I was reading the newspaper this morning and it amazed me that Saskatoon made an unexpected cameo appearance on the front cover of an Iconic American Magazine, named The New Yorker. The April 16th edition of the New Yorker features a humorous painting of inside a plane, where passengers are doing there best to stuff ridiculously oversized carry on baggage into overhead bins. Amongst the entire cluster, you will notice within the aisle there is a plastic shopping bag labeled “Saskatoon Airport Duty Free”. Bruce McCall, a Canadian whose work has appeared in the New Yorkers since 1980, did the painting. “since the purpose of this cover as with all my work is humor it seemed appropriate to make the duty free bag in some way funny, or at least not realistic. “ There is nothing funny about duty free bag from London, Rome, Tokyo, so I shoes as opposite a place as I could think of – a non international airport where there would not be a duty free outlet or outlets within an airport”. This was the thinking of McCall as he assumed in the case with Saskatoon. As he added, "I’m Canadian myself and love to put in Canadian references whenever I can. just to confuse our readership within New York as well as internationally.”
Apparently, within a humongous readership there have always been picks and ponders to the cover of the New Yorker. So there is always something that strike as joke or something which provokes some questions as it is apart of the tradition of the theme of the front page. McCall was informed that Saskatoon’s airport does have international flights as well as a duty free shopping. His response was that of surprise, as he couldn’t believe how much air travel had changed. Within the interview when McCall became aware that Saskatoon had international flights and duty frees shopping, he went on to say, “I’ll tell the New Yorker there is a duty free at the airport there. Though of course you just ruined my joke.”
On April 16th, the cover of The New Yorker will be that of what is shown above. As it was on the cover of the Saskatoon Star Pheonix.
a real funny thought there, and the way the inside of the airplane and how things and oversized baggages by a returning or tourists passenger really makes a wonderful covered and subject to start with. Great
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ReplyDeleteI caught this within the morning and I didnt know whom McCall was - it was right on the fist page and apparently The New Yorker does have a blog or a place where within each issue this McCall places things on the front cover with humourous tidbits. I took this directly from The Saskatoon Star Pheonix as I would have never guessed in my life that Saskatoon would be on there. It's something I could not resist as every morning I love to read the paper which comes here by way of Saskatoon.
there you are...some fame at last,,:)
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