Nike took this extremely attractive picture of me & Andrew on my birthday. It sums up our relationship pretty well. #karaoke #lolita #HUUURRRRRRRRRR
Well, this is what I’ll be doing with my evening. Don’t ever change, Japan. You’re perfect the way you are.
Happy Father’s Day!
- Vladimir Nabokov, on his first unsuccessful attempts at getting Lolita published. (via nymphetaminedream)
Among the problems Nabokov’s Lolita poses for the book designer, probably the thorniest is the popular misconception of the title character. She’s chronically miscast as a teenage sexpot—just witness the dozens of soft-core covers over the years. “We are talking about a novel which has child rape at its core,” says John Bertram, an architect and blogger who, three years ago, sponsored a Lolita cover competition asking designers to do better.
Now the contest is being turned into a book, due out in June and coedited by Yuri Leving, with essays on historical cover treatments along with new versions by 60 well-known designers, two-thirds of them women: Barbara deWilde, Jessica Helfand, Peter Mendelsund, and Jennifer Daniel, to name a few. They don’t shy away from frank sexuality, but they add layers of darkness and complication. And like Jamie Keenan’s cover—a claustrophobic room that morphs into a girl in her underwear—they provoke without asking readers to abdicate their responsibility.
(via Recovering Lolita — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers)
whoa.
