What would you like Roger Dean to build for you?

[BrianD]

Roger Dean is keen to have one of his many architectural designs built. If you had the opportunity to have Roger have one of his designs built for you, what would it be?

[Earl Grey]

A really nice paperweight.

And a summer-house in Moab Utah.

I don't ask for much...

[Sticks]

a tree house

[Earl Grey]

A really cool toothpick...

[Dr Yes]

Unoriginal I know, but I always loved Roger's house that he exhibited in the 1970s. It was kind of hobbit-like and all rounded. Could do with that type of thing, more than anythnig else at the moment.

D.

[Faceintheplace]

I'd like the house that's shown in Magnetic Storm. The green one. Or failing that, one of those retreatment pods.

[umgekehrt]

A paper airplane...

[JaneEyre]

a huge tree house in the woods in my back yard

[BrianD]

There are some great answers there.

I would love Roger to design and build a holiday home perched on one of his floating rocks on a clifftop above the ocean.


This question is actually based upon a real dream that Roger has - so if any of you seriously want to build something substantial (am not sure that a tree house would count!) then he might be interested....

[brotherofmine]

There are some great answers there.

I would love Roger to design and build a holiday home perched on one of his floating rocks on a clifftop above the ocean.


This question is actually based upon a real dream that Roger has - so if any of you seriously want to build something substantial (am not sure that a tree house would count!) then he might be interested....
A bit Close To The Edge you mean Brian?

[BrianD]

Absolutely - with one of those floating stone staircases over the ocean to reach it! You would just have to be careful where you put your feet after returning home with a few too many on board. Puttng out the garbage might be a challenge as well.

[custom55]

I've promoted Roger's work at a snowboard co. where I know a few people. They love his work but I'm sure that the $$$ for designing a top / bottom sheet for a board would be too high.

[Khatru Dave]

I would like Roger to design me a house on the east shore of my favorite lake...Lake Almanor..


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[Ridvan]

My wife and I have always dreamed of having a Dean designed bed & breakfast in Northern California. But unless we hit the Lotto, we have about seven more years till we can afford to leave our day jobs and build anything.

[Andersonic]

I want to live in Willowater so he can build me the whole concept...or doesn't that fit in the budget Brian? That way we all could live there...close to the edge view...floating islands...strange birds in the sky...I wish I could dream this...

http://www.rogerdean.com/architecture/willowater.htm

But a Roger Dean toothpick is ok too I guess, now I wonder how that would look like...good one Earl!!

[yessongs72]

He could just pay off my home that would be fine with me.

[Earl Grey]

A moorglade glider with an infinite horizon.

That would do right about now!

:ele: drunk, not republican.

[mattquarterstein]

Could he build a Topographic Ocean?

[Squire*Fan725]

And if so, he could build one of those cozy looking Hobbit Houses alongside it!

[heartofthesunrise]

Hobbit houses. yeah, I love those. I could definitely go for one of those, but to keep me happy, I'd love one of his doors. The ones I've seen have a very art noveau feel to it. That, and I remember seeing a window done in a Y pattern, so it'd be natural to have one of those, seeing as it's my initial, and it also stands for Yes (duh).

[YesBassist]

I would like for him to design a new pool for me along with water fall something that would make hugh hefner think damn why didnt i think of that?

[Jackaranda]

A Spaceship.

[Dances w/PURPLE]

Great thread BrianD. YES! A house. Oh Roger please design my house. Have mercy on this YESFAN who has been flooded three times on my Gulf coast waters and survived hurricanes and water. My dream. Roger's Cottage-on-the-Pond. Oh to have a house like that. I can dream.

[JJGeers]

A Zoo.

[Earl Grey]

Jasper...

I just talked with Roger a few hours ago...

I brought my TALES LP to the San Fran Exhibit.

There was a sign on the wall that said, 'NO AUTOGRAPHS!'

So I sadly shuffled TALES back under my arm, and thrilled to the original painting of RELAYER (A lot of 'pencil' work in it! The horses and riders... Dean spent some time on those! All in sharp pencil contrast to the salmon wash he used in other areas of the painting... Wonder IS! Just amazing to stand there falling into RELAYER. I live in that world!).

Red Dragon: The original is so detailed, again... it's a huge painting, around 5' by 7. More a 'mural' than you'd imagine...

Which leads me to the cover of ABWH... It is a HUGE painting! I stood there dwarfed by the thing... The feathered blue tower with stylized peace signs in every nook... The eagle coming down as an image of the artist himself. Taking hold of this expression in the talons which render life as well as lifting something from the ground, only to drop it from on high.

Roger was candid and amicable. And I was at home in that roomful of YESHEADS!

You would have loved it Jasper! I thought of you.

As I walked out, Dean recognised me from Hawaii, and asked me, "Would you like me to sign your TALES Record?' And he did.

What a guy! Roger Dean, the true 6th member of YES.

EG:yesbird:

[JJGeers]

Hi Earl!

Glad to hear you had a great time there. Roger is indeed so kind. I send him a painting of me some weeks ago, but was truely embarassed to hear that Roger opened the package with shattered glass! The painting had a few scratches on it, but he thanked me anyway!!

The relayer image is indeed very special. Not only to the people who look at it, but also when you should try to create such thing of your own...

Red Dragon is indeed a strange picture.. Lovely (of course) but why have such a Red Dragon on a green background!??

And then: Blue Desert. Or as we should say, the ABWH cover. I've never seen that painting in reel, but I would like to know one day if the giant blue birdcage is all painted on the canvas, or a seperate drawn thing stuck on top of it. Indeed, huge it is! I tried once to start my own copy, at the same size.. When I learned how big it was I smiled and put my brushes aside! Haha..

Are you getting back one of these days? If so, please say hello to Roger from me, and ask him about that package with shattered glass...

Love,

Jasper.

[pixiedave]

An ultra fat dank home theater in the castle he builds on the island he landscapes!

[Squire*Fan725]

I'd want him to make my back yard resemble my favorite Yes Album cover:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/SquireFan71/Smilies%20and%20Icons/Yes%20Icons/Tales.jpg

[JJGeers]

[FONT=Papyrus][SIZE=3][COLOR=Navy]I'd want him to make my back yard resemble my favorite Yes Album

I'm terribly sorry guys... just had this thing in mind:

Roger on a seated lawnmower in Squirefans' backyard:
It's one o' clock, time for lunch....humtiedumtiedumdum...

:dog:

Again, I'm so sorry, I couldn't help it...

love to you all,

Jasper

[Squire*Fan725]

LMFAO!! I like it, JJ!!

I could be the one who bring him lunch and Lemonade!!

[tardistraveler]

Well Dahni - when he's done with your yard, I want him to build me a house - actually, a "hobbit-hole" - with rooms reminiscent of his home designs in his book Views.

[JJGeers]

Actually when you think of it....

I would have this request to build us a place... Call it a hotel, call it a house, name it whatever you like.. but I'm dreaming of this place where we all can be at the same time, just like your doig your things on this site now...

I've mentioned this before, and I have to admit that I'm pretty addicted to this concept... You know, someone could do the garden, another one light the fireplace, some others could have their Jam sessions.... Tardis and me could have our own basement where we can store our Antique radios! Haha...

Some place that would be huh?

But what name should it have?.... Hmmmm...

Love to you all...

Jasper.

[Earl Grey]

Ah Jasper...

We've mulled over this before. I usually call it our 'Yesfans Commune'.

Brian D named it 'Yestopia'...

We're just waiting for some benevolent person with lots of cash to buy us a Greek Island. Then we'll let Roger 'have at it'.

...I can imagine honeycombed living modules looking out on a turquoise magnesium-high sea, a bit like tardis's 'Hobbit Hole' idea, but done-up like collective artist's lofts, so we can all have our own living spaces, yet share the greater space communally.

I can imagine a great ampitheatre for gatherings and concerts (guess who the house band will be? Haha! Have to talk with Yesmanagement about that one. "If you live here Jon, you'll get everything tax-free!").

The ampitheatre could be shaped like a great Conch Shell.

The greatest thing would be Roger Dean re-creating all of the images from 'Yessongs' on our island.
The great fist-like rock with the girl sitting on top gazing, as mountains fall out of the sky and stand there (We'll have to invent gravity-repellent, for the suspension of falling mountains, floating rocks, etc. No biggie!).

Yestopia.

I like it.
I'm moving there next week. Why wait? Tomorrow!
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oh, bye the way...

The 'Bird Cage' on the ABWH album is actually part of the painting.

The painting itself is more a mural.

It's HUGE.

Perhaps 7 1/2' by 5 1/2 feet... The detail is stunning, and while it's one of Roger's 'busier' paintings (not so 'zen'), it works really well when you are standing in front of it, falling into that window on another world...

There are at least a million-squared stories in that painting. Stunning.

Absolutely stunning.

All the best to you Mi Compadre!

Earlie-G

[Around_About]

I want to live in Willowater so he can build me the whole concept...or doesn't that fit in the budget Brian? That way we all could live there...close to the edge view...floating islands...strange birds in the sky...I wish I could dream this...

http://www.rogerdean.com/architecture/willowater.htm

But a Roger Dean toothpick is ok too I guess, now I wonder how that would look like...good one Earl!!


If he builds it, we will come. ..and dreams can come true
dream the whole world to be willowwater. it can happen!

[Earl Grey]

Hey there AA!

You can design the mandala for the Ampitheatre ceiling (Michealangelo!), as well as the crop circles which will embellish our fields of gold...

Roger actually has said that he's looking to design a community. He's spoken of Australia as a possible place to build... So everything above may not be so far-fetched!

I'm ready to pack and move-in tomorrow!

Earlie-G

[BrianD]

This is not a far fetched idea. Roger wants to build - he is looking for a project in Australia right now - so if anyone knows someone who seriously wants to build something.....

[Around_About]

Hey there AA!

You can design the mandala for the Ampitheatre ceiling (Michealangelo!), as well as the crop circles which will embellish our fields of gold...

Roger actually has said that he's looking to design a community. He's spoken of Australia as a possible place to build... So everything above may not be so far-fetched!

I'm ready to pack and move-in tomorrow!

Earlie-G

I'm with ya EG!
And I don't think its far-fetched in the least. Once Roger has one or two of these off the ground, or ON the ground as the case may be, I've no doubt they will mutiply, EVERYONE will want to live in a Dean designed villiage.
who wouldn't?

i'm ready to go- in my dreams i'm already there!
skip the packing, i'll just grab my paints and brushes

Yestopia indeed..

[Earl Grey]

I seriously want to build something Brian!

I guess I need to pick-up a few more nursing shifts... :ele:

Hey there Buddy! I miss you! What a FANTASTIC week, last week... I'm just regaining my Yes-legs at this point. Experience overload I would say.

Anyhow, we need to aquire a StarTrek transporter, so all we have to do is step in, we're transported to where all of our best friends are.

Amazing days, and I'm so glad you traveled half-way across the globe to be there!

Brother Of Mine.

I miss ya Mate!

EG

[BrianD]

Earl - I've just got my feet on the ground here - physically not metaphorically.

Here is a picture of you that I'll never forget.

And back on topic - a picture from the San Francisco art Exchange where Roger exhibited.

Maybe we should pool our funds for a project?

[Earl Grey]

...Once Roger has one or two of these off the ground, or ON the ground as the case may be, I've no doubt they will mutiply, EVERYONE will want to live in a Dean designed villiage.
who wouldn't?

.

Small hearted people like to live in boxes.
They actually enjoy sharp angles...

I imagine that the world would divide into two groups: Those who like their living habitat to mirror the free-flowing natural order...

And those who enjoy sharp city angles, cramped parameters, and concrete quadrangles.
~~~~~~

*sigh* So it goes. But there is a kernel of 'The Great God Pan' dwelling in every heart, deeply and hidden at times, but there... We are born of the earth, not the fabricated.

I imagine many woold resist at first glance, but would eventually find their Hobbit-Loft in Yestopia!

It's funny... Things are like that anyway, just not quite as obvious.

There are those who love the earth, and those who wish to tame the untameable... It's up to us to be the magic...

We are Yestopia.

With every breath, in our smallest acts of kindness, we ever ascend and create the true world... Life as living architecture.

I Love It!

:yesbird:

[Earl Grey]

Earl - I've just got my feet on the ground here - physically not metaphorically.

Here is a picture of you that I'll never forget.

And back on topic - a picture from the San Francisco art Exchange where Roger exhibited.

Maybe we should pool our funds for a project?

Hahaha! 'The Passion Of The URL'.

Brian, what a lousy Wax Museum the Hollywood Wax Museum is!

The GEM of California. :dog:

It just added to the tackiness that they had 'The Last Supper' rendered in meltable expendable materials... If it had been done tactfully and believably... It wasn't. Oh well.

Wouldn't you just LOVE to go in there after hours, switch the wax dummies so Arnold Shwartzwhatsit was hanging on the cross? Not that he needs more of a Messiah complex, but apropo methinx!

EG

[Sheerah]

But Brian, I don't want Earl to go to Hell!
(As if not posting the pic would have changed the inevitable outcome.)

And in Yestopia, we should drink Australian merlots, as I am doing now.

Thanks Brian! It's lovely!

[Sheerah]

Actually, the guy in the picture of The Last Supper, on the far right, in the lime green shirt, looks very much like TRUEYOUTRUEME!

[Earl Grey]

I think that IS TrueYouTrueMe!

Woah! Impressive. Which Apostle is that exactly?

Hey Sheilers! How ya doing kiddo?! Having fun on Yesfans tonight here, what a thing!

[BrianD]

Earl won't go to hell Sheila - I reckon God is having a good chuckle with that pic already. He/she has a sense of humour I believe. Well at least I would like to think so!

Have a merlot for me too Sheila!

[Earl Grey]

God has a great sense of humor...

She created the Platypus for Gawdsake!

:D

[Sheerah]

Hey Earl!
All is well when we're doing the fun thing here in our own little slice of Yestopia.
No sharp angles here, just squiggley little posts that oddly intertwine at the most unpredictable arcs.

Well Brian, I'll have one for you if you insist.
Better go poor myself another glass!

[Earl Grey]

"Squiggly Little Posts"...

An amazing thing, the internet.

I'm SO glad that Al Gore invented the thing!
One for all, and all for one.

We are.

:yesbird:

Sorry Sheilers! I wanted to say something funny, and I got all philosophical.

The story of my life!

:D

[Silent_wings]

OMG I can't believe Brian posted that picture. :lol:
We do need a Yestopia

[Earl Grey]

Kathy...

I believe you have a few pictures in your camera as well...

Go ahead and post 'em!

Blame it on me if anyone complains!

:ele: drunk... Not really!

[Silent_wings]

I still haven't down loaded them yet
I've been kinda busy :D

[Sheerah]

"Squiggly Little Posts"...

An amazing thing, the internet.

I'm SO glad that Al Gore invented the thing!
One for all, and all for one.

We are.

:yesbird:

Sorry Sheilers! I wanted to say something funny, and I got all philosophical.

The story of my life!

:D

Why do I picture Queen Latifah wagging her finger and moving her neck around in a circle with some serious attitude saying, "Don't make me get all philospohical on yo' azz!"

[JJGeers]

Actually when you think of it..

He could create some childrens play area!!

[Dances w/PURPLE]

A spa area with a sun deck and garden!

[Koko]

Could he build a Topographic Ocean?

You already have one - you just need to look in the appropriate place.

[Koko]

I'd quite like Roger to design the cover of my new release :bncy:

[yeschick]

The huggy comfy bean bag chair that Roger designed years ago...perfect for louging around in listening to my Yes MP3 on shuffle...pure heaven :valintine :funmeter2 :funmeter2 :valintine

[Squire*Fan725]

Roger Dean could design the next Squire's Wine Bar!!!

[Scooty]

Roger Dean could design the next Squire's Wine Bar!!!


Now that could be interesting Dahni!...hmmmmmmmm

[smatt]

I want him to paint a bus for me for the next "Smattical Mystery Tour". Now that would be cool!

:toolcool:

[cactus jon]

I want Roger to design the interior of my (future) dome home. Swirling staircase, arches, stalagmites, and waterfalls.

[cinderella]

I'd be happy if he'd just come and paint something on my livingroom ceiling.

I could lie on the couch and stare at it all day.http://pages.prodigy.net/indianahawkeye/newpage14/10.gif

[Scaramouche]

I would lioke him to design the interior of my house so it looks like one of the lanscapes from Close to the Edge or Tales from Topographic Oceans. I often look at the album artwork and wish I could do the old Mary Popins routine and just jump into them and walk about for a bit. So serene and Beautiful.

I have never predicted anything and I probably never will. Peter Cook.

[Scaramouche]

I would also like him to design my letterheads in yes-esque style writing...I'm just eccentric that way.

Love and Life

Scaramouche xx

[jfuruno]

My BC Rich bass could use a paint job. How cool would that be?

[MoonGateClimber]

I just recently discovered his architectural endevors, & I was about to make a thread about it, but then I found this thread... Anyway, I would love to live in Willowater, or at least one of the houses he designed.
It also says on the Home for Life page that ...he has designed just about everything from chairs to beds, homes, hotels, theme parks, petrol stations, stage sets, album covers even a logo for Virgin (one of many).Where are these hotels, theme parks, & petrol stations that they speak about? I cannot find any pics of these, & I would really like to see them. :D

[Stevehoweworshipu!]

The greatest animation the worlds ever seen.....o. and Willowater!! house

[BrianD]

Just resuurecting this thread with a link to a site that mentions Roger's architectural achievements

http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/stories/2003/04/28/galleryTheClassicRockRealm.html

[pedro skychaser]

thanks brianD--good to see the other practisioners of the golden curve...don't you think the gerkhin in london resembles the blue tower from ABWH cover?...all it needs are a few resident eagles+yesmusic piped in the elevators+i'd change countries+job to work for that swiss bank!!

[Imperatrix]

I'd hire him as my make-up artist.

[relayeire]

a new book - the followup to Magnetic Storm... where the hell is that?

[pedro skychaser]

a new book - the followup to Magnetic Storm... where the hell is that?
+blackOnyx videoGame?+floatingIslands film?+hope he's busy with asia cover+plans for next YES project...

[relayeire]

I hope he does an Asia cover, too... Rodney Matthews is no Roger Dean!

[Yes.2]

It's one of my dreams to have one of those bubble houses he designed.

[Yes.2]

I want Roger to design the interior of my (future) dome home. Swirling staircase, arches, stalagmites, and waterfalls.

I know what you mean dude!!! Diddo!

[tormatotork]

A bar.

[gimsom]

Entire planet.

[Psychedelic Painter]

One of those hobbit-like homes.

[Yes.2]

A bar.

A BAR!!!!!LOL that's a wonderful idea!!!

[Yes.2]

I wonder how much it would cost to get Mr. Dean to do an album cover nowaday???

[pedro skychaser]

I wonder how much it would cost to get Mr. Dean to do an album cover nowaday???


imagine its a sliding scale...not much for glass hammer, quite a lot for YES...

[Yes.2]

imagine its a sliding scale...not much for glass hammer, quite a lot for YES...

What's this "glass hammer"? That's a great band name!

[pedro skychaser]

CHECK OUT YOUTUBE.com for some clips--US PROG BAND -very good, btw 1 of rogers best ever covers,all dark+snowy with fluorescent snow!!

[relayeire]

A bar.


good idea... give me a nice Irish pub, Roger Dean-style... the taps could be designed like something organic - tree branches, coral formations, etc. yeah, I'm liking this...

[relayeire]

CHECK OUT YOUTUBE.com for some clips--US PROG BAND -very good, btw 1 of rogers best ever covers,all dark+snowy with fluorescent snow!!

I was intrigued to find out some time ago about this band, as they had a RD cover I didn't know about... nice colors, but not his best work... for snow, give me White... now there's a cover!

[BillGuitar]

How about a royalty-free, billboard-sized digital file of the original Yes logo, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London?

I guess not.

[Yesguitarman]

I had contacted Roger's web manager several months ago and suggested that Roger partner up with Dragonfly or another high quality apparel manufacturer to release his artwork on aloha style shirts. He replied that Roger had taken the suggestion seriously. Hopefully, we'll see something come of it.

[fovman]

* Two 3-tiered multi-keyboard stands
* A pipe rack......24 capacity