, and landmarks within the old bills. Here's what I've done for the %dollar bill so far:

Composite Images

A few may still need some more tweaking, but they're my first try at making some of my own photoshop collages.

"Befores and Afters"