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UMS Day 1
In which: Elin Palmer, Safe Boating is no Accident, Pan Astral, and more.
2013
2013 was nuts…
Stratified Design
Exit Strata asked me to design the cover of their next issue, PRINT! VOL 3.
…focussed on issues of translation, transmutation, and language forms across media, as well as the textual/visual/sonic/physical (etc) manifestations of these transmissions as they travel between and betwixt our minds… The biggest tension is between that of the printed page and that of the new virtual realities…
There’s only one way I know to make all that happen.
(re)Thinking on Your Feet
Fuck the Muse pt.7: Sometimes you have a great idea for a project, or one aspect of a project, and you throw everything at it, but the idea turns out to be a dud. You can’t ditch the project after putting so much into it, but neither can you force it through. The only way forward is to take a step back.
Poetry Readings are Terrible
If you are going to spend hours perfecting the placement of a comma and two line breaks, please put the same effort into your reading.
Teacup Gorilla + Bouldering Poets
Over three years, we’ve only performed as Teacup Gorilla a handful of times. Now we’re making our way back to the original performance vision, starting at the Bouldering Poets series:
March 22, 7:30pm at 303 Vodka | see facebook for details.
We’re back, and we have big plans.
Explosive Growth
Fuck the Muse pt.6: Last week we compiled our curiosity shopping lists, preparing to push out from our seed in every direction. We have the list to guide us: now it’s time to go shopping.
Get Curious
Fuck the Muse pt.5: Now that you have a seed worth exploring, you are ready for step 2 of the creative process. The goal of this phase is explosive growth, following your curiosity out from the seed in every direction. What is the content? What materials will you need to build this artwork? What already exists, and what will you need to build? What will be your inspirations? What will be your constraints?
The Contours of Book Design
The editors at SpringGun Press asked me to design cover art for The Posture of Contour, a new book by James Belflower. I used the opportunity to get my mind out of an all-digital space, and spent most of my time with pen, paper, and oil pastel.
Starting from a Seed
You can’t start working until you know what you are working towards. That doesn’t mean knowing all the answers, it means knowing the questions that will guide you. I refer to those guiding questions as the "seed" of a project.