It has been some while since I last participated in a TC-RTC Challenge. 
This time I have an entry for The Metal Monster: Oedipus. The final 
version (size) is being processed right now.

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Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> It has been some while since I last participated in a TC-RTC Challenge.
> This time I have an entry for The Metal Monster: Oedipus. The final
> version (size) is being processed right now.
>
> --
> Thomas

Alas, poor Yorick...

Quite a disturbing image.

Regards,
A.D.B.

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On 6/18/2016 10:39 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> It has been some while since I last participated in a TC-RTC Challenge.
>> This time I have an entry for The Metal Monster: Oedipus. The final
>> version (size) is being processed right now.
>>
>> --
>> Thomas
>
> Alas, poor Yorick...
>

John the Baptist, to my eyes.

> Quite a disturbing image.
>


Quite!


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     Stephen

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On 19-6-2016 0:40, Stephen wrote:
> On 6/18/2016 10:39 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>>> It has been some while since I last participated in a TC-RTC Challenge.
>>> This time I have an entry for The Metal Monster: Oedipus. The final
>>> version (size) is being processed right now.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thomas
>>
>> Alas, poor Yorick...
>>
>
> John the Baptist, to my eyes.
>
>> Quite a disturbing image.
>>
>
>
> Quite!
>
>

Well, that was the intention of course.

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Thomas

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On 19-6-2016 9:01, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 19-6-2016 0:40, Stephen wrote:
>> On 6/18/2016 10:39 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>>>> It has been some while since I last participated in a TC-RTC Challenge.
>>>> This time I have an entry for The Metal Monster: Oedipus. The final
>>>> version (size) is being processed right now.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> Alas, poor Yorick...
>>>
>>
>> John the Baptist, to my eyes.
>>
>>> Quite a disturbing image.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Quite!
>>
>>
>
> Well, that was the intention of course.
>

Fortunately, I didn't go as far as Caravaggio: Judith beheading 
Holofernes ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_(Caravaggio)

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Thomas

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On 6/19/2016 8:27 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>>> Quite a disturbing image.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quite!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, that was the intention of course.
>>
>

All it needs is "Astonishing Stories" written large across the top. :)

It is very atmospheric.


> Fortunately, I didn't go as far as Caravaggio: Judith beheading
> Holofernes ;-)
>

Well, if you think you could? ;)

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.
The beheading would get them running for the police.

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Regards
     Stephen

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

>
>
>> Fortunately, I didn't go as far as Caravaggio: Judith beheading
>> Holofernes ;-)
>>
>
> Well, if you think you could? ;)

No, not really indeed. I could not work weeks on end on such a topic.

>
> 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 although I think it is 
difficult to get nudity right and in a meaningful way for a scene. The 
pitfalls are too obvious.

> The beheading would get them running for the police.
>

Indeed.

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Thomas

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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Quite!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, that was the intention of course.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> All it needs is "Astonishing Stories" written large across the top. :)
>>
>> 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. :)


>
> No, not really indeed. I could not work weeks on end on such a topic.
>


Desolation is best left to the young. They have a knack for it.


>>
>> 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.
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Regards
     Stephen

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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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quite!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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!

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

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

>
>
>>>
>>> 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.


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Thomas

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On 6/20/2016 7:43 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 19-6-2016 17:06, Stephen wrote:

>>>>
>>>> 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.
>

I have been reading a lot of stories from the pulp era, recently. And if 
you did not plagiarise the idea ;) it would have fitted in perfectly. 
Except for the quality. :)
Simak's "A Heritage of Stars" would have been a good one except your 
combination of head and holder is the only one that would not work. ;-)

>>
>> Desolation is best left to the young. They have a knack for it.
>
> Don't get me started. Gloomy romanticism and all :-)
>

The Sorrows of Young Werther?  :-)

I must dig out a copy of Winterreise. In case I need cheering up. :-)



>>
>> Clothes cover up a multitude of sins.
>
> Which, incidentally, can be the sources of interesting images again.
>
>

With a gentle fan blowing.


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Regards
     Stephen

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