little_tippler

"a new surprising surprise"...heh. I love this crazy alien version of Pooh. No matter what happens, he's always still the same, cute, curious bear.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Giant Hamburger

NO LONGER!

They used the motion detectors to hunt each one down and corner them.
Fire is the only way to cleanse the wood.

KirStang

Are they "COMING FROM THE WALLS!" yet?

Brilliant!

Giant Hamburger

This is what Tiggers do best...

operate a hydraulic exoskeleton.

Baraka_Guru

And with that, GH has just won the Internet.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

This is so beautiful...

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Charlatan

A little tear just fell from my eye.

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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke

Starkizzer

love these

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Frivolity, at the edge of a Moral Swamp, hears Hymn-Singing in the Distance and dons the Galoshes of Remorse. ~Edward Gorey

Giant Hamburger

Who keeps ringing Pooh's bell and leaving?

Xerxys

ohh, awesome!

Plan9

This stuff is a real crowd pleaser.

...

My god... what's next? Pooh vs. Predator?

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Giant Hamburger

Alieneeyore was too shy to devour Pooh uninvited.

"I guess I'll just wait in here if anyone wants to be eaten."

telekinetic

I'm not even slightly joking when I say: I would pay $24.95 for a properly bound coffee-table scale version of the drawings exactly as they appear in this thread, no redoing of artwork needed.

BG, what's the legality of publishing work using other people's IP protected characters in parody?

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twisted no more

The_Jazz

Let me know when this is done, GH, and we'll move it up front so that the world can see. This is too awesome not to share.

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

Giant Hamburger

It should be done like one of those Little Golden Books:

telekinetic

Indeed it should. I would stick it in my daughter's bedtime story rotation post-haste.

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twisted no more

Giant Hamburger

"I guess I'll just wait under here...

if anyone changes their mind."

Baraka_Guru

I'm not that certain about American copyright laws. I would guess that this work could not be sold. There are multiple licensees of Milne's work (e.g. Disney) and one or more might take issue with distributing and selling the characters' likenesses to the full extent within a story and not having the rights. It might be all right to give it away, but even then a cease and desist from Disney wouldn't surprise me.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

Fine, we'll just send them a facehugger or two and take care of that problem.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Giant Hamburger

The only question is WHICH franchise would sue me first.

Baraka_Guru

Well, U.S.-based Parragon Publishing licenses the rights from Disney for various activity books. Dutton is an imprint under Penguin, which does the "classics" you're basing your work on. I imagine the former would be slighted if you didn't have rights to publish, but I imagine the latter would be more likely to take action.

Disney, on the other hand, gets my vote as the first to sue you if it were to happen. I've heard of them doing stuff like that and, after all, they are the actual holder of the copyright.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

Cast aside these worries. You must focus on the marvelous story. You've got us by the balls and/or ovaries here.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Giant Hamburger

Oh dear, something seems to have landed on Pooh.

Martian

Wouldn't it be protected as parody, though?

Then again, that might not stop Disney from suing anyway. Long legal battles are never fun.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

Giant Hamburger

Redlemon

My son got a blank Little Golden Book. I think it came along with a pack of 5 other regular LGBs, shrinkwrapped. Of course, it would be too short to fit all of these images, not to mention their awesomeness.

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I can't read your signature. Sorry.

Giant Hamburger

That's cool Redlemon, maybe I should pick that up and make my kids a story.
I tend to hide these pictures from them.
I have qualities that must be kept from my children until they are older.

How many pages does it have?
Is the cover blank?

Oh yeah...now hold still Pooh!

Redlemon

The cover is blank, with that gold strip on the edge. I'm not sure where it is, but I just looked up:


and it seems that they are 24 pages. Ah, some other links:

Blank Little Golden Book! - $8.00 : Schultz's, LLC, Golden Books and coin supply
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Totally-blank-...#ht_500wt_1182

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I can't read your signature. Sorry.

Giant Hamburger

Thank you for providing links!
You have an attention to detail that I have always appreciated.

Charlatan

Pigglet! Nooooooooooooooo

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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke

Giant Hamburger

Charalatan, my dear sweet flickr contact, it will be ok...

Jetée

Pooh's really accumulating too many new orifices, in a variety of new, alarming ways.

I'm not sure if I, personally, have said it as of yet, and I'm not going to be as descriptive as stating that you should be my new life-partner soon, as others have intimated before me, but nevertheless; Thank you.

I love when an endeavor becomes something bigger than whence it began, and becomes a story unto itself.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Giant Hamburger

Thank you for thanking me Master Jetée.


"I wish for a new face."

Lady Bear Cub

LOL I love this whole thread. What makes it so great is that you really know your pooh bear.

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"I give myself very good advice,
But I very seldom follow it,
Will I ever learn to do the things I should?"

cellophanedeity

*bows down to the mighty pattied one*

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who am I to refuse the universe?
-Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

Toaster126

This is amazing, and makes me insanely jealous I can't draw worth shit.

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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)

Giant Hamburger

Toaster, your lines are out there on the paper waiting for you to find them.

Plan9

*GASP*

"Jim Hopper. I knew these men. Green Berets out of Fort Bragg."

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Giant Hamburger

I do believe the tea party is over here...

Plan9

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."