Blake was an amazing artist who not only made digital art but did the opening sequence for Punch Drunk Love, the cover of Beck’s Seachange, & the images for the Seachange tour.
From Slashfilm:
How’s this for a pairing: Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are teaming to write a screenplay based on Vanity Fair’s 2008 article The Golden Suicides. Ellis had previously been announced as the screenwriter for the Lionsgate project, but the addition of Van Sant makes the thing even more interesting. The article looks into the dual suicides of ‘golden couple’ Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, who each committed suicide in 2007, and may have done so after developing delusions of persecution and conspiracy.
Variety reports that Gus Van Sant is currently involved only as a writer, with he and Ellis working from the original article by Nancy Jo Sales. (Sales was briefly married to the ‘radical Episcopalian priest’ who was a confidant of the suicidal couple.) I’m reading the article for the first time now, and it’s some crazy stuff: a powerful creative couple (he was an artist, she a game designer and filmmaker) began to exhibit eccentric and downright bizarre behavior, requested ‘loyalty oathes’ of friends, complained of Scientologist persecution and eventually killed themselves within a week of each other. Duncan took pills; Blake walked into the Atlantic Ocean and never came out again.
