Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
THE FUTURE ! (In it, I shall launch a new t-shirt line after a coupla years out of the game)
I guess I've had it with sitting on my ass most of the time, and around two years after I shut down my old line Anneimills Tees, I've decided to start a new brand up. I was planning on the designs for my first line to be mine and mine only, and then occasionally incorporate in other artists, but I've realized I have too many friends/contacts not to take advantage of the talent around me, so it looks like it'll be half mine half other designers at the first go. I'm not even going to tell you what it's called yet, but trust me, it's gonna be good. I'll be printing it all myself as well!
In other news, my friends at Pterodactyl have a whole new mess of adult art classes being offered in September. They're offering more than twice as many this time around and a wide range at that. I'll be taking the "Making Comics from Idea to Print" class, and my boss at Derisory Designs, Jeremy, will be teaching the screen printing class again. Here's the roster if you're interested. To view the full list with class descriptions and registration information, go here!
+ SEWING FROM A PATTERN
Mondays 6:00-8:00pm Teacher: Erika Duszny
+ INTRODUCTION TO SCREEN PRINTING
Mondays 6:30-9:00pm Teacher: Jeremy Lauder
PART I I: INTERMEDIATE SCREEN PRINTING
4 Weeks Oct 12 - Nov 2 Tuition: $90 + $15 materials fee
+ SEQUENCE/STRUCTURE/JUXTAPOSITION
Tuesdays 6:00-8:30pm Teacher: Elyse Derosia
+ EMBROIDERY & BEADING
Tuesdays 6:30-9:00pm Teacher: Sally Congdon-Martin
+ MAKING COMICS FROM IDEA TO PRINT
Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm Teacher: Pat Aulisio
+ BACK TO BASICS: SIMPLE SEWING FOR EVERYDAY LIFE
Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm Teacher: Erika Duszny
+ BEGINNING CERAMICS
Wednesdays 6:00-9:00pm Teacher: Steven Earle Weber
+ MOLD MAKING
Wednesdays 6:00-9:00pm Teacher: Steven Earle Weber
+ CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTIONS OF BONES AS MATERIAL
Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm Teacher: Katie Elia
+ ADVANCED SURFACE DECORATING TECHNIQUES
Thursdays 6:00-9:00pm Teacher: Steven Earle Weber
+ INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL SCULPTURE
Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm Teacher: Darla Jackson
Should be fun!
In other news, my friends at Pterodactyl have a whole new mess of adult art classes being offered in September. They're offering more than twice as many this time around and a wide range at that. I'll be taking the "Making Comics from Idea to Print" class, and my boss at Derisory Designs, Jeremy, will be teaching the screen printing class again. Here's the roster if you're interested. To view the full list with class descriptions and registration information, go here!
+ SEWING FROM A PATTERN
Mondays 6:00-8:00pm Teacher: Erika Duszny
+ INTRODUCTION TO SCREEN PRINTING
Mondays 6:30-9:00pm Teacher: Jeremy Lauder
PART I I: INTERMEDIATE SCREEN PRINTING
4 Weeks Oct 12 - Nov 2 Tuition: $90 + $15 materials fee
+ SEQUENCE/STRUCTURE/JUXTAPOSITION
Tuesdays 6:00-8:30pm Teacher: Elyse Derosia
+ EMBROIDERY & BEADING
Tuesdays 6:30-9:00pm Teacher: Sally Congdon-Martin
+ MAKING COMICS FROM IDEA TO PRINT
Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm Teacher: Pat Aulisio
+ BACK TO BASICS: SIMPLE SEWING FOR EVERYDAY LIFE
Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm Teacher: Erika Duszny
+ BEGINNING CERAMICS
Wednesdays 6:00-9:00pm Teacher: Steven Earle Weber
+ MOLD MAKING
Wednesdays 6:00-9:00pm Teacher: Steven Earle Weber
+ CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTIONS OF BONES AS MATERIAL
Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm Teacher: Katie Elia
+ ADVANCED SURFACE DECORATING TECHNIQUES
Thursdays 6:00-9:00pm Teacher: Steven Earle Weber
+ INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL SCULPTURE
Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm Teacher: Darla Jackson
Should be fun!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
All Points West Festival
This past weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to come help peddle shirts with David from Sebei at All Points West, via Renegade Craft Fair. It was rainy, muddy, grey, drunk, and a ton of fun. Got a chance to see a bunch of artists I'd been wanting to see (The Black Keys, Gogol Bordello, Fleet Foxes to name a few of the many) as well as a groups I'd always like to see but probably wouldn't be motivated to catch (or pay for) on my own. Every act I saw definitely held it down, Jay-Z convinced me that he might be the smartest dude around opening with No Sleep Til Brooklyn and performing with a full horn section and one of the tightest bands I've seen in a minute. Being submerged in a crowd of thousands while they "throw their diamonds up" definitely confirms that dude is somewhere around deity level. Pretty bizarre and great to witness. I could spew a multitude of paragraphs about pretty much everyone I saw, but all you need to know is that I was more than happy to stand in ankle deep mud for all of them.
Onto the nitty gritty all that most attention spans will allow - pictures. I've never been on the staff(ish) end of something like this and it definitely had its perks, (being able to drive your car directly to the tent and deliver contraband items which you would otherwise have to pay $9 a cup for and stand in a designated "beer garden" area and not have any fun) but mostly seeing things get set up, and a completely empty park to eventually be filled with muddy awkwardly dancing white kids. I didn't bring my camera in the first day because I'm an idiot, though it was so grey and rainy I wouldn't have been able to get any decent pictures anyway. Day 2 turned out to be the only day with any significant amount of sun, and I managed to snap a few before all the patrons arrived.
Be sure to note the ankle deep mud puddles. This sculpturey thing was called the "Bamboo Sky Scraper"
This guy was called the "Braindrop" and lit up purple at night. You could spot some really cool 17 year old girls smoking cloves inside of it almost every time you walked by.
Reverse view! The city skyline never stopped existing as some weird landscape dichotomy, and I never got sick of looking at it.
This giant chinese lantern looking structures were referred to as "Dolab" on the map. I don't know anything about them as I didn't really read any of the literature, but they were cool to look at. Also notice some staff goofin off.
These balloons were definitely my favorite installation in the park. They stretched on forever (a bit too long for my lens to capture) and had blue lights on them that lit up at night. At the end of day 1 it looked like one of the anchors came loose so there was only one end attached to the ground as the other end stretched way out and over the park.
Also pretty bizarre to constantly turn around to see this lady's backside.
And finally the booth! Randi holding it down, again from Day 2
Jimmy and Randi waiting for the horde.
I can admit that I have been scolded for uh... hygienic issues, so talking about soap in my blog may seem highly uncharacteristic. But this lady had some bomb ass soaps as well as other products you put on your body. They all smelled good, to the point where if you use/wear them people will say, "hey, you smell good!" Check out her stuff.
So these dudes definitely kept me entertained for a lot of the weekend - all super nice and goofy, selling silly animal tees. It was great getting to hang with them. They had a big wooden giraffe which they brought to a bunch of the shows, and will be undoubtedly heavily featured on the APW dvd, since I'm not sure what else sticks out of a crowd of people then a giant wooden giraffe.
Last though not least, Jesse Kuhn of Raw Toast Design held down the booth next to us. Loved his work within the five seconds I strolled over to his booth, well executed but not without a sometimes whimsical sense of humor. Jesse's an exceedingly rad dude and was kind enough to let me choose a free print to bring home:
I'm gonna frame the hell out of it and hang it up.
Now to avoid making this post completely uninteresting, I'll give you some celebrity. Dave, Randi and I all went over to see Judah Friedlander.
I was very fortunate to be picked on by him during the show for martial arts reasons. Randi on the other hand, was obviously hit on. I figured it'd be a good opportunity to try and plug some shirts and we went up to talk to him after his set. Told him we were all big fans and to stop by the booth and get some swag, dude is extremely nice, came by, genuinely loved our tees and even got one for his mom. Maybe someday we'll see one on 30 Rock? Here's hoping!
Me, pretty drunk and nerding out.
Besides all of the above, catching all the bands and wading through mud, a large amount of t-shirt selling and whiskey drinking ensued, as shown.
MORE BALLOONS!
Even if I did have a tripod with me, the mud wouldn't bode well. This was the best long exposure I could do freestanding. The little blue lights are attached to the balloons I was so obviously infatuated with. This was the last night, and the crowd was all watching MGMT, who I have to say, killed it. Biggest crowd I saw at Bullet Stage the whole weekend.
The last picture I took before packing up and shipping out. Needless to say it was a pretty epic weekend and I'd definitely, definitely do it again. Met some great people, ate some crappy food, drank whiskey and packed more live music into one weekend than I probably ever have in a year.
If you want to check out the whole set of fotos check my flickr.
Onto the nitty gritty all that most attention spans will allow - pictures. I've never been on the staff(ish) end of something like this and it definitely had its perks, (being able to drive your car directly to the tent and deliver contraband items which you would otherwise have to pay $9 a cup for and stand in a designated "beer garden" area and not have any fun) but mostly seeing things get set up, and a completely empty park to eventually be filled with muddy awkwardly dancing white kids. I didn't bring my camera in the first day because I'm an idiot, though it was so grey and rainy I wouldn't have been able to get any decent pictures anyway. Day 2 turned out to be the only day with any significant amount of sun, and I managed to snap a few before all the patrons arrived.
Be sure to note the ankle deep mud puddles. This sculpturey thing was called the "Bamboo Sky Scraper"
This guy was called the "Braindrop" and lit up purple at night. You could spot some really cool 17 year old girls smoking cloves inside of it almost every time you walked by.
Reverse view! The city skyline never stopped existing as some weird landscape dichotomy, and I never got sick of looking at it.
This giant chinese lantern looking structures were referred to as "Dolab" on the map. I don't know anything about them as I didn't really read any of the literature, but they were cool to look at. Also notice some staff goofin off.
These balloons were definitely my favorite installation in the park. They stretched on forever (a bit too long for my lens to capture) and had blue lights on them that lit up at night. At the end of day 1 it looked like one of the anchors came loose so there was only one end attached to the ground as the other end stretched way out and over the park.
Also pretty bizarre to constantly turn around to see this lady's backside.
And finally the booth! Randi holding it down, again from Day 2
Jimmy and Randi waiting for the horde.
I can admit that I have been scolded for uh... hygienic issues, so talking about soap in my blog may seem highly uncharacteristic. But this lady had some bomb ass soaps as well as other products you put on your body. They all smelled good, to the point where if you use/wear them people will say, "hey, you smell good!" Check out her stuff.
So these dudes definitely kept me entertained for a lot of the weekend - all super nice and goofy, selling silly animal tees. It was great getting to hang with them. They had a big wooden giraffe which they brought to a bunch of the shows, and will be undoubtedly heavily featured on the APW dvd, since I'm not sure what else sticks out of a crowd of people then a giant wooden giraffe.
Last though not least, Jesse Kuhn of Raw Toast Design held down the booth next to us. Loved his work within the five seconds I strolled over to his booth, well executed but not without a sometimes whimsical sense of humor. Jesse's an exceedingly rad dude and was kind enough to let me choose a free print to bring home:
I'm gonna frame the hell out of it and hang it up.
Now to avoid making this post completely uninteresting, I'll give you some celebrity. Dave, Randi and I all went over to see Judah Friedlander.
I was very fortunate to be picked on by him during the show for martial arts reasons. Randi on the other hand, was obviously hit on. I figured it'd be a good opportunity to try and plug some shirts and we went up to talk to him after his set. Told him we were all big fans and to stop by the booth and get some swag, dude is extremely nice, came by, genuinely loved our tees and even got one for his mom. Maybe someday we'll see one on 30 Rock? Here's hoping!
Me, pretty drunk and nerding out.
Besides all of the above, catching all the bands and wading through mud, a large amount of t-shirt selling and whiskey drinking ensued, as shown.
MORE BALLOONS!
Even if I did have a tripod with me, the mud wouldn't bode well. This was the best long exposure I could do freestanding. The little blue lights are attached to the balloons I was so obviously infatuated with. This was the last night, and the crowd was all watching MGMT, who I have to say, killed it. Biggest crowd I saw at Bullet Stage the whole weekend.
The last picture I took before packing up and shipping out. Needless to say it was a pretty epic weekend and I'd definitely, definitely do it again. Met some great people, ate some crappy food, drank whiskey and packed more live music into one weekend than I probably ever have in a year.
If you want to check out the whole set of fotos check my flickr.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Time goes by so fast
Damn. So fast. Here are some pictures of my summer adventures so far. Philly's pretty good man.
Brooke and Anne at the Swan Pond in Manlius weekend of the 4th. Ice cream courtesy of Sno Top
Me eating a delicious brunch I created. Goat cheese spinach red pepper quiche and a whole bunch of other crap.
aforementioned brunch
We emerged after filling up on quiche and bloody mary's/mimosas to find a block party going on. Some kid brought out his Ball Python. Its name is Ghost. Awesome.
Ghost!
My front stoop
Playing with sparklers, but acting our age by seeing "how it cool it looks" when you put it in an empty mimosa glass. Might have more to do with the fact that the mimosa glass is empty than the sparkler looking cool in it.
Harley our pup on the way to the park!
At the park. Harley has a speck of brown in his left eye that makes him look crosseyed and it's the best
Randi sleeping on a bench at the park
Harley and Adriane
Me an Harles
Brooke and Anne at the Swan Pond in Manlius weekend of the 4th. Ice cream courtesy of Sno Top
Me eating a delicious brunch I created. Goat cheese spinach red pepper quiche and a whole bunch of other crap.
aforementioned brunch
We emerged after filling up on quiche and bloody mary's/mimosas to find a block party going on. Some kid brought out his Ball Python. Its name is Ghost. Awesome.
Ghost!
My front stoop
Playing with sparklers, but acting our age by seeing "how it cool it looks" when you put it in an empty mimosa glass. Might have more to do with the fact that the mimosa glass is empty than the sparkler looking cool in it.
Harley our pup on the way to the park!
At the park. Harley has a speck of brown in his left eye that makes him look crosseyed and it's the best
Randi sleeping on a bench at the park
Harley and Adriane
Me an Harles
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Long time no blog
So I've been settling nicely into Philly and work has been great. It's good to be printing again, and even better to be doing it the right way, with you know, real equipment and stuff. Most of all though it's been nice to use my brain again. I've actually been doing a lot of marketing work - little things to get more web based business, researching businesses and organizations for more local business. Making promotional literature/visuals and the like as well. So I've been pretty all over the place with my actual "work," and I'm the in house designer too. And I spent most of the day yesterday calculating our new price list. Crazy stuff, with MATH. Yeah, lots of work, busy, challenging, good.
I've doing some more of my own stuff at home which I'll have to post. Finishing up a good collab this week.
I'll have to post some some pictures of our space at Derisory, it's pretty cool. We're going to have some adult art classes here in a few weeks, screen printing, (which I'll be around for) sewing and photography. They're SUPER cheap ($160 for 8 weeks) and start the 22nd. They're being offered through Pterodactyl (you can actually see some pictures of our space before it was finished) which is run by our friends at Fireball Printing, who we share the space with. If you know anyone in/around Philly/NJ who would be interested, pass it along! Click the thingy below to read about em
I've doing some more of my own stuff at home which I'll have to post. Finishing up a good collab this week.
I'll have to post some some pictures of our space at Derisory, it's pretty cool. We're going to have some adult art classes here in a few weeks, screen printing, (which I'll be around for) sewing and photography. They're SUPER cheap ($160 for 8 weeks) and start the 22nd. They're being offered through Pterodactyl (you can actually see some pictures of our space before it was finished) which is run by our friends at Fireball Printing, who we share the space with. If you know anyone in/around Philly/NJ who would be interested, pass it along! Click the thingy below to read about em
Monday, May 18, 2009
Figure studies from high school
Put up a few figure studies up on flickr I did a few years back... I still think a few of them are pretty nice. Figure drawing is a lot of fun and I definitely owe a lot if not most of my ability to draw realistically to it. I'd love to casually take a class again.
Click any a these to view the full set
Click any a these to view the full set
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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