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February 17, 2006

When You're Famous You Can Get Away With Anything

You know you're famous when you're asked to be the guest designer for a short-story magazine, and you send them a bunch of photos of oil stains from various parking lots, and they print it. Yes, that's exactly what Tom Waits did for the Winter 2005 issue of All-Story magazine. From his design notes:

...I began looking for ghost images in the stains beneath cars. None of them has been retouched. They are like I found them. I took them with B+W film. I like to say I work in oils. See whatever you wish to see in them; they are the astonishing shapes and mysteries of the natural world.

And in case you were wondering, yes, I bought a copy.

17:18 | Entertainment

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