12-24-09
Films to see.
After spending god knows how many hours with you guys, I’ve started to become a huge fan of tea and movies, and im not talking about that lipton and hollywood steez. I’m talking about that chocolate mate and herzog on herzog level shit. Now that movie night is no longer a possibility, I thought it’d be cool if we can all make a “top 10 films to see” list from everyone. We can then watch movies from that list, also this list has be carefully planned out, any shitty picks might get you heat from pat the bORRg.
Maybe this can escalate to a top 10 list of all sorts of things such as books, albums, & trolls.
12-21-09
This is Tony and Me
Rocking the crowd
12-21-09
Life After Accounting: An Interview
I’m lucky to have so many friends with artistic pursuits. Allan is one such person. Coming off a recent exhibition of his work at Savant Project, Allan’s show, “Life After Accounting”, is a series of highly geometric prints done with a restricted palette of opaque watercolors.
I had a conversation with Allan walking home from a night at 731 a few years back when I still lived on Boylston. I didn’t know Allan that well at the time but surprisingly we had a terrific conversation discussing school, aesthetics and our plans for the future. He was a business major at the time and spoke to me about switching majors. He said he had always liked to draw and was interested in taking art classes at Northeastern. At the time I had also recently started taking classes in the art department for the multimedia portion of my degree. Both of us coming from analytical, math driven majors, were able to relate to one another in discussing our interests in graphic design, film, and traditional fine arts. From there on out I knew allan was destined for great things… or at least would be doing something he loved.
Here now 2 years later, I’ve compiled footage from an interview I did with allan as part of an ongoing series with members of the Mission Hill community. I’m glad Allan has kept up with pursuing his dreams of creating things that are beautiful and by what I gather of this interview it doesn’t seem he has plans of stopping anytime soon.
I’m lucky to have so many friends with artistic pursuits. Allan is one such person. Coming off a recent exhibition of his work at Savant Project, Allan’s show, “Life After Accounting”, is a series of highly geometric prints done with a restricted palette of opaque watercolors.
I had a conversation with Allan walking home from a night at 731 a few years back when I still lived on Boylston. I didn’t know Allan that well at the time but surprisingly we had a terrific conversation discussing school, aesthetics and our plans for the future. He was a business major at the time and spoke to me about switching majors. He said he had always liked to draw and was interested in taking art classes at Northeastern. At the time I had also recently started taking classes in the art department for the multimedia portion of my degree. Both of us coming from analytical, math driven majors, were able to relate to one another in discussing our interests in graphic design, film, and traditional fine arts. From there on out I knew allan was destined for great things… or at least would be doing something he loved.
Here now 2 years later, I’ve compiled footage from an interview I did with allan as part of an ongoing series with members of the Mission Hill community. I’m glad Allan has kept up with pursuing his dreams of creating things that are beautiful and by what I gather of this interview it doesn’t seem he has plans of stopping anytime soon.
12-21-09
How do we charge?
So, long time issue, first time poster [about this issue]. I come for guidance guys. As all of you know, I’m a graphic designer, which means at some point between doing things for free and beer to my wishful 6 figure standard price, I’ll be faced with pricing work based on who and what the work is for. I recently ran across this which got me thinking, but not until last night did it really strike a cord. I received a request to do a gig poster for a friend of mine which I have already done once for free. This time he said he’ll pay me which I thought was great until he told me $50. That’s bologna sandwich money in graphic design. I can’t say no and too shy to ask for more. So I’m stuck in a position of neither working for free nor full, I’m basically a cheap massage-parlor tug job right now. Not even. By accepting this, I slip into a slippery slope of allowing myself to accept cheap rates with the “beggars can’t be choosers” mentality. By saying no, I don’t get $50, which is something I need right now. Do I let principal rule over necessity? Or vice-versa? We give and we give and we give and sometimes we just need to…take, just a little. AM I RIGHT 731? I know that we all work in fields that require personal pricing so whats the advice. I feel like this is something we’ll all run into sooner or later, and I know a few of you have resolved this already, so let the opinions flow.
As far as the poster goes, the request was for 5 posters with one master and 5 interchangeable templates on the master that can undergo minute changes such as dates/bands/colors/small graphics.
This is my take on it. I have posted day 1, 2 and 5, so you can get a sense of cohesiveness to the set. The band names and dates are not included. Any opinion on the work itself? Is it $50 work?
All opinions welcomed. Thanks.
12-19-09
GIMP dick
I inherited a surplus of 900 series film (the rectangular ‘large frame’ size used by law enforcement in every crime scene investigation from an 80’s police drama worth its salt) sometime over last summer. The majority of the film was painfully expired and wasn’t salvageable, but a couple of the packs still could shoot. The only problem (which is common place with aging instant packs) is that the pictures come out with a light brown-reddish haze. Something like this:
The effect can be interesting, but I got sick of it by the end of the summer. I recently put the time in to color balance them (read: instead of studying for finals).. I cannot express how great it felt to liberate them from opaque orange oppression (o.o.o) Enjoy some summer / Long live color
[edit] gah i didn’t realize it was going to print out EVERY thumb… anyway to change that al?
12-17-09
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
holy mullet, bono!
12-16-09
So…What kind of guys do models date?
Terry Richardson…I can’t even begin to tell you how much I hate him but at the same time, I can’t even begin to explain how much I envy him.
Do yourself a favor, watch this.
Pirelli 2010 making off HQ long from Юрий Кикало on Vimeo.
12-15-09
Installation
I’m not the biggest fan of installations and I feel like it takes a lot for me to give it more than a split second of attention but I find this installation fascinating. The dullness + the chaos makes this piece brilliant. Give it a look, voice a hate or appreciate.
12-13-09
Tony & “The Tape”
Last night Chris and I decided to interview some of the people that happened to be roaming the apartment at the time. We were desperately looking for content to edit and it looks like we found it. Based loosely off David Lynch’s Interview Project, I decided to ask people a series of questions off the cuff and see what their responses would be. We began this series of Basement Interviews with Tony, asking him about the infamous “tape” but later tailored our questioning around people’s personal lives. In this series of interviews I strive to capture the essence of each individual by prodding and churning their emotional innards, hoping their passions rise to the surface.
More interviews will be posted in the upcoming weeks. If you’d like to be interviewed, leave a comment here with a way to get in touch with you.
12-13-09
The New Reality
With the exception of the occasional Katamari (of course), I don’t find myself playing video games too often these days, but I that’s soon to change. In case you don’t feel like watching the video, let me give you a quick run down: You’re a bodybuilder (muscle man if you will), this football guy steals your protein powder so you have to chase after him to get it back. During the chase football guy breaks through walls and leaves a very specifically shaped hole. You then need to strike a pose identical to the hole to make it through the wall, otherwise you’re fucked. That’s it. Check out the link below but BEWARE! doing so may force you to say goodbye to your social life and all your dirty habits – after seeing this you won’t be needing them anymore.
