By: James
Wow. Like a head-less genie appearing from the bottle... Very neat corpse.
April 29, 2002 09:41 AM
By: Mel
It does have a head, albiet a maidenhead ;).
April 29, 2002 09:56 AM
By: Mel
(albeit)
April 29, 2002 09:57 AM
By: Jessica
Gorgeous! Superior! Fuck yeah!
What's that strapped around the torso of guy-who-divides-girls in panel 2?
April 29, 2002 10:09 AM
By: Andrew
Cool! Very motion oriented. I like the title, too.
April 29, 2002 10:13 AM
By: allen
i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will not be envious. i will ... damn!
that's a good corpse.
April 29, 2002 10:29 AM
By: Gabriel
Whoa. This is one good corpse.
April 29, 2002 10:35 AM
By: ZachsMind
NYES! That's what ah'm talkin' 'bout! Right there! Kick major butt and take names and then razz on the teacher for smokin' pot in the faculty lounge! Whoohoo!
All the seams are nearly flawless, every panel has dynamic motion, presence and color. Each one poses its own unique sense of style while still blending so well into one a whole. It even hints back to the origins of corpse making with that torso guy there. This one's got it all!
...except for ducks. It needs a duck.
April 29, 2002 10:55 AM
By: Suzanne
Loverly. Totally loverly.
Lovely, even.
I like the accidental statement about women's secret hobbies -- by night, I am your play kitten, but by day, I'm fury on the soccer field!
April 29, 2002 01:48 PM
By: Sixtieslibber
It's been quite a while since the last best corpse ever. Thank you guys!
April 29, 2002 02:28 PM
By:
no fish. minus five!
But, yes, exceedingly nice corpse, the top two flow together oh-so-well, it seems like it was almost the same person doing both. very cohesive and neet.
April 29, 2002 02:50 PM
By: mirla
It's bee-YOO-tee-full...(!)
The rollercoaster/garlic juxtaposition rolls around in my brain, conjuring up thoughts of...
Giimme a minute...
April 29, 2002 04:05 PM
By: Jacob Rose
Wow - in the thumbnail it looks like a great deer god enthroned in a pile of laundry!
To explain my segment: All of those lines of reflection in the glass tube threw me off, but once I saw the possibility of turning some of those lines into a fisheyed horizon, I wanted to do it even if it probably wasn't the subject of the previous piece. If you look closely at the joint you'll see I made the shadow under the lefthand pair of legs into the smoke pouring from a distant smokestack.
I had no idea there was a human figure in the center of all that color...all I saw was a patch of red. As for the legs on the righthand side, I saw there was a joint there, but I thought it was a knee emerging from the kind of fancy cape Napoleon might wear.
This was fun! I wish the process were faster, though - I was checking the E.C. site compulsively for weeks after Kayla uploaded her piece.
April 29, 2002 07:19 PM
By: Kayla
hmmm. I appologize that the contents of my section are slightly mis-aligned on the seam in parts. I thought I had been more careful with my pixels.
Otherwise, I am very pleased with the outcome. I was rather curious as to what I interpreted as a rollercoaster would really end up being- and it's a hot air balloon.
I think that it's a grand lucky accident that the far left rider's hair in the rollercoaster somewhat echoes the black/brown of Melanie's section- I think it helps the corpse feel complete. The overall C curve also gives it a sense of wholeness.
I just couldn't draw/paint what I wanted to for the rollercoaster in the way I wanted it to look in the time allotted. I had other things to do. I feel wierd about using source material that isn't my own, but I'm not a rollercoaster rider/don't have any pictures of such- so I'd like to credit the rollercoaster part as being the viper ride at the Atlanta 6Flags site. I did alot of manipulation on it in Photoshop, because the original pic didn't suit my needs and I didn't want to simply lift it anyway.
The garlic was that week's supply, direct scan. That little white thing in Josh's 15 bit said to me that it wanted to be transformed into garlic, and there you have that.
I really like how all these strange things blend so well. The transition from the first to the second section is done excellently, Matthew. The soccer feet transition is my favorite in your transition, Josh. Both transitions make beautiful visual sense, even though they don't make any cognitive sense, and that's the great thing about corpses. Melanie, your section could be a direct mailer for season tickets to the ballet, I really like the energy in it.
You'll have to credit my title to Phineas. I forgot to send one with mine. I did remember and emailed him the next day, but I guess he's faster than I am. His is better anyway, and will be a nice laugh for friends. I would like to know how on earth that came to your head, Phineas. Extraneous stimuli? :)
April 29, 2002 07:38 PM
By: Mel
Note to self: the crowd loves fish and ducks.
April 30, 2002 11:27 AM
By: Matthew
Thanks for the nice words, all!
This was my first attempt at a smooth photoshop-assisted
transition. I'm glad it came out okay. The torso guy is
my brother doing some secret physiological testing; he's
got a heart rate monitor strap around his torso and his
right arm in a ... well, if I say more I'd have to kill all of
you, or at least invite y'all over for some unpleasantness.
I think Jacob did a fantastic job with a rather messy strip.
I'd resolved to send simpler/cleaner strips in the future
but now I'm not so sure...
Good work, everyone!
April 30, 2002 12:50 PM
By: Phineas
A note on titling: When pieces come without titles I will either a) take three words from the email the piece came in (I did this for the last corpse Ms. Champ participated in) if there are any or b) take the first three words I come across. In this case, I asked my girlfriend for three words, she grabbed David Rakoff's book 'Fraud' which was nearby and instantly came across 'a smoldering brazier'. It was too strange to not keep. Sorry I lost your title, Kayla. But often the random title works so well that I don't really regret it. That's surrealism for you, kids.
April 30, 2002 04:11 PM
By: melanie brazier
my last names brazier coooooooooooo
July 11, 2003 02:16 PM
