viernes, 11 de marzo de 2011

Oportunidades de urgencia - Emergency opportunities

La semana había iniciado plácida y bien planeada. Me senté a primera hora con la taza caliente de rigor a revisar mi correo y me voy encontrando un mensaje del equipo de arte de Orsai. Confieso que no tenía la más remota idea de qué se trataba y lo que leí en el mensaje era descabellado. Querían nada menos que ¡cuatro ilustraciones en tres días!

This work week was looking like one of the best planned in a long time and I was feeling really good about it. But as I sat down with my morning brew to read my email, I found this strange new address appear next to one of the messages in my inbox. It came from the art team of a magazine named Orsai. At first I had no clue what I was in for and as I read on I felt this undertow at my feet: They needed 4 illustrations in 3 days!

Sin embargo, había estado mascullando la idea de iniciar una carpeta para artículos de revista. Y son de esas coincidencias algo sospechosas que esta resultaba ser en efecto...una revista. Literaria para terminar de hacerla, y hermosísima.

Y para rematar aun más, el texto es de Luis Chaves.

I tried not to panic and recalled that I had been nibbling at the idea of making a portfolio with editorial illustration for magazines. And here, out of the blue, a magazine that was requiring my services. A literary magazine at that and such a beautiful one!

To top it off, the text was by a much admired Costa Rican writer called Luis Chaves.


Así que no me quedó de otra que aprovechar esta pepita de oro disfrazada de "palmada". He aquí parte de los resultados:

So I was left with no alternative than to take on this golden opportunity disguised as insanity. Here is part of the results: