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

LIVE TO MAKE MESS!

I am a lucky jerk. My house is amazing, and the best best part, I have a really humungous semi converted attic that houses my print studio. All for $300 a month! and I only share the apt. with 2 people. This is quite a steal, even for us podunk hicks in minneapolis. I took some photos recently of the space, and of a couple test prints to give you a feeeeel. It's messy. it's ghetto. but it's mine.

The main room. Here's my print table, and print rack. I brought the rack up to the attic myself, and I still don't understand how it fit up the tiny winding staircase and all put together all by myself.

This is my print storage system. haha. I REALLY need a flat file, or some storage system STAT. Currently, most prints are just piling up on tables, just covering in dust, and threatening to ruin themselves.

INK, Space heater (it's COLD), and terribly tiny cd player

Here is my exposure "unit". It currently consists of 2 halogen worklights (the red things on the floor) and the glass table that you see. I'm rebuilding a new one this week. I'm getting a bunch of fluorescent fixtures, and i'm going to wire them together in a box directly under the glass top, and put blacklight bulbs in them to get all my exposure times way down.
The exposure table also doubles as a really really bright tracing table. When I'm tired of using tracing paper, I fire it up to work on all my separations.


Here's the guest room / washout area. This is where bands crash when they are coming through town. Unfortunately i've had to wake up a few slumbering souls at 5am when I have to wash out my screen. It's LOUD!!

Here's a closeup of the washout. It's a double sink with the middle cut out. It has no faucet, but it drains to a nearby smaller utility sink with a faucet and hose attachment. My pops helped me do the plumbing. Say hello to my friend P. We're going to backlight this sucker next week as well. FUNN


Test prints!!!

Come to the studio sometime
XO
DANIMAL

TEEEE SHIRT!!

Here's a simple teeshirt I made for the Israeli band TV Buddhas.

enjoy.



XO
DANIMAL

OF UNCOOL!

I met this rad guy in Montreal, when my band played there last June. His name is Pierre Richardson and he has a really TITE art blog called OF UNCOOL. He just did an interview with me about poster art and junk.

OF UNCOOL.

400 PULLS LATER!!!!

I'm on a break from printing this lady.

It's a last last minute flyer for my band Gay Beast's show with thee unreal These Are Powers. We finally finally get to play with them. I did a Neptune/ These are Powers poster a while back.
This time around I was a little less hard on myself when drawing the separations. I didn't have an anxiety attack about everything, like I normally do. P helped me out with some trickwickery and layout suggestions. I'm slowly overcoming my fear of photoshop.

Bands: These Are Powers, Gay Beast, Bird Names (chicago, and awesome tooo), Mute Era (OMG!). Sunday March 1st, Triple Rock Social Club.

18'' X 24'' 4 color screenprint.

So so so so much in the works right now and a bunch of stuff I haven't gotten around to post. On deck, Slapping Purses CD case. the rest of my band's album art, ariel pink poster, paper mice album art, and some other other junk. WISH ME LUCK!