needing to layer

it's cold
i'm into these layering items
better posts to come when not exhausted/real busy

william asher

Julia and I are doing a presentation on William Asher this monday.
I'm using this webspace to house some movie clips we're going to reference.
Also I built the presentation in indesign so it's really beautiful. I will post after the drop.

INTRO:
__BEACH BLANKET BINGO


YOUTH REVOLUTION:
__VONZIPPER:

__DICKDALE:

__HOWTOSTUFFAWILDBIKINI:

EDITING:
__Bikini Beach Intro

recently

Lady bugs invaded. They were terrifying.

I've been working in the studio

I've been working in the studio

The harbor over flowed.

I went to the POSTTYPOGRAPHY Lettering and Type Book release party.
And tasted the fondant from Charm City Cakes.

Batly!

acrylic ritual

Recently I've been thinking a lot about ownership of personal identity and body image in relation to popular culture.
I think that this is been inadvertently expressed within my work.
Actually not inadvertently, but directly.

My most recent flash animation is an at home tutorial for applying acrylic tips to your fingernails.
I have to figure out how to upload flash to the internet, but here is the opening frame.



(keep in mind that the text is animated - it changes colors and hovers up and down, and that her nails also flash colors at very quick impulses)


It was really interesting to watch people interact with the game today in it's half finished state.
I was surprised at the amount of people who had absolutely no idea what this acrylic ritual entailed, or that it even existed.

I still have a lot of work to do on it, but I'm confident it's going to be pretty excellent when it's finished.

meow

I'm drinking lemon tea, finish my photo imaging homework and online window shopping.

This top is fabulous.

Is it the weekend yet? Can I get my paycheck?

Minnie, those are so you.

Robert Clergerie 'Douz' Platform Pump

"never trust a man who looks like Omar Sharif"

It's about 42 degrees in Baltimore, and the middle of October? What is this?!
I'm completely unprepared- my coats are in Jersey. All I've got is this stylish fashion-cape, but it's warm so we good.

Fall break starts today, I'm staying around instead of heading back up north. Gotta get some work done and embark on some entrepreneurial ventures which will remain hush hush for the time being.

But anyway I had a (surprisingly) good crit in experimental type for my final cyrillic hang tags. Ken was really into them. I was unsure of the final product just because they felt a little too playful and a little too naive, you know? But Ken said that it worked and it was kind of reminiscent of J. Otto; which I could get down with- I liked Olive the Other Reindeer.

Here are jpgs of the tags before I printed and cut them out on fawn stonehenge. They fold down the middle. There is a string that ties around the folded center and then around the tag on the other end.


Plush - Holiday


Plush - Valentine


Plush- Spring

I presented the hang tags in three different colorways, with the intention for the boutique to change them with the season, look for that month; making the tags themselves feel like more of a covetable item than just an indicator

In other news: the Duck Sauce video for aNYway finally came out.
I AM OBSESSED. So amazing.
I'm so happy for the Fool's Gold Fam. Enjoy!

Duck Sauce "aNYway" (Surface To Air version) from A-Trak on Vimeo.