I'm working on a piece about Yoko Ono for the March issue of the magazine. The focus is on her life and work as a visual and conceptual artist. There are lots of great images of her with her artwork I could try to get for the opening page, but most of them are either not very colourful or actually black & white.
Then I had this idea of using a bunch of her Instagram photos. She posts pictures almost every day of herself — usually from the back — in whatever surroundings she happens to be in. She's so iconic that I think readers wouldn't actually need to see her face, which might be kind of interesting. And this way I could get a bunch of colour onto the page while giving a sense of what it's like to be Yoko.
I don't know whether folks here will go for this idea or even whether I'd be able to get the rights to use these images. But right now, I'm leaning sharply in this direction:
Although, honestly, if I could do whatever I wanted, I'd totally create something like this:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mvEfON2CI
I imagine you've seen this. When I first saw it, I though, gawd she does anything and people think it's so awesome. But the more I hear it, the more I love it and long to hear it accidentally.
I have seen it, and I do think it's awesome! I'm pretty much one of those people who think whatever she does is great. Interestingly, I immediately thought of you, Jenny, when I first heard about this song. Didn't you want to call a jale album Good Dancer at one point?
I hope you get to use all of those images and the one you created. Yoko mountain! Love it!
And it would be so neat if you guys corresponded about using her photos. She seems very open and like a real person.
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