On 19-6-2016 17:06, Stephen wrote:
> On 6/19/2016 12:28 PM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 19-6-2016 10:32, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 6/19/2016 8:27 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>>>>>> Quite a disturbing image.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quite!
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, that was the intention of course.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> All it needs is "Astonishing Stories" written large across the top. :)

In fact, my initial plan was for an Astonishing Stories pastiche cover, 
but it was not interesting enough in the end.

>>>
>>> It is very atmospheric.
>>
>> The scene needed something desolate and irreversible; the logical end
>> point of a fateful process where no winners can be declared.
>>
>
> Ah well! Worse things happen at sea. :)

Yes!

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>> No, not really indeed. I could not work weeks on end on such a topic.
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>
> Desolation is best left to the young. They have a knack for it.

Don't get me started. Gloomy romanticism and all :-)

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>
>>>
>>> I don't think that I could spend hours setting up such a gory scene. It
>>> is bad enough posing nudes. I always worry that someone will see me and
>>> get the wrong idea.
>>
>> I do not have too many problems with that
>
> Maybe I protesteth too much.
>
>
>> although I think it is
>> difficult to get nudity right and in a meaningful way for a scene. The
>> pitfalls are too obvious.
>>
>
> Clothes cover up a multitude of sins.

Which, incidentally, can be the sources of interesting images again.


-- 
Thomas

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