Whitechapel - REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349227#Comment_349227 2013-02-28T01:42:27-08:00 2013-02-28T03:55:17-08:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223 The REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on Bleedingcool at the end of each ... REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on Bleedingcool at the end of each challenge.

Mad! Russian! Science!

THE RULES:

This is for ART ONLY. Any pen-portraits, or crappy scribbles padded-out with words, will cause a deployment of the Urethral Attack Maggots. And a banned account.

No stock-photo manipulation. No half-arsed bollocks. Anything deemed to be piss-takery will be nuked from orbit. Original photography is fine.

No more than ONE submission by any one person.

INSTRUCTIONS:

BAKTEREV

This one’s about as mental as it gets, but can be summed-up thus:

MAD! RUSSIAN! SCIENCE!

Bakterev is a nutty scientist created by Pavel Perov for his 1925 pulp novel Bratstvo Viia. I quote the ever-magnificent Jess Nevins:

Bakterev is “a collaborator of the Jewish conspirators who have brought about the Bolshevik Revolution” in Russia--


--so we’re already in some pretty dodgy racist paranoid conspiracy territory, which is always fertile ground for R/R horrors—

He is a leader of the Brotherhood of the Vii and has for years been summoning “dead souls” and implanting them into ectoplasm extracted from living humans. The resulting beings are called “mortomats” and are controlled by the Brotherhood’s machines.


There’s more – like how an Irish-American Reporter, a white-cavalry officer and a Cossack servant ultimately bring down the evil Brotherhood in the Baltic Forests after defeating a legion of Mortomat Roman Soldiers – but I think the angle we want here is purer than that: it’s Soviet Political Skulduggery at the hands of Ectoplasmic Soul-Monsters animated by an Insane Bolshevik Scientist. Only on R/R, baby.

Modernise or futurise, my darlings. Hollywood just decided to remake Bratstvo Viia for today’s feckless audience, and you’re part of the concept team.

You have two weeks.

Go.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349229#Comment_349229 2013-02-28T01:52:00-08:00 2013-02-28T01:52:58-08:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 Now Bakterev is just begging for one of my favourite activities - poking fun at conspiracy theorists.... REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349231#Comment_349231 2013-02-28T03:09:28-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 vandalhandle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4586 Feb 17th deadline, so we have to create the mad science to hit the deadline REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349234#Comment_349234 2013-02-28T03:54:55-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223 Oh crap - well spotted. TIME MACHINE: GO. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349239#Comment_349239 2013-02-28T07:01:07-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 For as fun as the Pope R/R was, I was too @#$%^ busy to play. @#$%^ "actual paying" work. I shall endeavor to participate on this one... I shall endeavor to participate on this one...]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349271#Comment_349271 2013-02-28T13:33:23-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 imaginarypeople http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7661 This reminds me of that movie Phantasm for some reason. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349453#Comment_349453 2013-03-03T10:44:36-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 Really wanted to join in on the Pope remake myself, but just had nothing as far as inspiration went. Thought about it for two weeks and got nothing more interesting than Si's description for it - ...
The image for this jumped into my brain halfway through my first scan of the challenge.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349454#Comment_349454 2013-03-03T10:58:32-08:00 2013-03-03T11:18:21-08:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @Berserker. Yes, sometimes it happens - absolutely nothing comes. Other times something pops to mind, and sometimes that happens immediately. That happened with me in the Pope challenge and now it's ... REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349512#Comment_349512 2013-03-04T17:45:54-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 Where is everyone? I've never seen an R&R thread so quiet. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349514#Comment_349514 2013-03-04T18:34:01-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 Shhh! We're thinking... REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349552#Comment_349552 2013-03-05T09:56:20-08:00 2013-03-05T10:32:14-08:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 ]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349557#Comment_349557 2013-03-05T11:07:22-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @Jackcrowder: nice! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349563#Comment_349563 2013-03-05T12:41:19-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 @dnewling; Thank you! It was a lot of fun to tinker about with! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349571#Comment_349571 2013-03-05T13:48:59-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 That's a beauty! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349612#Comment_349612 2013-03-06T06:36:35-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 @curb; I wanted to make the figures static but the environment liquid. I think I accomplished that without it looking odd. Which was a big win for me. I can't wait to see it get blasted out of the ... REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349692#Comment_349692 2013-03-07T15:36:32-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 kmcleod http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=191 bakterev]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349695#Comment_349695 2013-03-07T15:51:48-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 johnjones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1052 And now I desperately want to read about the adventures of a Pussy Riot superhero team. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349778#Comment_349778 2013-03-09T14:41:12-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Andre Navarro http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1561 I am so sorry. Upon reading the description this appeared into my head, then I started drawing it and somehow it got worse, and I just had to exorcise it. I still wanted to tweak the colors a ... worse, and I just had to exorcise it.



I still wanted to tweak the colors a bit but I was doing this on Adobe Flash, which is acting extremely unstable for some reason and threatening to corrupt the entire file (I barely managed to export this image, and it still came out harmed, as visible in larger versions, if you look at the knife glint and the eye.)]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349781#Comment_349781 2013-03-09T16:03:38-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @Andre Navarro: never mind, it still looks impressive. Hope you get your Adobe sorted out. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349783#Comment_349783 2013-03-09T16:47:16-08:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Clone Artist http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6712 Ha! It liiiives! I totally missed R/R was back. Here's my contribution :) Sadly i'm a bit busy so no coloring this time. Sadly i'm a bit busy so no coloring this time.

]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349794#Comment_349794 2013-03-10T07:58:57-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 kmcleod http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=191 @Clone Artist--Excellent! Rube Goldberg lives! @Andre Navarro--Definitely no need to apologize. And the glasses are great. @Andre Navarro--Definitely no need to apologize. And the glasses are great.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349809#Comment_349809 2013-03-10T20:15:01-07:00 2013-03-11T18:16:45-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 My brain kind of stopped at: Ectoplasmic/Russian/Science/Movie... (UPDATED: Now with more Ghostbusters feel) Thanks for Magnulus for the photo reference!

Thanks for Magnulus for the photo reference!]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349811#Comment_349811 2013-03-10T20:45:54-07:00 2013-03-10T22:55:21-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @Paul Sizer: Glad you could make it to R&R this time. By the way, how did you do that orangey spotted finish in the background? REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349833#Comment_349833 2013-03-11T11:07:08-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 Hey, that's Magnulus! Nice work, combining a R/R assignment with a Draw Each Other - way to kill two pieces in one swing, Paul. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349836#Comment_349836 2013-03-11T13:49:48-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 @kmcleod; I really like how it truthfully updated the premise. I would actually like to read about a science injected protest unit. @Andre Navarro; That tagline kills. I like how every bit of his ...
@Andre Navarro; That tagline kills. I like how every bit of his design makes him a proper threat. It isn't dependent on the dead but the dead is a byproduct.

@Clone Artist; What a direction to go! Only a pinch of silly.

@Paul Sizer; I have to admit, I did flinch a little when I caught this was part of the Ghostbusters franchise. I'm just a tad lost why there isn't any element of the franchise within the poster. It is a very fun depiction of Magnulus though.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349839#Comment_349839 2013-03-11T15:18:50-07:00 2013-03-11T18:13:06-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 @Paul Sizer; I have to admit, I did flinch a little when I caught this was part of the Ghostbusters franchise. I'm just a tad lost why there isn't any element of the franchise within the poster. It ... @Paul Sizer; I have to admit, I did flinch a little when I caught this was part of the Ghostbusters franchise. I'm just a tad lost why there isn't any element of the franchise within the poster. It is a very fun depiction of Magnulus though.

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, WE DON'T NEED CAPITALIST GHOST PEEKING OUT OF CIRCLE WITH LINE TO SELL OUR MOVIES!

Actually Ivan, we do, so I edited it and did some small tweaks!]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349841#Comment_349841 2013-03-11T15:35:04-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @ Clone Artist: "Ecotplasm"? REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349845#Comment_349845 2013-03-11T18:16:10-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 By the way, how did you do that orangey spotted finish in the background? The dot pattern is a halftone of Magnulus' face that I just put in the background. I took his color face, converted it to ... By the way, how did you do that orangey spotted finish in the background?
The dot pattern is a halftone of Magnulus' face that I just put in the background. I took his color face, converted it to greyscale, then to a bitmap, using a halftone screen conversion, then changed it back to RGB and filled it with orange. All clear as mud? : )]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349873#Comment_349873 2013-03-12T09:01:00-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Clone Artist http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6712 @dnewling AAARGH! How did i miss that? @jackcrowder silly is my middle name :)
@jackcrowder silly is my middle name :)]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349880#Comment_349880 2013-03-12T12:13:27-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @ clone artist: oh well, they were Russians. They're bound to make a few mistakes with English. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349881#Comment_349881 2013-03-12T12:28:10-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 imaginarypeople http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7661 @clone artist- yours totally looks like a sergio aragones cartoon. I love it REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349894#Comment_349894 2013-03-12T16:09:46-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Clone Artist http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6712 @ dnewling: This is what happens when you ink late at night. I was so tired that I noticed mistake next morning. Then again, "Ecotplasam" does have some nice ring to it. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349898#Comment_349898 2013-03-12T22:10:11-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 Bakterev photo Bakterevjpg_zpsab7c5d52.jpg]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349899#Comment_349899 2013-03-13T03:38:15-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 kmcleod http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=191 Cool recipe and book cover. "1 fresh date for the Rapture"--are you talking about the fruit? "1 fresh date for the Rapture"--are you talking about the fruit?]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349903#Comment_349903 2013-03-13T08:58:28-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 @kmcleod; I hope he is. I love that detail. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349907#Comment_349907 2013-03-13T11:27:59-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Kosmograd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9722 ]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349911#Comment_349911 2013-03-13T12:09:59-07:00 2013-03-13T17:39:54-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @kmcleod: thanks for the feedback. "1 fresh date" is a pun - the fruit and calendar versions. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349929#Comment_349929 2013-03-13T17:55:59-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 VERY nice, Kosmograd! Me like! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349935#Comment_349935 2013-03-14T03:29:49-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 kmcleod http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=191 @dnewling--My first thought was of a female companion to take along. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349974#Comment_349974 2013-03-14T12:10:54-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @kmcleod: we can have a lot of fun with "1 fresh date". REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349985#Comment_349985 2013-03-14T14:57:57-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 @Kosmograd; Wonderful design. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=349991#Comment_349991 2013-03-14T19:18:08-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Andre Navarro http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1561 @dnewling, @kmcleod, @jackcrowder - Thank you! I love how Sizer used the hammer and sickle symbol on the Ghostbusters logo (as usual from Sizer, great design in general). And Kosmograd, that is ...
I love how Sizer used the hammer and sickle symbol on the Ghostbusters logo (as usual from Sizer, great design in general). And Kosmograd, that is gorgeous.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350019#Comment_350019 2013-03-15T12:39:09-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 Heading towards closing time soon. I wonder what else will turn up? REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350030#Comment_350030 2013-03-15T15:40:40-07:00 2013-03-15T16:22:23-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 Got this about as far as it wanted to go. I probably should have stopped at the pencils. And maybe thrown in something, I dunno, Soviet-ish? Anyway... Also, it occurs to me far too late that ...
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Also, it occurs to me far too late that all I've done is put hair on Rasputin from Mignola's Hellboy. I don't know why, but it's been forever since I've done a R/R that I wasn't terribly disappointed in - the idea is there, but my execution of the idea always feels horribly flat and unappealing to me.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350031#Comment_350031 2013-03-15T16:00:03-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 @Berserker; I don't think you've failed at any juncture in this. It speaks the concept. As far as story boarding, there's a lot of vital successes across it. I really love how you worked in the ... REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350035#Comment_350035 2013-03-15T16:21:20-07:00 2013-03-15T16:24:17-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 @jackcrowder: Thanks very much. It does certainly paint the picture, I won't argue that. If it has any REAL flaw, it's just that it's not nearly as dynamic as it could have been - I can see how I ...
It does certainly paint the picture, I won't argue that. If it has any REAL flaw, it's just that it's not nearly as dynamic as it could have been - I can see how I could have made it more iconic, AND saved myself a LOT of work/anguish as far as all that detail goes while still conveying as much idea as this does.

Honestly I think I'm just soured on it because I'm still too close to it.

Everyone is doing great stuff, by the way. Hoping to see a lot more submissions from my fellow Whitechapel folk pour in tonight and tomorrow.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350054#Comment_350054 2013-03-15T22:59:57-07:00 2013-03-15T23:15:58-07:00 allistermac http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10664 My effort, in the style of Soviet Propaganda posters from the nineteenth century.

My effort, in the style of Soviet Propaganda posters from the nineteenth century.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350060#Comment_350060 2013-03-16T01:29:46-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @Berserker: if Rasputin (or Ivan the Terrible?) came back in the future, he could well be looking like that. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350064#Comment_350064 2013-03-16T05:02:38-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Kosmograd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9722 "Hasn't the time come for pure intellect to leave its cocoon, the heavy ignorant human mass that stops it from realising its ideal being?" The character Bakterev in Pavel Perov's Brastvo ...
The character Bakterev in Pavel Perov's Brastvo Viia (The Brotherhood of Viy) is a thinly disguised caricature of Vladimir Bekhterev, the renown Russian neurologist and father of objective psychology, working at the same time and in the same field as Ivan Pavlov, with whom he had an intense rivalry on the subject of conditioned reflexes.

Bekhterev was also something of a mystic, with a belief in psychic energy and telepathy, even after the revolution he was exploring the idea of collective hallucinations and community wide mutual suggestion.

Perov's anti-semitic novel published in Berlin in 1925 hams Bekhterev up into the mad-scientist Bakterev, as a collaborator with the Jews who brought about the Bolshevik Revolution (a common idea, one that was taken and run with by the National Socialists in Germany, though in fact only about 7% of the Bolshevik party were Jewish, including Trotsky amongst others). At the end of the book, Bakterev rebels and shouts at this Jewish conspirators: " What I had to do in the name of science, you do in the name of power". His laboratory explodes and humanity is saved.

There's lots more great stuff about some of Bekhterev's more out there ideas in the book The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture.

For my interpretation I characterised Bakterev as a hero of the October revolution, harnessing the power of the atom to reanimate human souls and place them into half-human half-robot-spiders mortomats. Then it's a case of adding a mix of Soviet and Constructivist imagery, including Vostok rockets and a land-hover Battleship Potemkin. All great fun.

Some great work here everyone.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350107#Comment_350107 2013-03-16T20:40:25-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Herr Hussein http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9149 ]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350108#Comment_350108 2013-03-16T22:23:07-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 Nice finish line entries, all! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350119#Comment_350119 2013-03-17T09:50:26-07:00 2013-03-17T09:56:57-07:00 Clarkthehomonculus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4700 Sorry for the quality, no scanner so I had to rely on my camera. When I think of Russian tech, my guitarist brain screams TUUUUBES!!!! Also: I HAD to go with the Rasputin-ish beard. My girlfriend ...
Sorry for the quality, no scanner so I had to rely on my camera. When I think of Russian tech, my guitarist brain screams TUUUUBES!!!! Also: I HAD to go with the Rasputin-ish beard. My girlfriend says it has a Dr.Wily/Robotnik vibe.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350124#Comment_350124 2013-03-17T11:36:29-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 JamesFickbohm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10953 new guy here, I know I used the clone tool too much when my wife commented "Why do all those guys look alike"... to which I replied "Er... cause they're clones see?" This was a ...

new guy here, I know I used the clone tool too much when my wife commented "Why do all those guys look alike"... to which I replied "Er... cause they're clones see?"

This was a brutal piece to do on a limited time frame and I'm still not quite happy with it. If I had more time I'd finish the tubing (for now, just use the power of imagination) that was supposed to link the soul tanks and the mortomat gestation tanks, and possibly add more unique elements to the "guys" as my wife calls them.]]> REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350130#Comment_350130 2013-03-17T13:14:34-07:00 2013-03-17T13:17:43-07:00 dnewling http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10558 @James Fickbohm: never mind, it still looks great. Welcome aboard! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350132#Comment_350132 2013-03-17T13:43:33-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 jackcrowder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6537 Love all that came in at the end! REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350136#Comment_350136 2013-03-17T16:24:45-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 @jamesFickbohm - Not to worry; I think you win for your tag-line alone. REMAKE/REMODEL: BAKTEREV (Closes Sunday 17th March) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11001&Focus=350154#Comment_350154 2013-03-18T02:27:15-07:00 2013-05-18T08:28:36-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223 Aaaand we're out. Great work, folks. -S
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