While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my Apple keyboard. ‘Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘tapping at my Apple keyboard -- Tickity, tickity, and nothing more.’
Jillan Tamaki has served to a wet tshirt-clad Jennifer Daniel. (Your humble commentator has the photos of said wet tshirted competitor and is hoping to make a little extra post-match dough on eBay with them. Tweet me up at #lyt for auction info. (Sorry Jennifer, if you're going to pitch me softballs, I'm gonna hit 'em.))1
Being that we're going to be working mostly with illustration here, Jillian has a pretty large advantage with the serve: a little extra time to plan out her first shot. Even so, her serve is indicative of the broad strokes we're likely to see a lot of today. The fast Layer Tennis pace doesn't leave much time for the dozens of gently massaged layers that many intimidating Illustrator™®© tutorials have told me are necessary for creating delicately realistic and nuanced illustrations. So unless these ladies have a lot of macros up their sleeves, we're gonna be seeing a lot of power this afternoon.
When I looked at Jillian's serve, I immediately thought: R. Crumb. I could be wrong because comics are not my strongest suit. Comics fans, my ass could use a vigorous fact-checking on this. At any rate, the serve is definitely influenced by comics. What I'm wondering is: who's the young women sitting at her computer, thoughts blaring behind here? Is this a representation of Jillian's pre-match inner state or a not-so-flattering likeness of her opponent? Let's see what Daniel thinks.
[1] Hey Jim, can I use footnotes? Just checking for later in case I need to use in lieu of triply nested parentheses. ↩
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Jason Kottke.
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Tomorrow we continue our series of live, experimental Layer Tennis Exhibitions with a motion graphics match between Matt Smithson and Daniel Oeffinger. As usual, the action starts at 2pm Chicago time. Check the time in your area. What is unusual is that the match won't finish until next Thursday. We'll be posting two layers per weekday. We've always wondered what would happen if we gave a couple artists a lot more time to do each volley and this week we'll find out. Commentary is by Jason Koxvold, who knows a little something about LYT and mo-graf. Jason's Match Preview has been posted and so has the coin-flip.
Naz and Sam Peeling Back the Layers on last Friday's amazing photographic and musical live Layer Tennis Match. No Tennis this week by the way, we'll be back live on the 19th
Layer 10 is up. And that's a wrap! Big thanks to Sam, Naz, Mark, and all the fans. No voting this week, but be sure to sign up for Season Tickets and be the first to get match info and learn how to play in our qualifying matches. Layer Tennis is taking a week off, we'll see you back here on March 19th for our fourth exhibition match.
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