Recently got to chat with musician CONWAY about her upcoming EP, as well as about life in LA, being a woman in the industry, and going solo. Conway mantra: “Be better, do better, don’t quit, don’t be an asshole.” Check it out over at BOXX Magazine!
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Reviewed the enigmatic Rhye at their show at San Francisco’s Bimbo’s 365 Club for BOXX Magazine this week. Check out the review here.
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The thin line between exhausting the fire and not fanning the flame of a spark.
Bloom and Branching Lung. 11x17 inches. Letterpress print.
Drawn and written in a cafe. Letterpressed on a Vandercook 4-T press. Paper: French Paper Company, Pop-Tone Berrylicious. Limited edition of 75 {signed and numbered}. $40 each. To purchase a copy of the print, please email hello@rambleandride.com.
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Hello, hello.
Just a little note to put this beauty on your radar. Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford created this project in 2012, where they created wood type from the Vista Sans typeface and sent it out to 21 emerging international artist to see what they would do with them. Above are a few prints from some of those printers & designers. Check out their kickstarter to see the other amazing prints. A 50$ pledge gets you a copy of the hand-bound book of prints. Only 54 hours to go to raise the remaining $2700.
Please re-post & share. Hoping very much that this book gets made!
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Above: Vista Sans Book mock up cover, print by Dafi Kühne, print by Katie Baldwin, print by Megan Adie, print by Macy Chadwick.
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Dutch jazz singer Caro Emerald and I recently talked about how much life has changed since the success of her debut album, Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor, her upcoming follow-up, The Shocking Miss Emerald, and about loving where you come from, in an interview for Boxx Magazine.
photo credit: Adrie Mouthaan
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Anjel Van Slyke is a designer, artist, and illustrator over at Crux & Canopy. In fact when it comes to artistic endeavors there isn’t much she doesn’t do. She is a always hungry to jump in and take on artistic challenges; I admire her passion and look up to her immensely. She happens to also be a rather great sign painter as well, and this is one that I got to help on for Independent Machine Works. Turned out rather awesome wouldn’t you say?
Worlds collide often here. Here’s a beautiful letterpress roller height gage that Connal Hughes over at Independent Machine Works made for one of my printing mentors, Richard Seibert. It’s quite beautiful!
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Barbara Jane Reyes is a Bay Area based poet that I met while attending the Graduate program at Mills College in Oakland, where she was my workshop professor. Last spring she invited me to participate in Pinay Lives & Voices, an afternoon of Pinay literature and storytelling, in celebration of Women’s History Month. The event was put together by Philippine-American Writers & Artists (PAWA) and sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, and included readings from me and Barbara, along with cartoonist and illustrator Rina Ayuyang and long time Oakland poet Evangeline Buell.
This is a video of the reading I did of some of the pieces I was working on at the time. This is also a video of my shaking hands.
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When you walk into Trick Dog, the most recent offering from San Francisco’s The Bon Vivants, you can see right away the inspiration behind the cocktail menu design. The bar is decorated in an assortment of beautiful colors and textures. Rich deep wood colors are lit by beautiful buzzing/dancing warm light.
We wanted the menu to reflect that class and mood and feeling, and to sort of highlight the color scheme of the bar. Scott suggested pantones, and I started thinking of a way to design the menu so that each guest could flip through the color schemes and really understand the personality of the drink.
Though inspired by the Pantone color guide in style, each drink is actually represented by a paint color swatch from which it takes its name. The thirteen main cocktails are represented by their own swatch, while color themed gradients represent particular categories. In the back, the spirits list reads like an index.
Trick Dog officially opened its doors yesterday, down at 20th Street and Alabama in San Francisco. It’s been wonderful to be part of this project and I am excited to see when the next menu manifestation will be.
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one year without light, 2012, $30 {limited edition of 52}
how do we see a ‘moment’ while we are living it, and how do we see an experience when we are looking back on it? the moment leaves no time for anything else but just living in it. it is felt at the surface and propelled by a mysterious force—some call it hunger, or loneliness, or chemistry, or hope, but its true name is unknown. then there is hindsight: reflecting on it, coloring it with our entire experience, taking it out of the dark by illuminating it. hindsight gives us time. time to reflect. time to experience the details. in the end, is one truer than the other? do we understand our experiences better when we are reflecting on them, or is the truest experience the moment?
Book: Letterpressed and bound in Oakland/Berkeley, CA, September & October 2012
Print: etched and printed in Basel, Switzerland, June 2012
