NTB- EYE MAG
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- lighttocarry
Umm... anyone care to post who wrote that short essay? It's a great piece, but out of context without the authors name....
Thanks.
- jox0
I was thinking the same thing!
- afriend0
I have that issue: the whole point of the text is that you don't know who wrote it.
- Bluejam0
The text appears on the front cover together with a image of some 'explorers' walking away (from the camera). The scene is somewhere cold, artic?
It was probably written by either Steve Heller or Rick Poyner.
- ********0
it doesn't matter.
YOU could have written it, I could have...
it's beautiful!
*sniff*
A must read!!
- lighttocarry0
True. True. All these things are true.
Point being: I didn't write it. Someone did.
Context counts for a lot. Not just so I can go, "Oh, cool, Steven Heller wrote that!"
Rather, even if it's just anonymous, then at least that's the point of reference.
Otherwise I think: It's on the cover, is it a gimmick, is it fiction, is it editorial.
GODAMN IT I WANT TO KNOW!
- ********0
"Otherwise I think: It's on the cover, is it a gimmick, is it fiction, is it editorial.
"yes, but what does the story say to you? what does it tell you? what does it make you think of? ... what does it DO to you?
I think it don't matter at all who wrote it.
even better...
I would NOT want to know..
Contextualizing will wipe out my space for imagination..
thank u.
- lighttocarry0
Why does contextualizing have to wipe out imagination...
Even if it's fiction, a character's (or narrator, in this case) identity helps inform the narrative.
I understand where you are coming from, I just wanted a little more detail to help me place the story.
remember, we are not looking at the actual printed piece, so some of the impact is lost without some history.
Suffice it to say that yes, I liked it, and yes, it makes me think, and yes, it is a convincing and moving piece.
- ********0
ha!
on that note, i just came back from the local bookstore (turn right where the pink cows at, third farm on your left)...where i asked for this. they really did not have a clue but recommended me a new magazine about pattern-knitting, but that was not the design-related mag i was looking for..
anyway, only just now i noticed this was taken from a 2002 (winter ed.) issue...
i am interested as well tho... maybe, just maybe, Folkert might heat up the ol' scanner and do us a favor.... but just maybe...
- nh0
it's ok.
- ********0
that is:
interested in how it was layed out, and only interested for the authors name to look after more of his writings perhaps... not to ruin the story or anything. na meen?