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Thanks to @kasdeya for posting this highly memeable photo of an old computer book. But I wondered: which book?
I figured out it's from "The Internet Guide for New Users" by Daniel P. Dern, 1994.
The illustrator, Hannah M. G. Shapero, has been involved with technology and art for a very long time. Here she is doing some early electronic music, and appropriately looking like she is going to bring us all into the future
She has a few blogs; this was last updated in 2021. https://pyracanthasketch.blogspot.com/
@recursive @neilk @kasdeya thanks for the Buchla identification. I traced the picture.
She writes:
“From 1967 through 1970 my father, composer Harold Shapero, was director of the Brandeis University electronic music studio. The studio was equipped with a Buchla 100 modular synthesizer, which was at the time the state of the art. Though I was not a Brandeis student, but still in high school, my father allowed and encouraged me to work with the Buchla in the studio. I started working there when I was 14 and continued until I was 17. The portrait you see of me with the Buchla was taken (by my father) in 1970.”
https://archive.org/details/JNN042-HMGS-MynameisMariettaCashman
@bitnik @recursive @kasdeya @neilk Thanks for sharing this! I'm enjoying the music right now. I'm also fascinated by the shimmery clothing Shapero was wearing in the photo. She looks like a member of Devo. A fashion choice, or something relevant to working with the Buchla?
@ozdreaming @recursive @kasdeya @neilk it was 1970. The clothes she’s wearing could be silk, but in that period man-made materials thrived so it could be rayon or something. It looks consistent with “smart weekend clothing” for teenaged girls of that period. The pants she’s wearing remind me of a tight hip hugging style of the turn of the decade that typically broadened down to a shoe-covering bell-bottomed leg. They were commonly called “loon pants.” I don’t think she is attempting to look futuristic.