More Video for You!
May 14th, 2008
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Letterpress
May 7th, 2008
Last night I went printing with my friend Chris Chen at the IPRC (and Brett was there, too). Chris was printing wedding invites for friends from plates–and boy howdy is he a fast and efficient printer. It was inspiring.
I realized that I had never posted about making the invitations for Aileen’s baby shower. At the time I didn’t want to ruin the surprise for her. So. Here they are.
They’re set in 12-pt. Century Gothic Bold, with Aileen’s name in Park Avenue 18-pt. I almost ended up printing the stork icon in the blind (that is, without ink at all, as the impression looked pretty) but ended up using a transparent white with just a touch of black for a very pale grey.
My goal was an homage to anachronistic formality, avoiding typicality of pink and ribbons and such, and using a clean main typeface to emphasize a bit of modernity.
I had a bit of trouble with all of the lower-case “o”s (they were all smashed), but I think it worked out OK in the end. There was no @ sign; hence my peculiar email address. No, it wasn’t to prevent spam!
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Help Me Choose
February 10th, 2008Peat’s presentation on abandoned places in last week’s Ignite Portland (which happened to feature a photo by yours truly) rekindled my intrigue of such places.
As such, I posted a few more photos from the local superfund site I like so much to Flickr, and I’m thinking of printing one of my superfund shots real big-like and framing it.
As such, I need your help to adjudicate the offerings. Here is a link to all of my superfund photos on Flickr. I am leaning toward the ones pictured here, but could really use input. It’s surprising how clueless I am about my own photos: which are good and which blow.
I kind of like the moodiness of the black and white ones, but Mr. Pencil points out intelligently that the color is part of what makes it so visual there anyway.
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New Art, Oh Hells Yes
October 12th, 2007
Mr. Pencil went ahead and ordered this art for us. I have long been a fan of Ms. Dittmar’s art and am thrilled finally to be able to have one in my house. Who wouldn’t like this whale? I mean, come on. We’re going to go look at it after work (well, after wine tasting).
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miiiikkeeey Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 11:57 pmNice! Of course I saw it before. Ahoy! The great white whale! Um, sorry to hear you’ve been ill(non sequitur)and hope you’re up for the upcoming birthday shenanigans.
“What is ’shenanigans’?” –Josie Packard
“Nonsense, mischief, often a deceitful or treacherous trick” –Dale Cooper
February 11th, 2008 at 4:32 am
lyza, I like http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/1242292083/, middle one above and http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/74928722/ (building) of the color ones best. I think http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/74929077/ (columns) is the strongest of the black and white ones. Moody and edgy but absorbing.
Catherine
February 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Second one. The color adds so much. The third is too dark for me. That said, I like the composition of the first, with the door frame, the dark top, and the chaos covering everything under 6 feet.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I prefer the composition of the b&w and I really like the way the gray tones work.
No. 3 has a really otherworldly feel. It would HAVE to be bigger to be effective.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Coincidentally, a crop of the last (darker one) is the header image on the site today (Monday the 11th).
February 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I like the first one here and:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/75022540/
But mostly the first one here.
Good luck!
February 12th, 2008 at 12:00 am
The lack of consensus here actually makes me feel better about my own confusion. Thanks for all the great input.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I like the first one as well. I think the bright colors make for an easy target — but the black and white can really capture the mood of the place. It is a eerie, heavy space …