Grab the corner to flip the pages.
Dear Friends,
Since Friday it seems as if every pixel everywhere felt alive with the passing of Farrah and Michael…
After reading two personal accounts in today’s New York Times, I too wanted to find a way to sit with Michael and Farrah, say goodbye, and pay my respects. I know it may look peculiar, but oddly enough, my attached version of cut and paste scrap booking has in many respects holds for me the BLUR surrounding their passing.
In the spirit of sharing time well spent, here’s a glimpse of a couple of hours from my sunday afternoon at home in front of the monitor. yes, I too can see that the typography is a bit olde school, but it really doesn’t matter in the scope of the important things in life.
ok, dinner time!
: )
From: Dave Eggers
Subject: Re: michael-farrah
Date: July 8, 2009 3:20:26 PM CDTWow, those are super-creepy and brilliant. — but I hope people see your work on these mashups. It’s great. dav
From: Lorraine Wild
Subject: Re: blur
Date: June 29, 2009 7:24:21 PM CDTAs usual, you are a complete genius. Perfection.
Xo L
From: Stefan Sagmeister
Subject: Re: respectfully
Date: June 29, 2009 9:20:47 PM CDTYou = the best.
100 greetings from wonderful Indonesia,
Stefan
From: Janet Echelman
Subject: Re: respectfully
Date: June 29, 2009 11:48:03 AM CDThi rick,
these images are arresting.
missing you.
xoxo,
janet
From: Michael Bierut
Subject: Re: respectfully
Date: June 30, 2009 6:17:31 AM CDTRick,
Your collages dramatize what extreme “designed” personalities they both were. Amazing.
Michael
From: Stefan Bucher
Subject: Re: respectfully
Date: June 29, 2009 4:43:39 PM CDTBrilliant and disturbing, Rick.
Thank you for showing me.
I’m honored…
Stefan
One Comment
Thanks Rick.
Amalgamated imagery.
As I was looking at your book, as if in a stream-of-consciousness. Your images made me think about the following:
First, the shelf-life of pop-cultural paradigms. Second, what if David Hockney used Photoshop for his photographic collages and composite polaroids. Third, the lyrics to ‘Face on the Cutting Room Floor’ – a song co-written by Steve Goodman with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band members Jeff Hanna and Jimmy Ibbotson.
Ironically, the lives of Michael and Farrah seemed to be humanized through Ms. Fawcett’s battle with cancer and apparently, the fact, that Michael’s parents will raise his children.
Lyrics:
She’s history
No one would give her a star on the walk
She’d have a hundred if pillows could talk
Where have I seen her before?
She’s the face on the cutting room floor
It’s no mystery
Acting in school at the tenderest age
Lit up the room when she stepped on the stage
Came to la for some more
She’s the face on the cutting room floor …
sterkte,
dv