Magical X-Acto Knife Journey

Most definitely spent all of last night until 2:00AM this morning doing art with Jeff and his new friend (H?)Anna on level one of the Edison garage. It's great to spend hours and hours with other people just working on semi-collaborative art projects. I'd really like to do it more often, but most of my art friends live relatively far away or at least far enough that it's not practical to go there several nights a week.

Really the only fully accomplished goal of the night was a successful screen printing of a John Goodman stencil. Long story short, Jeff wanted to do a shirt featuring the scene in The Big Lebowski where Walter pulls a gun on Smoky in the bowling alley over a foul and gets super belligerent. Jeff rounded up a few images and I photoshopped one of the better ones and printed it out in super tiny format so it would fit in the garage-saled image enlarging projector unit (which actually worked fantastically). We primed the mylar just because it was black, then I traced our projection and cut the stencil which took about four years. Back to arthritis mode.

There weren't any readily available blank shirts to buy at two in the morning, so I just did one print on a scrap of navy camouflage fabric that hadn't made the cut for furniture covering. It looked good. Eventually the shirts will have the Walter stencil at the bottom right edge of the front, and on the chest in enormous lettering will be, "AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES?" Pictures will be totally available after a shirt has been finished.



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Outrageous Notepads!
Originally uploaded by Hemato.

I found this in a huge 1950s catalog of advertising and print options. The whole thing was pretty unbelievable.