New interview with me on Nossa Morte

[ellen_datlow]

Michael de Kler interviewed me for the May issue of Nossa Morte .

Comments

I'm starting to feel...

[themadblonde]

like I know somebody famous here. ;-)

(yes, I know, it's all hard-earned)

Re: I'm starting to feel...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

No one I know ;-)

Well...

[themadblonde]

how many of us REALLY know ourselves? ;-)

(ok, the Hamlet is getting to me)

Re: Well...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Nice icon.

Thank you!

[themadblonde]

I own almost the duplicate mask. A friend brought it back from Venice as a wedding gift for us. It's a handmade Carnival mask- she saw the artist sign it & everything. The icon is of another one, but it's the same idea & almost the same appearance.

Re: Thank you!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

What is it made of, leather? plaster of Paris? I bought a few masks in Venice several years ago, but I never saw anything as splendid as that.

As far as I can tell...

[themadblonde]

it's a kind of papier-mache. Mine is more platinum than gold finish, but it's probably about the same size & certainly the same idea.

I'll see if I can't find a picture of it in my files.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Great interview Ellen. Especially the "cut-and-paste" part.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod. I had to look up what you were referring to--you mean "cut and add" :-). Oh yeah. Poor Howard Waldrop. One of his stories had to be "rearranged" around a Kahlua ad you know the ads with the actual bottle shape in the middle of the page?--and the art dept kept changing the configuration on us.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think of it as "cut and edit" but that process is where cut and paste got its etymology from.

Ah yes, layouting without the aid of a computer...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It is? I thought it was in newspaper work--they had to literally cut pieces and paste them into layouts...no?

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's how it works. Process was called stripping I think.

But your process sounds similar as well (since newspapers needed to edit the text as well during layout).

[lonesome-crow.livejournal.com]

Very nice! They're doing good stuff over there.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Yup, they are.