Advice to Sink in Slowly
Advice to Sink in Slowly is an ongoing series of posters started by John Stanbury at University of Falmouth in 2006. The posters are designed by recent graduates in order to pass on valuable information to the next generation of students. This is my submission including cliché but oh-so-justified process colors.
OC Heritage Museum Poster
I proposed some form of this poster to the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum and it was selected out of a dozen entries to be printed. The cropped photos generate interest in the five areas of Starkville’s history: Business/Industry, Home, Education, Military, and Agriculture. And the bold colors were sampled from pieces that can be found in the newly renovated museum.
We’re Going to Need a Lot More Paint
Boy, do I miss my digital photography. At least I’m getting some good stuff down on film. This is the start of hopefully an on-going series containing forced perspective with conceptual ties to manual labor, the creation of the earth, and a few other subjectively pointless ideas. I’m in love with it. And at this rate, I probably won’t finish it until I’m a crotchety old man and the technology exists to really paint the sky.
Most People Will Never Understand What We Do Or Why We Do It.
Hanging out with art-savvy people all the time has its downsides. Tonight I was reminded that there is a world of people out there who have no clue the amount of work that goes into design, art, or just the stuff we do. It’s funny because I was working on the above poster for the Advice to Sink In Slowly project. Who knew that it would apply so perfectly to what was about to happen?
Conor Oberst
Wednesday night I went to see Jenny Lewis followed by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band at the Lyric Theater in Oxford, MS. I’m getting better at using film but I was only able to get a single decent shot out of the whole roll. I’ve also come to the realization that I’m not cut out for fighting through hordes of fans to get near the stage. I need to invest in a good zoom lens.
Also, I don’t know if I’m just so blasé to live performances that I feel the need to photograph them to keep my hands busy. I’m definitely a bigger fan of music than photo… I think.
