As stated in the previous post, we have a showing of our poster work coming up quick!
Sight/Sound: posters by Dog & Pony Showprints
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1 • 5-8pm
Art Institute of Jacksonville
8775 Baypine Road
Hooray for news!
• We were invited to participate in a show curated by Mr. Brian Gray.
• We will be providing a print or 2 AND poster for THE JAX MONSTER SHOW.
• We are having our own show at The Art Institute of Jacksonville in August.
• Sean, Tim and Tonya Lee will be giving a screen printing lesson to Art Institute students 2 weeks after said show.
• Tim sprained (maybe fractured) his arm in a surfing incident.
• July 4th is Friday — Sean’s dad is a redneck with lots of fireworks.
• These are the Daves I know.
Posters coming up:
• Wilco
• Monster Show
• The Reverend Horton Heat
• Café Eleven “retrospective”
• Art prints!
We Sold Out!
Published June 11, 2008 Uncategorized 0 CommentsTags: cafe 11, sold out!, vampire weekend
sort of. but not really.
we sold every single one of our Vampire Weekend posters!
granted, it was a small edition (32), the show was OVERSOLD, and our posters are VERY reasonably priced, but still!
the band was awesome, cafe 11 was awesome as always.
good food, good drink, good people, good times.
while i’m on the subject of good food, you need to go to cafe 11. not just for a show, for brunch…or dinner. seriously. its run by amazing people, and the food is retarded good.
this marks the end of the season for at Cafe 11 — shows starting back up in August. We’re working on a few posters for shows in Jacksonville, but will soon be shifting focus to perfecting our printing skills and eventually beginning a “retrospective” poster collection for the cafe. More on that soon.
lock & loll
st - d&p
photos by sarah b
New Poster!
Published June 6, 2008 Uncategorized 2 CommentsTags: brian gray, eric blair, poster, vampire weekend
Monsters! Oh my!
This one is based on the movie the band was making before they formed the band. In short, Walcott wakes up at his home in New Jersey to his father telling him to get to Cape Cod to tell the mayor that vampires are taking over the country. See the trailer here. Pretty hilarious. Eric Blair helped a ton on this one, bringing these quirky characters to life.
This was a dooozy to print. We’re still getting used to “professional” screens and I think our press is starting to warp. Assuming we decide to skip the next couple posters (Matt Costa, Alkaline Trio), we’ll focus on honing our process. Building a new press/table, making our exposure unit fully functional, maybe moving into a new space…just figuring things out. This past month has been pretty rough for us in the screenprinting realm (Helio Sequence, etc).
The Vampire Weekend show is totally sold out, as they’re making up for the show they were supposed to open with The Walkmen (our first concert poster, see here.) They cancelled to appear on SNL and the venue honored any tickets that people didn’t use that night. Basically it’s been sold out since the day after. This will be our first crazy big show, and we didnt make a whole lot of posters (final edition of 30-ish?) so we’ll see what happens!
I’m just excited to finally see these guys.
Also, big ups to Brian Gray — a guy I’ve never met, but who I totally respect for his ability to promote the hell out of everything he’s done. He’s blogging over at theouterbox.com and posting ridiculously frequently. He featured us today! Awesome!
In other news, my lovely girlfriend gets back from a month long trip to Europe next week!
Thank god!
Who’s going to see Inspection 12 tonight? I am!
Stay tuned!
Sean – D&P
Hey everybody! It’s the other half of D&P, posting for this update. Sean’s been doing such a great job of keeping everything up to date, I figured I needed to pitch in and starting pulling a little weight around here. So here’s my first post…
After much discussion and minimal planning, we’ve completed our first fully functional exposure unit. You can see more photos and a brief description of the process in our Flickr album. The unit is pretty badass, if I do say so myself, take a second and have a look at our new way to burn screens. We had a good time getting this project done, and it was a great way to end the weekend and start June (and hurricane season). And while I don’t share Sean’s passion for bees as he expressed earlier, I must say, I had a cool buzz from my new surfboard that I took out this a.m. - a lovely triple stringer, noseriding beauty. Which for me, is my own kind of (cough,cough) Puppy love.
Enjoy - T
This time almost exactly 2 years ago, I started a blog. I think it was called “blogging is the new black” or something dumb like that. I was in Atlanta, hopelessly searching for a job. Everything stopped this time 2 years ago. And every year for the past few years for that matter.
Everything stopped for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
I don’t know what it is, but I’m completely obsessed with the Bee. I’m not a stellar speller (that was good) by any means, I just can’t NOT care about it.
Anyway…I watched the semifinals in the background at work today, and the finals are on tonight. I’m pretty excited.
We here at Dog & Pony have a new mascot/annoyance.
Meet Puppy the kitten:
As fun as she is to be around, she makes things a little difficult…spent most of last night making her paws blue on the first color of the new vampire weekend poster we’re doing. Here’s a sneak peek:
Oh yeah, remember that Helio Sequence problem?
I sort of gave up. Karen helped print the second color, and the overlay came out kind of cool, but the third and final color (black) just wasn’t working out. We printed up 5 and called it quits. I cut those down and made some sweet business cards…here:
The actual show is on Sunday, and if I happen to get inspired tomorrow, I will try it one more time. If not, maybe some art prints or more business cards are in our future.
It just goes to show that there will always be challenges, and working through them or figuring other things out is the best I can do.
Things are allllllllright in D&P world. Time for the bee!
Love times a million,
Sean.
I feel bad.
I brought my friend Karen on to help with a couple posters because her “style” — awesome watercolor technique — would be perfect for the images in my head.
First was the Nada Surf debacle, and now this:
Isn’t that pretty?
We collaborated and pulled this one out in 48 hours.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that we (Dog & Pony/Sean & Tim) have only cracked the surface with screen printing and our skillz.
We made some recent upgrades — An emulsion scoop coater, REAL aluminum screens (instead of screen hand-stretched and stapled over old picture frames), and a brand new squeegee.
It seems those upgrades haven’t helped us right away.
Maybe my expectations were too high, but I thought we could surely pull off printing the tiny dots needed to get all the cool detail in Karen’s awesome watercolor. I read up on some instructional screenprinting sites, got advice on how best to execute it, and printed our transparencies as instructed. Some of awesome details showed up, but a lot of the really cool subtle stuff, which in my opinion, gives it the unique watercolor-ness of the image, didn’t show.
It truly is a learning experience. Maybe we finally need to build ourselves a light table? A vaccum table? Either way, we have to work through it. It’s just frustrating.
I got to talk to Jeff Matz for a bit when he came down to Jacksonville to speak at an AIGA event. He said “every poster is a learning experience” and that something will screw up every time.
Hopefully this is just a small bump in the road.
We push on.
Keep moving forward.
D & effin P
Well…due to conflicts with the Nada Surf’s management, we are unable to sell the poster as planned. Here’s what it was going to look like:
We’ve got some other plans in the works, so the image isn’t going to die completely. Thanks to Karen for her kick-ass watercolor skills on this one. She’ll be back.
Stay tuned, folks.
-d&p-
just a quick sneak peek at a portion of our newest poster for Nada Surf.
it was a collaboration with the watercolory goodness of our good friend Karen Kurycki. She rules.
stay tuned for more…we love you,
d&p
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