[PHOTOS] These Figure Skating Duos Without Their Better Half Are Hilariously Perfect
While this winter’s Sochi Olympics has had its fair share of controversies, it’s also been inspiring Internet gold.
By Sadho Ram — 22 Feb 2014, 03:20 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
It seems that in addition to being a display of athletic excellence, the Sochi Olympic is also a goldmine of internet humor. A few days ago, we featured these terrifyingly funny faces of Olympians:
And now, we have stumbled upon Without You, a Tumblr page dedicated to photographs of pairs figure skaters in which one of the skaters is missing...digitally
Considering that pairs figure skaters are only able to perform challenging and even gravity-defying stunts with the help of their partners, these funny Photoshopped images made their subjects look like they are achieving impossible physical feats on their own
From surreal pictures of floating female skaters to the male skaters’ unflattering poses, these manipulated photographs are the work of Christopher Hiltz, who states that not all the pictures used are from the 2014 Olympics
In his interview with The Creators Project, Hiltz talks about the inspiration and process behind Without You’s bizarre and hilarious images. He says:
"The idea for this series was basically spawned from weariness; one groggy morning I was looking at the news online, when I saw a photo out of the corner of my eye of what looked like an awkwardly posed ice dancer. I was thrown off mainly because I was so out of it I didn't realize the skater (a woman) wasn't just floating in the air, parallel to the ice, but was thrown into that position by her partner."
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The image was composed as such that the guy was at the bottom of the frame, and for a split second I just missed him. That brief moment of confusion led me to begin intentionally manipulating photos of pairs ice dancers and skaters to look as if one member of the duo were missing.
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See more of Christopher Hiltz's hilarious works, here:
