Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

(For General Discussion)

Moderators: Jason, Toothy, Tonyblack

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby janet » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:29 am

That's lovely :D
Decided to share something through a new sig. Hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7d7141m4Y
Sorry I suffer from extreme numptiness over anything but basic technology.
Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci
janet
Member
 
Posts: 2800
Joined: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:54 pm
Location: North East England

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby Conforumist » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:41 am

janet wrote:That's lovely :D
Decided to share something through a new sig. Hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7d7141m4Y
Sorry I suffer from extreme numptiness over anything but basic technology.


It's like an episode of "Bizarre"!
The greatest things in life are not things.
User avatar
Conforumist
Member
 
Posts: 3444
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:23 pm
Location: Nova Scotia Canada

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby janet » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:21 am

Don't know that. Is it bad?
Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci
janet
Member
 
Posts: 2800
Joined: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:54 pm
Location: North East England

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby raptornx01 » Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:42 pm

Cool song, and i like the the shirt lyrics :lol:
"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."
User avatar
raptornx01
Member
 
Posts: 2368
Joined: Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:03 am
Location: South florida, US

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby Conforumist » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:09 am

janet wrote:Don't know that. Is it bad?


It's an old comedy. They often did this thing where they communicated by taking of their T shirts. They would be wearing a bunch of them with writing on it.

Here's a bit of it:



It's where Super Dave Osborne got his start; before starting his own show.
The greatest things in life are not things.
User avatar
Conforumist
Member
 
Posts: 3444
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:23 pm
Location: Nova Scotia Canada

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby janet » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:33 am

OK thank you. Ford might well have pinched the idea. Check out some of his other vids. Panic is a bit special, also State of the Union.
Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci
janet
Member
 
Posts: 2800
Joined: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:54 pm
Location: North East England

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby Del » Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:13 pm

Quatermass wrote:I wouldn't call Mr Teh-ah-tim-eh an Assassin, more like a nutter with vision.

Anyway, my current avatar is of Raoul Duke, the fictional alter-ego of Hunter S Thompson, as played by Johnny Depp from the movie of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And the signature is a line he utters when Dr Gonzo, his friend on his trip to Vegas, stops a car in order to pick up a hitch-hiker. Earlier, he hallucinated bats coming at him, hence the line... :?


Bat Country.jpg


:lol: :lol: :lol:
Just keep swimming... just keep swimming.. just keep swimming....
User avatar
Del
Member
 
Posts: 3387
Joined: Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:13 am

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby Del » Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:21 pm

Janet: I loved that song. Never heard of it before.

Rap: Lovely animation.... nice song... but um... bit freaky... this enchanted pony takes the children away? I presume there is a backstory to it...
Just keep swimming... just keep swimming.. just keep swimming....
User avatar
Del
Member
 
Posts: 3387
Joined: Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:13 am

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby raptornx01 » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:04 pm

Yeah, it is kinda creepy. especially when you know that they aren't flying on their own, she is holding them up. and they appear to fall off one by one. i know they just didn't draw them all for the animatic, but still :?

Story is, the character you are seeing taking the children is named Luna, one of two sister goddesses that control the rising of the sun and moon (luna's job obviously, her sister is the one waking up at the end) and who watch over the world and keep it safe. the point this story takes place is 1000 years in the past. just after a major villain is defeated by the sisters, while the world is still recovering (hence why all these children are orphans. some living on the streets).

Luna feels that having the entire population all in one place is a recipe for disaster. She decides it would be better to start a second colony in case anything happens so that the species can live on. Her sister disagrees and tells her no. Luna then decides its "better to ask for forgiveness then for permission", puts all the adults to sleep, and takes the orphaned children anyway. Feeling she would be vindicated later once her sister realizes the good she is doing for the world.

Within the context of the show Luna later on eventually becomes a major villain herself, nearly destroying the world untill her sister defeats her and lock her away for 1000 years. and they have a halloween esq holiday called "Nightmare night" where children collect candy and give some as an offering to Nightmare Moon (luna) to keep her from taking them away, this is meant to be the origin of that holiday.

and to add to the creepyness the song is an extended cover of "Come Little Children" that Sarah Jessica Parker's character sings in the disney film Hocus Pocus. The only difference is Luna isn't taking the children to eat them (though that is part of the legend of the holiday :lol: )
"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."
User avatar
raptornx01
Member
 
Posts: 2368
Joined: Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:03 am
Location: South florida, US

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby Del » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:07 pm

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... it WAS evil then.....

Sounds good Rap. Are they going to animate the whole story?
Just keep swimming... just keep swimming.. just keep swimming....
User avatar
Del
Member
 
Posts: 3387
Joined: Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:13 am

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby raptornx01 » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:53 pm

As far as i can tell its just the song. I personally think they should though, and many others agree. but it is only two people doing it after all.

here's their site

http://firstnightmarenight.blogspot.ca/

Ofcourse given the community how it is. i wouldn't be surprised if some wouldn't take it upon themselves to do a full episode. as there are already about a half dozen major fan film projects in the works, a few of them being full 22 minute broadcast quality episodes with staff rosters the size of regular animation companies. :?
"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."
User avatar
raptornx01
Member
 
Posts: 2368
Joined: Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:03 am
Location: South florida, US

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby janet » Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:07 pm

Rap, aww! my little ponies!
Del, love it that you like Ford's song. He's not unknown in Oz or the US and has been 'The next best thing' in indie music for years now! His songs are so diverse and he's a lovely kind man too :D :drool:
Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci
janet
Member
 
Posts: 2800
Joined: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:54 pm
Location: North East England

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby pip » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:27 pm

My new signature is dedicated to Bouncy and all the other kindle users on the forum :D
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
User avatar
pip
Member
 
Posts: 9448
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:20 am
Location: KILDARE

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby Dotsie » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:38 pm

My e-reader's a kobo, you hippy :P
What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
User avatar
Dotsie
Member
 
Posts: 9522
Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:07 am

Re: Explaining your avatar and/or signature.

Postby pip » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:41 pm

Hippy and proud :D
Don't enslave the knowledge in electronics ;)
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
User avatar
pip
Member
 
Posts: 9448
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:20 am
Location: KILDARE

PreviousNext

Return to The Broken Drum

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Exabot [Bot], Majestic-12 [Bot], MSNbot Media, Yahoo [Bot] and 7 guests
http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=231755
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-18
45974
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:O432FOAQQOH6IBCKCGKXHYFXERIEZJHA
<urn:uuid:5263cd58-f9d2-41f1-9a19-ea2dcb00af67>
2015-04-19T13:04:23Z
31.222.180.105
sha1:DBXNFIA4AGK7OGQEPESGRUJOY736CL7S
<urn:uuid:675ffa58-b802-40e8-b739-dd03524e9cff>
http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=231755
response
<urn:uuid:5b66dc31-86f0-4484-a113-301c1a3cc86b>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-18
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf