100th Post / ukulele interview!
Hey everyone!! just did an interview with ukulele hunt!! check it out!! some great tunes on there!
Nimble B’s
Over the break, my dear friends in the pnw hip-hop group Nimble B’s played a great show at the Rendezvous in Belltown. We went to kinkos earlier in the day and printed out a bunch of little publications to hand out at the show. here they are.
also, here’s a song from the show:
GO GREEN, BUY UBIK!
my pieces at the parallel worlds group show (a real gem of a critical studies class)
“Each chapter in Phillip K. Dick’s Ubik begins with snippets advertising a variety of products (salad dressing, coffee, undergarments) each with the same name Ubik; this refers to the ubiquity of both the products as well as their advertising. The book was published in 1969, so the snippets still maintained a kind of 1950s-era advertising optimism. In theorizing what the present-day Ubik might be, the most relevant answer I could suggest were the products hopping onto the green-movement bandwagon. There are huge ecological and economic problems facing the planet, and the past 20 years of “green-consumerism” (especially the last decade) has actually left consumers with a kind of green fatigue as well as a myopian outlook on these very problems.
Five Lysol-brand household cleaners were used as the basis for my Ubiks. I chose not to use any “green” brands, as most “green” products are not in fact “green” at all, so mine were purposefully not. Additionally, the actual Ubik in the book is a kind of cure-all spray, so the significance using a spray bottle seemed obvious. They were each painted an even shade of green, to actively green-wash my products. I used a geometric sans serif typeface for the logotype since it is a commonly-used style for household cleaners. Also, two leaves were added beneath the logotype (a common signifier of many “green” products, using symbols of nature in their graphic language). The classic recycle symbol and the four separate “certified” stickers were added to note the ambiguity of green products. Often these “certified” claims are not awarded by legitimate third-party organizations, or will only encompass a single element in the product (the packaging, a single ingredient, etc). Also, with the recycle symbol, it is often not clear which part of the product is recycled, or how the consumer is supposed to recycled it, or if the process by which it was recycled was actually a green-practice.
Fisk Article: CalArts Posters & Emergent Zines
http://wearefisk.com/2011/10/epilogue-to-a-poster/
Recently, this article (by Tim Belonax (with thanks to Christopher Mount and Lorraine Wild)) was posted on the Fisk blog. It gives a really wonderful description of the CalArts poster culture while talking about changing mediums and the increasing possibilities within zine culture. I highly suggest it!
“Post-modernist, post-structuralist, illegible, ugly, awe-inspiring—whatever you call them—these posters are the physical embodiment of the program’s critical approach to design and its tireless work ethic. In the past two years, something beyond posters has been circulating the brutal halls of CalArts—’zines. These DIY booklets of simple means and revolutionary connotations have existed in underground communities for decades. In our increasingly digital world, what does the relatively new introduction of ’zines into the visual ecology of CalArts’ program in graphic design symbolize? And, does it imply something else about the future of posters in general?” – Read More
Sac Shak Sneaky Cider
Last night some really wonderful friends of mine had an end of summer shindig where a bunch of us got to drink some wonderful home-brewed hard cider. The lucky few who got to drink the carbonated ginger-infused batch unanimously agreed that it was absolutely delectable! Earlier in the day, my friend Chris and I worked on some labels for the bottles calling it SSSC or Sac Shak Sneaky Cider. We added a german shepherd to the label since our house dog is this funky german shepherd painting i found at the goodwill outlet (shellacked to this piece of wood) aptly named “Zac the Shellacked Sac Shak Attack Pack Leader). Here are some pictures of the label. (and i’ll be posting about my summer internship shortly!)
new projects!
Hey everyone, updated my portfolio with a bunch of new projects from this year. More updates, soon, I’m about to start the second week of my new internship at Modern Dog!
relax
Hey everyone, so i had my end of year review on friday and i have moderate ammounts of things to do for the last two weeks of school, but its very low stress and its great. here are some end of year wrapup photos, more soon!
my review wall:
motion show posters:
this white pigeon that’s been hanging around the studios, aptly named black beauty
title sequence
so we’re revisiting our title sequences tomorrow before our final reviews, here are some stills, i changed it a bunch from what it was and am way happier with it. plus i used a track from ren & stimpy! the production tracks are awesome!! review time is not awesome though
graduation on my birthday
scoring project for a critical studies class, combined and scored two singing holiday cards. enjoy