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iPodded lonely as a cloud

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Just because it's rare to get a big cover image with any detail (I'd scan them, but I don't want the Annals of Law on my kneecaps), here's a post from Leander Kahney's Wired blog Cult of Mac about the May 30 cover, which you can look at either on your sofa or in full glory here.


IPod Makes New Yorker Cover
Topic: iPod

It's an auspicious moment, I guess, when the iPod makes the cover of the august New Yorker magazine for the first time.

“The Song of Spring," by Peter de Sève, shows a birdie tweeting in a tree while a gent sits nearby, his ears plugged with the famous white buds.

The deep-blue iPod ad with the breakdancer has been running on newyorker.com (in duplicate on the same page, no less, which looks sort of cool if they're on slightly different rhythms) for at least a few days now, so there's a nice balance of appreciation. The marriage of cadmium and harmony, as it were.

It occurs to me that maybe they should have saved this idea for the Tilley cover, where the iPod, with white feelers, could have posed as the butterfly. (In Seattle at the gallery showing covers through the years, the 75th anniversary photo cover by William Wegman—where both Tilley and the butterfly are weimaraners—is pretty perfect.) But that may still come. Some guy in the record industry once claimed he had a pretty green iPod waiting for me in his desk, but guys will say anything, won't they?

Ruffing it with the Weimaraner family: Photographer's kin learn to live among canines [NYT, 1999. I was actually in this studio once with my friend Katherine and Wegman's then-assistant, but neither Wegman nor any dogs were there. This safely protects me from name-dropping, or even dropping-dropping, because the place was quite immaculate. There was a pleasant balcony with a picnic table. We had sandwiches.]
New Yorker covers [a pleasingly organized gallery of 45 covers, not including Wegman's, which seems to be ungoogleable.]

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