PROCESS UPDATERY.

.Wednesday, August 29th. 1:52pm.

looks like were done.

im going to lunch.

xo

.Wednesday, August 29th. 10:15pm.

so today we started with overprinting the silver with the primrose yellow, so it pops out quite nicely.

bigger shot.

im incredibly tired this morning. this place is pretty much why.

.Tuesday, August 28th. 4:42pm.

9th color screen popped. oops! well start again in the morning.


new stickers too.

.Tuesday, August 28th. 3:12pm.
for the sake of answering a few questions that are being asked alot...

the prices for the newest prints are as such....
"theres nothing out there, i do not hear what you hear" edition of 180 - $100
"theres nothing out there, i do not hear what you hear" edition of 10 on sheets of birch, about 6 available - $500
"we were fortunate..." set of three prints, edition of 80, about 50 available - $150

the paper versions of these will be available at flatstock14 in seattle first, and any remaining copies will be sold off my website about 2 weeks into september once i return from the northwest and get everything back in my hands.

any other questions, please email me at danieldanger at gmail.com
xo

.Tuesday, August 28th. 1:45pm.

mr kozik had suggested i use some silver metallic flake in a clear base and underprint it beneath the brightest highlights of the windows. so thats what were doing.

...im becoming increasingly more frustrated with this cameras inability to take close up photos.

skate break!

a blurry photo of one of the wooden prints.

.Tuesday, August 28th. 11:16am.

seventh color. which is the underprint for the windows. we might actually finish this thing today. i forgot to mention there is no 6th color, i combined it with an earlier color because they were essentially the same thing.

i sort of saw modest mouse last night. in that i watched them from a hotel balcony. still a damn fine band.

.Monday, August 27th. 4:01pm.

color five. its definatly all pulling together. i also keep forgetting how huge this thing is. last color for today.

.Monday, August 27th. 2:55pm.

colors three and four. i forgot to take a picture of just three. deal with it!

.Monday, August 27th. 12:50pm.

slow day so far. we basically spent all morning remixing a bunch the 3rd color. it was just coming out too grey or too bright. its a pretty dark military olive green and we found a good compromise for it.

.Sunday, August 26th. 6:20pm.

color two is down. this is ink-try #3. the first one looked too grey and bright, the second was the right darkness but not green enough, this is about right.

thats it for today. now im gonna go back to where im staying and draw a whale or something.

.Sunday, August 26th. 4:13pm.

first color is down.

.Sunday, August 26th. 3:35pm.

the problem with yellow and green inks is that they arent the most opaque things in the world. when you print yellow on black paper, it ends up looking like a dark mustard. green just gets way darker. the black paper just absorbs so much of the brightness and saturation. so we dont mix the ink so that the ink itself looks like what we want, but so that the ink dried on the paper looks like what we want. its like saying "if im throwing the ball and its landing 15 feet short of the batter every time, maybe i should step 15 feet forward." ...kinda.

the first five colors are all set. note our crudely made ink color test swatch thing.

now this. this is the most important part of this thread. this is very likely the best pizza ive ever had. ..and ive literally gone on a self-proclaimed 'tour-de-calzone' before. Hammys Pizza in portland, you win. you win literally everything. ive been here 4 days and eaten there 3 times. i honestly dare ANYONE to stand in the same room as one of these things, smell its delcious and enticing scent, and have anything else in the world that is not this pizza matter in the least bit.

.Sunday, August 26th. 1:55pm.

outputting films.

gameplanning.

.Sunday, August 26th. 12:01pm.
some new screens are being stretched, not enough 195mesh screens around i guess. the glue used to hold the mesh to the frame, as far as im concerned, will instantly give you cancer and kill your grandchildren. accordingly, i am downstairs far away from it.

it occured to me that people must think ben is me, because hes in every photo. this is me. im just behind the camera.

.Saturday, August 25th. 3:00pm.

mixing the final color. we added a touch of metallic. its subtle, but its in there. the light hits it differently, and thats all i wanted.

ben eating lunch from a trash can

settin things up.

...aaaaaaaaand were done. id get a better detail shot but this camera is acting funny and isnt focusing real well. the final color is sort of a muted metallic light blue, adding highlights onto the figures as well as some of the stars/splatters in the sky.

done. good.

now we start mixing colors for the 'theres nothing out there' print, which well start printing tommorow or monday. this one should be interesting.

.Saturday, August 25th. 12:30pm.

color nine of ten. we fixed the text issue. now we have to figure out our plan for layer ten, we have some options.

.Saturday, August 25th. 11:51am.

were fixing a problem with some of the text right now. the whole print was shrunk before printing was started and we didnt take into consideration that the text really couldnt be shrunk any further. so it was so small it was drying up in the screen. so yeah, we started over on that layer after outputting new films with slightly larger text.

we saw superbad last night, it was incredible.

breakfast on the sidewalk. i think i ordered "whatever that is" and this photo is of me eating it.

.Friday, August 24nd. 7:11pm.

8th color. last for the day. woot woot.

.Friday, August 24nd. 5:45pm.

color seven of ten. originally this was going to be 12 colors. then i pulled one out, then i pulled another one out today and dulled down the brightest white to something more subtle so the figures arent popping as much.

details.... the tricky part about doing prints this way (dark to light on black) is keeping a good pace from dark to said light, making sure you arent going too bright too fast, and keeping the differences consistant so that the whole transition is smooth and the colors equal. printing on black paper makes it hard, when mixing colos, because anything that hits the paper instantly dulls and darkens, so you have to plan how each ink is going to lay on the paper itself (which causes the blue to turn slightly purple, as well as dulling and darkening) and on the previously layed down inks (which causes the ink to brighten depending on the brightness of the colors below it), and then find an ink color that will work for both.. also, making sure nothing looks neon is very important.

printinz

we should do a "whatever ink is lying around" varient.

.Friday, August 24nd. 3:17pm.

color six of ten. im waiting patiently for my pizza.

.Friday, August 24nd. 1:05pm.

were actually not starting the 'theres nothing out there' print for a day or two, so in the meantime, ill show process pics of the other one im working on while im out here. this beast is monsterous!

my flight out here was so comically bad i dont even really know what to say about it. i ended up sitting behind some total jackass mallcore 'poet' and having to sit 6 inches away from him and his girlfriend making out. grossss. i just wanted to watch the drew barrymore romantic comedy in peace, but nooo, the audio was broken. did they turn off the monitors? no.

.Wednesday, August 22nd. 4:36pm.

so i ducked over to my folks house today to prep the birch sheets ill be using for the 10 or so prints of this ill be doing on wood. basically cutting down the birch to size, sanding the top, sanding down all the corners and edges (so they dont cut the printing screen), and getting them ready to stain. ie, making them look pretty. i should note that my nose looks extra big in this photo. i blame the camera. also genetics.

my father is sanding the edges to an angle and im rounding off the edges with a crude sanding block. you may be thinking "man, thats one cluttered basement", and you are justified in thinking that. i think the sweater im wearing makes me look extra 'yankee workshop'.

staining the sheets. they need two coats to be an effective enough black that the print will require, since it uses the color of the paper/wood as part of the image. i made a fine mess of the driveway and our white dog.

momentarily terrified.

when you dont have a drying rack, use your old car. its going to the junkyard anyways, who cares if its covered in stain? not i, says the daniel.

.Monday, August 20th. 10:08pm.

so tonight im trying to put the final touches on everything, finalize alot of the seperations, and discover the thirty eight mistakes i likely made. its alot of checking and taking every screw up possibility into consideration. last night i caught a spelling mistake on the other big print im doing after thinking it was 100% finalized. this step is stupidly important and it honestly just involves sitting in front of the seperations and looking at them constantly over a couple days. ive made alot of changes not to the image, but how the image will print and how the seps work. ...also im chain eating wheat thins like some sort of wheat thin junkie..

i dunno who this guy is, but hes on tv and hes wearing a furry top hat and i dont like it.

laptop screens are not the best method of invisioning what a final print will look like.