Finished the final details on these projects today-
This album is mounted in a floating mount style onto a bi-color background, with a raised double black ragmat matting and a simple contemporary black frame to match. There will be some silver/grey accents put onto this piece before it gets delivered.
Also, I posted about this one last week. And since its not everyday that you get a setlist from a world tour, I just pushed to finish it quick. I had to put the stub into it too,on account of the extrordinary row and seat location. Shout out to my boy Nick with PhatPhlogBlog.blogspot.com again, the ticket stub phenomenon lives on.
Ever had a moment when you wanted to rehang all your framed posters? You pull them all down, and set them up against the wall only to have them slide and slap the floor when you walk away, shattering the glass? Ah yes, the floor slap has taken many sheets of glass to the grave. Its an easy fix though, and can usually be done same day. This frame needed a new sheet of glass and a little more support to keep it from flexing the glass since its such a large piece.
But here it is, I wanted to get a picture before it went out the door:
E-mail me if you have any kind of preservation questions/tips. If you have thumbtack holes on an old poster, ther are ways to cover it with a mat in a frame. if you have stains, etc on your poster, I work in art restoration too. Save the posters of your youth.
Fort Collins has a birthday party every year, and what a party it is. Bohemian Nights is the actual name of the music festival surrounding the New West Fest, and it is a festival that situated stages across the old town area and they fill those stages with some classic Colorado bands, and usually headliners of great quality. This year's headliners include The Flobots, Earth Wind & Fire, and Earl Scruggs with Family and Friends.
Saturday's headliners were Earth, Wind & Fire. I was unable to attend the Saturday night, but from what the headlines we saying, it was a bash to remember. I heard from numerous accounts that it was a record crowd in downtown Fort Collins pushing around 15,000. I love big fish stories. Anyway, those crowds got a little rowdy that night and a riot ensued. I will say though, that despite TONS of bad reporting from the scum we call media, this riot was NOT caused by Earth, WInd and Fire's stellar show. This riot happened hours after the last note, and likely included students from Colorado State University. Good old Fort Collins, what you got Boulder?
Back to the point, Sunday proved to be a monster bluegrass day on the Mountain Stage.
Spring Creek Bluegrass, Great American Taxi (poster below) and Earl Scruggs and Family can really brighten up any day.
Sorry about the bad photo on this one readers, the merch employee was being crazy and didnt want me to take a picture of it, so I had to be quick:
I also wanted to post this vid because this is one of my favorite bluegrass songs. Ever. and they opened with it:
Taking the curl out of two more posters this week, lets get into it
First off is the Trey Anastasio Band poster from the Fox Theater shows in 2006.
Poster design is by Jay Vollmar. Jay is responsible for many showbills in the Front Range area, although he does posters for shows all over the US and even some Europe dates. For me, Trey band really brings me back to my younger days. I really like the bright colors on this poster too, all the web images show it having more gold/red hues not hot pink and highlighter yellow that I pick up:
Secondly, I'm in the design process on this one:
I love this poster for many reasons, and I feel like it is the strongest design from this year's summer tour.
Brought to you by Methane Studios. Methane does all of Dave Matthews Band's posters and I really hope Phish commisions them to do more, they just do a solid bang up job. Again, I love this one and am looking forward to incorporate some metallics into the frame/mats to match the poster.
Yeah you read it right, I capitalized the S on Special. What a night. Rodrigo y Gabriela have continually been one of my favorite acts since seeing them for Valentine's Day at the Fillmore in 2008. What a show that was. and they continued it all with last Friday's show here at Red Rock Amphitheater.
To quote my boy John Blumenshine over at BCauzIWasThere: "Heavy metal, played on classical guitars, by Mexicans, who got their start in Dublin."
A nice poster, albeit not an event one, just a Summer Tour 2010 poster:
Xavier Rudd opened with his new group Izintaba, and it was def an acoustic barrage with all the didj effects, and massive wind instruments and tribal drums and what not. Mystical energy was feeding the twirling hippies.
Then came in Rod y Gab and they started strong and kept going, addressing issues and political stances along they way. That all came to a peak when Zach de la Rocha (Lead Singer/Rage Against the Machine) came out and spat Bombtrack with them. Wish I had a recording of that one, oh wait---
They finished off their set with an appearance from Al DiMeola. I honestly didn't even realize he was still alive, but I am well aware of his guitar playing. My old roommate Jeff Miller, an amazing guitar player himself, and I used to listen to This Is Jazz late into the night years ago. It was truly a treat, and I am seeming to have problems loading that one onto youtube....sorry guys
So amazing as it all was, I was able to get this little gem from one of the stage hands before they tore down
Banksy is a British street artist that ruled the limits in the 90's. His style has influenced a lot of artist along the way, and his prints are routinely in the thousands of dollars.
This one is a replica of Banksy's famous Stop and Search.
This was a gift from someone who was selling T-shorts and prints in Town Park, Telluride. Really a generous gift and if you're the one who gave it to me and end up reading this, please email me, I forgot your name. And you rock.
Also, I would recommend the film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" to anyone that reads this blog, it is seriously some deep art with names I know you've heard of:
Its has been a while since I've been doing consistent posts here at She Tilt My Frame, its been a good summer though.
Lets get down to business, shall we?
This poster by Tyler Stout was a bitch of a poster to get my hands on. I also thought, that while it is a great poster, its not the best for Phish or Stout. more after the Jump >>>>>
Craig Howell is a cool artist, mostly all of his stuff is like a printed graphic, never really seen his stuff in a screen or block. I've been trying to get his Halloween WSP poster, with no success. If you all know of one, let me know!
We have a 2010 Furthur Winter Tour Poster by Mike Dubois and the folks at Further.net
This one is a poster I got last year and just now decided to frame for us. Its a poster by the Burlesque Designs studio. Love it and I'm thinking of ordering a nice velvet mat, not sure yet, stay tuned:
Then lastly this poster that was saved from a flood in Athens, but I am in the process of restoring it, making it look beautiful, then framing it with a HUGE frame I already have. This poster weighs in at a staggering 35x23" and will probably have a 45X33 inch frame. Awesome.
Museum Glass is a high quality and high cost item that you can put into your picture framing. This is a perfect application of this glass as it is glare free and 99% UV free glass. With this Phish-Festival 8 3D poster by Pollock, the glare free really allows you to use 3D glasses and have the great effect intended in this special edition poster. This one had a great cutout for a pair of 3D glasses, Great idea Patrick!
Another upgrade to a standard picture frame is the ticket stub cutouts. It is a really cool way to put a personal touch to a showbill framing.
There is much to be said about adding ticket stubs to posters. My phriend Nick Stock over at PhatPhlogBlog.Blogspot.com had a great post concerning this and had a couple examples. Click here to see that post, its a great one.
I used to think it wasn't the best thing to do to a poster, and I argued that from a design standpoint I think it is important to have tickets that match iin some way to the poster. But after completing this project, I may think differently. It looks great and I am happy with the results. What do you think? Comment away below
