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Steven 11:44 am UTC 11/04/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Bad for good cover art - rockfenris2005 09:25 am UTC 11/04/10 |
| > I think they might just be looking at the moon. They just > didn't get that bit right enough? To be serious: I've never asked myself what they are looking at, because I never thought there had to be something [material] they'd look at. I don't think there's something Corben just didn't get right, on the contrary. To me, they just look into the wide, open, stormy space surrounding them. They are surrounded by something huge (maybe by "forever") that is both freedom and danger at the same time. Actually, that's exactly what "the future" is or that "life after birth" that waits to be led -- especially after you've broken out of [maybe somehow] secure yet restricting circumstances. It may be that which awaits you after your childhood ends. That teenage time of ultimate transformation and seemingly unlimited possibilities. -- You don't know what you'll get, you don't know what might happen next, you're not even sure yet what or who you are or may become. But whatever it is that's approaching: it's something new, a completely new experience. Anything could happen, you could become anything, nothing is predefined yet, you'll never be as young and as free again. Everything is possible. Whatever you choose to do and wherever you choose to go will lead you somewhere you've never been before. That's both thrilling and frightening at the same time. Total freedom is total uncertainty. If *anything* could happen next it might be something ecstatically wonderful or it might be something threatening. You'll never know until it's right there. And they are both already in the middle of it, surrounded by it. There's no turning back. So. To me, this is what they are looking at (hard to put into words, I'm no Jim Steinman). Considering the nature of what they are facing it's not surprising they both feel a bit lost. Yet they are ready to face whatever comes their way, together. (And luckily he's so protective and strong and good-looking and she's so full of trust and love and all that. So unless they're going to fall out over whose turn it is to wash the dishes, they are going to make it.) I quite like the BFG cover art (apart from the guitar), its atmosphere. Maybe even more than the BOOH covers, not sure. The motorcycle stuff is a bit too trite for my liking. The BFG cover art has a glint of "forever" in it that I cannot find in the other covers' art work. | |
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