:: she said/Rainforest Prism/Octopus's Garden/For Thine is ::
by scififreaker, Knife-Smile, Rob Stead, and jakedrews
::| an.exquisite.corpse : discussion : 20 |::
KILLER slice jakedrews! Very well balanced.
Jim at July 14, 2006 6:53 AM
I'm out the door so no time to look it up but is that TS Eliot in the bottom?
Sein und Zeit at July 14, 2006 7:34 AM
jakedrews-
Interesting how as his ventricular complexes disintegrate from an unorganized v-tach to asystole, the figure becomes clearer to us and more defined. Is cocktail hour that deadly? and the figures below (and rat)- do they represent hope, rebirth or just whimsy?
rob-
By any chance, is the diver named Christopher?
sher at July 14, 2006 7:38 AM
Wow! I really like this one. Pretty colors.
S&Z, I'll remain mum on the content for now ;)
jakedrews at July 14, 2006 8:09 AM
Great continuity... the second and third slices looked like one slice until I stared at them a bit and found the dividing line...
Shae at July 14, 2006 8:19 AM
S. & Z.: yes.
Nice corpse.
doctormatt at July 14, 2006 8:42 AM
The lamppost in the forest reminds me of the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. Love the purple dog-girl! And look! Forest fish flying throught the trees! What's not to like?
jakedrew's slice is brilliant. If he's staying mum, then I'll speak up. It's based on T.S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men'. Check out these lines from the poem that match up:
'A penny for the old guy' The diver's fist is holding a penny from a chain.
'Or rat's feet over broken glass' You can see the rat and the broken glass.
'This is cactus land / Here the stone images / Are raised' In the lower left there is a cactus and Easter Island head.
'Under the twinkle of a fading star' Look at the top of the slice toward the right.
'There are no eyes here' The eyes from Eliot have been removed.
'For Thine is' A line toward the end of the poem, also the title of this slice.
I'm sure there's more, this is what I derived from a quick re-reading of the poem. Here's a copy if anyone else wants to dig:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html
moonroof at July 14, 2006 3:14 PM
Interesting how this corpse elicits both Eliot and C.S. Lewis.
Sein und Zeit at July 14, 2006 3:27 PM
grunt.
Maria P at July 14, 2006 10:25 PM
Hi Sher, sorry the diver isn't Christopher but if you like we could call him that.
Rob Stead at July 15, 2006 2:18 AM
Oh, hey, I didn't botch the dividing line as badly as I thought I must've after I sent it in. Awesome.
The continuity of leaves and falling colours amuses me, too... though ultimately the impression of falling from safe bright-grey skies in open woods into deeper woods into leaf-ridden waters into Hollow Men is ominous. Hard to picture a more appropriate totality for my first... can't wait to do the next one. (Though, next time, I may avoid using a fractal... that one looks *really* odd repeated down.)
Knife-Smile at July 15, 2006 2:36 AM
I particularly like how it looks as if the fish are swimming through strips of green lace... Also, there's two Beatles' song titles in the title, which I just thought was interesting (although the first one appears to be a conincidence).
therealbenni at July 15, 2006 4:14 PM
Oh, I meant to ask, but forgot... what do you all think of my first slice? What can I do to improve the next one? Should I continue using fractals as components, in particular?
Knife-Smile at July 15, 2006 7:33 PM
Use whatever you want but remember the next guy has to work with you pass onto her.
Sein und Zeit at July 16, 2006 5:40 AM
I'm impressed, poetry sleuths. There are a few additional references.
I can't believe I've been included in the last three corpses! What are the odds?
jakedrews at July 16, 2006 8:35 AM
There's def. something fishy in corpseland these days. ;)
Jessica at July 16, 2006 9:13 AM
OK, the idea of basing a piece on references to a poem is one I am DEFINITELY stealing, Jake. Cool beyond belief.
Patrick Beverley at July 16, 2006 1:12 PM
I think I will steal the idea too. I'll probably use Landscape with Picasso. Feel free to use one of my poems too Patrick.
Sein und Zeit at July 16, 2006 8:15 PM
doh, forgot the link to my poems
www.postpoems.com/members/arindhol
Sein und Zeit at July 16, 2006 8:17 PM
yo, it just occured to me that the guy in scififreaker's top panel could be J. Alfred Prufrock who famously says that he will wear his hair parted and he is thinking about love, hence The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Sein und Zeit at July 16, 2006 8:49 PM
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