Hey guys,
I'm living out here in Boston right now, but that doesn't I can't make some stuff for this next show.
Anyways, have you guys heard of The Postal Service? That whole ablum was made by Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello utilizing the "postal service" to send beats and vocals back and forth to each other. On that note, I want to start a project with whomever is interested in making a piece utilizing snail mail.
A few ideas I have:
- was for someone to design an "art-crate" (a nice fancy cardboard box for shipping our work back and forth which will be on display too; of course it will have a nice big Co/Lab logo stamped on it). As for how many people, pieces, mail, and distance covered will be up to how ambitious we are.
- send "art-crates" to artistically conscious people to fill it with something awesome and ship it back to the show. A good way for those that have graduated and moved far, far away to still be active.
- ship "art-crates" to random people, the crates themselves will be the work. Also maybe send a shit-ton of them to one location at the same time!
Okay...I have used all of my brain-power for today and also it is time for me to get off work.
Let me know what you guys think...
-Semar
Friday, October 19, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Blurb: Self-Service Publishing
Hey guys,
I don't know if you guys in Davis are getting ready for round 2 of the Collab or not, but Tracy twittered this site www.blurb.com and it's basically a self-publishing service that lets you print your own books for a relatively cheap price. After thinking of all the books that I wanted to print from my Design classes, I thought of the Collab. If you guys are still thinking of doing the Collab Process book from last year, this would definitely be a good place to do it.
From how I picture it, we would put the book together on InDesign or whatever, then have Blurb print one copy of softcover and one of hardcover as our "proof" to see how they look. We could fix whatever little things from the proof and print a bunch of copies for other Collabers to purchase as well as anyone who wants to buy it. This will no doubt take about a few months to put together and work through, but if we do this quick enough, we could have the mass copies printed about a month or two before the next Collab Show (assuming that it's held in May again) and sell them as a way of publicizing the next show, much like how the TV and film industries sell DVDs of the previous series movie or season right before the next one comes out or premieres!
So yeah, what do y'all think?
-Ivan
I don't know if you guys in Davis are getting ready for round 2 of the Collab or not, but Tracy twittered this site www.blurb.com and it's basically a self-publishing service that lets you print your own books for a relatively cheap price. After thinking of all the books that I wanted to print from my Design classes, I thought of the Collab. If you guys are still thinking of doing the Collab Process book from last year, this would definitely be a good place to do it.
From how I picture it, we would put the book together on InDesign or whatever, then have Blurb print one copy of softcover and one of hardcover as our "proof" to see how they look. We could fix whatever little things from the proof and print a bunch of copies for other Collabers to purchase as well as anyone who wants to buy it. This will no doubt take about a few months to put together and work through, but if we do this quick enough, we could have the mass copies printed about a month or two before the next Collab Show (assuming that it's held in May again) and sell them as a way of publicizing the next show, much like how the TV and film industries sell DVDs of the previous series movie or season right before the next one comes out or premieres!
So yeah, what do y'all think?
-Ivan
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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