An artist who focuses on standing out from the crowd has released a series of mind-blowingly surreal selfies.He set out to take a self portrait every day of the year with an increasingly surreal pose, but extended the project when he spent 10 hours on each picture. Canadian Photoshop junkie Shawn Van Daele, 37, took influences from Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds', John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet, creating each picture with a mixture of hours of preparation before, and hours of editing afterwards. Mr Van Daele of Ontario, Canada, said: 'Each photo is a montage of several images - always starting with a self-portrait. I then composite the images together usually taking six hours bust sometimes up to half a day. 'Self-portraits usually require some tricks of the camera and some very funny poses. Since they are all surreal in nature, interpretation is always very different for each person viewing them.'Mr Van Daele is now hoping to stretch the 365-day project across six years, with dreams of completing an image for each day of the year.(dailymail.co.uk)ANN.Az