Off and running...

The show is up.

Let me say that again...the show is up.

People I was a bit worried about pulled through in the clutch, and everyone's...repeat, everyone's, work looks great.

As a group everyone's parts are independent, yet cohesive.

This weekend was a grueling test of emotions...YES my work is done, NO now I need to hang it, YES everything's up, NO there's still work to do.

I'm also happy how the front came out...cohesive yet independent.

Tomorrow night (6 PM) is the opening, if you're somehow reading this and is not in the show, I encourage you to go.

I crossed off everything in my past post that was listed, except for sleep. Absolutely going to crash now, so I'll leave off with some links to websites depicting the show:

http://studio.montserrat.edu/gd/

http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/301/?PHPSESSID=9be774860e33987b48e246f8c1ed967d

Almost there...

Crossed off a few things from last post.

Did a LOT of work today, finished the large and medium size accordions, as well as did the major fold of the book, and cut out most of the mobile pics.

Still have a few mobile pics to cut out, as well as finishing the smaller accordion, all of which I'll do tonight, and tomorrow morning will finish the book, as well as start putting stuff up.

Here's some pics...

One side:

Other side:

Medium accordion, book and mobile pics:

SHOW OMG!

Show goes up this Fri/Sat/Sun.

This is my little public to-do list before the show:

- email Andy about the front window type

- figure out shadowboxes? for front window

- large accordion:

• cut each panel apart
  
• spray mount panels to foamboard
  

- med accordion:

• buy lighter board to mount to
  
• spray mount to board
  
• bonefold/score back to make it fold
  
• mount to wall
  

- small accordions:

• mount to board/foamcore?
  
• mount to wall
  

- accordion book:

• fold in half and adhesive together
  
• fold into sections
  
• make front/rear covers
  
• put everything together
  

- mobile pics:

• spray mount to foamcore
  
• cut out each one
  

- show:

• install shelf
  
• mount everything!
  
• put up type and hang boxes
  
• freak out
  
• sleep for two days
  

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I went up to NH and picked up my large format prints.  Much thanks to Infinite Imaging in Portsmouth and Exeter, prints look great!

Prints Oh My!

Today was the last class before the show. Scary stuff.

Met with a printer today, who's going to get me a quote on 100 invites as well as a few prints of the folding maps for tomorrow.

Also, met with another printer who can print large-format, and I'm sure their price is reasonable, which just makes me even more discouraged since I can't afford to get them printed.

Not a clue what I'm going to do...

Tiled

Cutting and Pasting

I have a meeting with a local printer tomorrow, so I printed out all my work, thus far, and am now in the midst of trimming and taping all the tiled pieces, escpecially for my large accordion piece.

We went to the gallery yesterday to take measurements and such, and using the work I have so far, made a quick sketch of how I think it'll look like.  John mentioned putting a medium accordion piece over the thermostat, and I think I will.  Not sure if I want to do that one on foamboard though, I think I'll stick to a thicker paper.

Here's the large accordion piece printed and trimmed (will be taped later today):

I'm also going to finally get my books from last semester printed, and created a couple new things based on my road trips.

t-12 days.

As of right now there are 12 days until the show has to go up. That's not to say that stuff won't be up earlier, but it doesn't give us much more time.

Granted it's a process show, but I like finishing things before showing them off to the public.

I have a list of things to do before I can put up my work, one of which is find a place that will print my bigger stuff (one being very long and double-sided and registered correctly).

Here is the large accordion thing I made:

And here is the image that will go on it:

Each divided area is of course on its own panel, coming together to form an image from two angles.  The thing I really like is I'm playing off the scale of the piece and how it should be looked at, and using only 6dpi on the image.  This makes the image very pixelated with pixels 1/4" big.

I organized the rest of my mobile pics, but I'm not sure how I want to display them.  They definetly have to do with the rest of my work, it's about travel, and seeing, or not seeing, and documenting, and remembering, etcetc.  At least that's what I get out of it.  An idea I had is to mount them on foam or whatever and have them stretched across a single line at a certain height.  Another is to group them grid-like, like I have with the contact sheets.  Right now they're about 3" wide and 2" tall or so.  I'd appriciate some input on that.

I did a design for a personal invitation and now just need to print them, cut them, and come up with the list of people I want to send them to.  I know I have a good deal of addresses that I need!  The finished size (folded into a book) is 4.25" x 2.75" so I also need to find some sort of envelope that would fit those well.  And then mail them out.  This I should probably work on soon so people have time before the show.  I believe Scott M is working on an idea for the group card or such.  Something about ninja poses...or something...

Oh yes, and we have a title for the show: First come, first served.

*Just had an idea for using data from all my trips...maps: pins, string, labels.  I don't know, I think strange things when I'm tired.

Update again tomorrow after class.

- Ashley

some pictures and such

stuff on the wall

one angle

other angle

haven't done much of anything with these pictures other than to organize them.


What I'm working on now is a much larger scale version of the accordion book-thing on the wall.  Finished will be 3ft tall with each panel a foot wide.  It's a combination of size that I like a lot.  Per John's suggestions I made a smaller mockup (6inx2in each panel x8 panels) that I'll use to check out different images as well as ease of final production.  I was going to print out each panel and spray adhesive to the panels, he says to print two panels per sheet of paper and have the joints where that fold outwards.  I'll try both.