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This Gallery panel is unusual in that 5
of the 21 programs are recycled cover art. Two are warm-up sketches that I did to prepare for the original
1975 program series for Clone The Word, Inc.; One is actually
recycled art from that series, and two date back to my college
days when I first learned about Rapidographs from an
interesting denizen of G-Lobby (Stony Brook University) by name
of Phil Orenstein.
G-Lobby was notorious among those who
were awake and those who disliked those who were awake. I was
neither but, suffice it to say that my crew cut and pocket
protector differentiated me from them, their clothing, and a
pungent smoke that was entirely new to me. But I liked their
music—which is what awakened me from a deep sleep in my
dormitory room: “For What It's Worth”.
I followed my sleepy soul to that lobby
where all those beautifully freaky looking people were hanging
around, listening to music, and watching—What? It was
Phil, drawing strange things with a funny looking technical
fountain pen. Nobody seemed to mind my presence, so everybody
continued about their business and pleasure.
At one point, Phil gently turned
around—he was seated on the floor while I was standing,
looking over his shoulder from directly behind him—looked
up at me and handed me his yellow capped pen: “It’s
a Rapidograph;” he said, adding ”It’s
magic”. He got up and walked away, leaving me his magic
pen.
And that is the moment when the person
you know, either personally or through my work, was born.
—Moyssi
