Yeah, I know, I’m slipping on here. Nothing has been changed to make the site more “aberrant” and places like my Myspace are getting all the blog posts.
But there is good news: I’ve been knocking out work stuff left and right and will get back on this horse a.s.a.p.
As for the work I’ve been getting done, I’m working on the liner note artwork for a local band called Necrophiliac’s Hearse. Give them a listen. It’s fun and campy and about having sex with the dead! Also, I’m (as I’m writing this) printing out a number of large-format prints for an artist who is using them in an installation at the Burning Man Festival. They’re these amazing symmetrical fractal images. Five bucks says that some dude is gonna trip balls in front of these things and it’s gonna blow his mind, man. I’d show you all now, but I don’t have any sort of clearance to do so… Maybe after the event is through, if he’s okay with it. Three of the pieces are four feet by four feet and were printed on clear film. The fourth is an astounding three feet by twenty four feet being printed on opaque back-lit media.
I’ve never printed on either material before, but have been wanting to for some time. Mostly because I plan to make some custom pieces and hold a gallery show during one of the First Friday events out here. The clear film has a number of challenges attached to it, so the whole process has been rather time-consuming. First off, the paper sensor on my printer is calibrated in such a way that it basically sees right through the film and thus doesn’t recognize it. So for the darned thing to even accept the media, I first have to turn off the lights in the room, which apparently is the only way the sensor has any shot of “seeing” it. Then at the end of printing any piece, I have to turn out the lights again, so that the printer will “see” the film and cut it! If that doesn’t happen, then I end up in a whole heap of trouble, trying to roll the piece back up, get the printer to accept the media again, feed it back through and get it to cut properly. Considering how nice the pieces have been coming out though, I’d say it’s worth the time put in. Plus, the guy I’m doing this for is super cool as it turns out and happened to be a writer for Marvel UK back in the day, so we managed to get really nice discourse going…
There is one other project, a reality television show about a daytime club at the Hard Rock pool. It’s probably the closest to actual reality I’ve ever seen with a “reality” show. None of the “cast” are actors by trade but the actual people who work at the club and the producers don’t really create situations so much as they earn the trust of the people they follow and then let the drama reveal itself. Not sure if the show will be any good, but I’d definitely work on it again next summer should it come around.
Of course, now with all this stuff wrapping up, I may have to get another “straight” job… Ugh…