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Re: Purple People Eater
Reply #8 - Dec 29th, 2008 at 4:40am
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The colors are great...it reminded me of war of the worlds as well...a well executed shot Smiley
  
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Re: Purple People Eater
Reply #7 - Oct 7th, 2008 at 4:22pm
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I really like the structure of this one; the color and the tree-silhouettes, and, if I didn't know better I would say it looks like it was painted.

I didn't automatically think of War of the Worlds when I saw this, just that it looked like a very well-painted contrast between two different kinds of night-lights. Only after reading everyone else's response did I see the connection. I think the biggest reason for that is because I've seen a lot of WOTW artwork from the 70's version and in the art the composers went in a different route. And I do remember seeing snitches of the original theatre production and the street-lamp image used to represent the alien ships. That was kind of a neat trick. And so was this picture. Congrats Diane on the photo-work. It's really nice.
  
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Reply #6 - Jun 10th, 2008 at 1:23pm
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prosaic wrote on Jun 10th, 2008 at 7:00am:
Hi Diane,

I have not heard of the song before - but a great title for this piece. And a well-shot and edited image.

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Prosaic,

It was a big pop hit here and is quite old. I listened to it as a child and always imagined/wondered what the creature looked like - now I know! A few lines went "one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater", the only thing I am missing here is the horn.
  
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Reply #5 - Jun 10th, 2008 at 1:20pm
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nas wrote on Jun 10th, 2008 at 5:25am:
I love the purple and black.  The traffi light does look a bit like a spaceship or eye, can't quite decide which.


Nas,

To me it seems some type of mechanical eye patch, but is definitely an eye, alien or futurisitic sci-fi contraption. 

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Re: Purple People Eater
Reply #4 - Jun 10th, 2008 at 7:00am
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Hi Diane,

I have not heard of the song before - but a great title for this piece. And a well-shot and edited image.

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Re: Purple People Eater
Reply #3 - Jun 10th, 2008 at 5:25am
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I love the purple and black.  The traffi light does look a bit like a spaceship or eye, can't quite decide which.
  
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Re: Purple People Eater
Reply #2 - Jun 10th, 2008 at 1:14am
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Prosaic,

War of the Worlds had not crossed my mind, but I can see the relation now that you mention it. There was something about the photo that I liked as weird as it was! As I was altering the photo and the tint went towards purple it reminded me of the pop hit song "Purple People Eater" which does relate to flying saucers and aliens etc. 

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Re: Purple People Eater
Reply #1 - Jun 9th, 2008 at 9:57pm
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Hi Diane,

This is definitely War Of The Wolds... a traffic light becomes a Martian's eye, spyed through a purple haze of their attack.

Brill!

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