Book By Its Cover » Whitey on the moon

3.2.10

Joey Parlett

This handmade book binds the first ten of thirty six images artist Joey Parlett created based on photography of various NASA missions. The drawings are pretty incredible- all created with teeny tiny hatchmarks in ink. Composed like a wordless comic each drawing fits in a box and can be read in a series. Joey uses this technique to his advantage- as he draws different pieces of an astronauts body in each square, it gives the feeling of weightlessness. Other times it’s quite jarring between sequential images giving a different, more chaotic feel. My favorite spread shows the moons surface. What looks crazy abstract drawings can also be recognized as the beautiful crater filled texture of the moon. You can get a copy of this book here.

11 Comments

03/2/10 10:03am

Janet wrote

This looks amazing.

03/2/10 10:28am

e wrote

anyone else get the play here on the gil scott heron song/poem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon

clever.

03/2/10 10:31am

julia wrote

Yup. The song was stuck in my head all day yesterday.

03/2/10 10:50am

Sara wrote

This is very fitting given the recent news about the moon (that we could one day live on it).

03/2/10 11:01am

Joey wrote

Thanks for the post Julia! The moon spread was my favorite as well. I’ll definitely keep you in the loop for the next two!

03/2/10 12:03pm

Mikey wrote

Great to see Joe up here. Well deserved.

03/2/10 1:15pm

Erin wrote

Whoa! This is the best!

03/3/10 4:43am

Antje Herzog wrote

Wow, I bought it straight away.
It looks very cool. The perfect gift for my star-loving boyfriend.

In the concept of the layout, it reminds me of Shaun Tan books though.

03/9/10 2:10pm

Jen wrote

My copy just arrived! The cover alone is worthy of framing–so good.

03/11/10 7:03pm

Space Cadet wrote

This is going on my Xmas list, however, I’m not sure I can wait that long.

06/12/10 2:50pm

Zack wrote

This is cool.
I remember someone did a comic called “Whitey on the Moon” a few years ago at MoCCa..
It was based off the same song.

Zack

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