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Fading Ads of NYC featured in latest Entertainment Weekly – Hollywood Design Report – The Sets of Glee
October 26, 2012
ONCE UPON A TIME: HOLLYWOOD DESIGN REPORT
In this issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY go behind the magic of ABC’s hit fairy-tale mash-up Once Upon a Time, including which classic characters might be coming to Storybrooke in the future. Plus, Hollywood Design Report, highlighting the talent creating sets, props, and costumes for Once, Les Miserables, Glee, Skyfall, Boardwalk Empire, and more.
SET OF GLEE: DISTRESSING DETAILS
After an exhaustive search, set decorator Robert Kensinger found the janitor’s sink at an L.A.-area salvage yard and paired it with a beat-up cabinet. Though he added crystal glassware from H.D. Buttercup and artwork by Frank Jump and Gérard Uféras, Kensinger was careful not to over-decorate. “As time goes on, things will change, as if Kurt and Rachel went out and bought things or shopped at a flea market,” he says. TOMMY HILFIGER
Apparently, a photo of mine and a watercolor by Sandra Walker from my book The Fading Ads of New York City (History Press, 2011) that are used for a set in the latest season of Glee are being featured in this week’s EW! Just ordered them online. Can’t wait to read the article.
From The Fading Ads of NYC- History Press, 2011 © Frank H. Jump
From The Fading Ads of NYC – History Press, 2011 © Sandra Walker
CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – © Glee – FOX
HEY! Move that lamp! There’s my photo on the wall behind THAT LAMP!
CLICK FOR CLOSE UP © Glee – FOX
Notice the fading ad on the wall outside of the window of Finn Hudson’s apartment. Flattering to see the influence my project has had on this set decorator.
PRINT MAG Toots Horn for Fading Ad Blog
Click on the logo above for the full posting. Here’s an excerpt:
Jump’s documentation of Americana is more than just the result of an obsessive-compulsive collector’s impulse. He explains in his blog that he is inspired by the symbolic parallels between objects that outlive their expected life span and stories of human fade-outs. For Jump, a fading ad is an urban testament to survival, the advertising equivalent of a flower growing in a crack of the sidewalk. STEPHANIE HEISE
