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I’m not really sure how I feel having fan art in my regular store, but after some requests for “convenience” I’ve added some Yo Way D’oh products. Since I created them inspired by Lexx characters, I’m allowed to sell them there if I don’t use the Lexx name on the site, but it may be temporary, anyway. Somehow it seems improper.
A few of the Christmas pics and this one:
are available on T-shirts and mugs (I sometimes collect interesting mugs) and things. They seem a little expensive to me for fan art, so anyone who wants the very, very large file of this one or some others to make their own T-shirts, as always, I give them away free.
This one in an 8 x 10 is here.
My store is located here: http://www.cafeshops.com/petsplayground
Pet;D
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OMG!!! I have no words to describe this. It’s the most hilarious Lexx ref I have ever seen, even if it isn’t really Lexx ref. Clearly the gods meant you to find this so that you could make me and many others happy, today….10-Q so much! Hee Hee Hee!
!!!Pet;D
Miscellaneous Babes:
Final Lyekka design, Playboy Bunny, Water Bunny, Laleen
Playboy Bunny was one of my original Bunny studies, so her body was a Lardlad Marge base not designed by me. The others were.
Pet;D
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quote:
Originally posted by mandara k:
BTW, Pet, how ’bout a yo way D’oh with a Dragon Con theme. Have a dragon or someone in a suit with Stan with his arm around him and a mug in one hand and the dragon lighting a cig for Kai; Xev can be conversing with a Storm Trooper and 790 with a straw sipping a brewski or a big spliff; okay it is a little extreme; but a fun t-shirt idear; not so formal. I’d wear it. The Giggy Pope can sip wine and be conversing with a Trekkie and Bunny in her American bikini with a Romulan.
Hee Hee!
Just picturing it is funny, but it’d prolly take me to Dragoncon 2008 to finish it! 
I have made a Scorpius, Darth Vader and Doctor Who so far, but they’re being saved for something I hope will be reallycool! (But more likely really lame and aggravating…. we’ll see….)
Pet;D
Dammit! I knew I shouldn’t have started watching Fox dead-slot Fridays. I hope they’re planning on DVD’s, cuz for the next few years I’m not getting attached to anything that isn’t already finished shooting. I ignored all new shows between Profit and Lexx, and I can do it again.
I hope for all the other fan’s sakes it goes to UPN or WB, but my service doesn’t carry either of those, so it looks like I’m going back to Space 1999. At least it’s suitably weird.
I’m gonna miss Jayne….
BCingU….
Pet;([ 14-12-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
I finally think I have Stan down. Here is my Stanta Claus and Bunny Wallpaper, same specs apply, pretty much.
Also, the first Xevkai790lyekka pic is available now as a complete winter scene, no color band for icons:
And ManOwaR has used my individual character files to make Lexxmas ecards. There is one for each character and one of the original wallpaper image.
His main site is:
http://www.cyberlexx.com/%5B/url%5DDirect to ecards is: http://pub20.bravenet.com/postcard/post.php?usernum=1682342400
Pet;D
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I really love her site (not just cuz my cartoons are there
). She has miles of files of cool Lexx art of all kinds, and I find something different all the time. I love the pout on Kai, but the mini-dancers are my favorites:
Aren’t they adorable?!
Pet;D[ 13-12-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
Individual ISP hits on my site and emails from it keep growing, though not to the extent on Flamegrape’s site. (Thankfully! I don’t want to spend all my fun budget on bandwidth! Arg!)
I don’t have any sexy Xenia pictures. In fact, I don’t have any cast photos at all, so I can’t attribute it to that.
Pet;D
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“There was a perception about the channel, that it was very geeky, that it was a rerun channel and that it was for boys,” says Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer, “but we did an awful lot of research and found that there are so many women who are into science fiction. So what I had to do was educate the population to the fact that science fiction is much broader than you think.”
I had no idea Science fiction was broad enough to include kilts and broadswords…. without a Kurgan in the background.
Apparently she either thinks the female science fiction viewers are a bunch of frelling morons, or she believes that William Wallace really could “shoot lightning bolts from his arse”.Don’t get me wrong, I loved Braveheart in spite of its inaccuracies. But there is no way in hell I would EVER watch it on the Sci-Fi channel. I wouldn’t watch my favorite Marilyn Monroe movies on the Sci-Fi channel, either, nor my favorite Simpsons ep on the Learning channel, nor Dune on Comedy Central. I find the whole idea preposterous.
Every time I see that female Exec on the Simpsons, I think of this idiot! She’s actually trying to tell the public what the definition of science fiction is in order to fit it into Vivendi’s catalog.
Why don’t they just change the name to the “speculative fiction” channel and get it overwith. That pretty much covers everything.
Pet;D
Female and Geek[ 05-12-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
Kevin Aucoin refers that eyebrow style as the “Audrey” or “Gamine” brow, a look youthful and tomboyish that can only effectively be pulled off by a woman with an innocent, childlike face and a specific bone structure. One who looks as if she’d feel right at home in her boyfriend’s boxers (Or something to that effect….)
Anyhoo, do not let me distract anyone from the rest of this fascinating discussion! (I am not being sarcastic. Mandatory overtime with my robots is starving my cerebrum, as you may have gathered by my sudden input about eyebrows, of all things
LOL.Please continue! Please!
)Pet;D
SYLLABICATION: ob·scure
ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: ob·scur·er, ob·scur·est
1. Deficient in light; dark.
2a. So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct.
b. Indistinctly heard; faint.I seem to remember this applies, but then again, the last time I saw Doctor Who, I watched it on B&W TV over aluminum foil antenna in 1981, hoping my Mom wouldn’t switch the channel to watch her honey William Shatner before the snazzy music at the end was over.
c. Linguistics Having the reduced, neutral sound represented by schwa
This definately applies during the rain.
3a. Far from centers of human population: an obscure village.
b. Out of sight; hidden: an obscure retreat.
4. Not readily noticed or seen; inconspicuousThe only time I’ve ever seen Doctor Who, (not including whatever that made for TV movie thang was supposed to be…) it was on PBS. People in the US rarely turn to PBS, since with the possible exception of Sesame Street, it promises a little culture. Also, they run on donations, and people appear to feel guilty about watching TV stations that ask for donations. I have not been able to get PBS in 6 years, so I have no idea if my local PBS is showing Doctor Who or not, (unlikely… all Public stations cater to the interests of the local crowd) and I’ve never seen it on any other station. It would be nice if they’d put it on BBCA.
5. Of undistinguished or humble station or reputation: an obscure poet; an obscure family.
People I know who have seen it in the US also remember it from 1981 and make fun of the effects. They also don’t quite accept that you can walk into something small and have it be big on the inside. (My friends have a little problem with both theoretical physics and suspension of disbelief.)
6. Not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague
I was completely unaware of its scope, backstory and fanbase. It was 10 years before I found out there was more to it than 10 episodes and great dance music at the end.
But then again, obscure is relative. In MY universe, it qualifies as obscure. I wish I had access to it so I could pick a favorite episode or at least see if I still like the show, buchagotta use the cards yer dealt.
Pet;D
[ 30-11-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
The submissions have been sorted and the poll is open for 1 week. 74 ideas narrowed down to 10. Stop by for a moment and vote for the one that makes you giggle!
http://lexxians.net/viewtopic.php?p=204#204Pet;D
I’d have to agree, but because I think they look better in a fight. A Katana always seems to have more finesse than a mace shape or a broadsword, I think something thin like that would suit her body better.
Although round at the end or long and thick would suit her personality better.
(I did go and vote, BTW!)
Pet;D
I thought it was a joke. I got an email entitled: “it just got worse” from a friend watching Stargate. There was an ad on for Braveheart. It occurred to me later maybe it was an ad for USA movie, but the schedule for Sunday includes
Time Program Title Stereo / CC
9:30 AM SCINEMA FEATURE WATERWORLD
12:30 PM SCINEMA FEATURE THE ROAD WARRIOR (LBX)
2:30 PM SCINEMA FEATURE MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME
5:00 PM SCINEMA FEATURE THE 13TH WARRIOR
7:00 PM SCINEMA EVENT BRAVEHEART
11:00 PM SCINEMA FEATURE THE 13TH WARRIOR
1:00 AM SCINEMA EVENT BRAVEHEART
5:00 AM THE TWILIGHT ZONE MIRROR IMAGE
5:30 AM INSIDE TAKEN: CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM
Pet;(
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Originally posted by FX:
oh pet, like all your work, this is wonderful…took nary a second on my cable hookup…may i just add, that marty said in our chat, that ‘the monkey song’, in wizard of oz, was in fact one of his inspirations…i was on the phone with him during the chat transcribing during the chat due to technical difficulties ( ), and when he said that i nearly fell off the chair, because my friend had always referred to ‘yo vay yo’ as ‘the monkey song’…anyway, great job as usual…and ellen dubin loved your little simpson/lexx characters too:…very funny,
thanks so much, I had a great chuckle.keep up the good work!love, fx
Monkey Song? No kidding! Two DJ friends of mine asked me why I chose to remix the Flying Monkey Chant when I sent it to them for review. How funny!
It’s good to know Ellen Dubin likes the characters, because I just put up Pope and Queen, too.
Pet;D
Cool, then it’s averaging about 2 minutes across all lines. (One person had 8 minutes, but when I looked at my log 2 others were downloading at the same time.)
I guess I can leave the sound file alone then.
(That’s great, because it really lost flavor when tried cutting down the quality further….)10-Q 4 D help
Pet;D
Cool! That makes my week! Hopefully my week will keep going well and I can get them to move right and not just talk….
Our biggest Giggy fan on the Lexx board emailed that one to Ellen as soon as he saw it. He said she said:
“love that cartoon with the brains
could be an animated series
me and tweedle and xev and bunny and prince as an animated series
would be fun.” Here are the new Giggys:
Pet;D
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FYI, I’m using images from Last Exit to Springfield for reference while I design the Lexx flash characters. If you like the Simpsons, that’s the absolute best place for images. They really do a good job.
Pet;D
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Originally posted by thefrey:
Oh yes that is lovely and should work just fine
Pet;D
[ 24-12-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
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Originally posted by Logan:
….The Prisoner was very conceptual, and was at its best when it was exploring the realm of ideas. It was it its worst (and most dated) when the Batman style fight sequences were going on: Kersplat, pow, phwunk!
At least No.6 kicks more than Jim West, but then again, his pants aren’t so tight.
quote:
So my guess is that they’ll make the hero American, it will be primarily an action flick, and they’ll weave in a love interest — GROAN!I’m glad that Kevin Costner isn’t going to be in it, how would you feel about Stallone or Vin Diesel in the part?
ARRRGGHHHH!!!
quote:
Actually, the only person other than McGoohan I can see as No. 6 is Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson). Now that would be a Prisoner I’d go see!
OMG! You’re right! They would never get that guy to talk! Can you imagine Mr. Bean vs. Rover? LOL! At least he has more emotional range than Kevin Costner!I’d like to see Mr. Bean as No. 6, Baldrick as No. 2 and a Blackadder in the coveted No. 1 seat.
Oh, Nice inflatable sheep No.6….
Just as sexy as the dancer, baby! LOL! (Still gotta fix that hair).Pet;D
P.S. In all the interviews, it looks like Markstein tries to explain himself while McGoohan does not. I find that funny, considering the parts they played.
[ 04-11-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
This is about the possible Prisoner Movie. In the dirt, Patrick McGoohan states that he will not be involved if Kevin Costner (!?!) plays No.6. Woo-Hoo! For that I will dance for him:
Gotta fix that hair….
IMDB stated it was a 2002 production, but who knows how old that info is.
Anyway, upon reflection I have decided that No.6 did not exchange one Village for another, “Fall Out” must have been a dream, because in the episode The Computer Wore Menace Shoes, No. 6 (voiced by PM) is still in the Village when Homer arrives in the late 90’s.
Also, in the authorized series of books, No.^’s name is the same as his character from “Secret Agent Man/ Danger Man”; the episode “The Girl Who was Death” was originally written for that series; and George Markstein has stated that the reason the character from SAM resigned was because he had come up with the idea of the Village years earlier, decided it was inhumane, then discovered that his people had gone forward with the project.
(That lends a better angle to the ending, I think, if you were trying to look at it logically, and now I will have to purchase SAM/DM. )
Pet;D
[ 01-11-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
Corel PP again… There’s a spot when you create a new file where you can check “Make a Movie”, then choose the number of frames, size and either .gif or .avi.
You have to convert to 8-bit-color to save as an animated gif, but it’s easier to draw if you don’t start out that way. Then you can pick frame rate and stuff. These have a frame rate of 15, except for the face which has 60.
I think it’s easier to make each pic seperately and import them, but some people prefer to do each one over the other. It takes a little practice and patience, but it isn’t particularly difficult.
You can also take a few pictures of the same thing in a row, like little Kai laughing, and make a gif movie out of them, too.
But the colors may come out funny when you convert them to 8-bit. If you want to try that, it usually works better the first few times in greyscale. I made Bettie Page dance that way. Hee Hee!
Pet;D
New animated Laff Trak gifs. Not the best, but can be useful in showing someone is gaining or losing your interest.
Lafftrak Down
Lafftrak Up (Also posted at Lexx.com)
Pet;D
[ 30-10-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
That’s a lot of Xevs! I suppose it’s easier once the body is built. (I’ve never tried 3D.) Do you just have to change the patterns then?
Divine Assassin Xev would be interesting. I suppose she’d look somewhat like S4 Goth Xev. Then there’s always Xevivor Xev, P4X Xev, Egyptian Xev…. damn, you might never be done! (Or at least, you might be done by the time I actually can get cable out here.)
Pet;D
[ 29-10-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
I don’t see why your last post starts with a “help”, when from our standpoint you clearly don’t need any…. Those curls are looking cute!
I can’t remember where I read this, did I hear you were going to make her outfit different colors or different styles for the Capture the Flag thing, too? How many Xevs will you have when you’re done?
Pet;D
I especially like the pic of Ben McLaden. Very nice!
I’m going to guess someone’s given you the Taliban Can song since you wrote this, or you’ve found it somewhere, but if not, I can email you a link. (I have a couple other songs I’ve been meaning to offer you, anyhoo.)
14071;D
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Originally posted by Logan:
I think you’re right to tell Pet that tilted camera angles are overused, but tinted shots can never be overused, right Pet?
Orion Slave Girl
(The file you linked to is a preliminary shot and no longer there. I fixed the link in the quote. I still like my dark blue and orange shots better than the green.
)And “Fall Out” changed my feelings about “All you Need is Love” in much the same way as Reservoir Dogs got me interested in “Stuck in the Middle with You”.
And let’s not forget “Brazil”….
OT: Also, Logan, have you seen “Free Enterprise” yet? One of the characters is turning 30, so there is quite a bit of Logan’s run in it. And the DVD has a trivia caption option that may amuse you.
14071;D
P.S. And robots listen even less than people do. They are supposed to do what they’re told without question, but they don’t. 790 and the Silicates from S:AAB are perfect fictional examples of what is wrong with robots. (I have been warned I’m going back to my robots on Wednesday. I am not happy. They are even less likely to listen to commands when they’ve had a vacation.
In that respect, they aren’t much different from people.)I would like to read this Butlerian Jihad Dune Prequel sitting next to my computer, but I am afraid with my prejudice against robots I would find the whole thing distasteful.
[ 28-10-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
Cool!
But I wish we could play multiplayer. I want to see her move.
I still enjoy the screenshots, though.Pet;D
My review of Fall Out:
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P
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RSo when he asks at the beginning:
Who is Number 1?
And No.2 responds:
You… are No.6
Was No.2 giving him the answer the whole time? I’m inclined to believe the whole thing was in his head!
Side note: My Hubby’s been singing Dry Bones and All you need is Love for 2 days, so now I know he snuck out my final DVD while I was working. He reads the last page of books first, too. ARGH!
14071;D
Logan: My place of employment is “hiring”, but they will only “hire” people who have been here before and escaped. I kid you not. My boss is gone this week, so I’ve been calling my interim boss the new No.2. They all think I’m crazy, there, anyway, so they don’t bat an eye about it.
I think I’m going to sew white trim on my black jacket.
Office Space and Brazil are nothin’. You should have heard the Fahrenheit 451 rant I went on once when they confiscated my lunch bag for having a book in it!
Stormsweeper: It wasn’t just the camera angles, but the angles coupled with something in the way No.6 was tilting his head and smirking that made me think John Criton. I stopped watching avidly after about season 2, though, so I dunno if they’re still doing that type of thing when people are messing with his head on Farscape.
Then again, No. 6 reminds me more of Hamlet than any other character in entertainment. It was only that small bit that felt like Farscape.
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Originally posted by elmey:
The scifi.com board is just weird, but I wonder if anyone actually finds that one first anyway.
elmey
I found that one first.
That’s why I have no problem with moderation whatsoever. Pet;D
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Originally posted by Cuemaster1971:
I think I’ve found it! The Fantastic Journey from the 70’s starring Jared Martin and Roddy McDowell. Everything I’ve read about it ties in, and the brain-in-jar thing is an all-seeing thing called The Source, who is watching over the group because it wants one of their bodies for itself. Now all I gotta do is find it on video or dvd!!
OHHHH! Right! Now that’s sounding more familiar. But it’s not on video yet, is it?
You would think they would have rushed it out along with the Planet of the Apes Roddy MacDowell revival!
Pet;D
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Originally posted by Logan:
I really enjoyed Space 1999 — haven’t seen it in almost twenty years probably. And I didn’t know Christopher Lee had been in any of them — I’ve got to see that. Man oh man, C. Lee was great in the Wicker Man, and Scaramanga was one of the best Bond villians of all time (he had three nipples you know, ahh, he would make a worthy adversary.)Dracula meets Space 1999, now that’s something I’d love to see.
He even wakes from the dead in it.
He’s also wearing makeup I’ve seen Bjork wear. The disks are worth it if you just want the show, but they don’t have any exciting extras. And you probably noticed above, you can only get the final 7-minute episode if you buy the whole set at Best Buy. P.S. I’m not going back to the Prisoner thread until I’m finished. I skimmed down and saw someone mention Fall Out and freaked out and left before I was tempted to read it! But, my coworker (No. 12119) is first in line to watch the first 2 disks this weekend, so maybe it will become hip again. We feel a kinship with the Village since we have no outgoing phone lines at work, and No. 1 is trying to make it so we can only wear company-approved buttons (a choice of 8 pieces of flair) to express ourselves.
14071;D
I just spent $40 on a book called The Great American Pin-up by Charles Martignette, who has the largest collection of original Vargas paintings in the world, but I unseal it and open it up only to find that Vargas’s estate lawyers wouldn’t let him reproduce them because Vargas was better than just a pin-up painter. The only ones he could put in were the paintings owned by Esquire. I think his lawyers are cheapening his work by claiming he wasn’t a pin-up painter.
Does anybody know Vargas for anything but Pin-ups? What exactly is WRONG with pin-ups? Is there something wrong with art that only says “here’s a pretty girl” or “look at this guy’s muscles”? I think Michelangelo would be more impressed with Vargas (and Flamegrape) than Picasso and Warhol, but that’s the kind of thinking that got me in trouble with art people in the first place.
Had to vent…. but 10-Q 4 your kind comments.
Pet;D[ 19-10-2002: Message edited by: pet ]
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Originally posted by thefrey:
Scream Team? Is that a movie or tv show? What does Nigel Play?
It’s a movie: Three ghosts try to help two children after an angry spirit refuses to let their grandfather rest in peace. Nigel plays engineer Warner McDonald in this Disney movie due for a Halloween release.
Cast: Tommy Davidson, Kathy Najimy, Eric Idle, Mark Rendall, Kat Dennings, Kim Coates, Robert Bockstael, Nigel Bennett, Gary Reineke.
The Scream Team (2002)
DISN, Fri Oct 25 07:00pm CDT• The Scream Team (2002)
DISNP, Fri Oct 25 10:00pm CDT• The Scream Team (2002)
DISN, Sat Oct 26 11:00am CDT• The Scream Team (2002)
DISNP, Sat Oct 26 02:00pm CDTIt’s listed on his website schedule, but it used to be called “Soul Patrol”, so it appears as both in different areas:
http://www.blackhatstation.com/Schedule/month.htm
and these are all his current projects: http://www.blackhatstation.com/Upcoming/attractions.htmHe just finished a stage run in Halifax last weekend.
Pet;D
quote:
Originally posted by Lucygoosey:
Um… the second one, sporting event. Baseball, feh!!
GRRR! That’s what they did to Futurama, and then wondered why no one knew when it was on! GRRR!
(You did scare me for a minute. Whew!!
)Pet;D
I just watched “A,B or C” a few days ago. I want to say, in the scene where No.6 is at the dream party in which he’s supposed to reveal who “C” is, the camera tilts and his mannerisms seem very familiar.
I’m getting the impression that Farscape used these devices for when John acts crazy. I don’t believe in rip-offs, but the scene was so familiar that when my husband and I watched it seperately, we both got Farscape vibes from it. It feels like a nod to me.
Pet;D
