May 15, 2004
Nick Gaetano's Covers on Quent Cordair
Nick Gaetano has designed covers for Ayn Rand's fiction and non-fiction for the last decade. Quent Cordair now has all the covers available as giclee prints on their website. Check them out!
April 21, 2004
New Artists
I would like to take a break from my INFO paper to mention three contemporary artists I recently discovered and can�t get enough of: Jack Vettriano, Robert LaDuke, and M. Kungl. All three have strong art-deco influences and an exaggerated, colorful, and essentialized style that is bursting with joy for life. And of course, all three have been soundly rejected by the art world. If you are looking for new posters/calendars, I highly recommend all three, especially Vettriano. If you are looking for prints/originals, Quent Cordair might be more to your liking. (And my gallery!)
(The unfortunate thing about artists that mainly sell posters is that they are not friendly about allowing high quality images of their work to be shown on the web. If you know of any online galleries by the above, please let me know.)
(Update: More about Jack at the AtlasSphere. Also see his gallery.)
April 07, 2004
FireFly
I saw the first episode of the Firefly DVD series today, and it is absolutely fantastic. A brilliant combination of sci-fi and western, the series was produced by Joss Whedon, the creator the Buffy and Angel series, which I have also grown to like. Unfortunately, Fox canceled the series before the end of the season, so some of these episodes are only available on DVD. While I have only seen one episode, I�m already cursing Fox for killing this awesome series.
Anyway, the plot revolves around a retired sergeant named Mal who owns and captains Serenity, a Firefly-class spaceship. Mal is a businessman first and a gunslinger second who just trying to make a profit carrying quasi-legal cargo and passengers between the �moons� on the edge of civilized space, while staying clear of the authoritarian Alliance government.
(More show info at FireflyFans.net)