Mirla, Heather, Jessica, RJD and Thomas
By: jima
Nice.
April 19, 2002 08:32 AM
By: everchill
yes. real nice.
April 19, 2002 09:37 AM
By: mirla
Yay - didn't think I was ever going to see this one.
The photograph motif seems to recur. And I'm glad the peachy hue carries further into the corpse. I don't know whether anyone else is seeing the same lovely, textured, unusual red that it turns into - as I am on my Mac - but it's quite...well..."nice"...
April 19, 2002 10:03 AM
By: Andrew
Beautiful textures. And I like the stained glass-like fracture from sentimental imagery into video games in Thomas's section. As said before, nice.
April 19, 2002 10:18 AM
By: heather
and I love how jessica turned snowflakes into a moon. ..so creative, and unpredictable!
April 19, 2002 11:01 AM
By: amanda e.
The story of a family. From the past to the future. What are the secrets? What are the stories?
April 19, 2002 11:54 AM
By: ZachsMind
I agree Amanda. There's an entire novel threaded in here. Three or four generations of women, past present and future. The tale would begin in the present day but would spread back at least fifty years and forward deep into the 21st century, and it's about how a family copes as external influences change how people function and interact with one another. How the world changed when JFK was murdered. How the world changed when man stepped on the moon, and how that influence is felt in subtle and striking ways. Is it genetics or environment that shapes us? Is it both?
There's a grandmother, a mother and a daughter. The oldest generation remembers hardship: the great depression. world war two. the historic blizzard. Hard cold times. The grandmother has learned to respect life and everything in it but the youngest generation (the granddaughter) takes life for granted and is a risktaker. She lives in computers and extreme sports (snowboarding) when the grandmother thinks she should live in the practical and the safe. The granddaughter went to the far east one summer and ate a delicacy made of bugs and enjoyed it. The grandmother doesn't understand such extremism. The generation in between tries to bring the two of them together, but has her own generation gap problems.
The tale's been told before but somehow looking at this corpse there's a new twist to the plot. Remember the snow of the past and jump into the fire of the future. Somewhere there's an experience that all three of them share together which changes them forever, like seeing four sunsets in the same day. Something that only those three women experienced. A once in a lifetime thing that can't be repeated and can't be shared, which forces the three women to come to terms with their differences. No one else could understand.
They say a picture's worth a thousand words. This one's got at least five thousand in it. I just adore the imagery and the flow of color.
April 19, 2002 04:00 PM
By: C
A pretty stupid concept if you ask me. Arty farty nothingness.
April 20, 2002 09:16 AM
By: C
And I'm referring to the whole exquisite corpse concept, not just the above piece of artistic masturbation...
April 20, 2002 10:22 AM
By: heather
well, C. it's easy to reduce something when you're feeling snarky, but can you expand upon our concept to help enrich the experience for the rest of us?
I appreciate Zachsmind's efforts to take our little game and make it interesting for him and the other participants - incorporating the sentimental and the amusing - nicely done!
April 20, 2002 10:22 AM
By: thomas
well, now I know what happens when you forget to include a title ...
April 20, 2002 11:31 PM
By: mirla
I notice "C" chose not to include contact links. I could hazard a guess as to what "C" stands for - anyone else care to try?
Sorry for my own snappishness - I've always had a problem with pointless attacks from (obvious) self-loathers. Visitors aren't required to hang around on a site they have only disdain for. I for one hope C won't waste his/her time here again.
April 21, 2002 01:15 AM
By: C
Self-loathing? Of course. Anybody who doesn't have a decent bit of self-loath is too happy with their life and should be shot down immediately.
But I don't know what that has to do with me categorizing this whole exquisite corpse thing as artistic masturbation. It's a lot like listening to Jimi Hendrix music. Yep, he had the skills. But, well, they're pretty shitty songs for the most part. I'm sure they were fun for him to play, but they're pretty boring to listen to. And I'm sure making these pretentious images is fun as well. But it doesn't mean they have any point at all.
Most of the people involved here are creative, interesting people, I'm sure. But this is a waste of time. It's artsy fartsy bullshit. Go write or draw or sculpt or play a guitar, whatever it is that you do well. But don't do stupid shit like this.
April 21, 2002 02:54 AM
By: heather
when we started this thing, phin and I saw it a bit like a workshop area. a place to stretch your skills, find inspiration, to play at being a surreal artist and perhaps get inspiration to expand on ideas that were kicking around in your head.
a place to sketch, with other people, before pulling ideas that you explored here into your own work.
I'm sorry you find this site boring, C. but we are writing here. we're drawing. we're sculpting. doing it in an online community doesn't make our endeavor any less legitimate than if we did it off line.
April 21, 2002 03:48 PM
By: rawb
When brought down to their most basic levels... almost everything we do is pointless. Why play video games? Why MAKE video games? Why play sports? They're all just a waste of time... so why does anyone do it?
Because its a way to pass the time in a manner that they ENJOY. Thats really all that matters. People who like volleyball play volleyball regardless of the fact that they don't have anything to "show" for it at the end. At least these people have a corpse to show for it in the end... and they have the enjoyment they got from the activity.
It very well may be artistic masturbation... but then again so is almost all art, as people draw / write / sculpt for their own pleasure and not for the pleasure of anyone else. Since corpses involve more than 1 person, however, I'd say its better than artistic masturbation... its an artistic orgy... much more fun for all involved.
April 21, 2002 05:55 PM
By: Sixtieslibber
This is one of my favorites because the overall design is so great that it draws you in and then the details are worth the attention. One of my favorite parts of many, which is easiest to see in the thumbnail, is the wonderful way shape of the white dress/slip in the top panel resonates with the red and yellow shape in the bottom panel. And that blue-green in the bottom right brings out the picture of love bugs or whatever.
I say there's a place in life for fun, especially grand fun. But it's been a good learning experience for me to wonder why I like the ones I do and to think hard about why other people don't always share my preferences.
April 21, 2002 07:36 PM
By: mirla
Heather - as I know much of the concept for the site came from you, I have to tell you that it's the sense of community I most appreciate - something that, as you and others have already said much more succinctly, can't be had shut up in our own little studios, or even at our own little desks, until we come together on a site such as this, to share.
This, as I've already said on one of the member forums, is one of the few online "games" I actually make time for out of my insane schedule, as I find it hugely satisfying and more than a little fun.
Plus it's a community of not only talented folks, but intelligent, articulate ones as well. A real bonus.
April 21, 2002 11:56 PM
By: Gina
I *like* Jimi Hendrix...
April 22, 2002 06:40 AM
By: Andrew
I'm in agreement with Rawb on this: if you take everything down to an existential level, nothing is worthwhile. But the thing is, most "existentialists" are depressed, not philosophical, and arguing against their negativity is as useless as their dramatic wailing.
"C" has informed us that our work is bullshit, and that we might as well be masturbating. We could deign his remarks with return fire, but what would that solve? Our best choice of action is to ignore these criticisms of a negative depressor. Without an audience, he'll have to go somewhere else to bring people down.
April 22, 2002 11:06 AM
By: Elizabeth
I think this is a great corpse. It never ceases to amaze me how 'corpse telephathy' works, or how out of such little parts a whole is created. I also really love the colors of this one, abd though the theme is a little romantic for my taste, it's got a nice techno edge at the end.
As for our misanthropic visitor, well, I enjoy doing this. I enjoy manipulating pixels. I enjoy seeing how other people interpret the images I've used. I also enjoy masturbating (though I must agree with Rawb, corpsing is more like an orgy). No harm, no foul, get over it.
April 22, 2002 12:23 PM
By: Cris
this is one I'd like to hang in my office, it works so well
May 22, 2002 10:12 AM
