Flyers

another hard one – eostre has felt like a struggle for me. even though we took last year off, i don’t feel a lot of joy in what i’m doing; mostly i want to support my gf. ppl gave me a few directions and i tried to go with those and it turned out those weren’t very clear concepts (even for those that suggested it). i reviewed past moodboards about birth and was inspired by a few midwife lithographs, which often had fanciful representations of the inside of the uterus, or sometimes just a dismbodied pelvis, and hands reaching into pull a fetus out, or sometimes a baby pushing its hand out through the vaginal aperture. ...

Played more with smart objects (making an ink bleed effect) for the side text here, as well as applying color as adjustment layers instead of adding them in the image. Also quantitatively measured contrast and adjusted to meet minimum WCAG guidelines.

Rope Lab 8 I rarely go to the “segregate all text in a text box” route but tried it this time. The image of the back of an Akechi Denki 3-TK is done by me.

ASCII Dwarf Fortress Y2K handdrawn.

Dark Dawn Day The prompt for this was a dark caverous place where queer characters move from the lower levels to the lighted exits. This is ofc a Monument Valley screengrab that I vectorized. I then hand-illustrated different characters who would be in the dark in this Escherian space, ascending or descending into the light. The speakers are real models of the Paraflex subs and SynTripP tops that we were going to bring to the party. ...

Flyer for an edition of rope lab hosted at NaE. Image is from a test of floating hashira suspension on W. This formerly has been just a lab for close friends who I wanted to teach how to tie when they couldn’t afford bay area prices, but after seeing a few DIY jams in Manila and in the bay, I’m trying to think about how to open up this lab to the broader community. ...

Again doing a more playful style for a daytime outdoor event for the Quadra speaker inaugural live test (shown both behind each DJ name and as a ref on Lola Bunny’s jersey). Watched Space Jam in preparation for this and got a ton of feedback about shorts bulge and basketball ear direction from relevant nerds. Also probaly the first time I did a Procreate -> Photoshop layer export for finer control of each layer’s color for the final (which also made it easier to solicit votes about what color combo to use in the final). ...

A small anti-Valentine’s dinner I hosted for about 15 friends (singles and couples) where I made a Kamayan dinner for them. Sourcing the banana leaves was the hardest part. I made a few things I’ve never made before like vegan sisig. Also I’m not really a big fan of lumpia despite being exposed to it a lot so hunted around for some good lumpia and got a few varieties (honestly, my fav was some Laotian homemade eggrolls from a place on International Blvd). ...

ghosting and soren solkaer and leyden jar discharge on film and ornate chrysalis into an eye-of-sauron axial fmri collage

Leyden jar teaser The image is taken from a silver print of a Leyden jar discharge by Kuele. I really enjoyed ghosting the text in this teaser and didn’t quite get the effect I wanted in the final flyer: This was another one where I felt like I didn’t really have enough to work with conceptually, but the image in the center is constructed of a murmuration, the mirrored leyden jar discharge, and mirrored moth chrysalises. ...