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Inside the Green Hill General Store, near one of the smaller spaceship landing pads and warehouse areas of Port Aurora. The port is having cold and windy weather, and hearing a mention of it being 'Wintery' outside attracts the attention of some of the local store clerks. They are getting some of the visiting spaceship crews to expand a description of 'seasons'. Most regular 'seasons' are on planet environments.
Port Aurora can look like a small planetoid from some directions, but it is maybe closer to being a Very Large space station, than it is a planet. There is no star nearby to orbit. The sources of light, heat, & weather here have been unusual for a very long time.
(The staffer may also know a bit more about how Earth seasons work than they are revealing.)
Port Aurora can look like a small planetoid from some directions, but it is maybe closer to being a Very Large space station, than it is a planet. There is no star nearby to orbit. The sources of light, heat, & weather here have been unusual for a very long time.
(The staffer may also know a bit more about how Earth seasons work than they are revealing.)
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"Uh, no. They only have the one New Year. Something to do with a historical sequence where a dominant culture imposed it's calendar on the rest of their world's inhabitants. I don't really remember all of it, but it involved several successive nations upgrading the requirements over many centuries."
"And warfare?"
"Trade, warfare, religion. The usual."
The staffer sagely nodded her head and took another sip of her drink while it was still warm.
"And warfare?"
"Trade, warfare, religion. The usual."
The staffer sagely nodded her head and took another sip of her drink while it was still warm.
I got to see stores like this. (Of course, they are in movies, too.) The ones I saw as a child were most often in rural farming areas, often alone at the crossroads of a 2-lane paved road between towns, and a gravel road that would be a used to and from farms. A 'General Store' was really much like an urban 'convenience store', but for a rural area that didn't have a very large population. There was an attempt to have a little bit of everything inside the small store so a farm family could replace something needed in an emergency. Groceries, lanterns, pants. But the only times I saw the stores busy was during lunch time or in the morning or afternoon during at a 'break time' from farm work or travel. Then a few farmers would be in getting a snack or soft drink. AND sitting and GOSSIPING!
This store in the picture also has that 'little bit of everything', but might have more people passing through and hanging out, a bit like a small space-ship truck-stop. There would be workers from the landing field, spaceship crews, warehouse workers, and people living in the neighborhood, who might stop by to shop. And sit and GOSSIP!
This store in the picture also has that 'little bit of everything', but might have more people passing through and hanging out, a bit like a small space-ship truck-stop. There would be workers from the landing field, spaceship crews, warehouse workers, and people living in the neighborhood, who might stop by to shop. And sit and GOSSIP!
I saw a few such places when I was young, and then again when I was travelling, in the 1970s. You had to look for them along the two-line blacktop roads that wound through rural New York or Pennsylvania. They were not quite Sam Drucker's... no pigs named Ziffle came into the store with notes tied to them for a pound of bacon, box of oatmeal and a rubber chew toy (for the pig). No one challenged you to a duel with banjos. The store didn't come to a quiet halt while all eyes swivelled in your direction. No, by that time these small stores were used to the tourists stopping and wanting to look through the boxes of 10 cent magazines under the table, or the 14 brands of tobacco snuff. It probably paid handsomely to look authentically quaint by then.
In Texas there was store much like this one on the way to Lake Diversion from Wichita Falls. It was called Kirks Grocery and was a nice place to spend a cold afternoon. I understand that the building is still there but the name and ownership has changed, as has the atmosphere (something about bluish gasses.)
It has been over 30 years since I've been in the area of these sorts of stores. I'm sure some stores like this may continue to exist, but the influence of 7-11 & Walmart stretches long and wide.
I have caught some glimpses of something similar in some of the larger truck-stops, that will contain the equivalent of a very strange convenience store for truckers... and allow access to us mundane automobile travelers.
I have caught some glimpses of something similar in some of the larger truck-stops, that will contain the equivalent of a very strange convenience store for truckers... and allow access to us mundane automobile travelers.
When I was doing that style of inking, it felt like roller-skating, juggling, and playing an accordion - all at the same time, and very nerve-wracking - even if I sloooowly rolled in the approximately correct direction.
And when I see your 3D characters walking into a comfortable 3D room from a colorful 3D hall-way, wearing color that reinforces all of the information in your inking - I love seeing that, too.
And when I see your 3D characters walking into a comfortable 3D room from a colorful 3D hall-way, wearing color that reinforces all of the information in your inking - I love seeing that, too.
Aw, you are just saying that. I color my stuff mostly because the color distracts the viewer away from how much my drawings suck.
Looks how many characters you have crammed into that room, all interacting and doing different things. If I try something like that I make a big mess, so I end up filling all the space with pipes and mechanisms, to hide how much I suck at perspective.
Looks how many characters you have crammed into that room, all interacting and doing different things. If I try something like that I make a big mess, so I end up filling all the space with pipes and mechanisms, to hide how much I suck at perspective.
perspective is one reason i let the computer do that. then if people want to argue with it they can argue with the computer.
of course there are other tradeoffs. like how much stuff you can get in a scene to make it look real.
that you can do way more of with a pencil or a brush.
of course there are other tradeoffs. like how much stuff you can get in a scene to make it look real.
that you can do way more of with a pencil or a brush.
before a certain planet came to be nearly dominated by a certain culture,
every place had its own little cultures,
which could each call their own new years and other festival days
and many did.
space, if we ever get there, to other worlds with other kinds of people,
far enough apart to be not so completely dominated by each other,
will give us that back.
every place had its own little cultures,
which could each call their own new years and other festival days
and many did.
space, if we ever get there, to other worlds with other kinds of people,
far enough apart to be not so completely dominated by each other,
will give us that back.
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