My birthday was last week and I got the special connex from Germany. Getting up is Patrick Lakeit from Düsseldorf, of CHUD. He lives in a in a box with big twisty knobs by the River Rhein, Check the goods.
It’s about time to wrap up the 2010 season of Culprit Sessions in LA. While setting out on the final installment, I wanted to look back on the previous seven posters.
Now, I personally have never been to LA, but I’d like to think this gives me some sort of clumsily misguided notion of exactly what the place is, and therefore an artistic jumping off point. These are my imagined LA landscapes, combining an unabashedly uninformed mental picture with stereotypes and cliches (swimming pools, traffic jams) to create some sort of arid, hazy dreamscape. LA is very likely more than just monumental expressway interchanges shuttling barely-there sun worshipers from one swimming pool to the next, all the while bombarded with palm trees and roadside billboards. But for my sake, it’s all the better if it is.
Had a great wander about my city this weekend. Please pardon some of the overly sappy flower-on-macro cliche shots. But it’s nice to see what a G11 can do versus the powershot I used to take all my pictures with.
Just wrapped up my first album cover art for Culprit. It was a real enjoyable process from start to finish. The program called for 70’s era smarm and charm, but applied with sensitivity to a techno artist.
Much care was given to subtly mimicking the design paradigms of the early to mid 70’s, especially movie poster and dirty magazine aesthetics.
I’ve seen this a few times now, and I love it a little more each time. Truly one of your best.