I hadn't posted anything to this blog in 12 months, and when I tried last month to add something new, I could not! It seemed as if my access to the blog had been lost, other than merely viewing it. Well...several weeks of frustration and resignation later, I'm here, back again with a new entry! What did I do? Between changing my password and trying several of my gmail.com addresses to determine the correct one attached to this blog, somehow--I dunno how--fixed it! Hooray! Now, to business:
This is a poster I made nearly 20 years ago. I worked at a law school in NYC and they periodically mounted one-night "plays" in which matters of law were dramatized. This one, obviously, was a trial for Travis Bickle, the homicidal movie taxi driver portrayed by Robert De Niro. On the day the drama would be presented, the poster would be displayed outside the school auditorium where the dramatization would be held. I had been called on several previous times to provide such posters for other similar one-night plays. The posters were intended to attract the attention of any students, faculty, staff, and other persons wandering the school halls. However, the date for this event was postponed...and postponed...and postponed. A key person in mounting these dramas resigned...or was fired...I've never known the real story. I assumed the drama would never be performed, but after months, perhaps even a year they scheduled it. By the time came of the actual event, a newer person who I never met butchered my poster, (in my view), reducing the drawing to a small rectacngle, a mere part of the poster, rather than the entire image. All the neon wordage was removed. Photos and names of the various school students (and professors) performing in the drama filled up four fifths of the new poster. To me it was a great disappointment. They discarded an arresting poster and presented a neutered, dull, instituional promotion. This was (or had been) the best poster I provided for them, and it was my last poster for them. There were no further dramas to follow. (However, some years later, the school's Law Library called on me to provide drawings for flyers they wanted to post in the library elevators. The flyers were intended to provide students with "how to" tips in how to use the library resources effectively and thoroughly. That continued for a few years, and was great fun for me. Perhaps I'll put up some of those pictures here in the future.)
