Signature Woes
Signature Woes
I changed my signature about a year ago. It was a big deal and I’m still coming to grips with how it deteriorates under pressure or time constraints. Time constraints here mostly mean impatience, because I can’t remember the last time I was given a certain amount of time to make my signature happen. Anybody with signature woes knows what I mean when I say pressure. It has to look good.
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Legends of Rock #02 - Neil Young
Next up, the most American Canadian ever to grace us with rock and roll music. There isn't a whole lot I can say about Neil Young other than the man's a true Legend Of Rock and his run of 5 albums from 68-74 is unrivaled in my estimation of rock singer/songwriters.
A Neil mix for proof of prowess.
Neil Young, the American's Canadian by Austineustice on Mixcloud
ae album picks: On The Beach (1973) & After The Goldrush (1972)
From the Hmph
I started recording some music again. Got a little album in mind with lots of guitar loops and lots of lyrics crammed into 2 minute and under songs. Tentative album title is Jacuzzi Juice. Alternate tentative title is Austin, The Man, Not the City. Here is one of the tiny tracks I recorded Sunday afternoon and a comic inspired by the tiny track!
Arkon
A little morning warmup of Arkon: King of Polemachus! Some pencil practice, digital ink practice and new photoshop color technique practice. Arkon based on Mike Del Mundo’s insanely awesome Weirdworld design.
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Dude Supply EP
New sample-heavy pop music under my music makin’ moniker Prescription Strength Hugs and some cover art as usual done by plain ol’ austin eustice. Enjoy, thanks!
If you’re interested, samples used:
1. Seen Everything
Ode to Billy - Arthur Lyman, Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead ,Love Lives Here - Faces, I Move Around - Nancy Sinatra,Sleepwalker - Kinks
2. Ol’ Blue Eyes
Beyond The Reef - Martin Denny, Os Grilos - Marcos Valle, Strangers - Kinks, Llulla Mak’Ta - Yma Sumac, Danse Calinda - Richard Hayman, Tudo de você - Marcos Valle, Procissão - Gilberto Gil
3. Questing
Hawaiin War Chant - Arthur Lyman, Faut-Il Que Je T’Aime - France Gall, We Got The Beat - The Go Gos, Incacho - Yma Sumac
4. Aztec Rock
Oya Ka Jojo - Les Volcans De La Capital ,Similau - Martin Denny ,Melody - Serge Gainsbourg, Lola - Kinks, Come Dancing - Jeff Beck, Got To Be Free - Kinks, Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin, Crystal Days - Echo & the Bunnymen
5. Dude Supply
Want Your Love - Alzo & Udine, Come Dancing - Jeff Beck, May This Be Love - Jimi Hendrix, Windowlicker - Aphex Twin, Tightrope - Leon Russell, 2/1 - Brian Eno
M&M Wedding
Meg & Mike, the sweetest couple, asked me to work up a whole graphical package for their summer wedding. It was a real pleasure figuring out which elements represented each of them separately then worked together as a whole package.
The main double-sided wedding invite contained a mixture of flora from the bride's and groom's respective region mixed with some from their wedding location, Ithaca NY.
The back of the invite was maybe the funnest part of the project. This hand-written font I worked up really seemed to fit the style of the couple and the mood of their farmer's market, DIY wedding.
Many of the elements I used in the main invite were then used for name and table cards. Here's a good portion of them all laid out above.
Meg & Mike chose passages (sometimes lyrics) to accompany my illustrations on the table cards.
The illustrations made their way onto name cards the guests could match up with their assigned table. *Photo courtesy Anna Simonak.
The groom and I even brewed up a special champagne-style beer for the wedding and I hand-cut a stencil and painted the bottles with its fitting batch name.
Dream JRNL #1
It is not a necessary evil, but an ever-present one: the abbreviated vocabulary used when texting. Like typos, you must be ever vigilant in a time of incredibly disposable communication. There are moments however, when typos happen; usually in those rushed or half-focused texts. For the past few months, I’ve been doing this thing where I will wake up and punch out a text with an autonomous thumb. I scarcely remember doing this in the morning but am always amused by them. So far, nothing bad has happened, so I haven’t switched to another form of alarm system that doesn’t have MMS capabilities. I actually don’t know what MMS stands for, I just know that it stands for something that means texting. Here is an example of one of these dream texts. Funny how just a little typo makes you look insane…
Season 3 Episode 11 in which a man with hot hands hunts those who exhibit the signs of the stigmata.
This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!
Season 3 Episode 10 in which a supposed NSA agent tries to keep Mulder and Scully from uncovering a dastardly alien-human hybrid experiment gone bad. This is the guy that was in the fantastic zombie film Pontypool, which I highly recommend for anyone liking radio-play style, mostly implied horror.
This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!
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