Created by: Kayla, Michael, Lynne, Mena and Dave
By: jima
Very nice. I like how Michael and Mena solved the problem of matching up to the preceding Corpse panels by matching the form of the previous piece, rather than doing a color or texture match (Michael turns Kayla's shoulder into a ball of some sort, and Mena continued the vertical lines of Lynne's drawing in the pair of arms).
And strangely enough, there's almost a complete figure in this Corpse. Head and shoulders in the first piece, with legs in the second being obscured by the bowl of cereal in the third, returning in the fourth as a pair of arms.
So once again, we see how different people solve the challenge of continuing someone else's drawing. Some interesting new ideas in this piece, which I'm sure I'll be swiping for my next Corpse segments.
October 8, 2001 10:52 AM
By: jima
Oh, and the title actually scans, sort of, if you punctuate it properly.
"Crochet thy electric buddhist anarchy, hungry healthy hippos! All hands and we danced."
October 8, 2001 10:54 AM
By: Charles
This one is cool. For some reason it reminds me of "outsider art." The type of stuff you see at the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. I think people are getting better about joining up the sections. In the original corpses, all they had to match up was ink and paper - so it was easy. Now we have colours, textures, lighting, backgrounds - much harder. I'm amazed by how fast everyone has learned to improve the "flow."
October 8, 2001 12:38 PM
By: heather
you know, the whole 'join' issue is just as much about setting up something interesting for the next person as it is in responding to the panel you're given. I find myself thinking "what will my fellow undertaker do with this pattern/color/word?"
the nearly-hidden man in the orange disc intrigues me, as does dave's squirrel....
October 8, 2001 02:38 PM
By: GeekMan
Very nice. I agree with Heather about how making an effort to think of what the next 'undertaker' might do with your piece can make a big difference. Of course, trying to influence their artistic vision DOES defeat the whole purpose, but it doesn't hurt to give gentle nudges in certain directions.
Of course, challanging your fellow undertakers with impossible-to-decipher clippings can be fun too.
;-)
October 9, 2001 12:50 AM
By: D
Squirrel? Where?
Michael you did a fabulous job with that shoulder and the sketched skin textures.
Mena... I'll get you back for those cross-hatched circles. I couldn't find a quick and easy way to reproduce them and ended up motion blurring 45 degree'd squares.
October 9, 2001 12:59 PM
By: Mel
These just keep getting better, more thoughful, and more refined. Next up, animated corpses perhaps?
October 9, 2001 01:49 PM
By: jima
Phineas did something not unlike animated Corpses over here.
October 9, 2001 02:47 PM
By: michael
One of my first impressions of this one was the prevalence of spheres and circles. After sitting with it a bit longer I almost have a sense that the overall piece is a study in geometric forms with limbs and hands sort of a subtext.
From Kayla's initial slice, there seems to be a sort of line and form thing going on. then mine being an almost geometric dream sequence, which i hadn't noticed till seeing it here. Somehow Lynne managed to continue with the spherical theme without the benefit of really seeing any of the previous circular forms. Equally stunning is how Mena managed to pick up on the bluish triangular shapes that appear in my frame and the hands in Kayla's. All ending with the dark circular clouds in Dave's frame, where not only does he continue Mena's finger out like a huge fingerprint, but we also have a return to the idea of line and form that started in Kayla's frame.
I am always truly amazed by the overall pieces, when seeing how these tiny slices that we pass to each other seem to carry so much with them into the next frame and the entire piece.
October 9, 2001 04:24 PM
By: Mel
Those are hypnotic. Thanks jima. Must go look at them again.
October 9, 2001 10:29 PM
