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I own a Polaroid of Tom. It's signed by him as well. I was told it was taken on an "abandoned" floor of the building he worked in while working for Gale Research aka Quine Corp as a sort of art project by a co-worker.
Polaroid of Tom
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I would scan it, but polaroids are very sensitive to light. I'll try to take a photo of the photo and post it on here when I can.
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There is a photo of Tom in Deathrealm no. 8 (Spring 1989). It accompanies his interview conducted by Shawn Ramsey, entitled "A Graveside Chat: Interview with Thomas Ligotti". He looks like just your everyday Joe. Or rather, like any Tom, Dick, or Harry.
Isn't that Tom's picture hiding in the "Thomas Ligotti Online" image?
Isn't that Tom's picture hiding in the "Thomas Ligotti Online" image?
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I've got the pic up in the album section under "Member Contributed"
This image is included on the Fantastic Fiction website, and is attributed to Scot Peacock. Was this the co-worker you referred to?
It was also recently used within the Ligotti interview on Fantastic Metropolis, but was recently removed from the main interview and now exists only as a thumbnail image within the interview index.
It was also recently used within the Ligotti interview on Fantastic Metropolis, but was recently removed from the main interview and now exists only as a thumbnail image within the interview index.
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I bought the photo a few years ago. The seller said it was one of a series of 5 taken for the project. I've never seen the others, so I'm not sure how similar they are to this one.
The name Scott does seem to ring a bell, but I can't be sure.
The name Scott does seem to ring a bell, but I can't be sure.
matt cardin
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Regarding the photo of Jonathan above --
Are you aware, Jonathan, that there's a certain Jack-Nicholson-as-The-Joker aura hovering about that snapshot? That struck me when I first saw it. And it certainly isn't a bad thing.
Also, have I ever told you that you're one of those people who's photographic image pairs quite naturally and appropriately with his voice? Which again isn't a bad thing at all. (Taking the present photo into consideration, I should clarify that I don't mean to say you sound like The Joker.)
As for the two photos of Tom that I've seen, I've never been bothered by having been exposed to his visual image. The sound of his voice, however, did throw me a bit, not because of any inherent clash between its quality and that of the one I had long been hearing internally when I read his stories and emails, but because the first time I heard it was in the "hidden" track at the end of C93's ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, and the sound of it there is dramatically different from the sound of it on THE UNHOLY CITY and THIS DEGENERATE LITTLE TOWN. I understand that when he recorded his reading for the C93 album coda, he was speaking in hushed tones over a phone connection, so that probably accounts for the difference. But it still threw me a bit when I had been thinking that he was such a soft-spoken man with such a quietly modulated voice, and then I listened to those other two albums and was presented with a much-different voice, rather large and slightly husky, whose tonal quality is much affected, or so I strongly suspect, by his many years of cigarette smoking.
Are you aware, Jonathan, that there's a certain Jack-Nicholson-as-The-Joker aura hovering about that snapshot? That struck me when I first saw it. And it certainly isn't a bad thing.
Also, have I ever told you that you're one of those people who's photographic image pairs quite naturally and appropriately with his voice? Which again isn't a bad thing at all. (Taking the present photo into consideration, I should clarify that I don't mean to say you sound like The Joker.)
As for the two photos of Tom that I've seen, I've never been bothered by having been exposed to his visual image. The sound of his voice, however, did throw me a bit, not because of any inherent clash between its quality and that of the one I had long been hearing internally when I read his stories and emails, but because the first time I heard it was in the "hidden" track at the end of C93's ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, and the sound of it there is dramatically different from the sound of it on THE UNHOLY CITY and THIS DEGENERATE LITTLE TOWN. I understand that when he recorded his reading for the C93 album coda, he was speaking in hushed tones over a phone connection, so that probably accounts for the difference. But it still threw me a bit when I had been thinking that he was such a soft-spoken man with such a quietly modulated voice, and then I listened to those other two albums and was presented with a much-different voice, rather large and slightly husky, whose tonal quality is much affected, or so I strongly suspect, by his many years of cigarette smoking.
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I have a little difficulty pairing both the photo and the voice (in my case the Unholy city cd from Crampton).
I just prefer seeing facial movement when hearing a vocal.
I just prefer seeing facial movement when hearing a vocal.