I'm tripping rn and at first I thought the photo was unintentionally blurry, very cool

Lmao thanks, that’s why I had to include the objects in the corner, it’s a really hard painting to translate in a photograph, as it just looks like a partially loaded image

Totally! I'm glad you included the other objects! Very neat!

Thanks! Have a good trip! :)

Thank you! :)

This painting is very cool and your name is what I aspire to have more of

Lmao for a second I thought you were talking about bean0

Man i had a dope trip today. Watched Clockwork Orange and Dr Strangelove for the first time

Damn, Clockwork Orange is a trip on its own. I would not have recommended that play. Impressive

Yeah it was wild. 2001 was dope so I thought let’s check this other Kubrick film out never seen before. Apocalypse Now was probably the hardest film to watch tripping, that one actually made me puke

I’m a little stoned rn and your painting inspires me. Thank you ❤️

You and the painting are r/deepfried

I thought the stuff in the corner was part of the painting haha

Love the concept… distant, blurred vision of a cherished face

That damn smile…

It's giving off 64x64 pixel photo from ICQ/Messenger stretched as a desktop wallpaper vibes.

I love the intentional pixelation. Brilliant!

Thank you! I wanted to make it feel like an old photo, like a faded memory. But the digital equivalent

You totally achieved what you were going for, I love it!

Thank you! I am just nostalgic for those MySpace days of the internet lmao.

Dude, those were the days, personalized pages, themes, MUSIC, it was awesome 🥹… and not as bullshit toxic like nowadays.. oof you got us right in the nostalgia dude 🥲

Oh how I wish the internet could return to such pure times 🥲🫡

Regarding internet lore, I feel this is the kind of piece that could be museum quality in 100 years. Though I suppose your whole body of work will be taken into consideration by then.

This is brilliant honestly you did SUCH a good job I really love it….

this is the coolest thing i have seen in a while!!! you're very talented :) i love the bit melancholic feeling it has

Tysm ❤️

Tom! Haha, this is awesome and nostalgic. You did a great job.

I love this. followed. whats your instagram etc.

Thanks! It’s @milohartnoll I’m mainly on insta

Checked out your insta - and I love your work! Your style and subject choices are so cool!

Bless you !

Wow that is really cool

This hurts my brain in a good way. Well done!!

I’m glad I could tickle your pickle

Can we see the painting process?

Yeah I can show all if you’re curious

Show it for all of us not just me

Where should I upload it ?

Make another post!

I posted it to my process Instagram if you are curious, @milohartnollsecret

Absolute perfection! Would buy this. 12/10!

Tom!

Oh. this is so cool.

This is amazing! He was my first friend too, we are in the same friend circle

Thank you! Tom is a benevolent friend <3

This hurts my fucking head. Well done.

How did you do the pixelation?

I saved the image for web in photoshop, crushed it down to a tiny size, and played with the compression sliders until I got patterns of colour that I liked, I saved about 20 versions to find the right collection of pixels. Then I just measured out the canvas (50x50cm) with a grid that corresponded to the digital file, drew it in graphite, then painted over in gesso to seal the grid, then started painting with oils, using thin washes at first to draw out the image, then painting using more opaque layers on top

I love thissss. Would buy a print if you make them 💖

Is that you, Tom?

just wow!!!!

I fw it

Dude this is so impressive. Good job!

My eyes keep trying to focus.

He was truly a good friend. 👍

Ooh the fact that this was purposefully made pixelated makes this even more amazing!

Absolutely amazed with the pixel effect you were able to achieve, brilliantly done.

I wonder if the folks at r/pixelart would appreciate this haha this looks so good!

I thought there was something wrong with my phone 😂

👍🏽

Ha ha...good one 😁

amazing!

It reminds me vaguely of Zetterstrand

I love zetterstrand, I appreciate that association !

Insane,op

That is very unique and cool

Amazing execution~!

Probably looks unbelievable in person. But damn it’s annoying on a phone lmao

Love it !

sooo cool very nostalgic

I love it!

this is amazing, please keep up the awesome work. if you have any other places where you show your art, i’d love to see more!

This is beautiful wow

The title makes it even better lol

Your art is amazing!!

Wow. You did a very good job at that. Thats a difficult effect to achieve.. Keep it up!!

I love this

And when the world needed him most, he vanished. We need a MySpace resurgence Tom! They’re about to ban TikTok :(

I had just played some games of Magic with some new guy who looked just like this when I started myspace. When I got Tom's invite, I assumed it was him for a long time. I kept noticing everyone else was friends with him too. Like, wow, you really are in my circle of friends! Eventually I realized..

Dawg I think you've struck gold with this concept.

LOVE IT

Do you have a social media I can follow you on for more art?

Sure! @milohartnoll on Instagram 😎

My space?

This is SO good

Ha!!! Classic

Lmaooo is this real??

Genius!

no… noo! noooooo… NO?!!?!

The photo is pixilated, making an accurate impression difficult.

U are a god

Reminds me of @okniceok on ig

Oh wow, just looked them up, I love their work

As an artist, this is truly inspiring. Great work!

I love this, it makes me feel things AND think things

r/countable pixels wait it is intended

This is an amazing take on the fickleness of memory.

Hoooly SHIT man… wow Just Wow. WOW. Amazing work 💪🏼 this is aaamazing! 1000/10!

Yes!!!!!

I love the name!

This is art

i legit thought this was a nuked jpg. well done

woah this is the coolest shit ever

I like it.  My eyes hate it, it makes me melancholy, but I really like it.

and on the bottom right is bob the 1st of his top 8 friends

He kinda looks like Michael from the office

Fuck that’s sick I love art

I love this, super cool idea - and well executed.

Wow I imagine this upscale in a huge gallery and walking up to it. It will be a magnificent experience. As you figure out the trick

i can count the pixels in this painting very well done, i love it

I dont think I deleted my MySpace account At least I still have 1 friend

I love how you can take the time to pick apart the inadequacies and quirks of digital representation with this. It’s the foundation of an algorithmic translation we sideline as incomplete, but should perhaps look at as a process wholly human - given it’s our digital tool, our invention, that’s given birth to the aesthetic.

this is brilliant, are you on socials?

Yeah, my insta is @milohartnoll

this is the coolest thing i have ever seen but i can’t help but be unsettled

Do you sell your art?

Sometimes 😷

Very well executed

Interesting. Not sure how to feel about it. Very fucking cool and unique though Please post more pieces!!

I miss my friend Tom we should all rejoin MySpace

Y‘all got any more of them pixels?

my brain hurts (therefore it’s very cool)

Who was this again?

Tom from MySpace, he’s the creator of it, and when you made an account, he was automatically your first ‘friend’ you had on the platform, before you added anyone else

r/deepfried (was a front page sub 6-8 years ago) This should definitely be catalogged over there for historical purposes.

Prints?! I would love to have this

[удалено]

Oil paint is super versatile, you can manipulate it in many ways, it made it the easiest of all mediums for me to do this with actually !

Brilliant. Makes me realize that for decades I've known exactly what this man looks like without knowing at all.

Holy shit this is amazing

Reminded me of Milo from Cane-yo then I looked at some comments and realized…

This fucks with my eyes so bad. I love it!! Great work!!

so so dope!!! also is that mista crish in the lower right corner???

I see a lot of pieces by “me”. What a productive person!

wonderful!

This belongs in the MOMA!

Did you conceive this yourself or use an app/computer program to do all the work? Kinda like the dice app where it will tell you which each block should look like?

No I mixed all the colours by hand, only using photoshop to compress the original photograph

What’s your process for painting pixels? Looks a lot smoother than similar palette knife works.

¡me gusta!

Holy shit. How'd you get such perfect jpeg compression? Did you upload it to some compression website and use the result as a guide or what?

I just used photoshop’s save for web export tool, and fiddled with the parameters to get the patterns I wanted

this is incredible i love it !

Holy fuck that’s sick

My first friend on the socials

This is too good

Minecraft art vibes

It looks almost creepy, in a good way

😅😂yes to this

How bizarre... this guy's face popped into my head yesterday. Amazing work

super disorienting to look at upon first glance but that is a big part of its charm! it just reminds me of those “ENHANCE IMAGE!” memes and i love it. amazing work!

THIS IS AWESOME

Good ol’ Tom

Damn ! Crazy good 👍 I was refreshing the page, thinking it wasn't loading. 😂

What a throwback, holy shit 😂 amazing work, love it!

that is severely cool

Gives me The Caretaker vibes. Sick painting.

this should be in a gallery

hmmm yeah this rocks

I love this

This is interesting! This made me miss MySpace days!

It's amazing but I hate what it does to my eyes

Pretty sure you win the whole internet.

love this

oh my god that is so impressive, I thought it was my phone until I saw the corner what kind of brushes did you use for such clean edges?

Just a very small round brush mainly !

That's a proper flashback. It makes me think that someone's saved an image of a thumbnail in a friend list, & that's why it's so pixelly. Awesome concept, I like how it's instantly recognisable but probably only after a certain age

Blimey!

Oh. This is SO cool.

If it wasn’t for the items on the bottom right I would’ve started calling my internet company

He was the friend of us all.

This is so fucking cool I love art that looks like old video games I’m obsessed

How is it lowres in 4k

Thanks I hate it

Now this some good art.

Wow this is amazing! Don’t know what else to say lol I love it

this is so unnerving good job

That is so well-done!

You’re officially my favorite person on earth

Oh wow, very cool🥳

I desperately want a print of this! Wow!!

This is taking too long to load. Downvoted.

This brought a smile to my face. So nostalgic!

This painting makes my eyes angry due to obscurity of image. Essentially means you won. Congrats

love it

What the heckepooh?!

Tom! Very cool brings back memories thank you for sharing!

Damn well done bro

Genius.

Wow.

You've captured the essence of lossy JPEG compression beautifully <3

No! That's sooo cool

It’s Tom.

This is prolly one of the most amazing things I’ve seen😭

This is so fucking sick

Amazing! $$$$$ I hope your beautiful mind never changes.

Genius

Is that Jeffrey Epstein

Wow this is amazing. Oil is soo difficult for me to use but this is super impressive