{"id":373,"date":"2008-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=373"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:04:15","slug":"driftwood-3-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 3 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lecture about picture editing and picture researching today, followed by some exercises in finding illustrations in picture databases for various topics. For instance, one exercise was about finding a picture for the cover of one of three books. Of the three I chose Milan Kundera&#8217;s &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221;, and for the cover one of my suggestions was <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.corbis.com\/popup\/Enlargement.aspx?mediauids=%7B76599ccc-34e4-4ed2-8930-99da0c7e62e8%7D%7C%7Bffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff%7D&amp;qsPageNo=3&amp;fdid=&amp;Area=Search&amp;TotalCount=288&amp;CurrentPos=35&amp;WinID=%7B76599ccc-34e4-4ed2-8930-99da0c7e62e8%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this picture<\/a>, though I haven&#8217;t actually read the book, so I don&#8217;t know if Mephisto was that kind of pig &#8230; (the other suggestions mostly involved moody shots of windows with lots of contrast between light and shadow).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I had some time to spare, I searched for &#8220;driftwood&#8221; for fun. One of the pictures that came up was <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.corbis.com\/popup\/Enlargement.aspx?mediauids=%7Bf080a778-3262-4cdd-8e1b-d5911563b219%7D%7C%7Bffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff%7D&amp;qsPageNo=1&amp;fdid=&amp;Area=Search&amp;TotalCount=547&amp;CurrentPos=37&amp;WinID=%7Bf080a778-3262-4cdd-8e1b-d5911563b219%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a>. And so, the word I had been searching for so long is &#8230; &#8220;flotsam&#8221;! (Sometimes &#8220;flodsam&#8221;, though it&#8217;s not really correct).<br \/>\nAnd I think you will all agree with me that this word makes a <strong><em>great<\/em><\/strong> title for a comic book. Well, maybe in combination with &#8220;jetsam&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Flotsam and jetsam&#8221;? Um, right.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, a book cover I&#8217;ve always wanted to design is something for a collection of Marina Tsvetayeva&#8217;s autobiographical childhood stories, including one where she describes how she was convinced that the Devil was madly in love with her, and was sitting in her sister&#8217;s room in the shape of a big grey dog, waiting for her. For the cover I would\u00a0 use a picture of a blue or silver Thai ridgeback dog, which, I must say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaidog.org\/sakorn\/photo_album_18.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaidog.org\/sakorn\/photo_album_19.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rather<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaidog.org\/sakorn\/photo_album_51.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demonic<\/a>, in a handsome way &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lecture about picture editing and picture researching today, followed by some exercises in finding illustrations in picture databases for various topics. For instance, one exercise was about finding a picture for the cover of one of three books. Of the three I chose Milan Kundera&#8217;s &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221;, and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-3","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}