Wired, August 2006

From Wired: Stephen Colbert, who plays a TV show host who knows about everything, was the perfect fact to grace the cover of Wireds annual How To issue. During the shoot, to illustrate the notion of hackingtinkering with and improvingeveryday life, creative director Scott Dadich suggested Colbert saw an iPod in two with a hack saw. Dadich then promptly supplied his own iPod for the task. (The device still works by the way.). The magazine covera first for Colbertwas shot by celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg. The August 2006 issue was Wireds best-selling issue ever.

Cond Nast Traveler, September 2006

From Cond Nast Traveler: Naomi Watts, in a diaphanous Roberto Cavalli gown, stands 665 feet above Lexington Avenue on one of the Chrysler Buildings five-foot-wide gargoyles.  The primary cover line promotes the 32-page Insiders Guide to New York City, and readers open the cover gatefold to see the rest of the Midtown panorama, captured in a shoot that presented unprecedented challenges to the magazines photography and fashion staffs.  Taking pictures atop the Manhattan icon had been verboten for a decade; only after the Photo Editors dogged lobbying was the magazine able to secure permission.  On the morning of the big event, four magazine staffers, photographer Jonas Karlsson and his two assistants, riggers who have worked for Cirque du Soleil, and cover girl Naomi Watts and her entourage ascended to the skyscrapers sixty-first floor. Then, during a 25-minute session, Wattstethered to the Chrysler Building by only a thin cablebraved a stiff breeze as Karlsson snapped away.

LIFE, January 12, 2007

From LIFE: This was a miracle coverthe product of a once-in-a-million confluence of events (right photographer, right subjects, right day, right magazine) that led to one of the most widely circulated covers in LIFE history.  Putting Greys Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey on the cover on the eve of the birth of his twinsa monster news event for all McDreamy fanswas something LIFE had been planning for months.  Even the notion that the magazine would wink to its sister publication Peoples  famous Sexiest Man Alive covers, for which Dempsey is a perennial candidate, had been discussed beforehand.  But some things you just cant plan: Dempseys wife took an immediate liking to photographer Matt Jonesand Jones did what any good photographer would: he kept asking for more.  The result was an intimate, sexy, sensual, unexpected, graphically gorgeous cover that portrayed the beginning of a family.