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July 10, 2008
Background Information
The Beastie Boys song 'Jimmy James' was originally supposed to use samples from Jimi Hendrix' cover of 'Happy Birthday' but they couldn't secure the rights in time for the release of Check Your Head. It was later released as a single and if you pick up the Sounds of Science compilation the Hendrix version is on there. Anyway, the B-Boys had to instead put out the album version using what they called 'Hendrix-like sounds', and that idea for sampling's been stuck in the back of my head since, doing something 'like' the original and then sampling from that.
In Dennis Hopeless' dining room he has these wall-length murals that I thought were incredibly cool and I thought doing something like that would really jazz up this talking heads scene, and then I got to thinking about what I wanted to use. I ended up doing a 'cover' of some Jean 'Moebius' Giraud Blueberry panels for the murals and then played around with them in Photoshop to make sure they had the right perspective for each panel. I really dug how they turned out.
There's also something going on with the colors in this scene in relation to last two scenes, but I can't really elaborate on that until later in the book.
Speaking of Moebius, this morning I remembered something from when I was taking German in Junior High. In our textbook 'Neue Freunde' there was a section with college-aged kids talking about comic books and one of the quotes was "Ich liebe Moebius. Ehr ist toll," which translates to "I love Moebius. He is cool." We had to pronounce his name as if a cow were saying it though which bugged the fuck out of me. Murrrrbius. There were also some douchebags saying comics are lame, but we know in fact that people who say such things are asshats.
Also, the 'rich bitch' bit is a nod to Dave Chapelle of course, but I couldn't find a clip with just that on YouTube or Daily Motion. If you come across one feel free to help a brother out.
Posted by Schamberger at July 10, 2008 09:15 AM