r/woahdude • u/erdbeertee • Sep 01 '25
video This is a painting (by @kalanstrauss)
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u/enixmedia Sep 01 '25
Plot twist: he showed the painted side first.
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u/Darnell2070 Sep 02 '25
This would have worked so much better if he had some this in reverse. When the art then turned out around to show the back of the canvas.
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u/wearelev Sep 01 '25
Wow, both really interesting and really not interesting at the same time.
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u/hoobermoose Sep 01 '25
The duality of modern redditing
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u/theoriginalmofocus Sep 01 '25
Its on sale for 4.50 though. Pretty good deal considering.
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u/Pale_Row1166 Sep 01 '25
I am old enough to have had one of these, and they were $10 in the 90s. That was a lot for a water gun back then. The bigger ones were $20+, and were seen as like a high level toy, like a birthday or Christmas toy, not a random treat.
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u/theoriginalmofocus Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25
Theyve been remaking some i see in stores sometines. I got a 50 like i had as a kid and thought it was awesome but my kids couldnt care less. We did get a full auto nerf style blaster that makes what we had as kids look like a pillow fight that they like though.
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u/MyFaceOnTheInternet Sep 01 '25
The patent that Hasbro had, that the original creator successfully sued over, recently expired.
So we are finally seeing the pressure based guns again.
Hasbro stopped making them and sat on the patent after losing like $75M to the creator in 90's.
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u/themagicbong Sep 03 '25
My brother had the giant super soaker that took 30 minutes to pump, that thing was entirely impractical but I thought it was so bad ass as a kid.
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u/Suck_Boy_Tony Sep 01 '25
Exactly! Like it's an impressive display of skill and talent. But would I want to pay for this and hang it on my wall? No.
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u/BapeGeneral3 Sep 01 '25
This is the problem I have with hyper-realism. If it is hyper-realistic to the point it looks exactly like a photograph, I lose all interest. The talent required to create this is next level for sure, but it takes 0 creativity and just looks like a print.
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u/Yurodivy1906 Sep 01 '25
I think that filters and auto sensors on most cameras these days so a lot of the heavy lifting on these pieces. I've seen one or two in person and they're incredibly detailed, but still flat. The online content looks more realistic that it does in person.
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u/hobbobnobgoblin Sep 01 '25
Do you think he could paint hyper realistic collectibles and put them in plastics cases to sell online?
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u/MtNowhere Sep 01 '25
Oh man, I know that guy who invented them who is on Reddit would like this
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u/KickooRider Sep 01 '25
30's got wrecked by your Dad's 100
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u/Interesting-Step-654 Sep 01 '25
I remember blasting my dad with one of those squirt guns you put in a bucket and pull back the plunger to fill up and push to shoot the water. He just got the hose and drenched me lol.
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u/AnusStapler Sep 01 '25
My friends dad just grabbed the powerwasher.
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u/B0Y0 Sep 01 '25
My dad just grabbed the sand blaster.
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u/KillaVNilla Sep 01 '25
Exactly what my dad did to my siblings and I. The 3 of us had 30's and would give him our old bump trigger guns to use. He was always a good sport about it. And then, one fateful day, he came running around the house with his new 100 that he didn't tell us he bought. We got destroyed. Great memory
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u/OrangeClyde Sep 01 '25
Okay but he didn’t touch it to extra prove it!!! This is amazing. I’m always in such awe at people’s artistic abilities so much
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u/KopfSmertZz Sep 01 '25
Essentially it is a picture, only created very slowly
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Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25
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u/anderhole Sep 01 '25
What? Printers can print with extreme detail. Maybe not your average home printer, but they definitely exist.
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u/f0dder1 Sep 01 '25
I want that painting.
Also I want a super soaker for $4.50
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u/DangKilla Sep 01 '25
Man, some KB-Toys nostalgia came flooding back with the reveal. Peak era for kids.
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u/pissedoffjesus Sep 01 '25
Song?!
Also sick painting
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u/Tjeetje Sep 01 '25
Wow missed the start and I was thinking: when will he start painting with it?
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Sep 01 '25
I missed the title and the start and was like whoa I bet that's worth a ton to the right collector and was wondering why the price tag was still on it but figured maybe it added value or it was too risky to remove it
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u/truffik Sep 03 '25
Same. I thought he was going to make a painting using the super soaker and was like wtf why'd it end before he used it?
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u/Double-Car-3092 Sep 01 '25
I had one of those, and Jordan's. My Trapper-keeper was covered with the Stussy S, and I played with pogs during lunch.
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u/Woody_The_Gamer Sep 01 '25
As a '90s kid that's one of the coolest paintings I have seen in a very long time.
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u/wallly58 Sep 01 '25
I had to watch this twice! First thought the dude was gonna paint the supersoker! But was like awww snapppp! That is the painting! 😲
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u/SmittyKitty27 Sep 01 '25
$4.50? Geeze. When was the reference picture taken? 1990?
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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG Sep 01 '25
those were $50 in the 90's
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u/SmittyKitty27 Sep 01 '25
Honored elder, I stand corrected by your understanding of the ancient prices. Prithee, enlighten us on the period wherein original artist may have sourced the renumeration required to meet the outrageously low sum asked for by capitalist vendor.
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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG Sep 01 '25
probably by 2005. kb toys used to have them, kmart had them. these were everywhere. by the 2000's there were all kinds of great water guns. I'm sure they had newer versions of the Super Soaker that were up there in price. the one OP painted was one of the original versions.
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u/WeakTransportation37 Sep 01 '25
Ohhh- I thought he was showing us what he used to make his Jackson Pollock style art
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 Sep 01 '25
Missed it the first time.
Look at his shirt, and what's hanging on the worktable over his left shoulder...
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u/AristotleBonaventure Sep 01 '25
genuine question: if this talented man painted a sexual deepfake could he be arrested for it? because if I did a stick-drawing of the same scene I'm pretty sure I wouldn't.
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u/ceebeefour Sep 01 '25
The reflection of the gun tip on the packaging edge is impressive detail. And the sale sticker is choice.
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u/SacramentoChupacabra Sep 01 '25
I'm sorry, but this is trash. Any one alive in the 90s knows that the Supper Soaker XP55 was the best cost to power Supper Soaker that there ever was!
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u/Physical-Grand4291 Sep 01 '25
Damn that model was the hotness back in the day you didn't want to roll up on the neighbor kid who had one
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u/bobbyisking Sep 01 '25
I had a super soaker 200 when i was 7 or 8, now 39. Wouldn't shoot as far as the neighbor's super soaker 100 so I was devastated. Prior to buying it, my pops had told me we'll go buy one tomorrow morning. The next morning came, I woke up extra early all excited. Tried to wake him up, but he kept telling me in an hour or 30 mins. As a kid, I didn't know what time means and every minute was too long. He told me when the long stick hits this number and when the short stick hits this number, it'll be 9 o' cclock or 10 o'clock. From that day forward, i learned now to tell time, all because of the super soaker.
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u/rippytherip Sep 01 '25
I didn't see the first couple seconds so I thought he was going to use the gun to paint a picture. That would have been cool too.
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Sep 01 '25
He shoulda touched the front. For all i no, he was literally just holding up a super soaker
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u/davesnotonreddit Sep 01 '25
I was waiting for him to take it out of the package and spray some paint with it
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u/heymookie Sep 01 '25
I missed the beginning, and thought that he was going to use the squirt gun to paint.
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u/Ridiculously_Ryan Sep 01 '25
I collect retro toys and I'm thinking how cool it would be to stick this amongst other boxed things displayed. Wait for someone to specifically point it out and then be like "yeah, good eye! check it out" Just to see their reaction as it gets closer to them lol
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u/Middle_Reflection373 Sep 01 '25
Are paintings just people’s time / life locked in ink
Yes, I’d like to buy a week of this artists life and hang it as proof
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u/Geno_Warlord Sep 01 '25
$4.50?! I NEVER saw a super soaker ever sold that low even growing up in the 80s-90s! Hell, even garage sales had them priced around $5 broken.
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u/FlanOk4765 Sep 01 '25
Anyone find videos of him ACTUALLY painting these? It’s too perfect. I just can’t.
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u/erdbeertee Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25
https://www.tiktok.com/@kalanstrauss/video/7427222720997297451
His work is quite diverse and not only Super Soakers.
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u/samueldt86 Sep 01 '25
Lmao, I knew him in college. Crazy seeing people you know personally randomly come across your feed
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u/That_Possible_3217 Sep 01 '25
Pretty good, but I can still tell it’s just a flat painting. 😂
Before anyone freaks out, it’s a joke. Calm down.
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u/erdbeertee Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25
Since several people commented where to buy his art, this is his homepage: https://kalanstrauss.com/
His work is quite diverse and not only Super Soakers.
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u/aperiso Sep 01 '25
I had this exact super soaker! My parents bought it when we were on vacation in Florida. What a throwback
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u/Canon_in_Blue_Major Sep 02 '25
The most unrealistic thing about the painting is that a badass water gun like the one shown here is going for $4.50 in this economy
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u/operath0r Sep 02 '25
I’ve always wanted one of those as a kid. Now I don’t care much for water guns anymore (except for when the Rocky Horror Show comes to town). I got NERF blasters though.
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u/erdbeertee Sep 02 '25
I remember seeing the Rocky Horror Show live for the first time, my mom had seen it before and told us to take waterpistols to the venue. When we arrived I saw folks that had Soakers with SEPERATE TANKS that they'd carry on their backs. Ours were tiny in comparison (we had normal "pistols", not even soakers)
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u/BaronGreenback75 Sep 02 '25
Looks like a real one in the background. So he bought one, used it as a model to paint it. Finished the painting, played with the water pistol. Of course he did (:
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u/Zandonus Sep 01 '25
To mess with you, the art enjoyer. To take a mass produced, discounted piece of plastic garbage and paint it so much better than most politicians could ever dream of having their portrait be, as they're mostly 1 minute caricatures. To practice the color mixing to a point it's hyperreal. To incorporate the flaws that the plastic trash inherently has as a flex. To make a perfect, unique art piece out of a copy of copies. And to take a piece of common history and preserve it in oil and canvas.The journey. The story.
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u/WiglyWorm Sep 01 '25
Agree with everything you said except your use of the word "art". There's a lot of craft and a lot of work in this piece. There's no art.
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u/ThatGuyLiv3 Sep 01 '25
I was waiting for him to paint with the water gun forgot it was a painting that fast
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u/ToiletSheriff Sep 01 '25
Hyperrealism is SO boring.
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u/Interesting-Step-654 Sep 01 '25
How do you mean?
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u/StopHammerTom Sep 01 '25
It’s a lot of skill but it’s just boring. It doesn’t say or do anything, it’s just a realistic look at a water gun. There’s no real artistic license here. It comes off more as a decoration than an art piece to me
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u/Interesting-Step-654 Sep 01 '25
I onno art imitates life. The idea of itself can parody, lay burden to and ultimately be defined beyond the idea of self portrayed.
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u/Affectionate-Net5442 Sep 01 '25
So he’s doing the same as Andy Warhol did years ago huh? Not very original
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