HUGE PROJECT IS ALMOST COMPLETE

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PROFESSIONALISM VS. HACKISM

4 color silkscreen 18'' X 24.
3 split fountains!

UGH! ACK! COUGH! WHEEZ! PUNCH! SCREEM! AAAAAAAAAAAAH!
o.k. got to get that out.
So I recently got hired to do this tour poster for my friends in the band To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie. I did their last Euro tour print and that thing was a nightmare to print, because I didn't know what I was doing. This time around, I had learned a few tricks and was more ready for the job...well, at least I thought I was. I of course waited until the very last minute to do the poster, I was finishing the design two days before they left, and had 1 day to do all the printing. This would be fine, but I had to work the day that I wanted to print, so everything was pushed back until I got offf work at 11pm. I printed about 150 of these suckers from burning screens to finished product from 11pm to 9am. I didn't sleep.
o.k. but before I went to work that day I sent the band a proof of the design. they were totally into it, but they wanted me to add text that said the name of the other band on tour and they wanted it to say "tour 'o9". Fine, I said. Rushing to redo the text before heading to Kinkos to print out the separations and go to wwork.

I'm printing and printing and printing and then at 7 am in the morning, I realize. TO MY HORROR, I MISSPELLED THEIR BAND NAME! Oh God! This has happened to me 2wice. where I've misspelled really really important details. luckily the first time, I had enough time to reprint everything. This time, NO. They were leaving at like 3pm the next day and I physically just couldn't bring myself to figure out a way to print over my mistake and reposition the text. So I just had to deal with it.

I talked to the band the next day and I confessed. They were all stressed because of other tour details and they said it wasn't a big deal, but I felt fucking awefull about it. I still do. Anyway. I ended up giving them a discount on the prints, and told them to bring back any of the ones that they don't sell, and i'll print over them, repositioning the text and correcting the spelling mistake.
BOURGEOISIE is spelled BOURGEOISIE not, BOURGEIOSIE. UGH.

it's just terrible because the first go around, I was obcessing about getting the name spelled right. I quadruple checked. but then when they needed that last minute change, I must have just been looking at how all the text was fitting into it's little area, and spacing and other stuff, and I just overlooked it.

Lesson Learned. No matter how tired, or out of it, or dumb you feel. ALWAYS proof your text like 5 times before printing separations. Suffice to say, it will NEVER happen again.

The image is pretty. it's a drawing that I did on my friend Anna's face. I drew on her with a sharpie, took a photo, and printed it out, and then traced it. It was really nice to draw on someone. i'm going to do it again. I was trying to do some kind of goth version of the TARKUS cover. If you don't know. look it up.

oh. and I couldn't stand looking at the incorrect text anymore, so I switched it.
moving fucking on. I'm printing LP inserts today. Tons of band stuff in the works. Tees, aprons, 7'' , LP. etc. etc. etc.

HEAVY FOCUS 2

3 screens! 18'' X 24''

maximizing the fewwest screens possible to make the trippiest of stuff.

it was fun to draw the gross perverts.
it's for a noise festival here in town called heavy focus. I think my bandmate is dressing in drag for his performance. should be fun. should be lots of pottt smoking, which isn't my thing, but funny to watch.

XXXOOOO
DDDDDD

Vanity.

This is an exception. I promise I won't post tons of pictures of myself, but this was a cute pick of me and my bff. i'm on the right.

IT'S DONE. FINALLY!!!

Yes. I've been anxiously working on this album art for a while now. Glad it's done. Here is the panels from my band Gay Beast's album "Second Wave". It's coming out on Skin Graft records on May 25th. It's gunna be a jewel case CD. and then a super duper deluxxxe 4 color silkscreened gatefold cover, with a silkscreened 4 color process insert. I think that my arms are going to fall off, but it will be worth it. Colors will be tttweaked for LP version. Couldn't have done the computrixx w/out my pal paul.

o.k. here we go.

cryptic cover art. they are masonry symbols from some way back when.

Inside the gatefold. My friend A.K. helped me take photos of my other friend Joann. Then I took the photos and drew these weird jelly suits. Are they dancing? or fighting? The one on the right has a paper plate mask on.


Insert. photo from Ms. magazine.

back of CD tray card. that text took 4 EVER to get right. ugh.

CD face. and LP center labels. (LP labels sllllightly different w/text)

The album is called "Second Wave" and a lot of the songs have lyrics about 2nd wave feminist ideas of utopia. I was really interested in trying to convey something that was about communication, and idealism.

o.k. to bed, to bed. drawing on peoples faces tomorrow.

XOXO
DANIMAL

POWER ELECTRONICS!!!!

So recently, a good friend of mine asked me to do the layout for his most recent limited edition CD. His project is called Slapping Purses. It's like, noisey electro stuff. Very gooood.
Anyway. He had some specific requirements. He wanted it to be a 4 color process print, and since the record is called "Diamonds Are Forever", he wanted there to be explicit liz taylor imagry.

I only included one image of liz, but did a bunch of very opulant colored pencil drawings that surround her. I'm experimenting with drawing in color (marker, acrilic pens, colored pencil etc.) and seeing how halftoning affects those marks.

It ended up being a lot of work doing the layout (thanks P!), and I haven't even started printing the bitch, but here's what we got.




Cover image: those are scanned in fleshtones from a gay porn mag. and also liz taylors face. I think she would approve.



Back Cover.



Inside Left: (it's a homemade digipak..without a tray) Really pleased with how the numbers turned out.


Inside Right: simple. mirrored from cover.

Now off to 1: test my new light table. 2. Print out the separations. 3. PRINT PRINT PRINT.
it's only a run of 200...so most of the work is actually done.

XOXO
DANIMAL

BANANAS!!!!!

Here are a couple installation shots from the print show that I was recently in. It shows the banana wallpaper that I made for the show. I printed about 1000 2 color wallpaper panels on yellow paper. I plastered the wall, and then had a stack of free prints at the base of the wall. Unfortunately I don't have a pic of an individual panel, but they are 18'' X 18'' squares of interlocking grid bananas. I actually put artificial banana scent in the ink, however, the smell has diminished so much that you can barely barely tell it's there. It really sucks, cuz I was VERY sick to my stomach from the banana smell while I was printing them. Anyone know of good scent additives to put in screenprint ink or paint?? If you order a poster from me, I'll mail you a couple panels in addition to yr purchase. HINT HINT.





note to self. DO MORE WALLPAPER

XO
DANIMAL