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Frakking Toasters says:Needs more feathers
Frakking Toasters says:
big ones
Frakking Toasters says:
a foreground element
Mr Bubbles
paint them
Frakking Toasters says:
fine
Anyway been a while that I made a good piece, enjoy.
Icarus' father, Daedalus, a talented craftsman, attempted i]to escape from his exile in Crete, where he and his son were imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur . Daedalus, the master craftsman, was exiled because he gave Minos' daughter, Ariadne, a clew of string in order to help Theseus survive the Labyrinth.
Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea
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Comments: 23
Dave-Mastor [2008-12-17 04:16:41 +0000 UTC]
Haha, I know the story quite well... I once had to translate it out of latin and into english.
Icarus flew too high, and his blood boiled.
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Seittik In reply to Dave-Mastor [2008-12-17 17:03:49 +0000 UTC]
that sounds like a ridiculously painful way to die
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Dave-Mastor In reply to Seittik [2008-12-18 08:41:05 +0000 UTC]
It is; but that's what would happen before he reached the sun... either that or freeze to death. Realism sucks!
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Seittik In reply to Dave-Mastor [2008-12-18 17:14:14 +0000 UTC]
realism does suck sometimes especially in stories!
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livewire123 [2008-12-17 02:45:53 +0000 UTC]
I like this piece a lot man!
I wish we could rate our favorites
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HyperCannon [2008-12-17 02:22:36 +0000 UTC]
I thought it was going to be something based on the movie Sunshine lol
Anywhoo, great work once again
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Chromattix [2008-12-17 01:13:13 +0000 UTC]
That story sounds very Looney-Toon-ish especially when he realised he was flapping his bare arms before falling, it's like on those cartoons where they run of a cliff and don't fall until they notice they have (but not before a few seconds of standing in mid air, looking at the viewers with a worried face
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Nice colours here, especially with the pink and yellow combination, and the concept is interesting too
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MCchaz In reply to Chromattix [2008-12-17 01:15:01 +0000 UTC]
Sunshine inspired me XD
but the originally story is cooler then the sunshine story so yeah.
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AdamBurn [2008-12-17 01:04:42 +0000 UTC]
Wooo for feathers, first time I ever painted feathers, your lucky I didn't decide to paint a dead pigeon in there too
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MCchaz In reply to AdamBurn [2008-12-17 01:07:58 +0000 UTC]
lmao, i probably had to hurt you with a very nobly stick then
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