When I first saw the green penis right in the middle of the Fifth Anniversary Issue of The New York Times Style Magazine, I wonder who thought they were getting away with something. Then I saw the credit at the bottom of the cover: "Artwork by Jeff Koons." That explains it. (Detail below...)
"I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away." -- Tom Noonan
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." -- Martin Scorsese
“An idea does not exist apart from the words that express it. Style is not an envelope enclosing a message; the envelope is the message.” -- Dwight Macdonald
"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear." -- Daniel Dennett
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Come on. Look again. What do you see above the other eye? That's right. An antenna. Is it safe to say that this could be another antenna caught from a bad angle? Don't you feel foolish now?
off topic, but Jim, have you seen DISTRICT 9 and are you going to write about it? Looking forward to your insights on this one.
JE: I haven't yet. Too much (non-cosmetic!) surgery recently. But I'm excited to see it...
It does bear a remarkable similarity to a trouser snake though...
It does seem like something juvenile enough for Koons to do. That cover art is ATROCIOUS by the way.
I agree with Warren - write about movies please
JE: Paying attention to visual information IS about movies. Movies are everywhere. Not just on movie screens.
@Raymond,
The question ought to be - Why was the bad angle chosen?
The answer: you have a dirty mind, and that's all there is to it.
JE: Or Jeff Koons does.
Koons may be brazen, but obviously not enough to include the balls.
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