New World Order

[Letrow]

Well this is nothing like vorticism (or is it?)

No, it isn't
It did strike me as something that could have been used as cover for the Sandman series (which I like, comics that is, all sorts, but I digress). Alas, it was not meant to be, as the series has ended quite a while ago.

Still, if I were editor, I would certainly have considered you

[Wirefox]

I do like this. I don't understand it or the type of mind that can create it (a compliment) but I do like it.

Thanks Peter, that is more than enough for me

I think if I did not teach high School AP Art, I would pass this off to "another twisted and lost mind," but since I do teach high school kids, I instead, use it as an example of pushing one's creativity...pudding for some, mush for others.

I couldn't imagine not pushing creativity. It just does not enter my head. I find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that the majority are satisfied with the humdrum. As for a twisted or lost mind I think that helps but to live a lifetime and never explore your the corners of your mind is like subscribing to the internet but never using it - just in case you see something you don't like. I agree that when you produce images like this you are not going to be a people pleaser but that is hardly the objective.

PS: I suppose you are going to put me on your ignore list now?

Are you kidding? You are at the top of my Christmas present list. It looks perfect in those surroundings The question is how did you travel back to 1956 to get the shot? My grandparents house was very similar to that (the fire place wasn't as posh) but the brasses, the clock and that anaglypta on the walls. And a carpet you can throw up on and not see where you did it. I am going to be cautious here because that looks like one of you photos hanging over the art deco nik nak cabinet

What your image needs, if I may be so bold to venture, is a context that is based more in the ordinary mundane 'reality' of life. On it's own it's striking, but seen in the context of suburban bourgeois blandness, it shines out like a beacon of hope..

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Have you been studying Stanley Spencer by any chance?

And I noticed that the file name is 'Demon'. Given that fact, and the fact that my mother-in-law is a very keen Vorticist I thought I'd ask you for a print so she can hang it on her lounge wall

Careful...they hear everything even when you dont say it

No, it isn't

I know, it was a provocative idiom

comics that is,

Ouch...that is nearly as big a goolie grabber as "eesh". This is a good example of what I have said previously. Most photographers default to recognitive analysis to determine a photographs content. They recognise what it looks like rather than what it is. Look into the blank areas of the image and you will see far more

Still, if I were editor, I would certainly have considered you

Problem being I would not have considered a book cover - I'm a pain like that

[Letrow]

I know, it was a provocative idiom


Ouch...that is nearly as big a goolie grabber as "eesh". This is a good example of what I have said previously. Most photographers default to recognitive analysis to determine a photographs content. They recognise what it looks like rather than what it is. Look into the blank areas of the image and you will see far more




Problem being I would not have considered a book cover - I'm a pain like that

Well, funny thing is that most of these covers I showed were actually not made by comic book authors, but by an artist. Some of them are photographed to get them into two dimensions, originally they were 3 dimensional. I saw one or two on the wall at a place where I bought some litographs. I don't think that the front page had much to do with the content of the book itself.
The problem is that your screen does not show it big enough, so you lose the detail. Ah well...