I haven’t been 100% the entire month of April. I feel like I’m a little bit off on everything I do. That said, I’ve had an incredibly difficult couple of weeks. I’m not going to get into it here, there’s a lot to be said about why I’m feeling sub par, there’s probably too much to be said. I know the end is in sight, but when I’m in the thick of it, I never feel like I’m going to get out. All I can really do at this point is keep my chin up and trudge through it.
In the meantime, here is some work that I’ve done recently:
Official video for “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” and photos from the making of. Just some things I’ve been thinking about since the show on Friday. Which was excellent by the way. I really appreciated the switch from “tract houses” to “row houses” in “Rhthm & Soul” and the fact that they played “Nefarious.” Really great.
Anyway. Working simultaneously on four or five posters. It’s dizzying. Someone asked me the other day how I have time for sleep. The answer is, I don’t. There will be pictures of new work very soon. Promise.
Helped run color trial proofs for Jane Kent as a part of my internship. It was one of the hardest weeks I’ve had in a long while, but quite possibly the most rewarding and thrilling at the same time. Funny how that works out. The edition has yet to be run, so that’ll probably consume another hefty chunk of my time. Not that I’m complaining…if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t be doing it.
I’ve working on poster after poster after poster. That in combination with all the long hours in Dolphin have made my brain a little fried (solvents, anyone?). Anyway, here’s a little peek at a design I’ve been working on for the Spoon show this Friday:
I wanted to create a poster based on Spoon’s rejected album titles and Trouble Minx was one of them. To me, it sounded like a vintage pulp novel and instead of making it too racy, I went with a collage of vintage advertisements. I wanted to use images that were a little quirky and strange, something that evoked the same feelings as the Autumn de Wilde music video for “I Turn My Camera On” without being a rip-off (a poster full of legs, perhaps?).
Basically, my design got the ax during class last week. It’s too vintage, too feminine and too obscure. For some reason, it just feels like Spoon to me. Maybe I’ve been overexposed to theGimme Fiction era imagery from Sean McCabe. Maybe I’m drawing too much from my own opinions about the band. (Maybe I just wanted to screen print a sweet CMYK poster?) I guess this is why I didn’t protest too much at the suggestion to start over. Though I can’t pretend that it didn’t frustrate me. It still frustrates me because I see plenty of gig posters where the design seemingly has nothing to do with the band and…it doesn’t bother me one bit.
Alright, so I’m just whining now. It’s a learning experience, really, and I know that I’m going to have so many more times in my life where I’m going to start a project over. Time to stop babbling on the internet and start working.
