By: Jessica
Aw, GeekMan's panel's spawn rebelled against him! Isn't that just like kids these days. And it was such a fertile start, with all that orange and -pow- blue, somehow echoed in Damon's piece. That's some seriously meditative corpseing!
Hilary. Oh My. It's a masterpiece. Yaaaay.
June 19, 2002 09:31 AM
By: Gabriel
While each of the individual tiles in this corpse are interesting, the piece is not at all coherant. Suzanne didn't play along with GeekMan. Damon paid only the slightest bit of attention to Suzanne's edge. Hilary, you played along and remind me that football season is not far away.
I'd be interested to hear from Suzanne and Damon: why did you snub the artist's before you?
June 19, 2002 10:15 AM
By: Sixtieslibber
Perfect transitions is technology, not art. This is art and I like it a lot. There is a coherence in color choices and density of patterns. There are good echoes: the stitching in the second panel with that on the football; the hand in the bottom panel and the hands in the top one; the rainbow blend on the arms in the top panel and the wonderful flows in the third panel, etc. I'm not real crazy about the bugs, though.
June 19, 2002 12:00 PM
By: Suzanne
Whoa, batman, that's not the piece I got. The piece I got was entirely different from the last 15px of that top panel.
Yikes! Does my panel even fit in there?! Is this the right corpse?
*looks around in confusion*
I do think that Damon's panel is fine, though. I like that transition and the bottom two panels are stunning.
June 19, 2002 12:44 PM
By: Stuy Parker
Wow, that is awful.
I think people should call me "Simon" now.
Cheers to everyone who gets it.
June 19, 2002 05:58 PM
By: ZachsMind
"Perfect transitions is technology, not art." Well that's a cop out.
That's like a caveman saying, "paintbrush is technology. Finger painting in mud is art." I don't have the equiptment for painting on a conventional canvas, or the training or practice to be exceptionally good for that matter. I use my computer. The medium is different. I could run circles around Picasso with my IBMPC Clone, but he'd dust me on a canvas. This group collaboration project does have rules and one should at least attempt to go along with those rules if they wanna play.
Opting not to at least try to mesh with the previous strip is an artistic choice to make, but I've yet to see it done in a way that's aesthetically pleasing or communicates some kind of statement, other than perhaps, "this is stoopid." And people who think this project is stupid should perhaps rethink why they're participating. Not working with the strip given you is like a quarterback in a football game suddenly taking the ball every time it's in his hands and purposefully throwing it at the people in the stands. It's a choice, but many would argue it's the wrong choice. Since I personally think football is stupid, I'd like to see a quarterback do that just once, but then I don't actively go out to play football.
It might be helpful however if people making panels that others have to build from put something out there that was a little easier to work off of. I mean if I had to work off some of these panels, I'd contemplate throwing the football out into the stands myself. Go a little easier on each other. This is a collaborative project. Not a project where we try to see how much we can annoy each other.
June 19, 2002 07:53 PM
By: Suzanne
This is the strip I received. Now there clearly has been a mix up somewhere along the line, but we don't know if it was at Corpse Central, or if Geek Man gave out the wrong strip/panel.
I'm a little disappointed, I was looking foward to seeing the panel I was allegedly working from, and how it would work with mine.
I'm more disappointed that Gabriel leapt to the conclusion that I purposefully snubbed the artist before me. An unwarranted and cold assumption.
June 19, 2002 08:07 PM
By: Sixtieslibber
First, I thought it was obvious Suzanne had gotten the wrong strip but thought I'd wait for someone who knew to make a statement on that. Second, Damon seemed to have deliberately made some hard transitions which were eerily complementary to the first transition; the EC idea came from surrealism, after all. Third, I'd very much like to see this corpse with the correct first panel.
And, finally, I canNOT believe that ZachsMind thinks the only difference between him [her?] and Picasso is their choice of tools. This project has rules; art has rules. The paradox is that sometimes an apparent breaking of the rules produces something better and enhances our understanding.
June 20, 2002 11:05 AM
By: GeekMan
Well, that's certainly interesting.
My piece is correct but I think I've been put into the wrong corpse. According to my email and file info, the piece I made is for corpse 0103, NOT 0124. As it stands, either my corpse is in the wrong place, and/or Suzanne recieved the wrong piece.
I hope Phineas can sort this out.
June 20, 2002 01:32 PM
By: kat
yeah. i too think it's tres messed up when i see the corpses with the blatant lack of effort in transformation.
if you wanna make your own separate piece, then go do that. don't stick it in the middle of this kind of project. a corpse is suppose to wind up being a whole flowing entity.
i didn't comment on the last one i was involved with because i was very disappointed in the outcome. i waited weeks & weeks & weeks for my slice & then..... *shrug*
June 20, 2002 07:00 PM
By: michael
Geekman, just so you know, this IS corpse 103, but it's Entry 124. It's a shame that the corpse number and entry number don't match, but perhaps that will be something the new system will handle.
And people getting either the wrong slice, or the corpse getting mixed up is nothing new. Isn't this the second mixup you've been involved in Suzanne? I think all us Phineas Phans need to start worrying.
Back away from the pipe Phin!
June 22, 2002 09:40 AM
By: mirla
I'm not sure it's Phin's doing. Geekman admits this is the correct corpse panel, which means his end of things must have been blameless (besides he's the corpse starter, so...).
Suzanne - did you work off a slice with a different corpse number on the label? Did it definitely come from Geekman? Did you keep the email?
Does any of this matter, or am I babbling...?
June 23, 2002 09:39 PM
By: Suzanne
Yes, sadly, this is the second time I've been in a corpse where there was a mixup. Shall we assume I'm a jinx of some kind (rather than purposefully screwing people over, since that's not what I do)?
In both cases of Mixed Corpses, I was filling in for someone who defaulted, and under those circumstances it is desperately easy for things to go awry.
Mirla, no, I didn't get the piece from Geekman. I was a pinch-hitter in this case, when the original person after Geekman defaulted. So I would have gotten a piece from Phineas taken from the main piece that Geekman sent in. In theory.
Clearly that didn't happen.
But I don't think this is a bad thing. It happens. I think the colour palette being consistent makes this more of a vertical triptych, or A Corpse in Three Acts.
:) S
June 26, 2002 09:18 PM
By: mirla
Okay, more of my two cents, this late in the game.
The corpse has a quilt-like feel. Looked at as a whole, it's actually kinda great. Each panel on its own is a miracle of color and composition, and the colors all hang together.
I say nicely done.
July 5, 2002 12:05 AM
