Jeroen van Bergeijk profiled me for the Dutch magazine Vpro Gids. The magazine asked me to do the cover illustration (on the subject of blogging) for the issue. Here's what I came up with.
I don't think the article is online. (Decent English translation here.)
"Good grief do that many people die each year from tu..."
"This technique only works because the audience ex..."
" anyone catch the motorolla football commercial usin..."
"N2O was the major reason why I always paid my dentis..."
"Threads like this always remind me of one of my favo..."
"My dentist uses it. He'll turn it on for a bit befo..."
"They were talking about Obama's cabinet appointments..."
"@#93 Nope. I still don't get it. Gravity is acting ..."
"yiftach, here's a question for you. Is there anythi..."
"If doubt (or simple lively query) is the cardinal vi..."
"It reminds me very much of looking at ViewMaster (st..."
"suicide ducky..."
"OK, I just have to way in here. I personally love gr..."
"ididntdoit..."
"The Echthroi are beginning the Un-Naming... Quick, k..."
"Just when I was starting to get bored senseless with..."
"#23: ACB: South Africa was similar. No electrical ou..."
"#43: kudos on the Blackbolt reference. It must be g..."
"Hey, Henry VII had seven legitimate children and Hen..."
"I mentioned this in a previous post, but you can get..."
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Nice art. Abstract enough and well balanced. What is the inspiration? It has a 60's feel to it.
I'm not usually keen on this style, but this is really, really good.
It has more of a 50s feel to me (think tiki barkcloth) than 60s. But it does ring 60s, I guess because the freedom of the shapes is a little too wild for the 50s. It's a 00s reworking of a 60s Jetsons reworking of the 50s original. The background fade is modern, though, and overall it's clearly modern, not 50s or 60s, because it's drawing from too broad a range of ideas than either of those -- something that usually turns me off of this semi-retro style; but this one hits the mark. Nicely done, sir.
This makes me want to draw ... a conclusion: Something about how of course it's a man who does such delightful figurative cartoons who also, naturally, creates an abstraction this lovely. WTG!
I love how it has a slight retro feel to it.
Really cool - love it
Just registered to say this: there is a transcript of the interview online here:
http://www.vanbergeijk.com/2008/01/29/welcome-boingboing-readers/#more-81
I guess Jeroen is working on an English translation?
Illustrates well the organic, inter-connective nature of blogs.
As each 'icon' is unique on to itself so the groupings become one, not disemilar entity.
Some connect to others, some simply dead-end.
Just like in real life!
Nice work Mark.
As the poor art critic said,"I don't have the Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh..."
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I'm a subscriber of VPRO Gids!
But I'm sorry to say I threw this one out with the trash...
Wait... wasn't this done by an elephant?
(sry Mark, couldn't resist ;)
I translated the interview, it's up at http://www.snowstone.com/archives/000446.html.
Nice piece, Mark. That'd make an awesome fabric print. I want pillows with that on it!
Darnit, ignore that final dot:
http://www.snowstone.com/archives/000446.html
Nice piece (and nice translation!). By the way, the VPRO gids is a TV guide magazine by a Dutch television network. They also do quite well in making shows available online.
Absolutely wonderful, beautiful cover, Mark! Thanks for posting it.
Wow, Mark, that's your best one yet! When I first saw it I assumed this was another Tim Biskup post!