Created by: Phineas, Charles, Heather and Jima
By: Jason
The wisdom of this piece is inherently obvious. I am so moved as to consider celebrating Christmas this year with the sole intent of giving the baby a yo-yo.
September 3, 2001 11:42 AM
By: Phineas
Obviously, the baby in the bottom section is a direct reference to the little baby Jesus in the top section. The word 'yo-yo' here being used metaphorically for your heart. This Christmas, give your heart (a yo-yo) to the little baby Jesus. Amen!
September 3, 2001 12:22 PM
By: D
The profundity of how futile giving a camel a refrigerator is just gets to me deep down inside.
Plus this looks like a Terry Gilliam nightmare.
September 3, 2001 12:40 PM
By: Charles
Hats off to Heather. I got carried away -probably too much for the small space- and realised I didn't leave a very good "trail" for her to work off of. Nevertheless, she managed to make it work. I had several elements get completely obliterated. This is a difference between Photoshop and a real canvas. Next time perhaps more white space and something approaching more of a background. All around I think it's a cool corpse.
Does anyone else see, um, the 4 stages of an hallucinogenic experience. 1. It kicks in, you see mechanical horses and the baby Jesus, yes very nice . . . 2. whoa, the colours, all kinds of things happening . . .3. Oh the cat yes, the cat is talking to me, she's so nice, the cat is melting with little birds . . . 4. starting to come down with a nice Dr. Seuss-like Christmas and rainbow . . .thinking about the baby again. Of course these impressions come from reading, not personal knowledge or anything.
September 3, 2001 01:50 PM
By: Charles
PS - it's hard to tell, but in the top right corner of the second segment is indeed a picture (skewed and rendered in negative) of a horse in a stall. Along with the crab and the palm trees, this give an intersting bit of synchronicity in relation to the top part.
September 3, 2001 01:58 PM
By: jima
Yes, a very nice second corpse. Obviously, Phineas and I were subconsciously sharing the themes of Christmas and babies. Because anybody who knows us will agree that the two things we love the best are Christmas, and babies.
September 4, 2001 09:47 AM
By: bran
Good god - it's like Hallmark and American greatings took a communal shit, stirred, and presto! The best Japanese fold style Holiday Greeting Card a person could hope for! Let's do Kwanza, next. Anybody know what the hell you'd draw for a Kwanza card? Don King? Chung King? I dunno...
Long live the corpse.
September 4, 2001 10:05 AM
By: Dawne
There are such awesome parallels here-- the seagulls in panel and partridges in dead tree in 3 (which I love even on their own, by the way), plus the bottom right yellow part in 4 looks like a bird foot if you ask me (but that could be the acid talking). Also the amazing parallel of the black and amberish eyes in panel 2 with the kittie's eyes in 3. You four are most clearly linked to the same Great Unconscious.
September 4, 2001 10:35 AM
By: heather
if there is anything more thrilling than mind-melding with three other surrealists online, it's reading their comments on the experience.
babies and kitties and birdies and ponies - I think we were all posessed by the spirit of a very creative and amusing 13 year old girl. huzzah!
September 4, 2001 04:06 PM
By: a.h
You guys are so cool. I can't wait to give my *own* baby a yoyo so it can defend itself from mechanical horses.
September 5, 2001 02:36 PM
By: GoNINzo
It works pretty well if you know how that was put together, but the real question is how to make it flow better.
Maybe a bigger strip between sections? maybe a general subject first like 'horse on mushrooms'? then again, that might give some assumptions as well.
All in all, well done. I'll submit.
September 5, 2001 03:44 PM
