inner ear brigade

Carved and printed image directly onto t-shirts this weekend (using fabric inks) for Inner Ear Brigade's lousy cd release shindig tonight. Mixed results- cloth is infuriatingly soft and slutty, wrinkling in unexpected ways and just being all around fuzzy. Soaks up the ink like there's no tomorrow too! The type was printed using my trusty gocco.

oni

I attended a lino class at Kala Art Institute this past weekend with master blaster carver Artemio Rodriguez (a Mexican boy with blue eyes?) and carved all the live long day. I learned to hold the tools like a pencil, how to sharpen those mothers to a hee-haw razor point, and all about inking by hand. Thanks, Buddyray, for the super birthday gift of learning.

Oni are, of course, Japanese demons. This particular specimen is of the dead samurai cat nazi variety.