could you do this?

I saw this today. According to the caption, some guy did it using the basic 'paint' program most computers come with... in this case, MS Paint. He said it took him 500 hours.

The actual pic is a little over twice this size.

Ray Bradbury and movies

The first novel I ever read was 'Dandelion Wine.' If there was ever a great first novel to read, to get you hooked on reading more, that was it.
I think I was about twelve when I read it. Of course, I'd read children's stories and comic books before that, but this was different. I started reading every Bradbury novel and short story compilation I could find. 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Golden Apples of the Sun,' 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'... these are just a few that pop into my head. He was a very prolific writer for a long time.
Bradbury started off writing short stories for the sci-fi pulp magazines of the 1940's. A lot of the stories had to do with humans travelling to Mars and Venus. Considering what he had to go on in terms of what was generally known about space and the planets, much of what he wrote is astonishingly prescient.
His writing style is difficult to describe. It can be very florid at times, almost excessively so. Much of the time, the passages in his work seem to be there for no other reason than to evoke something wonderful or mysterious or foreboding, whether the circumstances necessary to explain those evocations have actually occurred or not. A young boy sees a cigar store Indian- does the Indian come to life or does the boy just imagine it? Two friends play in the grass and roll down a hill while 'something' magical is going on. Is anything really going on, or did they just roll down a hill? Bradbury's work is rife with these kinds of scenes; seemingly ordinary events painted by the author to be somehow mystical or enchanting.
But Bradbury's work is very difficult to translate to film. The very things that make his writing so entrancing in print just come across as vague and obscure in movies. After a while, they almost seem pointless.
The aforementioned 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' may be the best example. The dreamworld his characters typically inhabit comes across as meaningless and slightly annoying when shown on the big screen; you find yourself asking, 'Why are these people acting this way? Why don't they just say what they mean to say?' Many of the scenes are, in and of themselves, very well staged, but in the end they don't seem to add up to anything, and you're left with a slightly depressing feeling of 'so what?' It's like the whole thing was a dream, but misrepresented as a kind of reality.
It's too bad really; I can't help but feel that he's just never had the right kind of director or producer to bring his visions to fruition on the movie screen.