press three

it's been quite a while since i've made any stickers. but the burn is merely days away, and i'm getting so excited! a couple weeks ago, i had an idea for a project to do for the burn. i set to work and created numerous foreclosure, condemned, for sale and bank repo signs, which i plan to post on various camps and art installations. today i went to kinkos and printed 20 eviction notices. all this tom-foolery got my mind spinning, and alas, press three is on it's way. it's a collection of ideas that have been churning for a while, along with some new ideas inspired by this years theme. there will be some original designs, some unique, one-of-a-kind stickers, and probably some recycled ones from previous pressings. plus, there's a new banner featuring the new dim icon ;) and some new labels for the bags!!

the lowdown...
the collage stickers were made from various scraps and images that i've collected from newspapers and a couple of different books. one of them was "isaac asimov's book of science and nature quotations" edited by asimov and shulman. i can't remember the name of the other book i used, but i picked these up for a dollar each, and quickly chopped up the other one for parts. but each one of these stickers is unique, so you better put it some place cool, dammit! (i just hope they work...)
**collage stickers are done as of friday afternoon!!

i also made some stickers from quotes that i liked that were contained in the book "do it! let's get off our buts" by john-roger & peter mcwilliams. those ones came out kinda funny for some reason. but one of the quotes was by salvador dali, which said, "have no fear of perfection; you'll never get there." so i think i'll just be happy with imperfection.

today i also printed the following designs. i'm not sure if i'll pass these out, but instead plan to put them up around the city. i especially like the recycling one, although the quality of the images i spliced were a bit off. oh well...
and just in time, i finished the inkblot stickers with out messing up my kitchen too badly. each sticker has a symbol which represents "p'u" or the "uncarved wooden block." it's a concept from taoism which i was recently acquainted with when i read "the tao of pooh." you should check it out. there are two versions of the symbol, simplified chinese and traditional chinese. i found it to be a nice coincidence with the olympic games (go usa!). anyway, these stickers inspired all sorts of thoughts and tangents, like the interpretation in the classic psychological inkblot test. and also allowing the ink to take it's own shape. blah blah blah. they look cool.

so, i hope that everyone has a wonderful, cathartic, mind-blowing, inspiring, beautiful, exciting, adjective, burn this year. or rather, now that your reading it, i hope that your burn could be described by the above description. it's late. see you on the playa. or if i did, it was nice to see you on the playa. when time becomes a loop, when time becomes a loop, when time becomes a loop, when time becomes a time becomes a loop, then...