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My work is gags kind of, but not real funny ones or if they are funny I feel a bit wrong about it, it’s mostly just a damn big tantrum and a bunch of awkward stuff that gets jammed up. I like impact-y bright things. But not proper uplifting bright, they’ve got to hurt slightly or jar maybe, stick with you –that’s the key.
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24.10.07 14:50
the industrial area in my town...
stenciled record covers done
08.10.07 06:29
Hello. Well finally finished stenciling record covers...
They worked out pretty nicely I think. There are 100 of them, roughly 25 of each colour (give or take), but only 7 blue ones (soooo super rare), all numbered and signed. The album will probably be available from http://www.feralmedia.com.au in the near future, as well as being available digitally from itunes... For a listen to one of the tracks visit COMATONE here http://www.myspace.com/chainhalo awesome...
blue back...
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green and pink back...
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purple and orange back...
and so, thats about all for now...
Stencil Progress 1 week
29.09.07 06:29
And so production rolls on...... been a week of this on and off....
and on.....
and on.....
and on.....
Now for the back.... back to it...... ha ha..
Stenciling record covers 101
20.09.07 17:55
Hello. Been a while...
In this exciting installment...
you'll find a little photo-structional tour of me making a two colour stencil on a record sleeve.
WHY??
My Flat mate COMATONE asked me if I could do some kind of limited ed art (100) for a split E.P he's doing with another chap we know SLEUTHOUND. You can listen to "The sun Sets over a bad day" from the album here http://www.myspace.com/chainhalo
WHY STENCIL??
We chucked about ideas of screen printing or block prints, but we decided that stenciling was the way to go. It's simple and cool and doesn't involve learning anything new about printing or fiddling about getting screens prepared and whatever. It's nice and DIY, which I love.
Here's the colour stencil taped, ready to get paint.
I like to cut stencils from clear acetate or red in this case (its just what I had).
I design the art on computer then print it on paper, tape it to the underside of the clear film and with my sharpest snap off blade box cutter I cut. Simple.
Here I am applying a Datsun "soft blue"...
Because spray cans don't like working horizontally, I made a masking tape and cardboard rig to hold the whole show vertically to a piece of MDF...
Having a peep...
I made a masking tape hinge on the screen so registration is a bit easier, also holds the whole thing pretty steady and flat to the sleeve. I also like to make a heavy cardboard frame with these acetate stencils because they have a tendency to curl when you spray paint on them.
Touching it...(This picture really doesn't show allot, except that I put way too much waxy junk in my hair yesterday).
Registration issues...
I realised I hadn't figured a way to make sure my two stencils registered with each other accurately. I don't see a whole hell of allot of geometric or repetitive pattern stencils anywhere, now I know why.
Stencil printing is a bit rough (or it is when I do it), if you've got a very detailed pattern it's almost impossible to get everything lined up, not only does the stencil stretch slightly when you’re cutting it, but the thing will curl when wet and lift when you blow blasts of air on it. Each of these things will throw the registration off by a millimeter, which adds up to millimeters of inaccuracy down the line.
Registration solved...
Yeah, I just lined the black stencil up by eye held it steady and taped it down... here I am taping the back of the second hinge.
Black paint...
Popped a bit of paper over the other screen to minimize overspray.
TA DAH!!!
Here’s the finished test print/paint. (0/100).
I'm actually pleased the registration was this good. The whole hand made nature of this said there was never going to be machine precision here, it feels hand made and that’s cool. I was most pleased that the type was readable and somebody recognized my mild Louie Vuitton corruption. (stupid yuppie shit)...
First Draft
21.08.07 14:10
Heres the first (and probably final) draft of the rave that goes with the "How Long Have DVD's Been With Us?" series.
How long have DVD’s been with us?
Do you remember when your VCR broke and you decided not to get another because they were sort of old technology? DVD was replacing VHS and you could probably buy the shows you wanted as season sets on DVD soon. Have they released those shows yet? Maybe you started watching different stuff because they didn’t release them? I don’t know but many films aren’t being replaced on DVD at my local video shop when the VHS copy dies … I can’t find Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure in any DVD rental place... and find me The Last Star Fighter while you’re looking. I fucking loved that movie!
These boxes are beautiful, colourful and they mean things.
Blank DVD’s come on spindles, they don’t work sometimes or in some players. You can’t always fast forward through a fuzzy bit, the thing just stops… “READ ERROR” WTF?
Things look right on VHS, The Dark Crystal, Star Wars, Alien, Thomas the Tank Engine, Sooty, all better on tape, darker, warmer, grainier. We’ve lost something here, it’s changed, it ain’t cool.
I don’t remember how long DVD’s have been with us. The nature of information acquisition and storage has changed. We don’t record Doco’s from the telly anymore. My old man must have had every damn thing the Bush Tuckerman and the Leyland Brothers ever filmed. Several tapes full of Great Mysteries of the World. None of these will ever be valuable enough to buy, but they were a little too valuable to lose also.
This is indeed very sentimental work and that’s fine, its where these objects live.
They live in sentiment and nostalgia, very recent nostalgia... It catches us quicker now doesn’t it? Nostalgic things used to be much older... they’d have cracks or rust. They used to be made of things that could crack or rust! They were never made of brightly coloured foil embossed cardboard and plastic, but that’s OK because maybe these are the new Super 8 and they’re really pretty.
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