Filmmaker’s Portrait of a Filmmaker
Here is Michel Gondry’s portrait of me drawn from my facebook profile picture. I have a deep respect for Gondry’s work, which I first discovered in his music videos. He is a champion of the kind of creative approach to storytelling that really engages audiences by pushing and toying with visual expectations.
I think this was a bold and smart move on Gondry’s part, to personalize the making of his art and to express himself in a classical form that is at the same time a mass-produced product. Using the Internet to power such creative work is precisely what one should hope for from technology. It’s not a way of destroying time-tested forms of creating content, but of refashioning how that content is distributed what can be done with it to connect people. It is brilliant marketing.
Note: I’m not so miffed in the picture, or real life. But, hey, it adds character. It tells more of a story considering there is a couple making out (unbeknownst to me at the time) in the background.
Michel Gondry's drawing of Kevin Berey
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