Hello boys and girls!
This episode of Mental Residue is a video cast. Why? Because I can, damn it! Enjoy!!!
Paul E. Cooley’s The Street eBook cover is a debauchery riddled landscape featuring your favorite childhood characters navigating a world foreign to them: unemployment.
What happens when your favorite childhood television characters are forced into unemployment? What is a puppet to do when corporate America shuts down the public television stations and educational shows that gave them purpose and a reason to live?
Pretty much any and every thing that a down on his luck human would do… and much much more.
It’s a rough and tumble debauchery-riddled decent into madness and moral degradation as your favorite childhood friends do whatever it takes to survive and turn a profit… no matter the costs.
One unlikely anti-hero steps out of the trash-strewn alleys to take back what was lost. Friends will be sacrificed. Enemies will be made. The seed and dough will run red with greed and lust.
It’s just another day…
… another day on The Street.
This composition was fun to put together. It started out as several photos taken practically in my backyard (in the city of Manchester, NH). The side wall you see is actually two photographs (with the split being the fire escape). The alley way floor is actually two photographs, one with the regular road way and one being the cobbled side street. Finally, the street at the far end of the image is actually several photographs. All of these different shops were then photoshopped together to provide the canvas that the rest of the composition was addd to. Using a combination of other photographs, original digital creations, and Illustrator text, I then merged, tweaked, and modified every single element to create a cohesive whole. There are so many easter eggs sprinkled throughout that even after a dozen viewings you are sure to find more. I believe at last count there were 117 specific easter eggs hidden in the piece, either specific to your favorite childhood friends, references to Paul’s The Street Stories, or specific to Paul’s rabid fans.
How many easter eggs can you find? Start listing them in the comments below.
Here’s some views of the eBook cover posters for The Street.
Click on them for a link to my Etsy shop to pick up your copy.
