My new comic is available to read here. Hit "prev" to see the next page.
Also, I'm getting closer to a viable hanging method for my thesis. Jordan had a fantastic idea (seriously, I'm going to have to make him cookies if this works because I certainly never would have thought of it) to hang t-pins in a grid and then proceed to hang my drawings via binder clips, so that they can be taken down and rearranged easily. Plaza was out of t-pins when I went in on Monday but they said they would order some, they should be in by tomorrow. And I'm going to pick up some more colors and sizes of binder clips at Staples on Friday, after tutoring.
Usually I don't write music reviews, preferring to listen and enjoy/ sing along rather than sit and analyze... but Justice's latest album Audio Video Disco has more or less changed my world. So I figured I would write about it.
To start off, the album flows wonderfully as a whole. I could listen to individual tracks like Civilization and On'n'on and New Lands endlessly by themselves (because they are bleeding fantastic), but put together it retains a wonderful overall sound.
The first track, Horsepower, does derive wonderfully from Justice's last album, †. It has that dark, grinding bassline and the thumping beats that we know and love. It is a good introduction to the album. However, the album takes off in new directions after that--the intro to Canon (tracks 4 and 5) is a lovely harpsichord melody that leads us into the more melodic main track of Canon.There is also more of a rock n roll quality to this album, overall--On'n'on (track 6) for example. Listening to New Lands (track 9) I am strongly reminded of the Moody Blues and Pink Floyd.
The single, Audio Video Disco, is the second-to-last track on the album and it really doesn't sound a whole lot like the rest of the album. It's good, but I still prefer Civilization and New Lands. I do enjoy the video, though--the editing is seamless and must have been very difficult.
I thought that this review would be longer, but I'm still so
dazed by how amazing this album is that I don't know if I can write further
without gushing like a fangirl. I'm just going to say go and listen to it, decide for yourself.
Things I am working on for the end of the quarter:
-my alternative processes photography books (hand-bound little things I'm still working on individual pages for)
-a paper on relational aesthetics, comics, and whether comics can be considered as such (I think they can) for visual arts concepts
-an ergot for comics
-a two-page color comic about a veteran I interviewed last week (also for comics)
-a statement of intent/ artist's statement for a show I might tentatively have at Semantics in the fall sometime (involving my YouTube stills that I am still slowly collecting and that can be viewed here)
It is once again pouring rain and it is distracting me from comic layouts. Mom called me earlier to tell me a big old front is moving in (again) and it's been spawning tornadoes (again).
Here, have a tampon ad from the 70s or something. This is what my best friend Christina and I look like when we're biking around in a park. All the time. Forever.
