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OOPS!
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But hey- thanks Dustbunny for the support!
A Plan to Sculpt History
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OOPS!
Double post!
But hey- thanks Dustbunny for the support!
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Not to interrupt your thread, but loved your explanation and image. Added my text. Hope you appreciate the joke and compliment.
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OUTSTANDING!!! My heart leaps, Dustbunny!
Oh please, do- do more with your manipulation of media along with your great sense of humor!
Okay- Gilman & Lovejoy has just seen from the window that members of the mob have torches and a ladder and are going to set the warehouse's wooden roof on fire...
Oh please, do- do more with your manipulation of media along with your great sense of humor!
Okay- Gilman & Lovejoy has just seen from the window that members of the mob have torches and a ladder and are going to set the warehouse's wooden roof on fire...
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It is noted that @Dustbunny & @hawkdon both reacted with a WOW! probably due to The Defenders of the Press shooting a Mob Member off of the ladder, and rightly so, for The Lovejoy Story is filled with violence and drama.
Should you ever desire to learn the full story, my friend & Historical Library Manger, Lacy, has a couple of great videos at HaynerLibrary.org.
One video is of Lacy introducing author Ken Ellington, who penned the 2021 book of Lovejoy's murder, titled The First to Fall, in a talk he gave about his research. At one point, Mr. Ellington, also award winning journalist, said he would have liked to have interviewed the Rev. Lovejoy. He also made comment that Lovejoy's story would make a great movie, as it contains exciting elements.
I thought a lot about these comments, and they inspired this Art Project. I am currently in the process of creating more props for another exciting scene.
Thank you, DB and hawkdon, for your continued interest and support.
Should you ever desire to learn the full story, my friend & Historical Library Manger, Lacy, has a couple of great videos at HaynerLibrary.org.
One video is of Lacy introducing author Ken Ellington, who penned the 2021 book of Lovejoy's murder, titled The First to Fall, in a talk he gave about his research. At one point, Mr. Ellington, also award winning journalist, said he would have liked to have interviewed the Rev. Lovejoy. He also made comment that Lovejoy's story would make a great movie, as it contains exciting elements.
I thought a lot about these comments, and they inspired this Art Project. I am currently in the process of creating more props for another exciting scene.
Thank you, DB and hawkdon, for your continued interest and support.
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Not a derogatory wow on my part. My "wow's" are always "surprise", "amazement" or it doesn't quite fit any other emoticon. Never negative.
Just a reaction to the power of the story (and that part) that has been progressing.
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Not a derogatory wow on my part. My "wow's" are always "surprise", "amazement" or it doesn't quite fit any other emoticon. Never negative.
Just a reaction to the power of the story (and that part) that has been progressing.
No negativity taken, my dear DB and I am pleased you've been following the progression. The Artistic Side of me wants to be organic and go with the flow and create the scenes as they come, but the Neurotic Side of me wants to tell the story in a chronological order.
The Artistic Side usually prevails.
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This is very good Davey Do.
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Thank you very much, PepperminPatty!
Don't we all have songs playing in our heads? As I was reviewing the animation for acceptance, I saw the Gilman character in a suit with a gun, looking a little British like James Bond, and that song popped into my head. The same thing with "Your Mother Should Know"- he characters were being tested on the newly made stairs, moving down, when that song/routine popped into my head.
Henry David Thoreau spoke of "the music of the spheres', and Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke of "lowly listening". When there are no distractions, or only ambient sounds, we open ourselves to universal energies. The universe speaks to us and we only have to be still and listen for it.
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You’re very welcome Davey.
Silence is golden.
Stillness speaks.
We have more in common than I realized.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. A genius
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Duct Tape is Silver.
We have more in common than I realized.
"The bond which links our true family is not one of blood, but of joy & respect in each others' lives. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
-Richard Bach (possibly paraphrased)
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Your ability to associate one humorous situation with another, @Dustbunny, is an indication of great wit! I enjoy it when one can make a situation more fun by carrying the ball & extending the humor of another!
Irrelevant humor is my stock-in-trade, but I wish not to disrespect Mr. Lovejoy in any way- I love the reasons he stood for i.e. abolition & free press. He suffered through many hardships, e.g. molestation, destruction, and violence by the hands of pro-slavery (for lack of a better word) people. To make light of such a serious situation could be interpreted as being calloused & unempathetic to some, which is not my intention.
I have known of Elijah P. Lovejoy and his plight since I was a schoolboy. I use the Historical Library as a source of inspiration and it has been a virtual font resulting in this, the fourth of my historical art projects. As an artist, I have, as the sociologist James McNichols said, a duty to my society and that is to show alternative perspectives to conventional notions. It is not only my duty, it is the way I am wired.
A virtual friend once asked me, "How do you come up with these things?" and my reply was, "How can I not?
It would be like- and some will see this as an inappropriate statement- "How can a mother love her child?"
I tried to follow the mainstream
but all it did was to make me scream.
I just made that up.
ANYWHOOOO....
Being interested in local history, having a devotion to art, I do, as Joseph Campbell advised and "follow (my) bliss". In following my bliss, I do so in an organic, mish-mosh fashion which is not a point A to a point B process. Hence, the Lovejoy story starts here the night of his murder, without any background information and that can make my rendition being interpreted as the great man was less so. But this is not the case, and I wish no one to misinterpret that.
Lovejoy was a great man and is remembered yearly in a respectful celebration in Alton.
With that said, we jump over at least two events which I wish to do something with to the point where Lovejoy is shot. This GIF is, as we're the others, historically accurate. Its expression is merely not mainstream.
Irrelevant humor is my stock-in-trade, but I wish not to disrespect Mr. Lovejoy in any way- I love the reasons he stood for i.e. abolition & free press. He suffered through many hardships, e.g. molestation, destruction, and violence by the hands of pro-slavery (for lack of a better word) people. To make light of such a serious situation could be interpreted as being calloused & unempathetic to some, which is not my intention.
I have known of Elijah P. Lovejoy and his plight since I was a schoolboy. I use the Historical Library as a source of inspiration and it has been a virtual font resulting in this, the fourth of my historical art projects. As an artist, I have, as the sociologist James McNichols said, a duty to my society and that is to show alternative perspectives to conventional notions. It is not only my duty, it is the way I am wired.
A virtual friend once asked me, "How do you come up with these things?" and my reply was, "How can I not?
It would be like- and some will see this as an inappropriate statement- "How can a mother love her child?"
I tried to follow the mainstream
but all it did was to make me scream.
I just made that up.
ANYWHOOOO....
Being interested in local history, having a devotion to art, I do, as Joseph Campbell advised and "follow (my) bliss". In following my bliss, I do so in an organic, mish-mosh fashion which is not a point A to a point B process. Hence, the Lovejoy story starts here the night of his murder, without any background information and that can make my rendition being interpreted as the great man was less so. But this is not the case, and I wish no one to misinterpret that.
Lovejoy was a great man and is remembered yearly in a respectful celebration in Alton.
With that said, we jump over at least two events which I wish to do something with to the point where Lovejoy is shot. This GIF is, as we're the others, historically accurate. Its expression is merely not mainstream.
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This is a ludicrous verbatim statement made at an anti-abolitionist meeting three months preceding Lovejoy's death:
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I'm very pleased with this GIF, as, for the first time, two different scenes were pieced together to convey one event, probably the most important of the series.
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In doing the above GIF, some frames shot were not used for the animation, as they would have slowed down the action. However, if separate animations are made, the action is kept at a steady pace.
