Thats really funny

That's AWESOME! I saw the "random paragraph" generator. I put in

Primary subject: chopper's
Secondary subject: block

And I got back this gem:



OOOH! and these beauties:

WOW! Thats a whole new topic you started there, gonna have a go myself now

OH WHAT FUN!

Above sonic exists photoshop. Sonic colors the surprising sympathy on top of a found bug. Sonic indulges near photoshop. Photoshop captains sonic beneath a sequel.

Welcome to choppers block! Don't think to hard about it and browse image sites for inspiration, it works for me most of the time. If it doesn't, I usually have a bad chop, lol

Don't force it. In a lot of ways, you are creating a story. Find a subject in a source and create stories in your head about that subject. Where did this subject come from? Why is it where it is now? How does it affect its environment? Who loves this object the most? When was the object most popular? Does it have a different function when working with other objects?

I've found that if the final chop doesn't have a story to go with it, you don't get as many votes.

This is VERY true. Even Funny chops have a story. Heck Naiko's organic abstracts usually have a story too (It's just that the story is usually different for each person).

Right now I don't think that I've been chopping long enough to have gotten "chopper's block" yet, but when I'm trying to think of an idea for any particular chop I use a combination of what everyone's said so far.

When chopping, I listen to some instrumental music at first (its typically the soundtracks from Transformers and LOTR 1-3 for the moment).

Occasionally, an idea pops straight to my head. For example, my first chop here was just something that I saw immediately (http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/149351/rock-berg.html).

If I don't initially see anything, I'll start cutting out the picture. Sometimes this gets my imagination going, but other times I resort to other tools. Liquify is normally my next tool. I'll typically start elongating or flattening random parts of the image. That's the process I went through for my last entry (http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/150462/guitar.html). A picture normally comes to mind and then I'm good to go. In that case, I flattened out the top of the labret and somehow I thought to myself..."GUITAR PEG".

Once the image comes to mind, I normally find one particular genre, artist, album, playlist, or song that gets me in the right state of mind to do the chopping.

I also spend a lot of time looking through design websites and a lot of those ideas help to inspire me. If I see an idea from one of those websites, I'll try to put my own spin on it and present it here. The techniques of the artists from this website help a lot too. Seeing this (http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/138501/desire.html) made me attempt this (http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/149926/every-mans-dream.html). Granted...his is muchhh better.

Good luck with the chopper's block, though. Hope I could help.

Oh!

Sorry...

I thought you guys were talking about CHOPPER's BOX.

Never mind...

I'll just walk away now....

I just learned to chop UN-INSPIRED.
It's much easier.

I do get some ideas from the thumbnails of the source. Sounds funny but true. For some reason not being able to see the details in the pic gives me ideas the source could become. Hey, my mind scares me too.

Send me a PM after you've posted another 418 entries and then we'll talk about uninspired!

sorry i didnt know you have to make your chops your self, my neighbour a boy of 8 years does it for me no , music helps and trying to find the best parts in the source for use,

wat i wanna do is:

i wanna say on the next chop i'm going to use an umbrella in it somwhere...

then you'll have to be creative

i havnt used this approch yet....