Creating this month's Steve Jobs was "like a triathlon of image making," says Alex Ostroy, involving elements of sculpture, painting, and photographic lighting. Ostroy has been fascinated with the potential of computer-generated imagery ever since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design. At first, he found that "new technologies are always regarded skeptically, especially when they are used for art making," but lately his work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Wired, Time, and major ad campaigns. In a former life, says contributing writer and former executive editor Keith H. Hammonds, he was a "sort of social capitalist" in Africa, advising a local newspaper and running a ...