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My Baby Shot Me Down Design
Published: 2008-07-12 07:21:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 20358; Favourites: 414; Downloads: 0
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Tooled and Colored Leather2007
A good view of the carving on the "My Baby Shot Me Down Wallet".
A note to everyone, because I know I wasn't too clear on this: I had a previous account with DA where I called myself The Nail Boy. I had posted many things and was active for a long time. I fell off of DA for awhile and when I came back I did not feel like a "Boy" anymore. I had grown and developed as an artist and a person and felt that I needed to redefine myself to reflect this. I could not change my name and web address with DA, so I created another account. I did mean to put it out there that The Nail Boy and El Vaquero Muerto are the same artist. So for all of you that thought I got all my art from The Nail Boy, you are half-right: he was me before and everything I am today and all my skills come from him. Hope that clears it all up.
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Why thank you.
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ExtraΓ±amente, siniestro pero cautivador: Me fascina
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Gracias. Es mi experiencia de amor: La manera que somos mΓ‘s probables
de seΓ±alar nuestros fusiles en las personas que adoramos el mΓ‘s estimado.
(ps - my Spanish is not very good so I used a computer translation program
to get the above text. As far as I can tell, it says what I want it to, but if
it is somehow weird or a little off, that is why)
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I'm sorry ^^'
I'll say it... it's a bit strange... but really, thanks for the answer!!!!
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I thought it probably would be. You're, uh, welcome and stuff.
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Ok... thanks... I guess...
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I've gotten that a lot and consider it a compliment.
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yeah...it's a day of the dead/hollywood movie thing?
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I don't quite understand, but I've been drinking so it could be me.
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well i read the comments and u told someone that it was inspired by an old movie u saw....and the faces of the skulls remind me of the skulls u see during the day of the dead.....
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I am very influenced by El Dia De Los Muertos indeed. However, the movie was "Kill Bill" and its influence was that it contained the song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Nancy Sinatra, which was the perfect song for this piece.
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yeah i totally get it....i'm listening to it now and im visualizing a similar image....it's a pretty cool song!
your sn is The Dead Cowboy?
cool!
and oh yeah....kill bill's the shit! have'nt seen Vol. 2 yet....
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I love how haunting and lonesome and calmly filled with feeling it is. It's almost like a children's rhyme filled with horrible emotional agony. See Vol. 2. It is awesome. Yes, I is the Dead Cowboy. I have been killed a hundred times and eaten by the desert sands. But always I return.
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i could'nt believe she survived a direct shotgun blast....that was nuts
and i know she was pissed @ that chick, but i did'nt get y she had to cut her arms AND legs off...
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She got shot with rock salt. He wanted to bury her alive to give her a chance. That's why he said he buried her "with a tit full of rock salt". And dismemberment is always a much stronger statement than "I hate you".
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oooohhh....i did'nt know that!! it looked real to me!
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Omg! I had to click on this due to the title I love that song, and I am willing to bet you referenced the Rosemary Clooney version(I'm not positive that it is her who did it) And not the Cher version which got me into the song in the first place, but then I actually saw the work and was flabbergasted! I normally don't like this style, but it is really cool!
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Why thank you. I actually referenced the Nancy Sinatra song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". It is a fantastic song and I love it so. Thanks for the encouragement! Glad you like it.
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I knew it was either Rosemary Clooney or Nancy Sinatra, I just couldn't remember which...
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I am horrible with names and really am lucky I remembered.
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Ok! I feel better then!
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i love this! i would put it on my wallet... but i dont have one :3 im a dig in the pocket kind of person. if my sister saw it im sure she would you want it too 
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thats awsome- theres a bit of mixture of western and 50's style.. its intreguing, i like it
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I love western, rockabilly and the desert. It all comes together to create my particular brand of odd.
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Love the details around the border and on his coat's mantle. And skeleton cleavage? I won't complain I guess, heh.
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Ah, a fellow lover of skeleton cleavage! Welcome! Thank you. I really do love to get involved in my work.
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Female skeletons don't have... "features"... XD
Anyways, very nice!
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Perhaps not, but Invader Zim (I do love the little Zim so) also does not really exist. That's the great thing about art - it is a personal expression of the world behind your eyelids, the one that only you can see until you put it into existence where everyone else can join you in exploring it. And let me tell you, behind the eyelids of this guy right here there are a lot of skeletons with breasts.
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I know, I was joking. You don't have to make a big deal about it.
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But I like any excuse to expound upon how it is the job of all us artists here on DA and everywhere else to show a different reality. (And I knew you were joking and I'm not mad at all)
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Oh, sorry. You just seem a little serious, is all.
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I have this bad tendency of not using the emoticons so sometimes my flat words
come across the wrong way. Glad it's all cleared up, though! Woo!
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Okay then! ^^
I already said this, but I'll say it again... great pic!
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Why thank you!
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Although it's a completely different setting, this reminds me of a scene from the play, "The Bear."
Anyways, this is awesome! That's some great talent you got there.
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I am not familiar with the play you speak of. Tell me more. And thank you.
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It's by a playwright named Anton Chekhov, and it's about a widow and a man who has come to get his money that her dead husband owed him. She refuses to give him the money that day, but he insists that he needs it now. Anyways, he refuses to leave her house until he gets his money back. They both argue lots... and surprisingly find themselves attracted to each other. Eventually, their argument becomes so heated that they turn on each other with handguns, but are distracted by something else (ahh, my memory is getting foggy about the most important part!). So eventually, they end up revealing to the other that they love them and decide to get married.
So anyways, your design on the wallet reminded me very much of the handgun scene because they both were in love with the other but were about to shoot them.
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That sounds like a fantastic scene and a pretty good view of love.
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Thank you. I do love the song so.
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God, I love that cape. No critique to offer.
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