Wednesday, January 17, 2018–Day 17: In 2007, I thought I’d do a variation of ‘riding the rail’, an American frontier tradition that essentially involves forcing a victim to straddle a fence rail and be carried through to town with much verbal abuse and sometimes tar and feathers. (A story attributed to Abraham Lincoln has him quoting a victim of being ridden out of town on a rail and saying, "If it weren't for the honor of the thing, I'd just as soon it happened to someone else.") Attached is an illustrated example of the technique from Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn".
I thought this technique could be adapted to a Roman environment and would involve the delivery a pretty nude victim (or victims) to a grim fate on a cross in the arena. My attempt to do this, however, turned into a bit of a disaster. I did a test rendering of the scene but when I went to edit it further, my computer froze up and I had to shut the computer down and, since I had not saved the file, the working daz file was lost. I did have the test rendering, but it needed a ton of post production work to get anything even half way presentable. Attached it the result of that effort which I finished up yesterday. Far from perfect, but at least I was able to salvage something from the unpleasant experience. I call it Railrider.