ILXOR Gallery

Daisy (short fictional film...information is in the...uh, info section)

America (short doc, accepted into the True/False Film Fest, rejected by Silverdocs)

Oh, and if you're really liking those, then here's adance craze I tried to start

saw this this morning and i knew it looked familiar:

http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=DRMBT006

Damn, Caek, how'd you get that job designing record sleeves?

I love yr work, but I'm jealous coz I'd like to do what you are doing.

(Actually, that said, I have been asked to do a record sleeve based on my flyer designs.)

Here is another band I saw recently, the Sian Alice Group:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/767990774_c5248c300f.jpg

I like thee psychedelic musique.

Annoyingly, that is not my job. My real job is grad school. But I has a record label which I run in my spare time (http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/). It's kind of taken off, so I don't run everything in the way I used to, but I still run it to the extent that I get to stamp my foot and insist that I do the design, i.e. the website and the sleeves, because that's the bit I enjoy the most. That and the babes and the salvia. I don't get paid for anything though.

Good luck with your sleeve Kate. It will look great, especially if you get the colours printed well! Stumptown can help here, if you don't mind the carbon footprint of ordering from Portland. Get them to send you a batch of print samples.

See, the design is the fun bit! All the other stuff is the crap bits, so it's good if you have minions to offload all the other things.

That isn't the sleeve design - I haven't finished that yet. The sleeve is gonna be printing it in sepia on an aged antique looking background. I don't know if it's me going to be looking into how to do that sort of thing or the label (I don't know the label at all, how much control they keep). But I love the way that your sleeves turn out, so I will suggest Stumptown.

totally double-posting. this was the thread i was looking for!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/751884298_65d0414cb8_o.jpg

xpost, yeah, I figured that wasn't the design, unless it's for a DVD. Who's the label/band, or can't you say?

Whoa, is that Parker Posey with a painting of David Bowie ca. 1968? rad.

Your art (picture thread)

love that poster Kate well done

caek hit me up if you think you'll need my "skills" for anything

This is my best painting:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/penultimate.jpg

I haven't forgotten I was going to email you Shakey! Just been very busy with the release of that album (came out yesterday). I will be in touch!

s1ocki, your second pic looks great as desktop if a bit pixelly. Cheers again.

I'm starting to think about giving up music to concentrate on the art. Well, not giving up, so much as changing my primary focus or whatever. I've been enjoying it more - but maybe the enjoyment is down to lack of pressure?

At the Bella Union show last night, then had live screen printing of posters, which looked pretty amazing, and then they were selling them as soon as they dried. I was entranced. I bought a poster - because they were beautiful - but also because I was curious about the results that you could achieve with screen printing. It was beautifully done.

caek, not only is that artwork great but the record is terrific too. I will be buying.

Kate, if you ever figure out screen printing, I would be interested in talking more. I'm finding the information online pretty difficult to make sense of. I keep meaning to book myself into the course here: http://www.oxfordprintmakers.co.uk/.

Thanks Ned! Come to one of the August gigs if he's in your town!

nice stuff everyone. here's some of my things. I started a blog but I really don't like writing, so i just draw. This first one was done right after my friend Sandra's funeral:
http://www.capableofanything.com/images/smoking_again.jpg

it's all scrunched! waaaa. here's a link instead:

http://www.capableofanything.com/blog

Kate, what with your fab music, amazing photos, and now the painting. Is there no end to your talent !

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/ohonnoho.gif

jel's painting is k-awesome! Je'adore!

Me & John have been quoting The Highly Contrived Mchine & Witch all day. Damn how rad. It also makes me happy bcz my little sister, from age 5-7, drew dozens of pictures of egrets and egrets only.

We love Trayce's snails & esp. the snail comics too! And of course the classic SUPER CARIT.

Here's one John did of me, him & dishes conundrum:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/wwjd.gif

and here's some from me, one of which features exciting snail action:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/slowsnailetal.jpg

Actual size, that last one.

more snail comics please

more nudes

Me & John have been quoting The Highly Contrived Mchine & Witch all day. Damn how rad.

Abbott you just made me very happy

And for that you get another one

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/coronerstorew.jpg

HAHAHAHA

Do you have any more of this awesome?

There's a sequel to that one, hold on

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/coronerstore2w.jpg

Slocki, the photo of the—basketball court? Is like a vision of the afterlife.
Shakey Mo, your Summer of Love posters rule!
Kate, you multiple threat!
Abbott's snails!
RubyRed, where IS that?? Amazing.
All you guys inspire my lazy art brain.

haha robertwolf

Abbott = again master of detail: "truth unverified" hahaha!

I am having a hard time of it this week. I have forgotten how to draw DDBs. Or have forgotten how to do foreshortening or something.

I'm trying to draw from photographs at the moment, instead of from life, which I haven't done in a while, and finding tricky.

I think this is a technically good drawing, it just doesn't look like the subject:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1314/893474103_4b0da5f63d_o.jpg

Maybe I just need to start from scratch and draw it over again. His face is somewhat rounder than I have drawn him, his jaw less square.

Drawing from photos is hard, because of the way I draw - I never draw objects, I draw the space around the object. A photograph is good, because I can move it around and turn it upside down to reduce the image to planes and lines (which DDBs tend to object to if you do it IRL) but it's somehow missing the spark which makes it a good likeness. Argh.

The set is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21171554@N00/sets/72157600959843838/

The drawings I did at soundcheck are better likenesses, even though they are techncially not as good a drawing. Argh argh argh.

I take photos. Most of you know that by now. Anyhow, here's some I did recently that I liked:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/731156377_8c3b710a53.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/734253559_61b4b56bb1.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/734765528_988652896f.jpg

Damn, and here was I enjoying the usual mix-up, and getting credit for yr beautiful photos, Kate!

I'm like a shadow man, you can't escape me :P

FOLLOW THE LIGHT, FLUFFY, FOLLOW THE LIGHT!!!

Though, actually, Kate, how do you get yr photographic models to settle down, act naturally - or at least, pose them the way you want them to pose? Or do you just hire proper models in the first place, while I have to rely on whatever DDBs will come my way?

kate, non masonic, all your pics on this thread are wicked-awesome - stunning stuff! do you do all the makeup/hair/costuming yourself?

beth: that photo was taken at lake tekapo in the south island of new zealand.

I hope the people in question don't mind, but these were my first ever attempts at digital art, done for the "MSPaint other ILXors" thread:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/strange.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/face.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/smiling.jpg

I can't draw at all, so I simply painted over photos. It was fun doing these anyway.

x-post: Yes, I do. I'm still at struggle artist level, so I do everything myself and just hope it looks okay...if not, photoshop to the rescue.

xx-post: Kate - No I don't hire models, I can't afford to, but sometimes I can convince them to pay me, which kind of rocks.

Oh ummm...further to that Kate, I am pretty useless at giving direction to models, and the first shoot we do is nearly always a waste of time...but it gives the subject a chance to realise I'm pretty chilled out and not going to be barking orders at them. When that dawns on them, the photos start to get good.

But how do you convince them to pose in a convincing way? I guess what I'm asking is how to losen up models.

My DDBs just seemed so uncomfortable with the whole process of being photographed, and it showed in many of the photos. How do you get them to relax?

x-post I guess you just answed that. Thanks!

I guess, with a polaroid, I don't get the time to take loads of photos and get them to relax and have them realise I'm not gonna be all up in their face shouting at them (I've been in photo shoots like that myself, and argh, people wonder why I always look so scared and uncomfortable in the photos). Maybe I should invest in a digital camera if I'm going to do more of this. But I just like the way that polaroid looks! It gives it a nice, soft quality with the flash and the film. Which is good for drawing from.

We I have to admit, during a days shooting I have been known to get up to the 1500 frame mark. Throw enough shit against the wall....

Go digital, do the softness in post :)

Must be my bedtime. I keep dropping letters, words, losing all meaning etc etc

I understood what you said! Might be a good idea...

I actually have a supposedly good digital camera I inherited from my dad/brother. I'm just scared of it and trying to figure out how it works.

Learn it. Love it. Then go to digital camera rehab like I need to.

I'm like Lindsay Lohan yo.

But polaroids are better for masturbation the archives! ;-)

Yeah, most of my work isn't especially great wank fodder. Well not for me anyway...who knows what all the goobers on flickr are getting out of it.