Bigbang art and other things

[ileliberte]

The SGA Bigbang site went live last week. I did artwork for leahwoof's (Leah & springwoof) lovely story Enthrall.
Preview:

You can see the full image here and if you want, leave feedback for me at the comm here

Things positive:

• Lovely pictures of events in the Mahabharat and Ramayan. Some of them are gorgeous.
• Cuteness :)
• Kimberly Walker, first female master gunnery sergeant in her field. And she has six kids!
• Cat adopts rabbit, awwwwww!

Things negative:
• Holy entitlement complex Batman! O_o Why must you be in SPN fandom :(
• Um, no. You don't get to let your personal beliefs come in the way of women's health. If it's that big a deal, find another job.
• The strange hypocrisy about America's generosity where much of the world keeps talking smack about how much aid USA gives, when the US government is usually the highest donor in international emergency operations, and private donations from American citizens is often much higher than that. And it comes even from people who are the direct beneficiaries of these donations. I was in India when the tsunami hit and amazingly enough, the politicians riding around in gleaming Mercedes' who seemed to have their own pockets sewn shut, seemed to have much to complain about where the US was concerned.

ETA: Dumbfounding article on why Atlantis is so much better this season: there's more Mckay and less of all of those annoying Teyla moments. Excuse me while I laugh hysterically, exactly which of the overabundant Teyla moments are being referred to here? And poor Rodney, so shortchanged in the way the show barely features him, his story, his emotions, his family, his life, how he barely gets a line in any given episode, how he rarely gets to do anything important in the storyline and... I like Rodney, but it's kind of laughable that anyone would think that we were getting too little Rodney and too much Teyla.

Comments

[machinistm.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures of events in the Mahabharat and Ramayan.

That's some gorgeous colouring and details. I'm no art fiend, but I could swear the composition and styles of some of these paintings look exactly like, or very much similar to, western (old master) pieces. Would dig up exact paintings if I could remember though, hm.

The SPN wank story was *hilarious*. YES, THEY'RE ALL ASSHOLES, DAMMIT. Though I have to say, while they *were* looking for trouble, being the butt of the crew's joke must've hurt like a bitch. Self-respect, we needs it.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

I'm no art fiend, but I could swear the composition and styles of some of these paintings look exactly like, or very much similar to, western (old master) pieces
Yes, could be. These aren't ancient pieces or anything and don't usually accompany religious texts either, it would be interesting to see what pieces they may have been inspired from :)

I have little sympathy unfortunately, if I was stupid enough to wait around 6 hours just to exchange a few sentences with a TV person I don't know at all, I'd deserve to have pranks played on me too :/ I was unsurprised but still sad to see that they were all grown up too, not even excusable by young age factor.

[ratcreature]

Here's where I out myself as totally clueless, but I looked at the Mahabharat and Ramayan pictures, and I mostly wondered: what's with all the blue people? I mean, I have no idea about Indian mythology but why are some blue? Is it a symbolic thing?

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes, it's a symbolic thing. Vishnu is one of the foremost Gods in Indian mythology, and the color of his skin was blue, reflecting the colors of the clouds, the skies and the water, since he was all-pervasive. Both Krishna and Ram were incarnations (avatars) of his, i.e. the forms he took when he came down to Earth at different points of time, hence the blue skin. Krishna indicates dark-skinned as well. So all the blue people you see are various incarnations of Vishnu (the blue person with a peacock feather in his crown is Krishna).

[ratcreature]

Ah, that makes sense. Unfamiliar symbolism is always hard. European medieval and renaissance paintings are completely cryptic to me because there's all kinds of random stuff that has actually some religious meaning that was obvious to the audience then. Like you'd get virgin Mary with a baby Jesus on a throne, which seems sensible enough, but then you see that the magnificent throne has a random large cucumber on a vine hanging over the expensive fabric, which is very wtf? unless you know that it was a fertility symbol because of the seeds but also one for mortality because they grow quickly or something, and so on. Basically any random object has some symbolic meaning that then assembles the actual message the thing was supposed to have.

[oc-pixie.livejournal.com]

Swear to god the SPN fandom (which I'm a member of) is begining to grate me the wrong way...it seems like more and more fans are getting uber bitchy when they don't get their way. It's like more and more of them are thinking because they watch the show, because they buy the merch that the actors should treat them as Gods....umm...nope.

It's ridiculous...do they not realize that ok, Jim can go to dinner with them because he's not on the same schedule as Jared and Jensen. Those boys get worked to death and you have fans who think that just because they show up, it means those two should drop everything and talk to them. People need to be realistic.

*sigh*

Why is there so much chaos in what used to be an awesome fandom!?

[marthawells.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures of events in the Mahabharat and Ramayan.

Wow, those are gorgeous. I've seen some similar ones before, but you sort of forget how beautiful they are.