Category: Art

I feel safe posting this because not only does my brother not read my blog, but he doesn’t have the internet. Can you imagine that? I mean, even your grandma has the internet.

Anyway, Merrick has a landscaping business in Chilliwack. Today at work I designed a simple logo and embroidered it onto a hat, as pictured below.

Pretty simple, but a lot of fun to do. My job is fun when I get to be creative. It’s not fun when I have to vacuum the floor or steam shirts. The other day Kenn asked me to make up a logo for the contracter who came to fix the mailbox slot. As a thank you gift we made him a shirt with his logo on it. I made eight different logos and boy is this ever boring for you to read about.

But hold on! Here’s a test run for an embroidered SPACECORP patch.

I think it’s keen. We actually have a ginormous tome of clipart so that I could put a rocketship on there just like the actual logo from the uh…TV series. But I just whipped this up on the stitching program and ran it out on the embroidery machine just to familiarize myself with the process so I can do it for others.

And here’s an example of the shirt I made using the DIGITAL GARMENT PRINTER – it’s cheaper than silkscreening especially if you have your image ready to go but it works best on white or very light coloured shirts. This is my rocktopus on a green t-shirt that is too dark to show the subtle colour variations on the octopus. And of course the yellow on the lightning bolts don’t stand out.

Close up:

Uh, so yeah – if you need to get anything screenprinted, embroidered or a DGP’d, just let me know. We’re at the corner of Oak and 15th. I get to walk home for lunch. You can bring in your own garments or we can supply them for you. Discounts will be involved.

Toren, I’m afraid I cannot condone or support anyone downloading material or images from my site (which is declared on the homepage)– because there are those who print off and ink the pencil pages to use as art samples– Or worse still attempt to sell their inked copies as originals. I have actually stated elsewhere that if the problem persists I will have to discontinue my site. I realise you are not trying to make profit and I am sorry I cannot be more accommodating but there are those who use any compromise as the ‘thin end of the wedge’.

Alan

The two great tastes of lightning and octopus, together at last.

Bonus: Quote from John K’s recent blog entry, which, as an artist and as a cinephile, I find fantastically amusing:

I don’t want this post to be about Disney. I’m just making the point that it is extremely dangerous to limit yourself to a small body of work in one small field of art. It’s Ok that some people like Disney and the original Disney artists at least had some pre Disney influences. Now the inheritors of the Disney style only have Disney as an influence but without the solid art training that held together Walt’s cheesy vision. Well, lately The Disney followers today actually do have some small other influences, but usually worse ones, like Anime or Hanna Barbera 70s cartoons-like every Disney Feature that has come out since Eisner and Katzenberg took over. They preserved the worst part of Disney-the sappiness, the insincerity, the pandering to mothers and they threw out the good parts-the amazing draftsmanship and attention to intricate detail. The 2d movies that came out in the 1980s and 90s look like big-budget Ruby Spears cartoons, they are drawn as badly as Saturday morning cartoons but pretend to have Disney sensibilty by breaking into awful songs every 5 seconds and having fake pathos and wacky irritating sidekicks.

That turned out okay. I especially like the pink on the tentacles. How much will you be able to make out at 1″ across? Hard to say.

So there is no such thing as karma. Prior to Zombiewalk, Lani, Selina and I went to Bazaar & Novelty to get makeup. I bought a makeup kit and some fake teeth, and they only charged me for the fake teeth. At the time I didn’t say anything because hey…free $13 makeup kit. But that was wrong! Wrong to do! So today I was in the neighborhood and I went in and paid them for the kit. They were, as one would expect, surprised that somebody would come in after the fact and make amends, if you will. They told me “you’ve got some good karma coming your way.” Of course, I don’t believe in karma (not cosmically, anyway–social karma maybe), and I told them so. And holy smokes was I ever proved right because not an hour later I went into Opus to look at frames, reached up to grab one on a shelf, knocked one of them down which landed on a much larger and more expensive model, and quite handedly destroyed the glass. Sorry, I’m not paying for that one. $20 is my limit, and I’m positive the one I wrecked was well over twice that.