niche and cute

Sooo cuuute.....i love the pose you gave her....looks so proud...

Interesting,an E-3 Sentry,nice choice
i like it
nice job!

Song about a stalker...and a beautiful artwork!

Was that not what it was about?

Actually, no. The artist even said it was meant as a rip of how much surveillance the government has on its own citizens.

Yes, it sounds like a cop-out, but hey, if the artist says that's what it means...

Nope. The writer confirmed it's a song about a stalker.

Here's Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every.....nd_songwriting
Here's a link to the interview with Sting that Wikipedia cites:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-.....e-2320343.html

Also, it was written in 1983, which is before Britain went down the path of massive public surveillance.

Oh that's kinda brilliant, seeing what kind of plane that is. Still beautiful and thought provoking as always!

Yeah I heard that one for the first time just a couple days ago and it made me uncomfortable.

Looking it up the writer didn't intend it to be anything positive and was a means to work out his demons with an affair he had but for some reason everyone saw it differently.

Strange situation.

Pretty sure the creep factor is the text.

The skeeze-free version of the concept is Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing."

AWACS is not watching you... Unless you can fly.

or you have something with a radio transceiver

looks at phone

which definitely does not apply to me

That's not. AWACS

I was of the understanding that these things were built with quite snazzy radio receivers on them

I am also under no illusion that a government, especially one as megalithic as that ruling the middle chunk of North America, would pass up the opportunity to do some "passive sensing"

I'm sure they say they don't. I don't believe them.

I was (back in the day) one of “them“ and I can tell you that surveillance of what you listen to who you talk to and who seeks you out, is not the purview of the government it’s big business. The ones you want to fear, but no one does is big business the ones everyone gives all their information to so willingly. It’s ironic and painfully true. You’re just listening to too much Hollywood.

Unless you end up being somewhere where police or fed is. Stingray's are a thing specifically for snooping/spoofing cellular radio bands.

Yeah but you're one of them man, you just admitted it! *paranoid*

dun dun DUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN

Oh noes...

Yep, but I used it as a general symbol of surveillance in this picture. A lot of contemporary concepts like that are hard to represent with simple visual elements so one has to take some artistic license. The AWACS is very well know as a "spy plane" so I thought it conveyed the concept well enough.

Interesting, never thought of an AWACS as a spy-plane per se but I see how it could be considered as such though its not really its function. Excellent picture btw!

Sting even admits the song is about a stalker on some interview somewhere.
Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think it is a positive song. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy that follows.

Cute lady goat and I love the use of empty space here. Makes me wonder if she missed her flight.

According to Sting he wrote it to be about a creepy stalker, and he finds it really amusing when people play it at their weddings. Unfortunately I have no sources for this beyond some interview I heard on the radio ages ago, so take it for what it's worth. :D

Edit: I see someone posted a link already. I am dumb.

Yes, and he wrote another ballad song so people could use it at their weddings instead of EBYT, but people still use it to these days.

Oh? Which one was that?

I can't recall if is King of pain or other song.

I'll give it a listen. Thanks!

Very nice.

I, for one, find knowing that such a thing is flying over me to be rather reassuring... Sure it would have been best if it was not needed around these parts, but sadly, it is.

About the song, no wonder people find it romantic when the way it is performed is nice, gentle, and feels completely positive, unless you start analysing the lyrics.

Very fine chamois here, they're rare in art and I'm happy every time I see one.

Just don't forget that a number of different countries have AWACS-like planes... as I wrote above anyway it's more of a generic symbol for surveillance here.

The lyrics definitely have a stalky, sinister undertone to them. A metal remake would seal the deal.

Always struck me that way.

Puff Daddy's I'll be missing you is much better <3 love the art!

Isn't that the way with most 80s songs? o.O

simply beautiful...

Vix

I live near and airbase and everytime one of these fuckers takes off (AWACS not an E3 specifically) my wifi cuts out, makes me want to stand outside staring at them naked too!

Do it, I double-dare you.

And when you get arrested you can tell them a fox on the internet told you to. What could possibly go wrong?

btw just in case, don't actually do this!

It's my backyard and I'll be naked in it if I want to!

Hey knock yourself out! Just don't distract the pilot with those long legs of yours ;)

Glad to see you are doodling again <3

Every move you make.

You beat me to it by a year.

Amazingness <3