Commentary &Daily post 09 Sep 2006 08:37 am
New Yorker II
– I’m pleased that John Mavroudis (who, with Owen Smith, created the New Yorker‘s 9/11 cover) left a comment on my site detailing the development of his image. I’m also pleased that he didn’t seem offended that I questioned his originality in the creation. It’s obvious from his work that the idea was his, and I was wrong to have challenged him.
Mr. Mavroudis also left information about his site which goes into the development process in greater depth and offers other variations on the theme. It gives a good presentation of what goes into one of the magazine’s covers.
Also, take a look around at his other illustrations; he’s a fine artist with a lot of excellent work on display at the site.
- Speaking of originals, Michael Barrier reviews Monster House and A Scanner Darkly. He always has astute, intelligent and interesting things to say, and his review of these two films is no exception. Conjoining these two films in the one review is particularly apt since one was “scanned” via some rotoscoping/computer technique and the other used a motion-capture/computer technique.
- AWN has a good interview with NY Independent, Patrick Smith. Worth a look.
By the way, isn’t AWN able to put these articles on one page so we don’t have to keep clicking forward? This is something that many papers like doing, and I’ve never quite understood it. At least, with the NYTimes you can request have it all on a single page. The only way to do that with AWN is to click on the printable version, but that is missing any illustrations. (Just a pet peeve. Sorry I bothered you with it.)
- I’ve just been asked to be involved in a retrospective of my work at the Seattle Children’s Film Festival. A nice way to start the day. Of course, I’ve said yes. At the moment, I can’t believe the Ottawa Festival is bearing down on me. My schedule is getting intense, and all my attention is really only with my Claude cat at home.
(The images enlarge when you click them.)
