Monday, June 25, 2007

Zo here with good news!
The Future (story) that Tijana translated sounds great in Serbian!

Tijana's work inspired me greatly for my translation of The Video Game Hero that I'm trying to accomplish before Wednesday! In meantime Tijana and I re-read and polished her translation through one more session of re-reading it and commenting it to each other, changing a bit here and there... It was a lovely experience!

Wednesday is the day scheduled for the first talks about illustrations for the Future! I thought to ask Kenton about an experiment that can be made in illustration of book of 5 stories. These stories are so different, they seem like five movies or five comics in one books, with atmosphere and ambient so diverse and powerful that I thought that beside collaboration of translators, there might be collaboration of illustrators too. So that each illustrator should chose the story to work on -- what do you say to that?

Also I thought that conceptually I see our book in Serbian looks the way that each story has more than one image as illustration, so let's say that each illustrator makes a few illustrations for each story - we practically get salon and comic book at the same place. I wish to talk with potential illustrators to provide something like comic book ambient around or through the textual tissue of the story, how they see it their way... interwoven in the text the way or opposite way how text in comics is inserted in balloons into the drawing...

I love the photo from Blue& White.online article, March 2006. It shows Kenton storytelling, breathing and speaking and holding the mic with his right arm full of words, written in red. This is great photo and great article about Grahamstreet Salon, his work and circle of creative tribe of friends there. Kenton is my inspiration, and I am happy to see that he is inspiring many others as well. So I hope the illustrators will show up among those who we invite to contribute to the book translation and overall appearance. I feel like we got to have some images inside the book, they are needed so badly, don't you feel so guys?

Marvin always says that the most detestfull thing about us humans are our feelings :) but I trust them no less than I trust Marvin!

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