I’m leaving for a bit. Minneapolis or bust. The IOTD is updated through the fifth and I’ll be back on the sixth.
So I decided since I’ll have an absence for awhile, I’d drop some hints as to what’s to come here at Distorted Perspective Productions. First, I’ve alluded to new books and paintings and all that. Well, here’s what it all really is about:
I’ve not done anything personal in a long time that I’ve completed. I’ve started parts of this project already, and will continue to develop it over the fall. Sort of an offspring of The Bolshevik Child life project I have going on, it will conceptually revolve around the various experiences I’ve had in 2010 that lead me to believe certain things. The title might signify what you can expect of this project tonally and visually. I don’t know if something can be sparse, dense, heavy, and detailed at the same time, but it’s something I’m going for and thinking of.
So yeah. This won’t just be paintings. It will be book(s), zine(s), painting(s), t-shirt(s), poster(s), maybe website(s), who knows. I want to make a complete art collection out of all this, as I did a painting series with Knife In A Gunfight and want to push those boundaries into places I’ve not yet experimented.
In other work news, the posters I did recently are going up around San Francisco starting on the sixth. So if you’re in the city, this map tells you which posters will be at what locations. Some are only doing a two-week run, some are three, and some might end up being more. But yeah. There will also be an exhibition at SF Camerawork in January which will possibly have some of the posters there.
Also, here’s a new mix tape. Haven’t posted one in awhile, and I’ll eventually get to posting those from the past couple months. These are tunes that have no real thread other than the fact I can relate to them all in different ways; I guess the theme would be being pulled in a lot of different directions mentally and still not having the sort of foundation that once grounded you. Nothing super abrasive but a good ‘build up and be tense’ sort of mix.
Sleeping In The Aviary – Everybody’s Different, Everybody Dies (2:43)
Okkervil River – A Girl In Port (6:37)
Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping (2:53)
Also, this, because every time I go to SFO I listen to it:
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Choking on the thought of leaving, drinking to keep from sobbing. 4pm, 4 dollar pints – SFO – the time and price. With all my happiness aborted, the PA painfully starts boarding. I sink deep, thirty thousand feet into my window seat / electric chair.
And I was drinking you goodbye. A heart floats in the bay. From sour home Chicago, I hear it beating far away. There’s no telling what I’ll do If I don’t return to you.
Hopeful thoughts of soon returning can’t put out my stomach burning. Plastic wings and plastic smiles. Unsalted peanuts stretch my miles. Choking on the thought of leaving. Drinking to keep from heaving. 5pm 5 dollar pints, Hellbound Airlines, time and price.
And I was drinking you goodbye. A heart floats in the bay. From sour home Chicago, I hear it beating far away.And there’s no telling what I’ll do If I don’t return to you.
And that’s that. New things are underway, in addition to these crazy trips, to try and clear my head, or just at least maybe not have as many panic attacks (or perhaps do something constructive with them, in some abstract sense of that term).
When the fall is all that’s left, it matters a great deal.
A couple quick updates: I’ve added Knife in a Gunfight back to the roster of mixed media work available for viewing. Seeing as how long that shit took me to do, and how it’s one of the few full series of paintings I’ve done in the last year, there’s no point to keeping it offline.
Also added is a link to ziniophile, the blog I’m co-heading up at work and have already started writing what will be a semi-regular feature commentary on magazine and publication aesthetics.
Colin: I’m sitting here drinking a martini and editing my blog stylesheet thinking “what defines me as a typeface these days”
Josh: Perfect question for these times
Colin: FWP
Josh: Everything is these days
I’ve been editing things around the site, I’m fairly confident with where they’re at now, but some shit might change in the next couple days. Basically, if you’re using a browser that supports CSS3 (recent versions of Firefox, Safari or Chrome) you’re okay. Fuck you, Internet Explorer, and your bullshit interpretation of web standards.
So if you follow my Tumblr, most of these links will be old news, but here’s a roundup of cool shit I’ve found lately.
Uh, what’s up, resounding version of “Terrible Love.” Still into the gutted lo-fi version on the record, but this just seems so intense. Dear The National, please play San Francisco and not at a festival. Oh, how I loathe those.
Andrew Myers has this weird ASCII aesthetic to the website but sweet bleached out photography. Digging it. Loving onlab’s work. Mark Peckmezian makes me nostalgic for memories I don’t have involving people I don’t know (photography success). Pretty awesome collage work going on at Glu. And I don’t know how he does it, but Matt Stuart’s portfolio of visually cohesive but quirky moments blows my mind.
Andrew: for some rason
Andrew: you’re one of my favorite cats
Andrew: despite being rather different
Colin: it’s because i’m so awesome and there are very few people on the earth with the intellect to see that
Andrew: hahahahhah
Andrew: word
Andrew: I will agree with that
Fun things like posts filled with photos might be sparse around these parts for the next few weeks as it’s getting less possible for me to leave the apartment. Now that I’m knee deep in crazy fucking projects with high visibility (and thus need to be perfect), getting out to romp around and take photos and have fun is not really a priority.
The IOTD will stay updated, and I usually take my camera to work and get some shots on the walk home, but chances are the blog might take a hit as far as remaining updated through mid-August when my deadlines approach. (For this reason I’ve linked up the tumblr, which I usually keep going at work, so there’s plenty out there to go and see and enjoy.)
Usually when I’m at work I have my RSS feed open and am always being updated with new and interesting art and design links but can’t remember half of them to later check out more in depth. So as a solution I’ve got a Tumblr set up for that sort of thing. (I’m trying to credit all artists I can find the byline for of course.) So I’ll have that going all the time with cool shit, hopefully, and some of that may end up being linked to from here.
Part of this is to just have fun, but mostly I have these huge projects coming at me right now and the only way I can stay consistently inspired at and after work is by binging on all of this art. I’ve been watching movies and reading and surfing like a madman in preparation to actually kick out a few intense projects. We’ll see how it goes.
I noticed this a few years back and forgot about it and then re-noticed it just now and I find it pretty neat. I went to see Paint It Black at the Food Hole in Portland probably six or seven months after I’d moved there and still knew nobody in town. I shot the show and as it turned out, everyone surrounding Dan Yemin in this picture became my friend. Quite amazing since Jesse didn’t even live in Portland at the time. And even Mac is in the back hanging out there. Kimmy and Katie were also at this show.
I don’t know. Sometimes punk rock rules.
Anyway, archives are being mined as I’m trying to get DF up as soon as possible. Obviously this site is growing back to what it should be, and hopefully I’ll have some new paintings up at some point. I have so much to do in life right now between work and projects and more work and thinking of moving that I can barely think straight.
