Listening for the Hooves of the Rescue Party

The quarter moves slow, like an exercise bike on an airport walkway as I think of a poster of some asian mountains that says “Patience” in a funky italics.

Kill ‘Em All, Let Sleep Deprivation Sort Them Out.

So, a lot has happened these past few days. I am a volunteer at the Art Chantry event and Joel and I thought it would be clever to make a “Special Edition” table cloth that we would later make into posters. What they say, I cannot say, but they will “increase our street cred” with the other art schools in the area…hopefully.

I saw a show at the Crocodile Cafe this past Thursday. I saw Patience Please, Math and Physics Club, and TULLYCRAFT! The first two were a little rough, but Tullycraft brought it home with an ass-kicking show. They rock much harder live than the “twee pop” albums they make let on. It was a CD release show, and I got it before it hits the shelves, which is….TODAY! The CD is called “Every Scene Needs a Center” on Magic Marker Records. Mom, you would like them…Check them out at Tullycraft.com. I was supposed to meet their guitarist Corianton Hale for coffe/burger/talk early this week, but school is eating up my time. He is a self-taught graphic designer that used to work for The Stranger here in Seattle, and I am a big fan of his work.

I have prepared to not sleep for the next few days.

I have a state-of-the art Amtrak campaign to pull from the ashes, a cutting edge museum exhibit about movie typography to design and construct, a research paper about silent movies and the intertitles that loved them to write, a senior thesis about the benefits of studying Iranian graphic design (which offers the unusual thrill of trying to contact Tehran…[!]), plus working about 22 hours a week. It doesn’t sound like much, but it is.

Vanessa is just as busy as always, which is about 30,000x busier than the average person (she may even give my mom a run for her money) but she gets the added pleasure of having a gallbladder that hates her. Busy Children vs. Busy Gallbladder: the film at eleven.

An Evening With Art Chantry!!!!

Art Chantry is here

A Tacoma native and Western Washington University graduate, Art’s theater posters, album covers, logos, and band flyers, as well as his influential art direction for the Seattle music rag The Rocket, helped define Seattle’s visual culture from the early 80s on. See some of Art’s work here.

Chanticlear!

Wednesday: The week’s been going okay so far. Classes are piling up the homework, which makes the weeks both slow and agonizing, yet speed by in a blur.
In one of my classes (Adv. Ad. Cmpgn.) I am the Art Director with two other students and our job is to rebrand a brand. We chose both a good one, and a tough sell: Amtrak. It should be pretty interesting to see where that goes.

Vanessa and I watched “Rock-A-Doodle” last night. A 1991 classic from the makers of such a wonder as “All Dogs Go To Heaven”. It was kind of strange to think about all the parts and songs in that flim that I remembered. I guess it really made an impact on me. Maybe it was just that good of a film.

I am researching silent movie titles (Intertitles for we non-film indusry folks). It is for another class. It is interesting to see that there are quite a bit of film makers out there who love doing silent films with the old fashioned look of the early 20th century. Guy Maddin is on of the more prolific of these directors. He actually made a movie in Seattle called “Brand Upon the Brain!”(Brand Upon the Brain Still), and I am rather interested in his style of work. There is a showing of it here on a very limited basis, so i might go try and check that out, but i doubt the wallet full of moths and the planner full of list will allow that. The poster leaves somthing to be desired…but I checked out some trailers on YouTube and was interested, otherwise I would have never known and blown it off. We’ll have to wait and see.

Another One Bites the Dust?

Here I go, into a world that is unfamiliar and awkward. I have no idea what to blog about. I only did this because I am wasting time until I have to go to the doctor to get antibiotics. Maybe I should be sleeping…

I did do some traveling, maybe I will write about that.
Until then, I leave this as my legacy.