Posts tagged "cover"

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9/11 cover

Sep 11
newyorker: “Ten years ago, my husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, our daughter, and I stood four blocks away from the second tower as we watched it collapse in excruciatingly slow motion. Later, back in my office, I felt that images were suddenly powerless to help us understand what had happened. The only appropriate solution seemed to be to publish no cover image at all—an all-black cover. Then Art suggested adding the outlines of the two towers, black on black. So from no cover came a perfect image, which conveyed something about the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the abrupt tear in the fabric of reality.” - Art Editor Françoise Mouly on “9/11/2001,” the first New Yorker cover following 9/11. Click here for more photos of, and Françoise Mouly’s comments on, other 9/11-related New Yorker covers.

newyorker:

“Ten years ago, my husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, our daughter, and I stood four blocks away from the second tower as we watched it collapse in excruciatingly slow motion. Later, back in my office, I felt that images were suddenly powerless to help us understand what had happened. The only appropriate solution seemed to be to publish no cover image at all—an all-black cover. Then Art suggested adding the outlines of the two towers, black on black. So from no cover came a perfect image, which conveyed something about the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the abrupt tear in the fabric of reality.”

- Art Editor Françoise Mouly on “9/11/2001,” the first New Yorker cover following 9/11.


Click here for more photos of, and Françoise Mouly’s comments on, other 9/11-related New Yorker covers.


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Margaret Atwood Illustration books cover The Handmaid's Tale art love

Jan 29
guardian: Photograph: Anna and Elena Balbusso Striking illustrations from a new edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: As we wait in our double line, the door opens and two more women come in, both in the red dresses and white wings of the Handmaids. One of them is vastly pregnant; her belly, under her loose garment, swells triumphantly. There is a shifting in the room, a murmur, an escape of breath; despite ourselves we turn our heads, blatantly, to see better; our fingers itch to touch her. She’s a magic presence to us, an object of envy and desire, we covet her. She’s a flag on a hilltop, showing us what can still be done: we too can be saved.

guardian:

Photograph: Anna and Elena Balbusso

Striking illustrations from a new edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale:

As we wait in our double line, the door opens and two more women come in, both in the red dresses and white wings of the Handmaids. One of them is vastly pregnant; her belly, under her loose garment, swells triumphantly. There is a shifting in the room, a murmur, an escape of breath; despite ourselves we turn our heads, blatantly, to see better; our fingers itch to touch her. She’s a magic presence to us, an object of envy and desire, we covet her. She’s a flag on a hilltop, showing us what can still be done: we too can be saved.

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cute Dicken Schrader Depeche Mode cover how do people do this?

Jan 31

thedailywhat:

Awesomeness Runs In The Family of the Day: Video artist Dicken Schrader rubs his sensational child-rearing skills in all our faces by enlisting the help of his kickass kids Milah and Korben in covering Depeche Mode’s “Everything Counts.”

[dpaf.]


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2CELLOS cover Michael Jackson music

Feb 15

my-lipgloss-smile:

cormacm:

2CELLOS plays Smooth Criminal, what inspired Glee to do the scene the way they did.

i just love this okay

The cellos were the best part of that Glee version (I saw it on Tumblr)


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Garret Borns Britney Spears cover music

Feb 27

thedailywhat:

After Hours: 20-year-old singer-songwriter Garret Borns’ mellifluous timbre transforms Britney Spears’ otherwise middling bad-boy procedural, “Criminal.”

[thanks molly!]