A while back I mentioned a series of art posters I had designed to promote and raise funds for 2356. So finally, here they are! If you’re interested in purchasing one or more and supporting the cause, please drop me a line. Size is in and around 12″ x 18″, printed digitally on matte archival stock. More designs will be coming soon once I get the new studio set up (pics of that will be coming soon too!).
Following up on my previous post, Maurice Sendak and Spike Jonze talk about the strange magic of everyone’s favourite childhood book. I’m really glad to know that Sendak was so deeply involved, a rarity in blockbuster movie adaptations these days.
I’m currently working on a visual identity project for an exciting arts event this fall in MTL and have been exploring JPG hacking as a technique for generating images. Its a tedious and unpredictable process whereby I mess with the actual code of the file in a text editor, but I think the results are pretty interesting (sometimes).
I’m posting these process shots here in the hope that others that have played with this technique might stumble upon it and offer any feedback/advice on ways to approach the changing/fucking up of code. What do you think?
Emanuelle Enchanted was a collaborative typography project conducted by my fellow students and I during our MA course at the London College of Printing in 2004. The two-day project was based on a brief by tutor Paul McNeil that instructed us to design selected extracts from experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment’s play of the same name. The results, when seen as a whole are pretty impressive, and I’m reminded of how lucky I was at the time to be surrounded by so many talented individuals.
Part two after the jump.
Montreal artist (and Four Minutes to Midnight contributor) Kevin Ledo is probably better known for his beautiful and seductive portrait paintings, but it turns out he’s a bad ass street artist as well!
More proof after the jump, smiles guaranteed…
The first protest I ever attended was at the age of 11, outside the Chinese embassy in Toronto.
Grab bag of web content below. If you have anything to add, please leave a comment…
The Lost Voices of Tiananmen (BBC podcast)
Frontline documentary: The Tank Man
Internet censorship in China (wired)
Internet censorship in China (NY Times)
Internet censorship in China (CBC)
History Matters: Remembering Tiananmen (and Abu Ghraib)
photo by Oubliette
Ravenswing was a great success today and Cat and I really enjoyed our time in Ottawa. Many thanks to the beautiful, hard working people who put it all together and to Colin for being a great host and table mate. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity and enthusiasm of the crowd. My perception of Ottawa as a sleepy government town has certainly shifted a bit.
I was happy to see fellow Montreal zinester Lisa Hoffman there with a ton of new work on display and reconnect with fellow Concordia grad Catherine Pearce who’s been making some beautiful jewelry pieces.
Sincere thanks to everyone who put down some hard earned cash to pick up a zine or a poster today. I’d love to know what you think of them, so please feel free to contact me. We’ll definitely be back again next year, hopefully with a new issue in tow.
Check out some more pictures here of a damn fine day.
PS. So Good was very good, thanks for the reco John! The Pepper squid was exquisite!
I just finished reading a great little interview with designer/director/artist Mike Mills over at The Marma Spot.
“To me the different career categories are really just false creations of art schools, the people who thought up careers. It’s all one big conversation I’m trying to engage in, there are different parts to the conversation, different ways of talking, short talks and long deep private talks, but it’s all the attempt to communicate, to not be alone, to be a part of things.”
Inspiring stuff… Read the interview here.
I’ve been slavishly waiting for this book from Tomato‘s John Warwicker to be published for a long time now. After patiently waiting for about a year(!) for my pre-order to be filled by Amazon, I contacted John asking him about the state of the project. He kindly explained that there were complications with the publisher, but that things were being worked out and that the book would be available in the near future. That was over a year ago. But now it seems that, according to Tomato’s website, it’s actually true! The Floating World: Ukiyo-e will be published this September by Steidl Publishing and I’m pretty sure it’ll be worth the wait…
