Dr. Laser's Revenge, The Final Chapter

Past Blasters: Volume One, Issue Three

This is the final installment of volume one of pastblasters, wherein I entertain myself by recounting to myself all of the awesome things I have done. Currently I have been discussing the creation of a wall mural entitled

Dr. Laser's Revenge

!!!!

Catch up with issues one and two. 

Now, I'll admit it. In this series so far, I've been a real pic-tease. So this post is going to be heavy on pictures of the completed work.

That sexy dude on the right is the Artist, preening before his work.

A couple of technical notes:

• The 'space' color is Disney brand Galaxy Black, and it is the richest color black I've ever experienced. Gotta love those animator colors.
• Every star/galaxy/globular cluster is either red- or blue-shifted. Just like it would be if you looked out your spaceship and saw this in real life.
• Acrylic paint is very cheap at Wal-Mart. That said, I doubt the ability of this mural to age evenly. Or to age well at all, considering it's in a frathouse, and a good chunk of the wall has no insulation behind it.
• The coral reefs were my favorite part to paint. The ecosystem of the planoctopod is best viewed from ~2 feet away.
• During the day, sunlight will shine through the holes mentioned in the previous post, forming the brightest constellation in the sky. Sometimes art happens by accident.

Within These Walls.

Uh way to focus Joe.

A couple of thematic details. The characters in this painting have a story, or mythology. I've been thinking about it for over a year now, but I'm not ready to tell it because I'm not done gestating. Here is what I can say at this point:

• When I painted this I assumed the robots and planoctopod were in conflict. I later realized they were dancing. If you had 8 arms, you would want to dance with more than one partner at once too.
• The gold 'occult' robot is male. The silver robot is a female. CONFIRMED.
• The viral looking ship in the middle of the painting is a T4-stellarophage. It infects stars and uses their energy to create replicas of itself which explode out of the chromosphere, leaving a lifeless brown dwarf in their wake.
• The planocotopod has a gold sucker filling. It's ballin'.
• How did that whale get there?! What a crazy place for a whale! He sure looks surprised! CONFIRMED.
• These robots were build by other robots. However, they do not have smaller robots inside them, like many other robot-built robots. They are just automatons, not autoautomatons.

Beverly!

Dr. Lasers Revenge. Acrylic on plaster. Appx. 11 x 8 ft. 2009.

Questions still unanswered (Please discuss in groups of three to five, and be prepared to present your answers to the class):

• Where did the robot constructors come from? Are they planet (planoctopod) bound?
• How do planoctopods reproduce? Can gaseous members reproduce with terrestrial breeds, or have they speciated?
• Do interstellar octopi have any natural predators? Do they do they have an energy source other than stars? Perhaps they are cannabalistic, like some aqueous squid. 
• Is the sun also a octopodian creature? What about the ringed moon? If the sun is octopodian, how does it sustain itself?
• What's all that binary say?
• What does the occultbot do, besides having some outlets, a soundboard, usb plugs and a dot matrix printer?
• Seriously, what is that whale doing there?! What a crazy guy!
• Where is Dr. Laser and how does this constitute his revenge?

Next time on Past Blasters, a heartbreaking tale of hope, loss, domestic terrorists and the fire department.