:: back then/hunter's bat storm/don't know where/and signifying nothing ::
::| an.exquisite.corpse : discussion : 9 |::
This is the first Corpse completed and assembled with the Corpse Management System. Here's to a Corpse future.
Ok, the Hunter S. Thompson reference flowing right down into Macbeth's ode to death is creeping me right the hell out. Seriously.
Phineas at March 2, 2005 7:56 AM
Wow, that turned out really, really well. Bodes well for the the new Corpse Management System.
The Hunter/death thing is, indeed, creepy. Especially the connection of "dusty death" back to the "Caution! Dust Storms May Exist" sign in my piece. The bats echo Davezilla's robot-jedi's shape, too.
Andrew at March 2, 2005 11:10 AM
Cool. The Macbeth reference is great, and the toys in the first piece remind me of a weird sculpture I once saw. It was covered with toys...
Patrick Beverley at March 3, 2005 12:33 PM
Ewwww.. Okay, next time I need to use like, color. That might help. Blah! My contribution looked fun at the time I made it but now it just kinda sucks all the fun out of the room, doesn't it? I was going to chastise myself more, but I'm getting impolite error messages from the cgi-bin mt-comments page. Everyone's a critic.
ZachsMind at March 4, 2005 1:18 PM
Don't fail to note, Zach, that it was your text that prompted my Macbeth reference and tied the whole thing together. So don't get too down on yourself there.
Phineas at March 4, 2005 2:21 PM
Woohoo! There are 67 members, the site is up and running, and I've just submitted my first ever corpse slice! This is so cool!
Patrick Beverley at March 5, 2005 1:10 PM
Well, I like Zach's piece. It's cool and dark.
Thing at March 5, 2005 1:12 PM
But Phineas, I wasn't going for Shakespeare. I was listening to the Journey song, "Wheel In The Sky." They were playing it on Radio KoL while I was finishing up the piece. That phrase stuck in my head, cuz at the time I had a job interview coming up and did know where I'd be tomorrow but had no idea what the consequences of that day might bring. So at the time it just sorta made sense. I dunno. It's okay. I've done better, is all. I'll do better next time too. I shoulda made the foreground stronger... Maybe add some killer clowns...
And I'm still getting weirdo error messages when I preview my posts in here. "???E html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> " Is that normal? Then the post I'm sending is repeated several times as if they were posted by everyone else who has posted to the thread thus far. It's weirdo creepy.
ZachsMind at March 13, 2005 11:39 AM
Stupid question time. And if there's a better place to post this question please let me know. Do y'all ever.. uhm, ask permission to use stuff in a corpse? I haven't been until now. Guess I never even thought about it.
I googled on the 'Net for a picture of this spaceship I wanted to put in a new corpse slice I'm working on, and at the bottom of the page I got it from, the guy nicely asks for people using his stuff to email him first and ask for permission. It seems frivolous and time consuming to do that. If we were making money off this thing I'd understand. If we started asking permission for every image or clipart, we'd never finish a corpse.
Should I email the guy or just use the thing and pay it no mind? He did ask nice. Maybe that's the only reason I'm even considering it. ...or do the rest of y'all actually get legal permission for each and every image you use, and I'm supposed to have been doing that all this time? Cuz if that's the case, I can't afford lawyers and crap.
The whole concept is frustrating to me. Like how rappers must feel when they have to get permission and sometimes pay royalties for using five seconds of someone else's song. At least with them there's money involved, I can kinda understand that.
ZachsMind at March 14, 2005 4:56 AM
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