http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates posters and projects Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:28:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...These past weeks have seen lots of work on the 'privacy' print. Looking back over my notes on Edward Tufte, thinking more about the organization of the whole print, I figured out how I am going to lay it out. There will be an axonometric drawing of a ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/07/17/sucked-in/ I finally gave in to temptation and bought the multi-multi-pack of many-colored permanent markers from the Big Top Flea Market in Atlantic Mills: Given that these are from the flea market, they are not actually Sharpies but Shoupies, and they cost me $2. This was not the temptation to own ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/07/09/shoupies-pop-pops/ This past month I've finally been working again on the second print in the print series. At the end of June, I had a tentative layout that I was pretty happy with, incorporating some larger perspective views of different kinds of connections between shared and personal spaces, and also ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/07/06/pretty-happy-with/ ... I spent a day & moved everything on the main secretdoor site around into different folders, cleaning up the root, with the main aim of organizing the posters and prints by year. This involved finally learning how to use relative URLs, setting up MAMP on my computer so ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/07/01/copy-paste/ The "farmers' markets / mercados de granjeros" poster is done! I finished printing the morning of June 4th, wrapped the posters up in paper and then a couple of plastic bags, and biked them across town in the rain. I arrived at the Farm Fresh offices ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/06/18/final-stages-and-printing/ These things were making me happy around the end of May / beginning of June, I wanted to post them then, but various stuff like work & family visits got in the way. [sweet potato & parsnip curry with rice; cilantro, green onions, and homemade yogurt on top. ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/06/17/good-things/ Greg Cook (boston-area comics artist, art critic, and thoughtful dude) wrote up our art show at AS220 on his New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and reviews it further, in the Providence Phoenix. Some good comments and good constructive criticism. It seems that he falls more or less ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/05/24/reviewed/ Farmers' Markets poster: It's further along now than it was in this picture. The Farm Fresh folks liked the layouts they saw yesterday! I am pretty psyched about it, though it promises to be a pain to align... It might be done this weekend, more likely early next ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/05/15/upcoming-rapidly/ Here are some previews of projects that students with whom I am working at NUA are getting ready for their final show. This is a print about one student's house, that was bought (and has now been demolished) by the developers that bought the mill next door, so the ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/05/08/at-new-urban-arts/ The text layout for the bottom of the farmers' markets poster, as I draw it four times: [initial sketch layout] [refined] A month later: whoops, there are five more markets that need to go on the poster! [not so good, markets are too small, layout is all choppy... but hey, rounded corners!] [more unified, slightly ... http://www.secretdoorprojects.org/updates/2008/05/07/this-is-why-people-use-computers-for-this-kind-of-stuff/