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.
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9 responses to “Day 344 / Prepping For An Epic Print Order”
When is this show going to be? I’ve been following your blog for a really long time and would love to come out and support you, but I’ve got about a two hour trek to get the gallery.
Hey MC it would be great to have you out! The opening is scheduled for friday March 4th. A two hour trek eh? Where are you located?
It’s a 20 hours trek to the gallery… Hey ‘beau frère’, how long is the exhibit going to last ? Is there a chance that we can see it ?
that’s so cool Charlie! I wish I could see it. Congratulations and don’t worry about boring anyone – what you’ve done is just fascinating and an amazing achievement.
Sweet. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it out. I live up in Crestline, in the mountains above San Bernardino. Takes a while to get down the mountain + getting to fullerton, but I should be there.
Man I hope one of your mates was video taping you and your blog process for the past year because no doubt it would make an awesome documentary!
Ending it all in a gallery is brilliant. And you totally deserve to be displaying this work. From following the blog for the past year I know you’re a modest guy but don’t sell yourself short. There are so many quality projects that you completed over the last year that can easily stand up as fascinating pieces of art in their own right (ignoring the fact that you did them after a days work!). To see all the projects documented in the gallery will be incredible. Unfortunately I won’t be able to be there in person, but i’ll be there in spirit (and I can check out the exhibition on your blog!). All the best. Cillian
I am so proud of you. You are amazing.
@Everyone – Thanks for all the support guys! I’m sorry it has taken me so long to reply! I still have very little time even after the muppets. Turns out I’m shooting a bunch all this week for some other projects at work. I have to get my posts up but I’m using all my time. Still haven’t continued sifting through the pictures since this day and that has me a little worried. I’ve heard though that even with my large order it shouldn’t take too long to turn around.
@MC – That definitely is quite a drive. Although I imagine it’s a great place to live. It’s beautiful up there. I do appreciate the support and it will be great to meet you!
@Gu-dog – The exhibit should last for most of the month of March but is there something we should know? Are you coming back so soon? It would certainly be rad to see you “beau-frere”!
@ Stephanie – Thanks Steph! If I get everything I’m hoping for accomplished it should be a sensory overload so hopefully that will distract enough people. Haha! I hope you’re doing well out there! Getting some editing work?
@Cillian John – Thanks so much! I appreciate the vote of confidence. There are definitely days that I feel good about and I’m chalking it all up to experience so I don’t regret anything. There are ups and downs just like any year. I know that opening night I plan on walking around with the camera and filming everything so you should be able to get a feel for what it’s like at the show. I’ll do a drawing on the Harmonograph for you. Actually, I’ll probably do a few drawings for all of the people who have left supportive comments for me. Thanks again!
@ Linda – Thanks mom!
A Harmonograph drawing would be awesome thanks!