Submitted by deeners (not verified) on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 19:46.
im not sure. i dont think dave is either.
heres his take on his art:
"I really, really felt like the title and the ideas of the songs, the idea of me going out into the world instead of me looking in--all of it came together through the painting that I got to be the cover, which is by a guy named Stephen Bush who's an Australian painter. He's done this painting 27 times. Once a year, he paints it from memory with one tube of black and one tube of white. It's a painting of three elephants, you could say it's Babar, I'm not positive. For him, it's something to do with French colonialism. It's called 'The Lure of Paris'.
For me, it's great. There's this character, this hero, but he's an elephant. He's standing on a rock, the sea is very rough around him, there's amazing light coming down through the sky, and then there's the other elephants coming down a cliff on a rope. I thought for a minute that I wasn't going to be able to use it. It was so devastating that I didn't know what to do.
No other cover has ever... they've all been arbitrary, except for maybe Bright Flight. There's never really been any connection to what's under the cover. And this time, it's everything. Like, when you'd read a paperback when you were a kid, and you'd really like the characters, you'd look at the people on the cover and be like, 'Are these the people?' And you get older and you'd realize, 'Wait. This is a different artist.' And then you get older, and you realize there's no connection, the author doesn't need the artist, blah blah blah. This time, maybe they're all elephants."
David Berman describes himself as a poet who happens to know how to play a guitar. His short stories are a good read BTW. Oh yeah, his wife is purrrrrty.
Do you think that's supposed
Do you think that's supposed to be Babar?
im not sure. i dont think
im not sure. i dont think dave is either.
heres his take on his art:
"I really, really felt like the title and the ideas of the songs, the idea of me going out into the world instead of me looking in--all of it came together through the painting that I got to be the cover, which is by a guy named Stephen Bush who's an Australian painter. He's done this painting 27 times. Once a year, he paints it from memory with one tube of black and one tube of white. It's a painting of three elephants, you could say it's Babar, I'm not positive. For him, it's something to do with French colonialism. It's called 'The Lure of Paris'.
For me, it's great. There's this character, this hero, but he's an elephant. He's standing on a rock, the sea is very rough around him, there's amazing light coming down through the sky, and then there's the other elephants coming down a cliff on a rope. I thought for a minute that I wasn't going to be able to use it. It was so devastating that I didn't know what to do.
No other cover has ever... they've all been arbitrary, except for maybe Bright Flight. There's never really been any connection to what's under the cover. And this time, it's everything. Like, when you'd read a paperback when you were a kid, and you'd really like the characters, you'd look at the people on the cover and be like, 'Are these the people?' And you get older and you'd realize, 'Wait. This is a different artist.' And then you get older, and you realize there's no connection, the author doesn't need the artist, blah blah blah. This time, maybe they're all elephants."
dave's gone nuts methinks.
dude. of course it's babar.
dude. of course it's babar.
David Berman ...
David Berman describes himself as a poet who happens to know how to play a guitar. His short stories are a good read BTW. Oh yeah, his wife is purrrrrty.
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