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I was last in this one, and I really thought I had matched it up better than that. Dag nabbit!
xoe at April 22, 2005 7:38 AM
xoe, it looks great! The offset just looks like you carried the water theme into your piece. This whole corpse is amazing!
burlyq at April 22, 2005 8:19 AM
Did the Pope really visit Abilene to bless the dinosaurs, Buddha and those sunken VW's?
HLibby at April 22, 2005 8:35 AM
Yes he did. And that's why he had to go.
Anyone want to place a bet as to how long it'll be before Benedict Ex-Vee-Eye shows up in a Corpse?
Phineas at April 22, 2005 8:43 AM
My first corpse! Yay! Not too bad.
I didn't know that was the Pope, so it's neat that my Buddha repeated a religious theme.
I worried that the reflection in water was too much of a cop-out transition but I found that Pope-garment segment awfully challenging. I struggled with it for a while before coming up with that solution.
Shae at April 22, 2005 8:45 AM
muh! nice :)
me at April 22, 2005 8:55 AM
I worried that the (former) pope was a bit too difficult but I think the reflection looks awesome. The only thing I'm left wondering is if he's sinking or rising... Perhaps he's sinking into the collective unconscious? Fillied with memories of dinosaurs, nostalgia, and other ancient religions? Or rising into the New World, to party in Texas?
olaf at April 22, 2005 8:57 AM
Yeah, Phineas... he'll show up soon. Probably morphing into Darth Sidius.
ButtonMonkey at April 22, 2005 8:58 AM
Xoe, I agree, your segment looks like a continuation of the water which is great.
I took this into Photoshop, though, shaved one pixel off the the top of the segment, and moved it up and right one pixel, and it makes a world of difference. Too bad little adjustments like this can't be made in the piecing together stage, but I can understand why they can't. It would cause odd-sized corpses, create extra work, and potentially upset people.
Shae at April 22, 2005 9:01 AM
Current favorite. I just like the restrained colors; doesn't look quite so much like it was done in crayon.
Plus I love the Pope.
Newt at April 22, 2005 10:29 AM
Nicely packed bag boy.
I like this one.
posh spice at April 22, 2005 11:08 AM
I also like the map and skyline theme. Kinda like a travel poster. "Visit Abilene - Land of the Sunken Relics"
HLibby at April 22, 2005 11:31 AM
Zoe, I nearly did the same thing with one of mine, caught it just before I sent it off. This still works though, thanks to the water and composition -lucky you! :-)
cristine at April 22, 2005 11:33 AM
Omnes viae Romam ducunt = all roads lead to Rome.
What does "paterfamilias victrix" mean?
And - appropriate juxtaposition of pontiff and raptor, since with his anti-contraceptive teachings, the Pope had roughly the same effect on Catholics in the Third World as a dinosaur on the loose.
Patrick Beverley at April 22, 2005 12:41 PM
Kind of a Latin gender-bender, I guess:
paterfamilias
The male head of a household or the father of a family.
victress
[Cf. L. victrix.] A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.
HLibby at April 22, 2005 3:08 PM
It can also just mean conqueror, gender neutral. I made this back in February, right after the pope had surgery and was "getting better". It seemed appropriate. I quite like, however, the idea that he's a gender bending head of the family. Messing with Texas, indeed.
olaf at April 22, 2005 3:42 PM
Well, thanks everybody. I feel better now.
And I really like the city theme that flows through this whole corpse.
xoe at April 22, 2005 5:45 PM
So, "Conquering Father", then, or "Victorious Father Woman".
Patrick Beverley at April 23, 2005 4:06 AM
I think the conquering woman is supposed to be the church,
Sein und Zeit at May 18, 2005 9:21 PM
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