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alloy-digest Wednesday, January 16 2002 Volume 07 : Number 012
Today's Subjects:
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Alloy: Forty - Thanks Thomas! [terry.overall@bt.com]
RE: Alloy: Forty Plus ["Bill Krzysko" <bill@attention.net>]
Re: Alloy: Forty Plus [Robin Thurlow <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>]
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:56:01 -0000
From: terry.overall@bt.com
Subject: Alloy: Forty - Thanks Thomas!
Just picked up my copy from the local Post Office - I got 37/1000.
Was grinning like a maniac as I played it in the car on the way to work.
Great quality live recording and it was great hearing a new interpretation
of some of Thomas' best songs. Couldn't help but wish that I'd been there on
one of those nights - but in all truth, this is easily the next best thing.
Coupled with the 'Dolby -Rare' CD that I've finally pulled together for
myself (including all the hard to get stuff in my vinyl collection) it's
non-stop Dolby in my motor.
All that and I finally get to see that on his website that West Ham United
are credited as an inspiration - having lived a block away from the ground
for 14 years - all I can say to Thomas is "Up the Hammers!"
Thanks Thomas, great design work Robin & dare I dream that we'll see some
new original stuff one of these day?
TEL
Terry Overall
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:34:45 -0600
From: "Bill Krzysko" <bill@attention.net>
Subject: RE: Alloy: Forty Plus
Everything looks great Robin! If you come to Chicago I can get you a job as
a retoucher. :-)
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From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org]On Behalf Of
Robin Thurlow
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:15 AM
To: alloy@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Alloy: Forty Plus
"Mary A. Brown" wrote:
> TMDR looks fabulous on the cover, very svelte and debonaire. Hope
> I look that good at 40! What specifically is the cover art that
> you did, Robin, because stupid me doesn't get it.
Thomas provided me with his self-portrait, and gave me the layout he
wanted. I did the background, chose the typefaces/color, and re-did the
color and lighting on the portrait to play up his good features (ie., all
of them). It was great fun to do, and even more fun to be dragged out of
bed at 4:30am by Thomas on deadline day :)
I've done lots of photo work but never had anything that was meant for
mass production through a print shop, so I'm excited to see the actual,
printed result! I've been extremely short on cash & haven't been able to
order it yet. PLEASE tell me his thighs look okay...
xxx
~R
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:47:34 -0500
From: Robin Thurlow <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Forty Plus
Bill Krzysko wrote:
> Everything looks great Robin! If you come to Chicago I can get you a job as
> a retoucher. :-)
Yay! :) !! Thanks Bill. I'm so glad it looks okay. I must say I'm
particularly proud of the eyes - Thomas' eyes are always lovely to dwell on &
in the original they looked very dark. I hope the blue-grey showed well in the
print. That scraping sound you're hearing now is the sound of me wringing my
calloused hands together in worry over all of this!
The not-so-gory details: we were all running on an extremely tight deadline
that seemed to get tighter with every passing moment, because of the guidelines
set forth by the printing company. It rapidly came down to frantic
cross-country emails and phone calls over the space of about 24 hours,
including a phone critique of the work we'd accomplished by 4:30am on deadline
day (we had to have the files sent in at 7am). As for Thomas dragging me out
of bed (very willingly on my part, I must add!!)... I'd just gotten into it for
a little rest when the phone rang. Dave spoke with Thomas for a little while
about design revisions and then I spoke with him about the portrait and
typeface preferences, and then it was back to work getting things the right
way, hopefully... sending more files, etc. It was really thrilling to work on
something that would be a part of Thomas' discography, and treating an image
that was going to be mass-produced, which is something I'd never done before.
Things for web sites are dependent on the individuals' monitor calibrations,
but something printed is in actual solid form. Far more nerve-racking for me!
I'm going to show it as part of my BFA candidacy interview this year. A CD is
an etching, especially when it's numbered and signed (high five, Thomas :)
xxxx
Robin T
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