Here's an archive of all of the flyer work I've done over the past few years. I thought it
could be cool to have it all located in one place for the sake of being able to trace the development
could be cool to have it all located in one place for the sake of being able to trace the development
of techniques, etc., as I learned Pages a little better // got curious about evolving the practice while
adhering to (or working in disregard for) an established form / style. I've used the "Title Text"
adhering to (or working in disregard for) an established form / style. I've used the "Title Text"
feature to add titles and descriptions of each piece ... but I think you'll need to be on a computer to see them
... since I'm not sure if it's possible to right-click / mouse-hover on a phone? O, I guess you could have Siri
read the entire screen to you, lol. Ok, wait, I got u ... I made each image a link to a separate page with the image
and text about the image. So just click it if u wanna read more. (Reader View will be a good amigo for your eyeballs when u get there.)
(As of 04/03, the extended notes are only written for flyers through 2017.
I'll be adding to this regularly, tho. Hope u enjoy :) )
... since I'm not sure if it's possible to right-click / mouse-hover on a phone? O, I guess you could have Siri
read the entire screen to you, lol. Ok, wait, I got u ... I made each image a link to a separate page with the image
and text about the image. So just click it if u wanna read more. (Reader View will be a good amigo for your eyeballs when u get there.)
(As of 04/03, the extended notes are only written for flyers through 2017.
I'll be adding to this regularly, tho. Hope u enjoy :) )
2024
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2023
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2022
2021
My first full year in NYC; I don't think there were any Free Music shows this year.
Played in Nuke Watch a bunch but ... yea, no flyers to show for it.
Played in Nuke Watch a bunch but ... yea, no flyers to show for it.
2020
There were two Free Music shows to start this year, incl. a trio set at Eagles in January during
a blizzard and a very stoned set at the Amsterdam a few weeks before "everything changed."
I do remember thinking I had well-articulated the practice of evaporating / dissolving on stage during that
I do remember thinking I had well-articulated the practice of evaporating / dissolving on stage during that
Amsterdam show, lol ..... at any rate, no posters were designed. (That said, there was an agar book that's still in progress
with a lot of design work in it ... here's an excerpt:)
2019
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2018
.jpg "“Untitled (Snow i)” -- Looking at this one, right off the dome, the sale tag. P sure this is the price tag on the CD copy of Peter Gabriel’s “So” that I bought at Everyday Music in Seattle, where the homie Nick worked. Fitting, cos I remember watching a Classic Albums kinda thing on that album and PG talking about wanting to call it So because it was nice from a typography standpoint … just these two big letters … and, I mean, letters with great shapes. Anyway, that price tag goes way back to the first digital F. Music poster … the Tour Trippin’ one I did with Patrick … and I can’t remember if it was Patrick or Nick but one of the two of them (they lived together with Kyle and Amanda) obliged the request to scan and crop that thing and it was a real like “aw yea” moment. At this point in my own flyer-making journey, I was not in the zone of scanning anything yet (lol I’m still not, really) … so I guess I should say: I wasn’t yet in the zone of taking photos and cropping stuff, which is where I’m at now … but I think I had this feeling of like … could we make it more 3D somehow. This is also a poster for a set I was doing at the annual garage sale at Electric Fetus, a record store in Minneapolis where I’ve spent maybe more time in my life than any other establishment? Seems crazy to type but is definitely possible … been going there since I was, like, in middle school … and still going … and now I’m on that, like, R&D vibe where I just go in there and look at every CD under “Miscellaneous M Used” and pull it up on my phone and give it a listen … so when I go in there now it’s usually for a good hour or so. Decades. Anyway, I think I really wanted to use the price tag from this Chris DeBurgh CD (the one with “Lady In Red”) I got used at the Fetus … which says, like, “Digital Only” then $9.99. I mean … Digital Only. I wonder where that store was. Anyway, I think I tried to figure out how to do it … like took an iPhone pic and tried to put blank white rectangles around it in Pages … but the lighting was all uneven or whatever and I was like … man, there’s got to be another way … then remembered the Tour Trippin poster and … honestly, I feel like trying to crop something that is on an angle was just as complicated for me, lol. This one’s got the time of the show on it … nice. This is, I think, the only set that kids that I’ve worked with have seen me play. Two kids, Tobi and Asa who I love, came with their Mom (Dara, who rules) and Lillian (who also rules.) I remember being kind of nervous about this … like, “would the energy I’m tapping into during a set be off-putting or seem unnatural to them, as they know me?” I remember having a moment during the set, tho, where we made eye-contact while I was explaining something in between songs … and it was probably one of the most genuine exchanges I’ve had with someone from a stage, ever. It just felt extremely natural and was like … oh, yeah, this is as much a combo of the absurd and sincere as trying to explain a gym game about getting fired from a restaurant … or, like, trying to fish a golf ball out of the water-purifying system at a mini golf place. It’s funny to me, tho, because that set was 2018 … and I think about those performances as … I mean, yeah, “performances.” I think I was still really trying to figure out how to show up, live, in that place of deep intimacy that I cherish about making music. I mean, I would definitely glimpse it, at times, in every set … and some sets more than others in those years (as, I would reckon, it is now) for sure … but there was a zone of joking around to look to be real with and respect the audience by avoiding what I saw as this unnatural thing where an unimportant performer (ie. me) tries to immerse themselves in the world of their songs. Like, “come on, we’re all here, there’s 18 of us … there are people on the clock right now at the record store who didn’t ask to see this … it’s 4:30 on a Sunday (jk I don’t know the day of the week cos it’s not on the flyer) … I’m gonna suddenly just lose myself?” I dunno … I guess I’m waxing poetic right now because I’m thinking about that moment of sincerity with the kids and feeling surprised by how much it seems worth cherishing as a genuine accomplishment and sign that my performances WERE sincere then … rather than dunk on it as like, “o but see I’ve come so far,” as I was thinking I ought to do. My friend Elspeth often says, “Both things can be true.” I guess I’m grateful to have been able to continue to look for who I am. Try to be kind to yourself if you’re doing the same. O shit, ya, I wanted to point out … I put on the instrumental, “A Lifetime Of Fabulous Prizes” (it’s a game show track I composed) and it’s about 1:28 long … and I was like, “Ok I’m gonna try and buy a CD before this song ends.” Left the stage, went out into the aisles, on some prize patrol type shit … IIRC, I actually had a more tricky time locating the CD than I thought. Got to the counter … I think maybe there was even someone in line, lol … the song ended as the credit card transaction was going through … so it was close. It was “Vision Songs” by Laraaji (… which, fittingly, I found myself with a deep desire to revisit, just this week. That CD is such a beautiful example of a slow burn. I remember thinking it was cool first few months of listening and definitely enjoying it … but, man, the way those melodies and the quality of his voice hits now … hoo baby … )")
2017
.jpg "“Ferrari (b)” -- It would be tempting to consider this one the first official jettisoning of date/place/time/price (ie. “necessary info”) … but, conversely, it is actually all in the flyer … you just have to solve the puzzle to find it. Homie Travis from Naomi Punk had emailed me asking if I felt into booking a secret / more low-key / essentially more punk second show for the band while they were on a formal club tour. I loved the idea and was super happy to provide. (They were touring their third record, Yellow, which still remains a truly punk, expectation-subverting curveball & deep audio document.) Of course, the difficult thing would be that the show couldn’t be loudly advertised. No prob, lol. Keeping with the previous flyer, Holger Czukay’s name is prominently featured … as he’d recently passed and, upon discovering new mind-blowing pockets of his discography in memoriam (namely “The New Millenium” with U-She … which still sounds decades ahead of its time), he was hugely on my mind. I was going to provide the crossword answers in these notes but … looking at it now, I can’t even remember most of them, lol. I do remember having to generate a few different puzzles with the website as the first few looked unfortunately like symbols of hatred. Let me see if I can get any of the answers. ACROSS: 3. I’m thinking it’s “Digital” (per the DD-3 Digital Delay pedal and the L at the end from “Yellow” down.) // 6. “Scorpion” (from “Scorpion Glue, all over my body;” a line on the disc NP was touring [same goes for “Tiger Pipe,” which appears above., and was, hopefully, the conciliatory give-away, lol.) // 8. (No idea, lol, but I’m guessing it’s a reference to Yohji Yamamoto whose work with YMO was a big influence for me at the time.) // 10. (This could be “Free Music,” lol, because of an affinity I shared with Jordan Bleau for a tile-art “Semente” that appeared in the entryway of the Robert’s Shoes building / Licorice Beach.) // 11. (This could also be “Free Music.”) // 12. “Na” lol // 13. “Naomi Punk” // 16. (No idea, lol.) // 17. Pretty sure this is “ROM,” as in computer (ie. Neuromantic) memory. // 18. “IE,” who was playing the show. //// //// DOWN: 1. Based on the other letters, this could be “Painting” but I have no idea why I would’ve included that word, lol. // 2. Guessing this is the Captured Tracks catalog number for “Yellow.” // 4. 87.9 The Ric was Richmond’s low-power transmitter radio station that he ran when the space where the show was going to be held was still known as “Coming Soon.” // 5. (No idea) // 7. “Dead Media,” name of the current operation in said venue space; a record store run, in part, by Walker. // 9. (No idea) // 13. Maybe just “New”? // 14. I would guess this is “Ob Chod,” the fourth band on the bill, whose name is taken from a Czech experimental film we were shown at Perpich Arts High School. // 15. K-R-I? Lol, I have no idea. //////// Anyway, if I remember right, I recall someone in Naomi Punk laughing and saying, “Hey man, this was pretty much impossible,” when I handed them cardstock versions in person.")
2016
%20Relly%20Could.jpg "\"Blank (Non) Relly Could\" -- This is the first digital flyer I made myself, after watching my Dad lay a few things out in Pages (an app I didn’t even know existed prior to this.) Initially, this flyer had a photograph in the center of it … but, at some point in the design experimenting (or maybe in wondering how it would look printed?), it occurred to me that the poster would have much more of an idiosyncratic potency to it if there wasn’t some kind of image/illustration on it. Around the same time that I was designing this, I had inherited a book from my Dad called “Business Card Graphics” from Pie Books … which absolutely blew my mind. Most of the business cards featured in the first edition are Japanese … and the use of space in the designs … the way the little rectangles became whole worlds / rooms / gardens with thoughtfully (maybe, even, “intimately”) placed objects / items / furnishings was like a revolution of sorts to view. If I’m remembering right, when I removed the picture from this flyer, the connection to the business cards was illuminated and a working precept, going forward, began to come into view."){kind=spacer}
2015
