We Out Here - live printing!

Hey all you sexy people - if you want this awesome shirt (or this on a print), head on over to Big Umbrella Studios tonight from 7-11pm (or while supplies last).  The Lords of Print will be showing at the San Francisco: We Out Here photography show going on at the gallery.  We'll be printing these badboys on some nice fawn Stonehenge paper or on some nice American Apparel shirts in grey.  

Did I  mention I"ll be printing this AS YOU WATCH, so you can ask me all the questions you ever wanted about screenprinting while I do it in front of your lovely face.

PS  - Prints will go for the ridiculously low price of $5 each (signed and numbered in an edition to boot!), and shirts will go for $15!!  Can you seriously believe these prices?  Honestly, I'm kinda embarrassed our shit is going for so cheap, but the boss man speaketh.  Take advantage while you can before this shizzle sells out!

Big Umbrella Studios

906 1/2 Divisadero ST (x McAllister)

SF, CA 94115

Big Umbrella Gallery Presents:
----------------We Out Here!!------------------------
6|10|11 - 7|08|11
A group photographic exhibition celebrating life in the city through the eyes of a diverse mix of San Francisco and Bay Area photographers . Answered through photographs- the artists will answer the question of what motivates, inspires, and keeps them in searc...h of capturing and documenting life through the photographic process. Curated by Raymond Sanchez & Charlie Mirador

-An opening reception is scheduled for Friday June 10th.
Live music and entertainment to be announced-sliding scale donation @ bar for those 21+over.

Exhibiting artists:
Jeremy Conant http://jeremyconant.com/
Amanda Boe http://www.amandaboe.com/525776/Info#1378773/AMANDA-BOE
Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/
Andrea Sonnenberg http://teenwitchart.blogspot.com/http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/from-erotica-remixes-by-teen-witch
Chris Atwood
Ashley Taylor http://4blankwalls.com/
Michael Rosen http://www.sfbg.com/sexsf/2011/04/29/thirty-years-radical-sex-seen-michael-rosen
Blake Cole http://www.fecalface.com/POTD/2008/08/http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakescole/
Matt Nasal http://bigumbrellastudios.com/artist/matt-na-sal
Charlie Mirador http://35mmirador.blogspot.com/http://www.flickr.com/people/35mmirador/
Kelly Long http://kellyelphotography.info/
An opening reception is scheduled for Friday June 10th.

http://bigumbrellastudios.com/

5/21/10 - Monster study

Watercolor and a bit of gouache (I think) quick study on some Canson cover paper, I believe.  I'm a big fan of creating on whatever you can get your hands on, so sorry for the ?? nature of this post.

In other news, if you're reading this before 5pm PST on Friday the 21st, if you sign up for the Monkey + Seal newsletter, you'll get access to a special deal where you get ~30% off any of the ties that I screenprint, such as the ones you see below.

Sweet.  Get on that shiz while you can!

I wants a Screenprinting studio

So as of now, I'm trying to print shit w/my screens on a board on my bathroom. Not working so well.

Perhaps it's being spoiled from working at AAU these past few years, but I miss their printing facility something fierce. Ideally, what I'm looking for is a facility with the following:

-24 hour access (or at least access til 2am?)
-an industrial sink and powerwasher
-a vacuum exposure unit
-a dark room
-a stockroom filled with emulsion, inks, stencil stripper, degreaser, and ink cleaner
-drying racks
-outlets (for a hairdryer)
-big-ass tables with lovely jiffy clamps
-a location that takes less than 30 min. to get to from my apartment

Sigh. I mean, I guess I could save up for the emulsion, inks, stencil stripper, etc., etc. And if I clean my desk I can get a table for my jiffy clamps. And I guess I could get a different bulb for my bathroom to use it as a darkroom for coating. And there is a power washer at the car wash 8 blocks away. Sigh. I guess I could buy the lamp and glass and foam and shit for the exposure unit, but goddamn, this pisses me off.

Okay, enough whining. Time to go print on the floor again.

Oh yeah, and I'm graduating. Big fucking whoop.