My friend gave me this little lego artist. It’s pretty awesome, and helps me work sometimes:
This Easter the movie The Vinyl Frontier will be playing at NWFF. Artists and the director will be there to answer questions. I can’t watch it due to plans, but you might be able to (may want to call in advance to make sure you’re getting in).
You are paying attention to 4 Color Process, right?
This recent post shows two faces drawn by the famous Jack Kirby.
Look at the little connecting lines below. Who draws like that? Who thinks like that?
Radiohead + D.O.B.
Skip to 2:50
One of my favorite sounds in the past few months is that one little segment.
From Girl Talk‘s All Day, track 4: “Jump Up”.
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It has an easily read Manifesto.
Seriously. There are insanely good images there! Be sure to click on the images to expand them. I would hang this or this or this or this on my wall any day of the week.
One day not to long ago I woke up to a call: “hey, we need to make prints for me to give to relatives instead of real presents”.
Kitsch was fine, so we found a picture of the Space Needle at sunset and made it into a print.
Burning the image. That light is hung from the sprinkler system.
Running the first white layer, you can see the white ink awash on the pink emulsion. Screenprinting got much easier after hinges were invented. They keep the screen coming down in exactly the same place. In the background you can see other burnt screens.
First layer down, and it looks decent.
Here we’ve got a few more layers down, and we’ve realized figuring out what colors to use would have been a good idea. I thought I had a plan, but it turns out I didn’t. But there’s always that wonderful moment where you go “fuck it!” and run with what you have.
Done.
Each time we’ve done a run we’ve learned at least one vitally important thing. Last time it was how thin the emulsion should be, and we really did that well this time. This time we learned two lessons. 1. we really need to find a proper system for making negatives 2. Plan your colors beforehand, stupid.
Check out Jim Woodring’s enormous pen, at the Cap Hill Seattle blog!
Jacob Magraw’s work once again appears on my radar, on OMG posters.