Comments | foxestacado: The X-Files: 3x01, House M.D, Harry Potter: GoF (Part 10)

foxestacado

The X-Files: 3x01, House M.D, Harry Potter: GoF (Part 10)

Aug 01, 2007 23:11

WELCOME TO SEASON 3 ICONS

This is certainly very exciting. After working on season 2 for more than a year, I was ecstatic to start working on season 3. Unfortunately, the beginning of season 3 came at a very dark time, and my muse had hightailed out of me while I was left scrambling with an odd assortment of textures that I was determined to ( Read more... )

icons: house, icons: the x-files, icons, random questions of the week, icons: harry potter

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tendre_posion August 2 2007, 07:40:03 UTC

all those icons are amazing! I can't wait to see the 3x04 ones, It's one of my favourite humour eps.

foxestacado August 2 2007, 16:40:59 UTC

Yay! I'm so glad you like these. I can't wait to unveil 3x04 ones either, but I do have to start get cracking on the other episodes after that. It includes "The List" and "2Shy," two snooze-worthy episodes to me, although at first watch, they're exciting.

leucocrystal August 2 2007, 07:44:59 UTC

As always, gorgeous work! Though I can see why you might not like this batch as much as prior or upcoming ones, I can also see some really great icons in there. I think what I like best about this massive project of yours is that, as it progresses, I see a lot of bravery and experimentation. I definitely see that here, and it's often successful -- the ones that jump out to me the most are 6, 15 and 28. Really nice, and I mean that.

Random Questions of the Week (I like this idea!):
1. Give me a piece of random coolness, and show off your inner nerd. Mine: chimera. Though I'd actually first heard mention of this genetic phenomenon in an episode of CSI years ago (4x23, "Bloodlines") of all things, we studied it more closely this past school year. In short, due to a genetic freak accident of sorts during the development of a zygote, one human being's system can contain more than one full set of genetic code. Their blood and hair might have different DNA in it than their saliva or ova/sperm. I've always found that absolutely ( ... )

foxestacado August 2 2007, 16:50:53 UTC

Wow! I love long comments. There's just so much meat in here, and that's really special to me, because I used LJ iconing to really meet and talk to new people, and eventually these people became integral players of my online circle ( ... )

leucocrystal August 3 2007, 10:47:17 UTC

I feel the same way about long comments! A good LJ friend of mine actually got to know me best via hugely long comment threads, both in my LJ and in the LJ of a friend. We finally decided to move our conversations to my LJ, so as to stop flooding our poor friend's Inbox, lol ( ... )

foxestacado August 4 2007, 00:31:11 UTC

EEEE! Icon love! The Little Prince! *swoons nerdily ( ... )

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wendelah1 August 2 2007, 07:45:05 UTC

I don't think these are as bad as you think. I quite like 7,9,15,23, and 36. How was your mother's birthday?

emily_shore August 2 2007, 10:16:48 UTC

You liked 36! And I just said below that I didn't think anyone else would like 36! I should have known it would be you... :)

foxestacado August 2 2007, 16:56:38 UTC

Oh yes, there's always a few people in my glorious flist who love the faceless icons :D

wendelah1 August 3 2007, 06:36:56 UTC

Yes. I like it, too. I like the uniqueness, and the composition. No one but foxestacado creates these images. They are not like anything else in the xfiles icon universe, that I have found. They remind me of the imagery of the show itself as weird as that sounds.

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emily_shore August 2 2007, 10:15:50 UTC

I really like 36, although I doubt anyone else will comment on it. Maybe it's being a historian, but I love that feeling of unearthing old secrets in black and white photos. I also like the air of expectancy in 18, the way that the off-centeredness of it is leaving room for something to happen, as if suspense is hanging in the air. Part of me would like to see some text in it, but actually I think that would be spoiling the effect.

I will answer your random questions later, as I think they're very good ones. Oh, and I'm terribly excited about your "Clyde Bruckman" icons as well. Everyone's favourite episode...

foxestacado August 2 2007, 17:04:41 UTC

I do quite like the feeling of unearthing old secrets, as well. One of my favorite feelings in the world is going to the college library and researching for a paper. Usually my paper ideas are very arcane and unusual, which makes researching a lot more difficult, but no matter. I love it. It makes me feel like an investigator in a crime tale. Going through rows and rows of shelves and being elated in finding the right book, scanning its table of contents and index and finding it being exactly what I need or something fascinating. The mode of discovery that is part of English literature will always excite me. I love history as well, but I have found I'm not particularly good with it. I can't memorize dates and I am not good with timelines. Of course, history is not all about that, but there is a gravity with history that is very compelling, and I think I will take my time, on my own, to study it, rather than study it in a rigorous university setting.

emily_shore August 2 2007, 19:04:47 UTC

For me, the joy I get out of English literature is the sort of intuitive feeling of understanding a poem or story; the analysis I'm not as keen on. So I have saved English as an avocation (I love Victorian poetry) and do my research in the historical field. I was once writing an X-Files story in which I realised that the most vivid scene was the one where my heroes were looking through boxes of dusty old papers, noticing things like the rust stains that paperclips leave when they have been in the same spot on a page for decades. So that realisation told me where my love lies! It also told me that I have spent way too much time in archives.

(I'm no good at memorizing dates either. Thankfully I do social and intellectual history which is more about broader currents of thought, and narrowing things down to the nearest decade is usually close enough.)

foxestacado August 2 2007, 19:17:22 UTC

Oh definitely, the joy of English literature for me is the analysis. I actually do not intuitively understand poetry. I only understand it after analysis. Some people are good at immediately sensing a poem and deriving feelings from it, and I'm not good at that. But I do think I look at poetry differently than most people, for I am deeply interested in the psychological and philosophical aspects of poetry, as well as literary theory ( ... )

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brightredday August 2 2007, 13:16:51 UTC

Beautiful beautiful coloring on those Blessing Way icons. Stole a few! Time to switch out my Scullys again. :)

foxestacado August 2 2007, 17:06:01 UTC

Yay! I'm so glad you like! :D Yes, indeed time to switch out the Scullies. I had a spectacular time working with Scully icons for season 3 so far. I think it's a combination of better hair and better clothing that really suits her this season and makes her much more iconable.

brightredday August 2 2007, 17:09:10 UTC

Thank God for improved Scully hair and clothes. Poor Second Season Scully just didn't age as well as the others.

foxestacado August 2 2007, 17:34:50 UTC

I really, really love season 3 Scully hair, because it looks so retro and classic. Unfortunately it's also unrealistic. Would she really spend hours in the morning to roll and blow her hair to look perfect while on assignment in the field? There is a certain section of the XF fandom population who loves season 1 and season 2 just because it's more realistic at the expense of being less aesthetically pleasing.

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