Comments on: Autism on the beach http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autism-on-the-beach { on autism, rhetoric, technology, & elo } Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: James C. Wilson http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-351 James C. Wilson Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:56:28 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=136#comment-351 Dear Aspie Rhetor, Thanks for your kind comments about my Weather Reports memoir. I agree with you about the cover (especially after all the nasty things I said about Autism Speaks and similar orgs). It was a last minute design created by my publisher. Next time I'll object and insist that the puzzle motif is eliminated. Best, JCW Dear Aspie Rhetor,
Thanks for your kind comments about my Weather Reports memoir. I agree with you about the cover (especially after all the nasty things I said about Autism Speaks and similar orgs). It was a last minute design created by my publisher. Next time I’ll object and insist that the puzzle motif is eliminated.
Best,
JCW

]]> By: James C. Wilson http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-350 James C. Wilson Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:54:01 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=136#comment-350 Dear Aspie Rhetor, Thanks for the kind words about my Weather Reports memoir. I agree with you about the cover (especially after all the nasty things I said about Autism Speaks and similar orgs). It was a last minute cover design created by my publisher without my feedback (although I did give them the photo). I should have objected and insisted they eliminate the puzzel motif. If there's a second edition, I'll try again. Best, -JCW Dear Aspie Rhetor,
Thanks for the kind words about my Weather Reports memoir. I agree with you about the cover (especially after all the nasty things I said about Autism Speaks and similar orgs). It was a last minute cover design created by my publisher without my feedback (although I did give them the photo). I should have objected and insisted they eliminate the puzzel motif. If there’s a second edition, I’ll try again.
Best,
-JCW

]]> By: Daina Krumins http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Daina Krumins Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:18:59 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=136#comment-342 I designed the cover for "Women From Another Planet?" and it just seemed to appear out of nowhere, as my images always do. One of my favorite places to go wander around, make photographs, and occasionally fish in the canals is the salt marsh near Tuckerton, NJ. It's vast and mysterious. I was messing around with a marsh photo on the computer and somehow it just turned into the book cover by itself. Then Dr. Eva Baker sent me the picture of her daughter to add to the image. I believe it works because it came out of the wiring of my aspie mind with its aspie wiring. There was very little conscious thought involved except in technical Photoshop type decisions. I designed the cover for “Women From Another Planet?” and it just seemed to appear out of nowhere, as my images always do.

One of my favorite places to go wander around, make photographs, and occasionally fish in the canals is the salt marsh near Tuckerton, NJ. It’s vast and mysterious. I was messing around with a marsh photo on the computer and somehow it just turned into the book cover by itself. Then Dr. Eva Baker sent me the picture of her daughter to add to the image.

I believe it works because it came out of the wiring of my aspie mind with its aspie wiring. There was very little conscious thought involved except in technical Photoshop type decisions.

]]> By: Lindsay http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Lindsay Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:22:43 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=136#comment-334 I never noticed that before, but you're right. That's interesting. I never noticed that before, but you’re right.

That’s interesting.

]]> By: Aspie Rhetor http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Aspie Rhetor Mon, 04 May 2009 01:58:12 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=136#comment-302 Oh, interesting. That makes a lot of sense, actually. Thanks. I'm always curious about the stories behind covers (if there is one)! I took a disability studies grad seminar last year, and we spent a lot of time talking about book covers and how authors don't make the decisions a lot of the time. (So, we'd read a book that was very much about the social model of disability, e.g., anti-cure, anti-alarmist rhetoric, yet the cover would be very... medicalized, pity-inducing, and so forth. Opposites between cover and content, almost.) It made it hard for us to analyze the covers, because we were never sure whose assumptions were at play: was it the authors making a commentary on popular assumptions and stereotypes, or was it the press doing their "job" and creating a cover image without having read the book? Oh, interesting. That makes a lot of sense, actually. Thanks. I’m always curious about the stories behind covers (if there is one)! I took a disability studies grad seminar last year, and we spent a lot of time talking about book covers and how authors don’t make the decisions a lot of the time. (So, we’d read a book that was very much about the social model of disability, e.g., anti-cure, anti-alarmist rhetoric, yet the cover would be very… medicalized, pity-inducing, and so forth. Opposites between cover and content, almost.) It made it hard for us to analyze the covers, because we were never sure whose assumptions were at play: was it the authors making a commentary on popular assumptions and stereotypes, or was it the press doing their “job” and creating a cover image without having read the book?

]]> By: Jean Kearns Miller http://aspierhetor.com/2009/01/20/autism-on-the-beach/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Jean Kearns Miller Mon, 04 May 2009 01:46:06 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=136#comment-300 In some ways I don't get the logic (or perhaps rhetoric) of the WFAP? cover except I've always liked the look of it. It was designed by contributing editor, Daina Krumins, an experimental filmmaker by trade, based on the photo of the daughter of another contributing editor, Dr. Ava Baker. Daina's films and stills make frequent use of land/water dreamscapes. fwiw.jean In some ways I don’t get the logic (or perhaps rhetoric) of the WFAP? cover except I’ve always liked the look of it. It was designed by contributing editor, Daina Krumins, an experimental filmmaker by trade, based on the photo of the daughter of another contributing editor, Dr. Ava Baker. Daina’s films and stills make frequent use of land/water dreamscapes. fwiw.jean

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