Pictures and Images

[Ellimist]

The rest of the comic on p. 374:

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Okay, so now we also have things like the images on the 10th and 11th pages of the book (not exactly pages 10,11): ZSL and Galvadyne, both showing up in the stories. Galvadyne called Astair, and jingjing went to the 27th floor of ZSL building.

[po-m]

I was just coming here to start this thread. Damn you, Ell! :shakes fists:

[Ellimist]

I suppose this fits, too, from /r/aww: http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments...r_every_night/

[Trilly]

Astair also meets someone who works at the "Urban Pet" in the pet store.

[Trilly]

The Urban Pet is a real store in Los Angeles http://www.theurbanpet.net/. It has the same logo that appears in the book. Any ideas?

[Ellimist]

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[aquarius]

I downloaded almost all pictures mentioned in the attributions and ordered them by characters and pages. The Anwar and Astair ones are very interesting, because we only see a small bits of them in the book. Do you guys and gals think it would be legal to upload them somewhere, create some online album and post it here?

[TBHalo]

Well, most of them have a Creative Commons - Attribution 2.0 generic, so you can share and adapt them as long as you give credit. I think.
In this case credit would just be copy the description of the attribution page of TF₁.

[aquarius]

Ok, here it is:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7CpdADB7XA6MWwwbkFSbjRLNGM&usp=sharing

[TBHalo]

This is sooo cool. Thank you!
There seem to be recurring themes...

[aquarius]

Some things I found interesting...

- I think Anwar's (and probably Astair's) images are more reflections of his mind than of what is happening in the outside world. Maybe of his subconscious. Notice that Anwar is thinking about the egyptian revolution for the entire day (picture of the demonstration on Tahrir Square). I think this was "created" on page 83, when he connects the revolution moniker Kefaya (enough) with him quitting the coffee. The words also sound similar.
(Notice too the last sentence of the previous chapter: "A coughin in the morning beats a coffin at night". Coughin - coffin - coffee - Kefaya. Echoes again.)
Similar thing with the ballet shoes and piano keys. They start after he hears Stravinsky's Persephone on the radio (the keys may also represent his programmning in his last chapter). At first, I thought the square and the ballet shoes were meant to be memories, hinting at something to be revealed in next books, but now I think my other theory is more plausible.
- I like that one of Anwar's images is a part of telescope- it goes along with the stars theme
- The theme for Anwar seems to be patterns, structures and technology and for Astair nature, spherical shapes and parenting. Notice all the eggs. I think they may also mean that she is Oria. Anwar has a few nature images, but they look more structured. His toad egg mass looks like a fractal.
- I think Xanther's sparklers are the synapses in her brain.
- She has some nature images and some structural, abstract images.
- I would have never noticed the dog in the collage (pg 47). It kinda matches the cat hidden in the dark on the last page - next to the dedication.
- Interesting that the Anwar images in the collage are only on the left side (pg 46) and Astair's only on right side (pg 47).
- Notice that Anwar's circuit boards and Isandorno's pyramid are combined in the collage. These two characters also has similar second colors, as I mentioned here
- jingjing's image "Pulau, Ubin, Singapore" is inverted in the collage. The colors match his dog-ear colors.


(No Shnorhk. I am lazy. And I don't really feel like googling "Childrengenocide")

[aquarius]

Shnorhk pictures added to the Volume 1 gallery.

[aquarius]

Pictures from Volume 2:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7...lpSbU4zN0xXTU0

[Jakamo]

Awesome

[Alley Otaku]

Thanks for compiling the images from the series thus far aquarius. Greatly appreciated.

I certainly find Anwar's images the most interesting (and aesthetically pleasing for that matter).


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