Concert In Blue

I guess it all depends on who your favorite Fab 4 was…

Thank you DS, I made Blue Man that guitar before Christmas for something else, and this idea just grew inside and burst out at just the right time!!

Thanks Alice, this one took a while because it’s lots of pieces made separate to be assembled, and long rendering times!

Thanks Heather, in the words of Rodney Copperbottom, quoting BigWeld, “See a need, Fill a Need!”

Thank you Solomon, the original idea started out very different, but things change and so does art!

Thanks Jen!! No, 2 good guesses, but nope! go back further with the guitar, what theyre standing on is sometin=mes on the ground, sometimes up in the air…

Thank you Romo, only problem I had with this was how long it took to do it just right after I got the idea!

Thank you Danilo, this one evolved suddenly into this from another idea, wanted to be born I think!

For you, I’ll spill the beans, it’s even now known as the John Lennen model Rickenbacker, I once had a sunburst one with 2 pickups, and they’re stage is really the top of the Millenium Falcon, scaled down a bit, ran across a free 3D model of it while looking for a decent image of an auditorium stage. Thanks my friend, and I think McGuinn’s was a 12 string with the slash sound holes (?) might have to look that up!

It seemed so right, set up the band on top of a big round flat starship, then rise up just enough, you could play to all of Woodstock!
Yeah, these last 2 photos are the only ones from those days, the next one jumps to 1995, but we’ll save that for a bit!

Thank you lots, This one really popped in, it all started with creating that guitar, a replica of John Lennon’s, and I almost used his song “Imagine”, but needed something much more up-tempo and the Moody blues came through!

Thank you Linda, I had been inspired by Willie Nelson’s 20 years of benefit concerts here for financially destitute farmers, and thought rather suddenly that Blue Man could, if only digitally, raise some spirits when so many of us need it, the Sky goddess group hug was added almost at the end, and she really flies.

Close, it’s currently sold as the John Lennon model Rickenbacker. Wish the angle had shown the top of the keyboard, I used 3 Nasa instrument panels instead of keys, lots of buttons and switches, knobs and dials from Here maybe use it again later. The stage is the Millenium Falcon starship from Star Wars, they’re standing on top of a free model I found while searching for a concert image to reference! Blue Man and Green Girl actually do ROCK!

Thanks Keith, I’m going to try a more detailed painted starfield next one, but good old Hubble came through here, and the Goddess is Poser, with this amazing control over the hair, she took longer to render than the band and stage!

Hey Lina, would you believe that the original idea was to be a parody from that film Risky Business where Tom Cruise dances around in his undies to Old Time Rock ‘N Roll, but there wouldn’t have been any message there. Plus, there was a Super bowl commercial with a group of lame-o basketball players that did just that, and others as well before that, so it sounded pretty dumb… then it grew into something much more meaningful for me, it got Nonnie up there as a star, and the finishing touches came last.

Their stage is the Millenium Falcon starship from Star Wars so they’re hovering at an altitude good for volume, and the Sky Goddess, Earth Mother, whatever you want her to be is offering the biggest group hug there ever was!

I pondered the right music choice, and that song popped into my head all by itself, and I rushed to find the best link I could, and there it is! The only frustration was the long time it took to make all the elements and long rendering for the band and the goddess, and lots more post-work than usual, luckily the stage was a free download but still required considerable modifications, but I’m happy.

Thanks DwC, another side of Blue Man and Green Girl (Nit and Nonnie)

Thanks Susan, in hindsight, I think it was a crappy quiz, the answers are above if you’re interested!

I’m particularly proud of Green Girl (Nonnie) in her first starring performance, a real natural pro! I am quite surprised no one has mentioned Blue Man’s jeans! Maybe he just looks so natural in them!

If you read my response to Linaji just above, you’ll see how this thing radically evolved from a comedy piece to a cosmic group hug from the sky goddess!

Thank you, my friend, this one grew all by itself and popped out of my head, music and all!

Actually, yes, not just because of the separate elements to create, render, and then assemble, but because the original idea slowed and ground to a halt and stayed there, turned right angles, and started up again in a blast of excitement, had to be very patient with long rendering times, but amazingly, first render caught it!

The first idea was doing a parody of the scene in Risky Business where Tom Cruise jumps around and dances to Bob Seegar’s “Old Time Rrock and Roll”, but it’s been done and done before, and the whole idea just got stupid… then this just happened, and I’m so much happier, and the image grew a purpose too.

What’s interesting to me is that when the original project, described above here, dead-ended, it was that song that was the inspiration for the new interpretation, the sky, putting Green Girl up there with him, and the sky goddess, plus the meaning of the whole thing. It’s too bad you can’t see her synthesizer, I downloaded some images of space shuttle control panels from here and combined them instead of a keyboard, more like the old Moog sound effects machines, all dials buttons and switches… will have to use that later! What really amazes me? No one finds it strange Blue Man is wearing jeans!! I guess it just looks natural! When you’re shiny you just look good in a spotlight!!

Thank you Lucinda, I have all their albums and listen to them still! Missed them last time they were here, they played with the Kansas City Philharmonic.

I have a plan, heh heh heh! You just gave me a splendid idea.

Wow! Space Rock is perfect for Nit and Nonnie! Of course I thought of Space Rock when I was recording my own instrumental music back in the late 80’s, I was determined to show what the crew of the starship Enterprise would rock out to in the 25th century, I called it Zero Gravity music, because it was spacey, and also not serious in any way!

I still listen to vollenwieder, and here is something pertinent to this, some Eno!

I still have an ancient mix tape including Tomita playing Claude Debussy’s Claire De Lune, I believe it’s the very one that plays for that big interactive fountain in Las Vegas. I’ll look for Focus, not familiar.

also Snowflakes are Dancing!

Many thanks Teresa, I was REALLY compelled to do this, in case it added a little hope to the distressed.

Ooohh, stellar future, I like that!! thanks my friend, I still owe you for showing me this lovely place!!

I have to admit a particular pride in this one, partly because it grew out of a particularly dumb idea, and because it came together very readily. Not all of these images come out without a struggle, but the emotion became very deep! thanks, kiddo!

Thanks DD,The original idea wasn’t happening very well, then this song popped into my head and the rest followed, like Destiny, I love when that happens!

I can see you really feel this as I do! I remodeled the Falcon so much it’s not a really fair quiz, but yes, I call that the biggest group hug there ever was! Many thanks!!

Plus, that’s Green girl’s (Nonnie) first step up to the foreground, and she proves she has star quality just like blue Man (Nit)!

Wow thanks, that makes my day doubly!

Thanks again Dave, what a whoosh to start the day!!

Wow, thanks for the heads up, I didn’t spot that!!

Thnks A, we didn’t know these 2 could rock out like that, we’re so proud!

Thank you Claudia, these 2 have become stars all by themselves!

Thank you S, beginning is beginning, lots of folks here at RB to inspire us, and many will answer questions, like myself. This was 2 separate renders with nebula added last.

Thank you, I’d made this guitar for Blue man for something else, just had to use it for something, got inspired!