Topic: What do we want to see after Rexpresso 2? (Read 13826 times)

Is it cold in here? · « **on:** 19 Apr 2010, 08:56 »

I'm staring right at the "Allow user to change vote" button. It's checked.

Thorbard · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 10:57 »

A bust of Raven. Emphasis on Bust. Remove emphasis on face.

Just imagine the conversations it'll start.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 10:58 »

Fiery electromagnetic destroyosaur!

JD · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 11:50 »

Boner Milk Creamer

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 13:49 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Apr 2010, 08:56

I'm staring right at the "Allow user to change vote" button. It's not checked.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 13:59 »

Forum software bug, then.

raoullefere · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 14:46 »

Don't know if this is 'other,' but how 'bout an upper torso of Raven, with milk and cream dispensers installed. (Why, yes, I did see A Clockwork Orange.)

Carl-E · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 16:18 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 19 Apr 2010, 11:50

Boner Milk Creamer

Quote from: raoullefere on 19 Apr 2010, 14:46

Don't know if this is 'other,' but how 'bout an upper torso of Raven, with milk and cream dispensers installed. (Why, yes, I did see A Clockwork Orange.)

What is it with you guys and dairy product body parts?

It's gotta be what we were all originally expecting - the ~~maneless~~ nameless subconscious horror. What is art good for, if not to get all that stuff off your chest?

Metaphorically, of course. Otherwise we're back to milk dispensers...

raoullefere · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 16:34 »

What's with me, I think, was the motorboating discussion over in WTC. I may have to… nevermind.

As for Faye's nameless horrors, I got one: Mustache Marten, saying, "Faye! Dora has run off with Angus and Marigold! Now our love can bloom!"

That, and, of course, Pintsize uploading a video of her dancing around in a towel to Daft Punk. Which might result in the "Pintsize pounded into a cube" option.

JD · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 16:59 »

A full size skull nut cracker would be pretty cool too.

Carl-E · « **Reply #10 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 17:13 »

Zombiedude, I know it's random, but your post about the skull-nutcracker was accompanied by the avatar that's an animated head with only a mouth chomping back and forth...

Sometimes, random works - and it's just too fucking appropriate!

akronnick · « **Reply #11 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 20:20 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 19 Apr 2010, 16:34

What's with me, I think, was the motorboating discussion over in WTC. I may have to… nevermind.

raoullefere will be in his bunk.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #12 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 20:27 »

(Posted in wrong thread, ignore.)

JD · « **Reply #13 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 20:50 »

You can delete posts near lurker.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #14 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 00:47 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 19 Apr 2010, 14:46

Don't know if this is 'other,' but how 'bout an upper torso of Raven, with milk and cream dispensers installed. (Why, yes, I did see A Clockwork Orange.)

Haven't seen ACO, but this thought made me think of Seikon no Qwaser, or so I heard.

Akima · « **Reply #15 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 02:36 »

"A nameless horror from her subconscious." Fit to scare away any passing Great Old Ones.

J · « **Reply #16 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 03:08 »

Quote from: Dliessmgg on 20 Apr 2010, 00:47

Haven't seen ACO

oh thou gloopy molodoy bratchny malchick, rectify this thou must. this nochy for preferance, but skorry in any case. the filmdrome is worth the cutter, if you have one near that shows the real starry sinnys. if not, then rabbit away and empty thyne carmans of whatever pretty polly needed to kupet a disk. crast it from the biblio if thou must, but viddy the ol film how ever you can. a sweet sweet vino for the glazzballs it is.

Carl-E · « **Reply #17 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 05:50 »

True that, my droogie. One of the few movies that is every bit as good as (if not better than) the book!

Saw the local HS production of Singin' in the Rain this weekend.

and no, that was not a non-sequiter.

raoullefere · « **Reply #18 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 10:55 »

Quote from: akronnick on 19 Apr 2010, 20:20

Quote from: raoullefere on 19 Apr 2010, 16:34
What's with me, I think, was the motorboating discussion over in WTC. I may have to… nevermind.

raoullefere will be in his bunk.

Well, in someone's. Didn't get slapped, that's the important thing.

Funny thing, I was reading about the dustup between Kubrick and Burgess over the ending. I didn't know the final chapter was omitted from the U.S. publication of A Clockwork Orange. Apparently, Alex gets redeemed. Blimey.

Carl-E · « **Reply #19 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 13:38 »

Same thing happened to Melville with Moby Dick. The first edition had the epilogue cut by the publisher. The second edition didn't come out until after Melville died...

Spoiler: Ishmael survived the wreck!

JD · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 16:02 »

Psssst, your spoiler didn't work

akronnick · « **Reply #21 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 16:28 »

I'm pretty sure Melville wanted the audience to know that Ismael survives the story, considering the first line of the novel is 'Call me Ismael.'

For a first person narrative to work, the person telling the story has to be alive long enough to tell the tale.

Also, considering that Moby Dick has been standard High School literature class fodder for about nine thousand years now, this particular spoiler ranks right up there with 'It was his sled!'

raoullefere · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 16:52 »

You gotta be kidding. My classmates would have run, screaming, had they been asked to read Moby Dick. Except me, of course—I read it when I was thirteen. Got about a third of it then, more in subsequent readings. Funniest thing about it I recall from a grad school course on the American novel, when my professor, after I asked him why we weren't reading Moby Dick, said because we were studying the progression of the American novel, and Moby Dick was, as, far as he could tell, implanted in Melville's brain by time travelers—it should have been written in 1951, not 1851.

As for spoilers, my contribution: Kristin did it!

Carl-E · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 17:14 »

Quote from: akronnick on 20 Apr 2010, 16:28

I'm pretty sure Melville wanted the audience to know that Ismael survives the story, considering the first line of the novel is 'Call me Ismael.'

For a first person narrative to work, the person telling the story has to be alive long enough to tell the tale.

Also, considering that Moby Dick has been standard High School literature class fodder for about nine thousand years now, this particular spoiler ranks right up there with 'It was his sled!'

Yes, but in the first edition, the epilogue was missing. In the last chapter, the ship went down with all hands. The epilogue described Ishmael being washed up on shore. Without that, the story really made no sense overall, no matter how good the descriptive narrative was.

So the critics panned it, and the first edition never sold out. The second ediition (printed in America) had the epilogue, but it took a long time to recover from the hit his reputation took. Melville died a very bitter man...

Binary · « **Reply #24 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 02:04 »

Hang on a minute. Dora's cat wrote Moby Dick?

pwhodges · « **Reply #25 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 02:17 »

Mieville
Melville

Kugai · « **Reply #26 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 02:18 »

Quote from: Binary on 21 Apr 2010, 02:04

Hang on a minute. Dora's cat wrote Moby Dick?

Yup, it was a collaberative effort with three Barquecats and Garfield.

Akima · « **Reply #27 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 02:36 »

Quote from: J on 20 Apr 2010, 03:08

oh thou gloopy molodoy bratchny malchick, rectify this thou must. this nochy for preferance, but skorry in any case. the filmdrome is worth the cutter, if you have one near that shows the real starry sinnys. if not, then rabbit away and empty thyne carmans of whatever pretty polly needed to kupet a disk. crast it from the biblio if thou must, but viddy the ol film how ever you can. a sweet sweet vino for the glazzballs it is.

Horrorshow, my old droogie...

Binary · « **Reply #28 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 05:14 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 21 Apr 2010, 02:17

Mieville
Melville

Ah, you noticed that my joke was based on a superficial similarity between two names. Well done!

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 12:33 »

Should I add "whale" to the poll options? Faye would probably be afraid of being accused of making a self-portrait.

Delirium · « **Reply #30 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 22:46 »

no FUCKING civets. that's not ok.

Carl-E · « **Reply #31 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 22:53 »

I agree, fucking civets is not OK.

raoullefere · « **Reply #32 on:** 22 Apr 2010, 09:38 »

Always nice to see ethics firmly expressed.

Kugai · « **Reply #33 on:** 22 Apr 2010, 11:28 »

Ethics

Or Epithets?

Or are we dealing here with what Spock called 'Colourful Metaphors'?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #34 on:** 22 Apr 2010, 12:25 »

What if you're a civet? Have to create new civets somehow.

I wonder why "nameless horror from her subconscious" had such a slow start. It was one of the least popular options for the first few days.

Carl-E · « **Reply #35 on:** 22 Apr 2010, 13:36 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Apr 2010, 12:25

What if you're a civet? Have to create new civets somehow.

Go right ahead, then!

But how do you post...?

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I wonder why "nameless horror from her subconscious" had such a slow start. It was one of the least popular options for the first few days.

It took our stellar arguments to convince the latecomers?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #36 on:** 22 Apr 2010, 14:06 »

On the Internet nobody knows you're a civet cat.

raoullefere · « **Reply #37 on:** 22 Apr 2010, 22:14 »

But we do have good odds you're a hormone-crazed, thirteen to sixteen-year-old boy, possibly one who, for unknown reasons, believes he's a civet cat. And is from Texas.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #38 on:** 23 Apr 2010, 00:14 »

I might be a dog: for some reason both times I've bought houses they had a fire hydrant in the front yard.

Are there any poll options I should add, thought it's probably too late? Deathbot 9000? A memorial to Sara? A laser squid?

Binary · « **Reply #39 on:** 23 Apr 2010, 01:46 »

Civet cat is watching you caffeinate.

akronnick · « **Reply #40 on:** 23 Apr 2010, 01:59 »

*Looks right.*

*Looks left.*

*Shrugs.*

HiFranc · « **Reply #41 on:** 09 Jun 2010, 00:31 »

When I first heard the brief, I was reminded of a sculpture I once saw. It had twisted metal bars (the sort that reinforce concreated) with a few chunks of concrete still on. It looked like a giant metal bush but the bars weaved in and out of the whole 3D space.

Here are some links to local scultures that may provide inspiration to Jeph to provide inspiration to Faye:

http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/pubartmetro
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/pubartgraingertown

http://www.fionagraydesigns.co.uk/comms3.html
Warning: With this one, at least on my computer, the images only enlarge if you click them left to right. If you try the other way round, it'll work on the first but not on the subsequent rounds.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/preef/27644083/in/set-625487/
I think Tynemouth station now has a new installation.

http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Leisure%20and%20Culture/Art/ArtMaps/Post-Angel/Opening%20Line.aspx

http://www.claire-morgan.co.uk/page35.htm
I think that Faye would especially like these sets of art work but I'm not sure how Dora would feel about using this as an inspiration.

Probably Newcastle's most famous sculpture

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What should Faye's next sculpture be?

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