got up around 6, showered. spent the morning cutting films for the new dianogah print (two pieces of bread), listening to the recent band of horses record. andrea sent me a link which lead me from one thing to another and i found these great videos of andrew playing on the street in paris.
went to TBM, sorted some stuff, picked up paper.
went down to a body shop which wally recommended to me for the rear-ending i got two weeks ago. the guy gave me a nice fat estimate, which i will turn over to the rear-ender's insurance co.
to screwball (pick up screens, emulsion, ink, see judge, steve), then to sonnenzimmer (pick up screens, see nick), then down to mat's painting studio, where he now has his own press, similar to the cameos at TBM, but bigger and better. it's pretty awesome.
we navigated using crosshair press' exposure unit, and burt screens for the dianogah poster. went out to the hardware store for some lag bolts for a bowling lane table mat's going to assemble in his space. tried to stop by yojimbo's garage, but it was closed this afternoon. stopped to get a chai. back to crosshair and mat's press.
did some fooling around and finagling of the press, but ran out of time to print. jason called as he got off the el, i went down to meet him, and we went to quenchers for a band meeting with our label.
we made plans for touring, record release dates, etc, and i think we settled on a title for the album. good time hanging with the dudes from the label.
i drove jason and kip home, then came home. emailing and typing now. soon to bed.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
wednesday, again?
okay, woke around 6:30, got up. showered and set to drawing a dianogah / bear claw / quatre tete poster for the empty bottle in january. spent the morning answering some emails, and loading images onto a jump drive for jason. we spent some time discussing artwork for the new album. somehow, i sat at my desk until almost 1pm.
left the house to go to the post office, took my rear wheels from the touring bike to turin to discuss my options with joe (more about the bike later), and got food for seth and akiko, across the street from turin.
home, seth and i walked around the block, up to the park, etc. he wore his new coat.
back home, i fed the animals, and took off. stopped at TBM to unload various new prints from the car, stopped at ocho's et to get him some new food, then headed down to the filed museum, where i arrived at 5pm.
met di inside, and we went back up to her work space so she could finish mounting a red-breasted nuthatch.
we went down to the volunteer appreciation party at the museum, which was pretty great. great food (including sweet potato fries). the hawaiian band who played were way too loud, i couldn't hear anything.
we talked to sue demel's husband, scott, for a while, and saw di's mentor, dave, as we were leaving to go back upstairs. di and i sat n front of a display of meteorites, and i was surprised about how long i talked to her about meteors, asteroids, the planets, comets, why pluto was de-classified last year, what the plane of the ecliptic is, how planets are formed, etc.
back to di's workspace to et our coats, we ran into dave again, and he walked out with us. di went to her car in the volunteer lot, and dave and i walked out to soldier field, where we had both parked.
i drove home on 94, and di was already home, having taken lake shore drive. di was separating two fighting tomcats in the alley when i arrived.
looked longingly at my bike for a while, then decided to get an hour of painting in. primed the trim on one of the windows and one of the doors in the den. this room will look good, and needs to be finished asap.
typing now, falling asleep.
left the house to go to the post office, took my rear wheels from the touring bike to turin to discuss my options with joe (more about the bike later), and got food for seth and akiko, across the street from turin.
home, seth and i walked around the block, up to the park, etc. he wore his new coat.
back home, i fed the animals, and took off. stopped at TBM to unload various new prints from the car, stopped at ocho's et to get him some new food, then headed down to the filed museum, where i arrived at 5pm.
met di inside, and we went back up to her work space so she could finish mounting a red-breasted nuthatch.
we went down to the volunteer appreciation party at the museum, which was pretty great. great food (including sweet potato fries). the hawaiian band who played were way too loud, i couldn't hear anything.
we talked to sue demel's husband, scott, for a while, and saw di's mentor, dave, as we were leaving to go back upstairs. di and i sat n front of a display of meteorites, and i was surprised about how long i talked to her about meteors, asteroids, the planets, comets, why pluto was de-classified last year, what the plane of the ecliptic is, how planets are formed, etc.
back to di's workspace to et our coats, we ran into dave again, and he walked out with us. di went to her car in the volunteer lot, and dave and i walked out to soldier field, where we had both parked.
i drove home on 94, and di was already home, having taken lake shore drive. di was separating two fighting tomcats in the alley when i arrived.
looked longingly at my bike for a while, then decided to get an hour of painting in. primed the trim on one of the windows and one of the doors in the den. this room will look good, and needs to be finished asap.
typing now, falling asleep.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
tuesday
woke at 4:45am, couldn't go back to sleep. got up at 5:30, left the house in the cold rain. stopped by TBM to drop off the misprints and subscriber copies of the sound opinions reprint, then went down to screwball. stopped for chai. at screwball, i curated the 'animals & objects' prints, counted, signed and numbered the run of 280 by 9am, when i loaded them into the car and left.
stopped by hot dougs to drop off posters, then went to touch & go and beans & bagels. stopped to see gini, who makes greyhound jackets, who made a new jacket for seth. visited with her dogs, morgan and betsy, for a while, before buying new pencil leads at cvs, on the way to sonnenzimmer.
at nick's, i spent the whole day signing and numbering the sound opinions prints. around 1pm, i got sleepy and napped on the couch (sitting up) for 20 minutes. around 3:30, i finished, packed the prints into the car, and headed south on lake shore drive, to navy pier. todd from sound opinions took the prints, and i made a quick stop in a studio with matt cunningham, who asked me a few questions about the ispace show, for a tiny piece he'll be doing in the next couple days. after three questions, he took me upstairs to see the sound opinions folks. i talked to jim and greg about my bloody valentine. they wanted to know which animal in the poster was which one of them. jim is shorter than i remember.
from navy pier, i went to hang posters: west to rotofugi (visit with whitney, draw on bathroom wall), then to renegade handmade (hi sue), then to reckless (photobooth with christian), then to quimby's (hi liz), and finally back onto the highway, still in the rain, and home.
di had a fire going, i made tomato and chevre on toasted bread with olive oil, and we watched 'rescue dawn'. amazing.
now trying to catch up on emails (i'm so far behind), and trying to start a simple poster for the january dianogah show, as a test of mat's new press, so we can run the long-long overdue metropolis prints there.
probably sleep soon, it's midnight.
stopped by hot dougs to drop off posters, then went to touch & go and beans & bagels. stopped to see gini, who makes greyhound jackets, who made a new jacket for seth. visited with her dogs, morgan and betsy, for a while, before buying new pencil leads at cvs, on the way to sonnenzimmer.
at nick's, i spent the whole day signing and numbering the sound opinions prints. around 1pm, i got sleepy and napped on the couch (sitting up) for 20 minutes. around 3:30, i finished, packed the prints into the car, and headed south on lake shore drive, to navy pier. todd from sound opinions took the prints, and i made a quick stop in a studio with matt cunningham, who asked me a few questions about the ispace show, for a tiny piece he'll be doing in the next couple days. after three questions, he took me upstairs to see the sound opinions folks. i talked to jim and greg about my bloody valentine. they wanted to know which animal in the poster was which one of them. jim is shorter than i remember.
from navy pier, i went to hang posters: west to rotofugi (visit with whitney, draw on bathroom wall), then to renegade handmade (hi sue), then to reckless (photobooth with christian), then to quimby's (hi liz), and finally back onto the highway, still in the rain, and home.
di had a fire going, i made tomato and chevre on toasted bread with olive oil, and we watched 'rescue dawn'. amazing.
now trying to catch up on emails (i'm so far behind), and trying to start a simple poster for the january dianogah show, as a test of mat's new press, so we can run the long-long overdue metropolis prints there.
probably sleep soon, it's midnight.
Monday, December 10, 2007
monday
okay, woke at 6, got up, didn't shower, since the waste line is filled with shit, an the plumber won't come until tonight.
got a chai (no coffee for like a week now), then on to screwball. steve hadn't finished printing the 'animals & objects...' poster, so i headed over to sonnenzimmer. nick and nadine arrived just after me. nadine went to work, nick an i worked at sonnenzimmer all day. i curated the sound opinions reprints, sorting the good prints (1115) from the bad (83), counting them, stacking them by groups of 25, and then spent the rest of the day signing and numbering them. overall, they look really good.
photo of stacks of posters to follow.
around 11:30, we ordered pizzas from a place nearby, then walked down to get them. back to the shop, i signed for the rest fo the afternoon, until 3:30, when we drove some big boxes over to fedex so nick could ship them. i took off for screwball, where steve was just beginning the fourth screen on the 'animals & objects' prints. as soon as he had a good one, i took it and drove down to logan square, ten down to tannagram design, near washington and halsted. yann came out, and we met up with a dude i met on craigslist, from whom i bought a brooks bike seat. yann and i took off for rick valicenti's new THIRST studio near the dianogah practice space. thirst is now above richard wright's modern furniture collection building. amazing.
marian bantjes is a graphic artist from near vancouver. her work was unusual and really interesting. i am still processing what i saw. rick had invited a bunch of folks (like yann) over to visit with marian while she's passing through town. nice evening, pizza, cookies.
drove yann home, then headed north. joe the plumber had arrived early and was finishing more quickly then i expected, so i had to get home. joe found the root of our problem, so to speak: a tree or bush has broken into the line coming from the grease trap into our house before it meets up with the main line that goes to the street. for the time being, we are fine and shower again, though we will soon have to dig the whole thing up. a bunch of money later, we know exactly the amount of shit we are in.
bloggy now, then eat some pizza leftovers, then sleep. okay.
got a chai (no coffee for like a week now), then on to screwball. steve hadn't finished printing the 'animals & objects...' poster, so i headed over to sonnenzimmer. nick and nadine arrived just after me. nadine went to work, nick an i worked at sonnenzimmer all day. i curated the sound opinions reprints, sorting the good prints (1115) from the bad (83), counting them, stacking them by groups of 25, and then spent the rest of the day signing and numbering them. overall, they look really good.
photo of stacks of posters to follow.
around 11:30, we ordered pizzas from a place nearby, then walked down to get them. back to the shop, i signed for the rest fo the afternoon, until 3:30, when we drove some big boxes over to fedex so nick could ship them. i took off for screwball, where steve was just beginning the fourth screen on the 'animals & objects' prints. as soon as he had a good one, i took it and drove down to logan square, ten down to tannagram design, near washington and halsted. yann came out, and we met up with a dude i met on craigslist, from whom i bought a brooks bike seat. yann and i took off for rick valicenti's new THIRST studio near the dianogah practice space. thirst is now above richard wright's modern furniture collection building. amazing.
marian bantjes is a graphic artist from near vancouver. her work was unusual and really interesting. i am still processing what i saw. rick had invited a bunch of folks (like yann) over to visit with marian while she's passing through town. nice evening, pizza, cookies.
drove yann home, then headed north. joe the plumber had arrived early and was finishing more quickly then i expected, so i had to get home. joe found the root of our problem, so to speak: a tree or bush has broken into the line coming from the grease trap into our house before it meets up with the main line that goes to the street. for the time being, we are fine and shower again, though we will soon have to dig the whole thing up. a bunch of money later, we know exactly the amount of shit we are in.
bloggy now, then eat some pizza leftovers, then sleep. okay.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
sunday, craft fair.
woke up, took a shower, diana told me that shitty brown water was flooding the basement.
awesome!
last week, while we were in manchester, the house-sitters reported getting some water in the basement when they ran the washing machine. we've never had water in the basement, so i was on guard, but here it is, a big puddle, coming from either the base of the basement toilet, or through the wall behind the toilet, which is where the house's grease trap is.
called the plumber, joe, and set up a monday night visit.
took seth to my folks' again, went to TBM to pick up books and some prints, then headed to the renegade craft fair.
another good day at the fair. nothing amazing, good times all around. i got tired towards the end.
packed up around 7:30, reversed the process: TBM, then picked up seth, then home. upon exiting the garage, seth chased something (a cat?) out of the yard. i am typing now, then will address some ispace booklets to send to subscribers, then will move stuff around in the basement.
ok.
awesome!
last week, while we were in manchester, the house-sitters reported getting some water in the basement when they ran the washing machine. we've never had water in the basement, so i was on guard, but here it is, a big puddle, coming from either the base of the basement toilet, or through the wall behind the toilet, which is where the house's grease trap is.
called the plumber, joe, and set up a monday night visit.
took seth to my folks' again, went to TBM to pick up books and some prints, then headed to the renegade craft fair.
another good day at the fair. nothing amazing, good times all around. i got tired towards the end.
packed up around 7:30, reversed the process: TBM, then picked up seth, then home. upon exiting the garage, seth chased something (a cat?) out of the yard. i am typing now, then will address some ispace booklets to send to subscribers, then will move stuff around in the basement.
ok.
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