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To the Dad who was always on the cutting edge of technology
and prepared us with the tools we’d need for tomorrow.
Recently I began thinking about how essential my parents
were in helping me to recognize quality storytelling.
During the Nineties there were a great many spectacle driven
movies that I felt I needed to and threw a fit when my parents would deny them
to me. Looking back at how lackluster many of these titles were, I’ve come to
realize how my parents were really protecting my taste palette from being
desensitized by these flash-in-the-pan flops.
As alternatives, my Dad introduced me to cerebral science
fiction features like “Planet of the Apes” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”. These
were things I certainly wouldn’t have willingly watched on my own and were
partially responsible for forming much of my current sensibilities.
Given how my career has been molded by such moments, I wanted
to celebrate my Dad’s choice in sci-fi cinema on Father’s Day and honor the
heritage of my Geek patriarch with a card that made reference to something
other than Star Wars.
Originally I was going to have multiple mini-illustrations
from many sci-fi movies but decided to narrow my focus on just one film that played
to Dad’s love of cutting edge technology.
