Cold floors, landlords.

For those of you keeping up: The Alumni Art Show at New City School is up as of yesterday, and will be until June 8. There is a reception on Wednesday, May 27, from 3:30-5:30pm. My Snow White and Rose Red are in it, along with a bunch of other work that I am assuming is excellent (I haven't seen it yet, what with my being quite a few states away at this point in time).

Here's something kind of different for you. This is the collected spreads from a book project I did using excerpts from Double Duce by Aaron Cometbus. You can't really read it at this size, but you get the idea. It's an accordion book, so each line would actually be stuck all together into one big long chain (but that's really difficult to look at on the internet). Be warned, there is some strong language, though I'm pretty sure it's mostly illegible.

Here are the covers (front and back, respectively):

The images used for this project were gathered by marking out a 2.5" square on the cover of a magazine, then slicing through the whole thing with a matte knife (box cutter). Everything was put together using InDesign, and the final book is 5" square.
(fun fact: the title of this post comes from the song "Landlords" by Pinhead Gunpowder—members including Cometbus himself as well as Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day. The full lyrics scroll along the very bottom of the book's pages.)

It's funny how much I have grown to enjoy making books. I remember having fairly recently proclaimed them to be a bane of my existence, and yet these days I am folding accordions like nobody's business. Speaking of which, I've got another one in the works, which will hopefully be ready for its internet debut in the next week or so.

ps. Hey friends who read this! Good luck with your finals!