And here's the article with the finished illustration — a photograph of the sculpted head in a fantasy landscape — "Listening to Joe Rogan/How a gift for shooting the shit turned into an online empire—and a political force."
@newyorker The artist Katy Strutz shows how she brought an illustration of Joe Rogan to life for a recent piece in The New Yorker. “The history and language of figurative sculpture is full of possibility,” Strutz says. Read David Remnick on how Rogan rose to prominence in the world of conservative media at the link in our bio. #art #sculpture bts #joerogan ♬ original sound - The New Yorker
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Reminds me of one of those reconstructions from a skull for anthropological or forensic purposes.
Also doesn’t remind me of Rogan at all. Maybe Mussolini. Perhaps she had that in her subconscious?
Would have been better using Bertelli’s technique. CC, JSM
Joe Rogan's most distinctive feature to me is the two headphone pads that sit on top of his bald head to support his headphones. They strike me as weirdly alien and at the same time, cozy comfy and touchingly human.
He's a gentle, sensitive soul. Listen to Jordan Peterson interviewing him about his childhood and early tv years. It will make you cry. I'm an actual sculptor. This thing is crap propaganda.
Rogan will be the new Mr. Clean
The misshapen caricature the sculptor creates in clay mirrors the caricature the writer creates in words.
The article is meant to gradually degrade Rogan in the eye of the on-the-fence reader, while aligning a series of redemptive cattle prods to move Rogan himself along a path of least resistance based on the largely political preferences of The New Yorker.
I don't think Rogan thinks of himself as a political force. I think he considers himself a wellspring, a portal to dialog on a vast array of subjects, and only some of them are political - and when they are, both sides have access. I suspect those who say he's a 'political force' are scared he'll reveal things to their disadvantage. After all, one side of the political divide tried very hard to shut him up. A 'political force to be reckoned with' is what they really mean.
Sculpture looks a bit like Lex Luthor.
You want a sculptor? Bruno Lucchesi. His best book: Modeling the Head in Clay.
You can't look away.
The New Yorker is a strange tart of a magazine. Great in the Sixties, horrible before and after that. Growing far worse by the day. I dream of the former copy editors becoming vampires and slaughtering the staff.
I bet they do too, but don't want some shallow dumbass article written about them.
There a a lot of hobby modelers that can do better with green stuff.
"Bring me the head of Joe Rogan."
This 3-D caricature is reminiscent of the Vanity Fair hyper close-up of Karoline Leavitt, or the intentionally strange camera angles reserved for the profiles of Republicans. When you want to focus on belittling someone, it's an effective tool.
Cha Cha Cha Chia Rogan?
Doesn't look like him at all. The bags I see the eyes are too full. The nose is way off, proportionally his nose makes his eye much smaller and there is a prominent tilt to the left. Not sure if he had his nose broken in fighting but I would guess so.
There a a lot of hobby modelers that can do better with green stuff.
Or a 3D printer.
Looks like colonel kurtz
"J Scott said...
Doesn't look like him at all. The bags I see the eyes are too full. The nose is way off, proportionally his nose makes his eye much smaller and there is a prominent tilt to the left. Not sure if he had his nose broken in fighting but I would guess so."
I'm sure he did. He wears a device to keep both airways open. He has a deviated septum (as do I from a broken nose playing HS football) that keeps him from breathing through one of his nostrils. He also has sleep apnea, but that's probably more to do with his thick neck.
That ain't Joe Rogan, there is a passing resemblance, but it is a different guy. Looks like the result of a botched taxidermy.
Looking again, I think they got Dana White and Joe Rogan mixed up which I wouldn't be surprised.
Granted Joe Rogan would make a pretty good Olmec-style statue. We could use one, maybe 10' tall, at the bottom of our garden in SF. Maybe by the holly tree. My wife probably wont like it though.
Sorry. Not even close.
Everything in the New Yorker writes is politically driven. Joe Rogan is now a big bugaboo because he was even handed in 2024. Elon Musk went from cool electric car guy to crazy rightwing zealot because he was for free speech and bought twitter.
“He wears a device to keep both airways open. He has a deviated septum (as do I from a broken nose playing HS football) that keeps him from breathing through one of his nostrils.”
That can usually be fixed with minor surgery. I got mine done years ago; totally worth it.
It must be really hard to make an acceptable sculpture of a well-known person. I remember the ones of Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore that were so bad they had to be removed from public view by popular demand.
Also, the clutter on Rogan’s desk is a lot more interesting than the trinkets strewn around this sculpture.
It's a bit off. There are individual elements to the sculpture that resemble Rogan's features, but when you add them together, it doesn't even reach the level of caricature.
Interesting to watch the construction, though.
How do these "sculptors" keep getting things wrong? Remember that Lucille Ball statue?
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