With apologies to people who are actually good at this sort of thing... I see something like this:



spook.PNG (180 Kb, 786 downloads) Spook Country

My take on it..

What we need is for the author photo on the back to be a restroom shot.

it's kinda scary how spot on that picture is with the book.

fucking awesome photo.

It's a bit blurry...

[caption]William Gibson is the bestselling author of such novels as Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition, inventor of the word "cyberspace," and appears as the fuzzy blob on the upper left in this picture taken in a public restroom in Vancouver.[/caption]

Well it works for me.

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Originally posted by colin:
[caption]William Gibson is the bestselling author of such novels as Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition, inventor of the word "cyberspace," and appears as the fuzzy blob on the upper left in this picture taken in a public restroom in Vancouver.[/caption]

[caption continued]He was forced to pose for this photo as a part of the deal made with the photographer in order to get the other people in the photo to - he just can't go when someone else is in the room.[/caption continued]

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Originally posted by striv:
it's kinda scary how spot on that picture is with the book.

So it was you who stole Gibson's manuscript!

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Originally posted by Artemis_of_OZ:
I'm currently photoshop/illustrator-less, but this might be a good, minimalist cover picture. Anyone want to give it a once-over?




I personally like the monochrome of the image, with the one little red dot as the only color in the picture. And there's something just RIGHT about the way the cord is placed.

So far this one is easily my favorite picture.

The cover on Amazon

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Looks like we were pretty close...

Yeah, pretty close indeed. Cool!

yeah but this would've been cool too:

Cool, too. Reminds me of Metro Dynamics.

I see "a novel" is set square to the edge of the featureless building it's near rather than the edge of the cover itself.

Cute idea. Doesn't work.

The masked buildings against photo-real clouds I like. Anime'd architecture.

yeah, i think the cover is cool because it really shows the contrast between architecture/plans for what a city will be like, and reality/the actual experience of being in that city, which frighteningly enough may actually have something to do with the original design of the skyline. Keep in mind that in most major cities, (with the exception of donald trump buildings) the design of each building has to be approved by all manner of commitees, some of which are actually almost entirely concerned with the building's asthetics. a strange kind of cultural engineering disaster possiblility- reminiscent of The Fly.

its very strange though, to see how reality and fiction have essentially caught up to one another- and also to speculate as to how they met. for instance, there is a quite impressive thesis, (there's of course an mp3 of it somewhere on the internet, i'll look for it later and put it up here) that says that things like the internet, and computers themselves are the products of an idea that has its roots and home(or at least used to) in military culture; namely the idea of consciousness expansion. The person who was saying this (someone giving a lecture, i believe at stanford- i'm not so good with names, though) argues that in fact the entire cultural movement and ideal of 60's/70's consciousness expansion that is now reflected upon as countercultural, was actually an adoption of preexisting military dreams (a soldier on a battlefield needs sattelites and computers to 'see over the horizon' and information and behavioural profiling in order to 'see the future', and computer hard disks were actually originally developed to act as artificial memory extensions) which were brought into the semi-civilian arena both by the imposition of the Vietnam War, and the movement towards communal living.

(now ask yourself, why do we still, now seek consciousness expansion? could it be that we now need consciousness expansion to protect ourselves- militaristically- against the opressive government it has helped create?)

what a tangled motherfucking web.

okay, it was Fred Turner. and i guess it was Harvard The link is:

http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/AudioBerkman/fred_turner_2006-12-01.mp3

wait and then there's this other guy who was talking on NPR (http://www.bu.edu/wbur/podcasts/2006/01/onpointb_0103.mp3) talking about geographic web postings-- doesn't this basically mean that from now on, historical landmarks will begin to be considered irrelevant because the historical information will all be archived on our cellphones?! And the URL says BU.edu, so it's somehow archived by Boston University? They're the ones who still have a NASA remote viewing laboratory in their Energy Studies College building (i swear- its right there on like the fourth or fifth floor, you can go look at it- take a picture with your cellphone and its funny how they try to sell it as something that creates "a world alive with information", when really its just an excuse to steal the actual living or non-abstractified/representational information from the real world! makes me want to know what happens to computer hard drives when they get thrown out- archeologists of the future have to know! and where is information downloaded on a cell phone actually stored? how long does it stay there? UGH!

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Looks like we were pretty close...

they used the exact same font i used in my mock up. I didn't use any uppercast letters, though.

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Originally posted by striv:
it's kinda scary how spot on that picture is with the book.

fucking awesome photo.

Yes Txt needs rework, but yes.

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>>Cute idea. Doesn't work.
lol. yes. I was thinking a bit like that.

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2attemps


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>>and just 'cause i was bored:
The spine I very like.

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