The face in the top right corner reminds me of: http://artcity.bitfellas.org/index.php?a=show&id=11945

Beautiful and unusual palette.

TRON! Amazing!

I admit it looked fishy, but in the end I was hit by the Mermaid bus too.

Quite awesome.

ahahaha Mermaid strikes hard, good job!

...I'm also curious to see what kind of tools could have been used in the process.

C64 folks, come here, we want SCANdals !

It looks like one of the characters from Mortal Kombat incarnation.

Unfortunately not but I will keep looking. If I find anything, I'll let you know.

This gif hit me like a bus. I was aware that there must've been an inspirational source to this, but i still was totally like "yeah, great picture, awesome", but now i have the feeling this is just a scan followed by a conversion. If someone knows how that works and if there is still "artist work" needed to make it look like this, please explain to me. I am dared to tag this 'scan'.

http://fashr.com/files/photos/image_1/thumb_19875/700x900_scale_thumb_Karen%20Elson%20in%20V%20magazine1.jpg

@CONS:
If you want to edit Sander's post, working url is http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=41482

(ed.CONS:Inspirational picture added, thanks!)

(ed.CONS:Inspirational picture added, thanks!)

Hey mailman, since the artist is new, do you have any information about the author or the pic and its/his relation to the demoscene?

http://artcity.bitfellas.org/index.php?a=show&id=8866
http://artcity.bitfellas.org/index.php?a=show&id=8924
http://artcity.bitfellas.org/index.php?a=show&id=19569

Great work! Original with style.

Some other pictures that belong in the same context:

Just a bunch of wiggly lines nothing more
An obvious stab at the 'abstract' images that surfaced the scene.

It Seems My Time Is Growing Thin aka Wind me up Using similar 'wiggly lines' as the image above, now featurign 2 clowns. Those clowns being certain c64 scene twins, who're definitely part of that 'contemporary movement'. (Ed and Joe).

Single colour is ugly and Legacy lost As part of that 'movement', some people (Helm and Ptoing especially) sarted using hires a lot again, not pushing it to it's technical limits as the demoscene was always about - but embrancing its limitations and working with those, resulting in unique visual solutions, native to the mode. Mirage didn't like that. (one example by Helm: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=36729 - notice the background triangles, or this one http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=41482).
'Legacy lost' in this context is about droppping the heritage of the demoscene and walking the 'contemporary' path, where mirage certainly thought 'single colour is ugly'.
Eve and her multicoloured bubblegum by Mirage vs Eve by Helm.

I can go on and on with these images and references.. but this is a good start for pointers i hope.

And Mirage was certainly not the only person to work with references to other sceners.
Here's a few images:

mirage:


mermaid:


leon:

Also related to: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=45130

...So everything here was set up in a particular context. Good to know, thanks Sander for that.

Well if effectively his NO COPY is ironic, then he would have of to use a wellknown picture as "La Joconde" for example.
I fully agree that to compose an image from various images copies does not mean that it makes an original image and deserves the tag NO COPY
When you look at the picture you clearly see "ngry"... and now that i know more about the story i can read "angry"
It is just damage that for the average user looking at this image without known its story will judge it certainly very high quality (as I made it) but it is can be exactly also it that Mirage criticized ?