and the tide was way out

June 6, 2011 4:38 PM

Chris Ayers is designing posters, logos, and magazine spreads for the fictional people, places, and things in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, including movie posters for Himself's films, a magazine layout for an article on Orin, subsidized time, and more.
posted by Lutoslawski (15 comments total)

I want that Escaton tee shirt so very, very much.
posted by Dr. Zira at 4:55 PM on June 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

Oh. Very cool.
posted by eyeballkid at 5:00 PM on June 6, 2011

Seconding t-shirt envy - basically this means I need to finish the book right quick so I can stop feeling bad about spoiling things for myself. So far it's just been little details, but then again it is the revelation of exactly those little details that makes reading the book so enjoyable.
posted by doubleozaphod at 5:00 PM on June 6, 2011

Not the Escaton, but here's an Enfield shirt.
posted by eyeballkid at 5:03 PM on June 6, 2011

Cool. But No Choosy Mothers or Snout t-shirt?

What's up with that?
posted by jonmc at 5:07 PM on June 6, 2011

oh man. totally buying a shirt. i cant decide which.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 5:15 PM on June 6, 2011

You mean the original wasn't painfully meta enough already? I mean the posters are cool, but really. I thought the advent of the Pale King would at least make the internet move on from the infinite Infinte Jest tooing and frooing.
posted by oxford blue at 5:24 PM on June 6, 2011

I thought the advent of the Pale King would at least make the internet move on from the infinite Infinte Jest tooing and frooing.

Clearly it should be "toing and froing."

/militantgrammarian
posted by nevercalm at 5:36 PM on June 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

Quite right. But I will take that comment as tacit agreement with my point.
posted by oxford blue at 5:49 PM on June 6, 2011

Is anyone else not into this? A lot of them feel very, uh, Photoshop-y? Underdesigned or something. But that Eschaton tee is great
posted by GilloD at 6:04 PM on June 6, 2011 [3 favorites]

> I want that Escaton tee shirt so very, very much.

Uh, you can buy it right here?
posted by mrzarquon at 6:07 PM on June 6, 2011

Just a great idea, well executed. Hearts.
posted by sweetkid at 7:50 PM on June 6, 2011

GilloD: Agreed. I want to like this very much, and a few of the movie posters are excellent, but overall some of the design is just lacking.
posted by slogger at 6:46 AM on June 7, 2011

I'm doing a webcomic now based on books; a few weeks ago, I did back-to-back Wallace strips. One was my illustrated guide to subsidized time; the other was my reaction to The Pale King.

I don't know if I'll be doing any more Wallace stuff, at least for a while. it's weird, it's kind of hard to come up with original joke angles, since part of the Wallace approach is to have anticpated and included every possible joke in the text already...
posted by COBRA! at 7:12 AM on June 7, 2011 [1 favorite]

This reminds me of a book review Borges once did for a book that did not exist. Fascinating review, who would not want the book to get a better understanding of the review? I wonder if any web site does that -- if not, somebody should...
posted by benjonson at 9:03 PM on June 7, 2011 [1 favorite]