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Folly

Mar 10, 2008 03:36

If anything, I was supposed to be drawing Henry the Hexapod in Spaaaaaaace with my free drawing time today. I'm sure you'd agree with me that such an inspiring subject would get priority over just about anything ( Read more... )

printmaking, octo-attack!, incomprehensible and persistent in-jokes, velocipedes, illo: tarot deck, art on a stick, tarot deck, illo

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pbprincess March 10 2008, 13:01:55 UTC

I haven't seen or heard of this TinMan series previous. Was it really awful? Because I halfguiltily want to watch it anyways now that I looked at the costumes.

chronographia March 10 2008, 17:35:18 UTC

It's not hugely bad, but there are perpetuations of negative stereotypes and racist overtones throughout and after the third two-hour segement, it started to really piss me off. The only reason I got through it was by focusing on the neat 1930s dieselpunk machinery towards the end.

Alan Cummings and Zooey Deschanel are great and that alone is reason to watch.

spiralsheep March 10 2008, 16:35:31 UTC

I'm a big fan of Alan Cummings' innate smarminess in appropriate rolls, e.g. Mr Collins or the camp air steward in The High Life.

I love your card.

Perhaps it could be ridden by a top-hat-wearing hexapus with a monocle . . .

The Cthulhu Tarot?

chronographia March 10 2008, 17:38:11 UTC

Oh I love Alan Cummings when he's being smarmy, don't get me wrong. But it's such a part of his screen presence that . . . something which could eclipse it must be a very powerful thing indeed.

I like my card too. There's all this historical background about jesters in my head that I wish I could plop down on it though.

The Cthulhu Tarot?
I . . . think it's been done? I'd be surprised if it hadn't.

spiralsheep March 10 2008, 18:25:08 UTC

There's all this historical background about jesters in my head that I wish I could plop down on it though.

I don't think you need too. It reminded me of harlequins and tattercoats immediately.

chronographia March 10 2008, 20:51:24 UTC

Well, there's also the implication that the jester was the one person in a court who could say anything and everything he pleased (i.e. the truth and its derivative, satire) because he had no social status whatsoever. Feste in Twelfth Night is the other tattercoat jester I based my fool off of.

Mimus by Lili Thal was also a tremendously good source of input about fools and jesters, despite being fiction.

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earlofgrey March 10 2008, 21:36:46 UTC

The included "Excelsior!" is pleasing to me.

chronographia March 11 2008, 04:22:00 UTC

It was so appropriate! I couldn't not include it. (Longfellow was apparently hip to The Fool card's jive.)

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chronographia March 11 2008, 04:29:58 UTC

Cats in bustles are wonderful and hilarious, but perhaps not entirely appropriate in this case. SEE ALSO: CHARIOT, THE. I need a 'powerful, prince-like figure' to drive the thing . . . yeah, I think the monocle could work, and maybe one of those dress military uniforms, with the shoulder fringes and sash.

Perhaps the sphinxes could be some sort of emblem? On the bicycle? On the uniform?