Snow Print
February 10th, 2011
I was in a group show back in December, and some of you guys may have seen this print there or around the web somewhere. Like many of my personal pieces, this started as a project that a client rejected (not to name any names but it was Timbre…jerk). But I liked it so much that I wanted to see it through as a personal project.
I’ve always had an affinity for old fairy tales and Snow white is an old one, and I’m sure most of you remember the Disney adaptation. For the most part Disney did a great job telling the story because they were a lot more artistic and had more freedom back then. But as is the case with most old tales, it is hard to beat the Grimm Brothers version. It is downright creepy at parts which is the vibe I really wanted to capture with this print.
I would give you some more background on the Grimm version of the story but nothing beats just reading it for yourself. So I’ve gone ahead and posted it in all of its glory (what up public domain) so settle in and read it here.
18×24 inch 3 color screenprint.
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Metric Poster – Show
October 16th, 2010
I have been a fan of Metric for a long time now. In this day and age of free music and torrents, there aren’t many bands left that I rush out to buy records from, but Metric is one of those bands for me. When I heard they were finally going to come through Nashville, I was going to do the poster one way or another. 
Their lyrics are chalk full of great imagery for posters, but one song that always stood out to me was “Stadium Love” the closing track off of their album Fantasies. So I started sketching, made some sweet icons in adobe illustrator, went on a copy and paste frenzy, added in a hand drawn rendition of their band logo, and done. My buddy Craig Moan who is also a great illustrator and designer here in nashville came over to help me pull some prints and trouble shoot some ink issues (screen printing fluorescent pink on black paper doesn’t work well so we switched to super opaque gold at the last minute ).
The show was great, and packed. I couldn’t believe how many people turned out for he show. And the posters that we brought to the show sold in a snap, which is always a good feeling.
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Stars Poster – Show
October 15th, 2010
I have been listining to Stars new album the five ghosts religously for the past month. So I was super excited when I heard that they were coming through town and that I got to do a poster for the show. I have also been obsessed with old astrological art for some time now and I knew that I wanted to do a poster based on old star chart illustrations from the 1800s. I started looking more and more into astrological illustrations and found this site that has all of Alexander Jamison’s star charts archived, and those were a huge inspiration. Everyone should take a look at them here, some of them are astonishing.
So after I dug through those and found some interesting subject matter, I headed over to the GigPoster.com archives just to make sure I wasn’t duplicating anything that had been done for the band in the past, then I started sketching. You can see some of the highlights from my sketchbook over to the right. Once sketching was done I worked out how I wanted to present the art and what kind of backgrounds were going to work. I tried a lot of different things and eventually landed with the one that seemed the most obvious (photo of a far off galaxy), some times I arrive at the most obvious solution last.
The show itself was pretty incredible. the band put a lot of thought into the production and sound of their live show and they really brought it that night. Tons of lights, flower petals, bubbles, you name it. I was blown away by how well their songs translated to live performance and they played material all the way back to their early album Heart. What a good night.
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Fly Golden Eagle – The Island Galaxy
September 16th, 2010
It is not to terribly often that I rep something that I don’t have a capitalistic interest in. However, Fly Golden Eagle’s new EP “The Island Galaxy” is just too good for me to not tell people about, and it is free! So if you want to do yourself a favor go to Fly Golden Eagle’s blog and download the album. While your at it, if you want to be extra good to yourself, scroll down and download their full length “BoreUs” at the same time, also Free! Just doesn’t get much better then that.
Or you can just cut to the chase:
-Peace unto thee
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Twitter ?
September 9th, 2010
Well I don’t know what led me to do it, but I woke up the other morning with a unexplainable urge to start a twitter account. And let me tell you right now, I’m gona kill it. I will keep it updated with process pictures and new posters, I’m even going to try and give away some posters, prints, t-shirts maybe even concert tickets. It is going to be nuts so be sure to follow. twitter.com/snowcatpress
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Milk Munny Show
August 31st, 2010
I was asked to make a custom Munny toy for a show this october in Phoenix Az. I have honestly been wanting to make one of these things for a while now, but didn’t have an excuse to find the time, so I jumped at the chance. The show is going to be at Monorchid Gallery on october 1st. All of the proceeds go to benefit the Keep a Breast Foundation, you can find more details here…
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By Lightning Website
August 10th, 2010
I coded a new website today for my friend Joels band “By Lightning”. Go to ibeenstruck.com to check it out. it is pretty simple, but its got some cool animation if you click on the title.
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Tallest Trees
August 8th, 2010
If you live here in Nashville, and you are going to be in town on the 20th of this month, you need to come to this show. Two of my favorite local bands Tallest Trees, and Fly Golden Eagle are going to be playing over here on the east side for Tallest Trees CD release show. I was lucky enough to be asked to make a poster to commemorate the event, and aside from the show I am excited because I haven’t gotten to design and print a good poster in a while. So here she is an 18×24 in screenprint on some awesome bright green french paper. If you want one they will be selling them at the show. 9pm Aug 20th @ the 5Spot in east Nashville.
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Family Tree Art Collective
August 8th, 2010
So I have had the awesome oportunity to work with a local art collective here in Nashville TN. They are called Family Tree Art Collective, and I got to design their website, logo, and a custom deck of cards which I got to screenprint for a project they are working on. So be sure to check out the website FamilyTreeArtCollective.com and read up on the Full Deck Project. While you are their you can even see some of my own work and read my short bio, what a great way to spend 10 minutes! There are a bunch of really talented people involved in this super group and I am super excited to be a part of it, so definitely check out the artists and musicians that are on there, and let me know what you think about the site, I always welcome feedback on such things.
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Snowcat Press 3.0 Launch
August 8th, 2010
So you might not be able to tell just by looking at the site, but I just did a huge update. Basically, I took all of the design and coding from the old website and plugged it into the new wordpress3.0 platform. Obviously this won’t mean much to the vast majority of you guys, but what it means in laymens terms is that instead of haveing to open up html files and code things whenever I make new content on the website, I have a backend that I can log into and update from there using an interface. So this will definately up the frequency of my updates. It also give you the ability to subscribe to my rss feed so you can keep up with updates more easily, and allows you to comment on my blog posts and things. So I am super excited about this.
I have also uploaded some new images to the posters and illustrations sections of my portfolio so be sure to check those out. For those of you that have been emailing me about my book “how tragic”, fear not, for howtragic.com will be launching in the next week or two.
Disclaimer: this section of the post is for those of you that want to know or care about the other details of snowcatpress3.0. So besides plugging in all of my code into wordpress (which I use the starkers blank theme by elliot jay stocks, in case you were wondering) I have slimmed down a lot of code and made the site more efficient and semantic. first of all I have done away with all of the old javascript image rollovers and now handle all of those with css, this makes my load times a bit quicker and does away with any pauses or jitters while the browser tries to load the second image, and it also gets rid of all of my “onload” commands in the body. All of the rollover effects in the gallery pages are now handled using jQuery to simply fade the images instead of changing the image out to a more desaturated version of the same image, that change alone probably saved me an entire megabyte because those pages were having to load a ton of thumbnails. Other then that, I made everything more semantic by implementing lists for all of the navigational items and getting my headings in order. Also, I probably deleted about 20 extra divs that didn’t really need to exist by putting their IDs on their child elements. What I like most about wordpress is how much it has made me learn php and there are so many things that are smarter with dynamic pages, such as building one dynamic sidebar and having all of the pages reference that instead of including 50 lines of code on every single page just so that you can change 1 list item to the “over” state. Anyways, that is more than enough nerding out for now, comment if you have any further questions or just want to say hi.
-peace unto thee
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