1992 - 07/1992 Meeting

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NICHOLAS JAINSCHIGG

The artist's website is: http://www.nickjainschigg.org/.

MEETING SUMMARY:

Meeting Date: July 11, 1992.

Meeting Site: Peking Duck House, Closter, New Jersey.

Official Attendance: 27.

Meeting Program: Slide show and talk by science fiction artist.

Notes:

We did put together a subsequent dinner group to fulfill our obligation to the Duck House and continued to meet there once a year for several more years.

Meeting Memories:

Newsletter Account:

The following account is reprinted with permission from THE STARSHIP EXPRESS Copyright 1992 Philip De Parto:

Once a year the S. F. A. B. C. holds a meeting in a restaurant during the summertime. For the second year in a row, the July meeting was held at the Peking Duck House in Closter, New Jersey. The meeting was held on July 11, 1992 and featured artist Nicholas Jainschigg.

Turnout for dinner was about ten people less than last year. We had only 25 for dinner, 5 less than our commitment. Because of this, the club was responsible for a $ 50.00 room fee, which was waived in exchange for the promise of an evening dinner gathering of at least ten people from our group. Anyone interested in joining this gathering should call Philip De Parto to settle on a date.

Our summer meetings are fairly stripped down affairs. The pre-meeting activities will resume with our return to Upper Saddle River in September. After we ate and settled the bill (which went a lot easier this year than last), we pulled up chairs and began the meeting.

After the usual set of announcements, I asked Carol Smith to read aloud a commentary by Roger Ebert titled "Love and fluff, Hollywood-style." The article was a comparison between two recently released films with similar themes: FAR AND AWAY starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and BEST INTENTIONS by Ingmar Bergman. After contrasting the two movies, Ebert generalizes the Hollywood approach as something like Mindless Entertainment Creates Mindless Adults. (Anyone interested in reading the review in its entirety can look it up in THE (Bergen) RECORD, Monday, May 25, 1992, page B-7.)

Most people enjoyed the piece, but there was mixed feelings about the degree of frequency this sort of thing should enjoy. There has been no final decision made at this time.

Nicholas Jainschigg was then introduced. He had about 40 slides to show, and spent a fair amount of time on each. Nicholas has taught classes in SF illustration and had a good deal of analysis prepared. One of the funniest moments of the evening was when Monica Jainschigg crept over to him, yanked his leg, and told him to get to the next one already.

Mr Jainschigg brought down about a dozen pieces of art, as well as his portfolio. There were pieces there which he had done for magazines, book covers, and comic books.

Over half of the group went out for coffee to the Westwood Diner afterwards. Jeanette, Maxine, and Robert Kappler joined the party after returning from another engagement just as things were breaking up.