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Here was my part of the colab between kiff57krocker and I; here was his version Apocalypse Futurama . When he approached me about using the ship to pull Leela, I started doing some sketches; I figured that the ship would be too big for the picture, so I sketched a boat to pull her; I based the design on the Bat Boat in the old Batman TV series of the 1960's. I had originally planned to have an Omicronian splashed in the background, but things got too busy in the picture. In case you're not familiar with the movie reference or the song, here's the scene from Apocalypse Now; if you can believe it, the dancing kid is a 15-year old Lawrence Fishburn www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbB4x4… .As the Planet Express crew enjoys some downtime here on Venus, it looks like they've found some satisfaction.
Futurama is the property of Matt Groening.
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That blur effect adds a nice 3D feel to the picture. Leela really pops out.
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It's such a simple effect, yet it adds so much.
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Venus must be one of those places to see in the future then.
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They've always blathered on and on about Mars and Neptune, and never said anything about Venus; I write about it as a resort planet in my Futurama stories.
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True, I knew that. I wonder if they have something akin to a country folksy place on Venus, or if it's like Mars Vegas, only better.
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Oh, I have a resort in my stories there called Las Venus.
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Must be one of a great place to visit.
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Yeah...kinda scary, isn't it? At least it's not ZOIDBERG!
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Funny that you'd mention Zoidberg. I could've added him to the gang in the boat in my colab, but he just didn't come up. I guess I was just fixated on showing two sexy ladies in swimsuits. To quote Lou Costello . . . "I'm a baaaaad boy!"
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Lou Costello...boy, that takes me back. I was watching my favorite Marx Brothers flick the other day.
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Abbot and Costello were always my favorite comedy duo, followed closely by Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges. Groucho Marx once made a very funny comment to Marilyn Monroe, "Young lady, you're obviously a case of arrested development . . .and with your development somebody's bound to get arrested!"
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Oh, man those Groucho comments. My favorites were, "I have seven wives." "Sir, that's bigamy." "Big of you? That's big of me!" And who could forget, "Why, I've never been so insulted in all my life." "You don't get out much, do you?"
Lou Costello actually made a giantess flick called "The 30 foot Bride of Candy Rock." I'll have to dig around and pull up some Abbott and Costello bits sometime.
I'm also a huge fan of British comedy as well. In the WW1 episode of Black Adder, a British general is shown a section of turf the size of a small table. "This must represent the land we gained in the last battle." A young lieutenant corrected him. "No sir, this is what we gained in the last battle."
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Ironically, "The 30 foot Bride of Candy Rock" was Costello's last film. He died of a heart attack soon afterwards. When it comes to British comedy, I lean towards Monty Python and the Goon Show.
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Oh, I think you'd get a gas out of Black Adder, which is divided into three separate series; the Dark Ages, Tudor England (with Queenie), and World War One.
I feel so bad for Lou every time I see him, after hearing that his son drowned in a swimming pool; they said that he was never the same after that.
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How true. Lou Costello treated Bud Abbot like crap, but he was a loving and doting father.
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I didn't know that about Lou. As an interesting story, I actually got to meet the Smothers Brothers and chat with them when I worked at the airport. Dick Smothers, who usually played the straight man, is very outgoing; Tommy is very quiet, sort of the opposite of what you'd expect.
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I remember the Smothers Brothers from television. I always got a kick out of their sibling rivalry routine with Tommy starting out with, "Mom always liked you best." You're very lucky to have met them.
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It was a cool way to meet them, as they walked into our airport shop; we got to shuck and jive with them.
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Lucky guy. Very, very lucky indeed! I've always found the Smothers Brothers very funny. It's a pity that they're both retired now.
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That was an interesting job. I worked hard for only four bucks an hour, but it was interesting. I sold a newspaper to Julius Irving one morning. I also got to chat with Michael Anthony of Van Halen, and briefly hang around Ray Charles.
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Man I envy you. You've met some really interesting people. I'm only sorry that an intelligent person like yourself had to bust his ass for minimum wage. The only celebrity I got to meet while I was selling military surplus stuff in the early '80s was Bob Cummings who used to have a TV sitcom as well as a movie career as a leading man, but was now debilitated from his drug abuse as well as from Alzheimer's disease. It was so very, very sad to see him like this.
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I saw a few more people; I actually chatted with Ken Kerchival from "Dallas," who is actually from just north of me. I also saw Greg Allman and Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour while I was there. On a flight once to visit family in New York, comedian Henny Youngman was just a few seats up from me.
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Ken Kerchival I wouldn't have known of since I never watched "Dallas." Whenever I think of Pink Floyd, I always think of their signature hit, "The Wall." And I have fond memories of the Allman Brothers band. And who (in our generation and the generation before ours) could forget the late, great Henny Youngman and his signature phrase, "Take my wife, please! Take my wife!" I've said it before and I'll say it again; you are one lucky man, and I do envy you.
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My absolute favorite joke from Youngman is about the guy with the sex problem. His doctor tells him, "The answer is simple; just walk ten miles a day." He calls his patient two weeks later and asks him how everything is going. "I don't know," the patient tells him, "I'm 140 miles away!"
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Both Youngman and Rodney Dangerfield made great jokes at their wives expense. My favorite joke from Dangerfield was of why they had mirrors on their bedroom ceiling: "My wife likes to watch herself laugh!"
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Dangerfield once said, "My wife is so dumb that I gave her a toy poodle, and she killed it trying to shove batteries into it." He also said that his doctor told him to quit drinking; when he asked him for a urine sample, an olive came out.
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I'm happy to know you like Rodney Dangerfield as much as I do. Rodney also complained to his dentist about how his teeth were getting yellow, so his dentist told him to wear a brown necktie. Poor Rodney . . .the man gets no respect at all!
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I also like the Henny Youngman joke where he checked into a hotel and the bellboy asked him if he needed anything; when he told the bellboy he needed a deck of cards, he brought them to Henny one at a time, knowing he would be tipped each time.
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Very clever on the part of the bellhop. And a very funny and original joke by Henny Youngman indeed. Another great joke that Youngman told about his wife had her going to a beauty parlor and getting a mudpack treatment. "For three days, my wife looked great . . .then the mud fell off!"
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Or when he talked about dropping his mother-in-law off at the airport, calling it a "cruise."
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If it was his mother-in-law, then it probably was less of a "cruise" and more of an "odyssey," n'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk!
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Yeah, up on the shore we'd be! *WOO WOO WOO*
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"Hooray! Zoidberg is now a famous race car driver!" Crash...
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In your dreams you smelly, overgrown crawdad!
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that's still such a great song.
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Well done No. 1 Friend. I like that blurry rapid movement effect for the background. I hope you dig my version of this same subject. I just couldn't resist having Leela splashing an innocent couple in a canoe in my pic as well as having Bender just kicking back smoking and boozing. This was a fun colab. Let's do this again sometime.
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I did like it - I thought the sky and water background looked great. I was kicking around having an Omicronian get splashed, but I decided against it. The motion blur was an effect in Corel; you can choose what direction you want the blur, and how much of the effect you want. In my Meg picture gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/… I drew a mask and had the blur only at their feet and legs.
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Maybe for some pics I do in the future, I'll use Corel for background movement effects.
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I've done well with Corel, although it took a while to learn how to use it.
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I'm not afraid to learn new stuff. If you can do, then so can I.
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YouTube tutorials are a Godsend in this area. I thought I could just jump in and start using the thing, but I quickly learned differently. This was my first real Corel pic that I scanned and colored in Corel Paint four years ago gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/… . It was a real experiment.
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When I get some Corel software, I will check out these YouTube tutorials. Any way to make learning faster is always fine with me.
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I got very lucky when I bought mine, so you might want to keep an eye out for this deal. I got a student package, that has both Corel Draw and Corel Paint in the same software, and I think I paid about $120 for it four years ago. Admittedly, I didn't get all that much out of it until I got my Bamboo pad, but some kind of software like that can be awfully handy. I really want Adobe, but at $600 it's not bloody likely that I will get it any time soon. I did try a trial version of Adobe, which can be seen in several projects: gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/… and gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/… were both done in Adobe CS6. Among other things, Adobe just has better paint brushes and better airbrushing capabilities, but they work in a fairly similar fashion. Adobe has layers, and Corel calls them "objects" (same thing - works the same).
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Well I'm not about to cough up $600 for Adobe no matter how good it is.
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Me neither...any software that costs more than my PC is rather pointless.
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I couldn't agree more. Money isn't that important to me since I'm still single and have a guaranteed income from the VA for life, but you still have to work to keep family, home, body and soul together.
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I could probably afford something like that, but it would almost certainly have to make money at that kind of price. Nancy and I have our hobbies, to be sure. BTW, I've grown expert at buying Copics from Michaels at 40% off phone coupons - every piece of art supply I buy now is on that kind of discount. I also have a discount card I use for Dick Blick's. With what art supplies cost, I figure you might as well.
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