Monday, January 5, 2009

Jacob's Escalator: Looking Back, Part 2

In memory of Surrational Images
Scott Mutter 1944 - 2008

I remember Scott Mutter. Back in the late 60's he would show his collection of movies at the Red Herring Coffeehouse. We were both into cinematography and liked to talk about the current technology; Those days it was non-digital !
He was a good friend and I would always try to find him and talk to him whenever I was in town.
He later became famous for his "Surrational Images"; I remember reading about him in the Chicago Tribune Magazine in the late 70's, and I was happy to see that he was finally being rewarded for his work. In 2006, while consulting at BP Amaco in Naperville, Illinois, I came across copies of his work on the walls in second floor of the research center. I hadn't thought of him for some time, so it was really neat to see his pictures on view in corporate America. Scott would have had a laugh over that!

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