A resend of an earlier email that I suspect was magically deleted by my computer:
Found this on a Google cached page from a jmdl page: "In the song, Don Juan is really the art of the tongue, it's rapping - coffee house poet talk," says Joni who dressed up as a black guy for the LP's cover and sleeve. That's her too, underneath the Indian garb. The shooting sessions were upbeat, with Joni trying on different dresses and dancing around while Norman Seeff clicked away. When he asked for another change of clothes, he hardly recognized the black character that strutted from the dressing room five minutes later. "At that point, I realized I really enjoy character acting," she says. Working again with the Camera Lucida (Lucy) machine, Joni arranged the photos agreed upon from the sessions: she blew up the shot of her as the black guy and put it in the foreground; she liked the spirit of the shot with the top hat because it symbolized what she felt was the 'magic' on the album; and she included the shot of a kid who'd been in a session for a previous album. "He was shy and had never danced before, that's why he's looking at his feet," she says. But to her, the elements were not "homogenized" enough to be the final cover shot. When she noticed a postcard of a nude with a Mickey Mouse hat and balloons on a bulletin board she felt it was "the element that was like the cherry on the pudding that makes the whole thing come together." She worked it onto the dress, partly obscuring the pubic area and figure of Mickey Mouse (for legal reasons), I added the birds, and then had an airbrusher smooth over the edges of all the photos. She then selected the background colors from the options presented by Glen Christensen, who, she says, has a "wonderful knowledge of inks." http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=don+juan%27s+reckless+cove r+art Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "dsk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Dulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: Re: Whose breasts are they anyway? > Steve Dulson wrote: > > > > Actually, we have discussed this - some dedicated archive surfer > > might be able to find the posts. My contention is that the person > > on the cover of DJRD is...er...somewhat more endowed than our > > Siquomb. > > That was my first thought, too, based on the swimming pool picture and > the ones of her in the desert. And, to veer even more toward the > indelicate... our Siquomb is a natural blonde, yes? and the figure on > the dress isn't. > > I vaguely recognize the figure from some painting, but can't pinpoint or > find which one. It's never struck me as sexy even though it is nude. > Joni's liveliness in that photo is much more appealing to me. > > And thanks to Bree (I think) for pointing out that the way the figure is > holding her arms is similar to the way Joni has been photographed. > Interesting. I still don't think the nude figure is Joni, but there may > have been some unconscious copying going on in the photos. Maybe it's a > painting Joni really loves. > > Now that I'm looking closely at the cover, what's with all those > big-eared cartoon images? Doves I can understand, a nude "art" figure > makes sense, too, but mickey mouse??? > > Debra Shea
