Steven Hunley
01-23-2013, 01:57 AM
Illustrations?
Section from Dubrovnik-
They crossed the square holding hands. The night had turned cool and foggy, and the square itself, lit by a single feeble streetlight in each corner, grew dark and forbidding. Nothing was familiar to the strangers. Men stood in shadows whispering incomprehensible words, making unreadable gestures with their faces and hands.
The disco, emanating warmth, light, and sound would be the perfect sanctuary. Once they walked through the door past the guard, and down the stairs to the cellar, they felt the beat press their skin. The room smelled like stale perfume, cigarette smoke, sex and sweat. There was a bar at one end, a dance floor, and tables at the other. A deejay with headphones was bent over a console of shiny knobs with wires running away like twisted coils of black snakes. The ceiling was blue with clouds of smoke and in the center dangled a mirrored ball like in the Thirty’s with a spotlight beamed dead center.
The crowd on the dance floor was one writhing body with dozens of hands like an exotic Nataraja. Its arms and hands and fingers extended in obeisance to the pulsating rhythm. Heads nodded and bobbed with dilated eyes like a cadre of cannibals anticipating a feast. Eddie saw money in hands, both giving and getting, everywhere he looked. In the Babylon, bling bobbed on the surface of gritty reality like great gobs of fat on a restless ocean, suspended by greed and avarice, fueled by constant craving for acceptance, and an unappeasable desire for flesh. It was a fine young cannibal crowd, easily drunk on its own sweet success.
©Steven Hunley 2012
Here’s the visual.
http://youtu.be/yboqgxnItOA
Now the piece has dimension. I often put music or visuals with my pieces, and the question is, do they add or subtract? As a child one of my first books was Treasure Island. It was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. I like illustrations and wonder why many others don’t take advantage of this opportunity. Naturally, there are limitations in print books and copywrite issues galore.
Add or subtract or what?
Section from Dubrovnik-
They crossed the square holding hands. The night had turned cool and foggy, and the square itself, lit by a single feeble streetlight in each corner, grew dark and forbidding. Nothing was familiar to the strangers. Men stood in shadows whispering incomprehensible words, making unreadable gestures with their faces and hands.
The disco, emanating warmth, light, and sound would be the perfect sanctuary. Once they walked through the door past the guard, and down the stairs to the cellar, they felt the beat press their skin. The room smelled like stale perfume, cigarette smoke, sex and sweat. There was a bar at one end, a dance floor, and tables at the other. A deejay with headphones was bent over a console of shiny knobs with wires running away like twisted coils of black snakes. The ceiling was blue with clouds of smoke and in the center dangled a mirrored ball like in the Thirty’s with a spotlight beamed dead center.
The crowd on the dance floor was one writhing body with dozens of hands like an exotic Nataraja. Its arms and hands and fingers extended in obeisance to the pulsating rhythm. Heads nodded and bobbed with dilated eyes like a cadre of cannibals anticipating a feast. Eddie saw money in hands, both giving and getting, everywhere he looked. In the Babylon, bling bobbed on the surface of gritty reality like great gobs of fat on a restless ocean, suspended by greed and avarice, fueled by constant craving for acceptance, and an unappeasable desire for flesh. It was a fine young cannibal crowd, easily drunk on its own sweet success.
©Steven Hunley 2012
Here’s the visual.
http://youtu.be/yboqgxnItOA
Now the piece has dimension. I often put music or visuals with my pieces, and the question is, do they add or subtract? As a child one of my first books was Treasure Island. It was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. I like illustrations and wonder why many others don’t take advantage of this opportunity. Naturally, there are limitations in print books and copywrite issues galore.
Add or subtract or what?