tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post6227304431035841142..comments2024-03-04T04:08:39.755-08:00Comments on The Fies Files: Mary Blair AddendumBrian Fieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-39115517551094212972011-12-07T09:05:44.467-08:002011-12-07T09:05:44.467-08:00Neil! Thanks for checking in on me. I hope you'...Neil! Thanks for checking in on me. I hope you're settling into the Bay Area nicely. It ain't a bad place to live.<br /><br />I'm not sure I'm capable of "sultry." On me, it looks like "constipated." But I'll work on it.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-57886846437161106702011-12-07T07:58:12.023-08:002011-12-07T07:58:12.023-08:00Great post on Mary Blair - I didn't know all t...Great post on Mary Blair - I didn't know all that about the backstory on that illustration you made for the back cover of WHTTWOT. So good to read more about her work - it really is amazing! Now we need to get a sultry portrait of you in the same style as hers. So you can be in the club!Designer Neilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-19112493110692046212011-10-26T11:36:23.328-07:002011-10-26T11:36:23.328-07:00Thanks for going easy on me.Thanks for going easy on me.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-48212486656305224402011-10-24T08:57:45.551-07:002011-10-24T08:57:45.551-07:00Works for me. I had noticed its confluence with t...Works for me. I had noticed its confluence with the rocket's trajectory and that it wouldn't really work as well in any other phase or orientation. The whole scene is dreamlike, anyway (as the world of tomorrow always is), so protractorism really has no place, does it?Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-7169036305324542292011-10-22T22:52:19.634-07:002011-10-22T22:52:19.634-07:00HA hahahahaha! I almost added a note about that be...HA hahahahaha! I almost added a note about that because I knew you'd catch me out. Obviously, our tableau takes place shortly after dawn in a metropolis near the Arctic Circle and the sun is just off the top-right of the picture (it isn't <i>necessarily</i> a nighttime scene, although it printed much darker on the actual book). <br /><br />The honest answer is that I tried the Moon in a lot of different phases and orientations but I chose this one because I liked the perpendicular angle it made with the rocket. To me it suggested a bow-and-arrow metaphor, with them both "pointing" the same way. I did at least satisfy myself that it would be possible to see a crescent Moon looking like this sometime somewhere on Earth.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-83883914260795005272011-10-22T19:40:08.564-07:002011-10-22T19:40:08.564-07:00You're certainly not one to slap a crescent Mo...You're certainly not one to slap a crescent Moon into a random orientation, so you must have put some thought into it before giving it a midday aspect. Care to share the thoughts?Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.com