From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1426 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, October 25 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1426 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni's sensuality [Shari Eaton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:12:37 -0700 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: Joni's sensuality "In the song, Don Juan is really the art of the tongue, it's rapping - coffee house poet talk," says Joni who dressed up as a black guy for the LP's cover and sleeve. That's her too, underneath the Indian garb. The shooting sessions were upbeat, with Joni trying on different dresses and dancing around while Norman Seeff clicked away. When he asked for another change of clothes, he hardly recognized the black character that strutted from the dressing room five minutes later. "At that point, I realized I really enjoy character acting," she says. Working again with the Camera Lucida (Lucy) machine, Joni arranged the photos agreed upon from the sessions: she blew up the shot of her as the black guy and put it in the foreground; she liked the spirit of the shot with the top hat because it symbolized what she felt was the 'magic' on the album; and she included the shot of a kid who'd been in a session for a previous album. "He was shy and had never danced before, that's why he's looking at his feet," she says. But to her, the elements were not "homogenized" enough to be the final cover shot. When she noticed a postcard of a nude with a Mickey Mouse hat and balloons on a bulletin board she felt it was "the element that was like the cherry on the pudding that makes the whole thing come together." She worked it onto the dress, partly obscuring the pubic area and figure of Mickey Mouse (for legal reasons), I added the birds, and then had an airbrusher smooth over the edges of all the photos. She then selected the background colors from the options presented by Glen Christensen, who, she says, has a "wonderful knowledge of inks." According to Joni, most reviews of the album missed its point: "Basically it has to do with turning your back on America and heading into the Third World...at the time Muslims were messing around in Washington, there were radical tensions. I was disillusioned. The songs on the album have a lot of ethnic references and there's a certain sentimentality for the North American Indian." On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Mark wrote: > And she ends the song with: > > The streets were never really mine > Not mine, not mine these glamor gowns. > > Mark in foggy Seattle > > -----Original Message----- From: Sally > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:30 PM > To: Shari Eaton > Cc: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com ; joni@smoe.org ; betsyblue82@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Joni's sensuality > > Hey folks! I'm not sure that's joni! :0 I never noticed it either but I'm doubtful! Could be I guess. What I'm wondering now is, who is the kid? Can't imagine I don't know that...but, I don't! > As far as how she dresses, I'm not sure if I think it's "modest". I think she wears a lot of interesting stuff...it's artsy in my opinion. She's a very stylish girl. Some of my favorite lines of hers which most certainly is autobiographical and so incredibly descriptive and visual: > > But even on the scuffle > The cleaner's press was in my jeans > And any eye for detail > Caught a little lace along the seams > > >> On Oct 24, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Shari Eaton wrote: >> >> I never noticed that before! Is it verifiably her? Looks like it could be a >> greek statuette or something. >> >> >>> On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:59 PM, jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com wrote: >>> >>> I hope ya'll appreciate how much time it took to trim my quote on the >> smartphone. >>> >>> Anyway, by my count, she was nude in two albums. Everyone remembers the >> seaside, backside shot on the inside of "For The Roses" but everyone forgets >> the full, frontal nudity in black and white, smack dab on the cover of Don >> Juan's Reckless Daughter. How could you miss it? It is even in front of a >> kid, for crying out loud. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>>> She was also mentioned in an article, along with a number of other >> singers, >>>> as an example of dressing modestly. Interesting, since she did appear nude >>>> in one album and in a bikini in another. It is all about context. > > ___________________________ SHARI EATON Sr. Visual Designer / AD / UI / UX D 415.361.8708 T 415.621.5322 Design Portfolio LinkedIn ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1426 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------