Day 344 / Prepping For An Epic Print Order

February 13th, 2011
 
We woke up early and joined our friends Jeff and Wendy for breakfast.  Afterwards, I took June to her very first movie theatre experience!  I took her to see Tangled.  She made it until about act 3 of the film and then she was ready to go home.  It’s all good.  She enjoyed herself.
 
June has come down with a cold over the past few days and today it was in full effect.  She was visibly frustrated by her stuffy nose.
 
Well, anyways, not such an exciting creative thing for today but I needed to use it because the task is an epic undertaking.
 
If you haven’t been checking out the blog lately the big news is that this blog is going to end in an art gallery!  Crazy, eh?  Well, tonight I devoted a fair amount of hours into the task of preparing all my images for printing.  As the title says, it’s going to be an epic print order.  Luckily my dad has a plotter which is perfect for larger poster sized prints but when it comes to the majority of it I may have to go with Kinkos, unfortunately.  We’ll see, my buddy Reuban works for a company that does mass printing so maybe I can work out a deal with him.
 
This art show is incredibly intimidating to me.  Not only am I a little nervous about plastering the walls with a ton of bad and desperate art but I’m also trying to configure the experience so that someone walking along the timeline can understand exactly what they are looking at without too much reading.  365 Days is a lot of stuff.  Each day will be represented by at least one image but most days will have multiple images associated to it.
 
The most important thing to me as that the viewer gets an idea of what they are looking at without having to look to deep.
 
This evening I got up to Day 230 with just selecting images but that’s merely selecting.  I have 114 more days to go through at the moment and then I have to start the long process of resizing and sifting further.  I certainly don’t want this boring stuff to be posted as my creative thing but under the circumstances I needed to make a dent.
 
Once I have this image sifting finished and the printing begins I’ll let out a large sigh of relief.  But then of course there’s all the videos that need to be collected and all the audio and how exactly to present it and finally the act of putting these images on the wall in a cohesive way and labeling it all to boot.  Ay-yi-yi!
 
Well, at least it’s going to be quieter at work now that Muppets is over.  Plus I’m taking the week before the opening off in order to spend as much time as possible moving my stuff in.
 
Still I can’t think of a more perfect way to end this whole experience.  It’s still so surreal to me.