…oh, and the new spinesheet…
I think we’ve probably designed over ten (published) versions and variations of this album!
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The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill by Banksy. New York
A while ago (probably not last year, but way earlier than last month) Ronen and I were killing time eating Pizza and he took me to see Banksy’s pet shop.
A whole shop of awesome, let me tell you. Pictured above: Caged monkey watches the Discovery channel (Naked Monkey Channel!)
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ALbum Cover Art: Mick Jagger’s letter to Warhol
mikehudack:tedr:mikehudack:blakeley:stellavista:
How artists conduct business.
Mick is my new business hero. In this terse letter he congratulates his coworker, he sets expectations, he advises w/o directing and takes the pitfalls of the compensation issue entirely off the table. I sincerely aspire to lead/create/live like this.
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Great Sand Dunes, Colorado.
From the Fray album artwork trek-around-Colorado photoshoot. Since we were shooting neon and fluorescent lights, there was only a small window of time when the lighting was right. So while we waited for the magic hour, Marke and Kim went exploring.
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Promotional Flyer, The Cinematic Underground. England 2004
This was a flyer for one of the first full Annasthesia shows at the Greenbelt Arts Festival in England, almost exactly five years ago. Anna Chamberlain designed the flyers and we had a whole airport/stewardess thing going on in the festival leading up to the performance.
The British version of the band featured Mearsy (of course) and Zach, who flew out for the week, as well as the core members of another now defunct band called Oversol.
Greenbelt turned out to be a favorite summer event. It is sort of like a much smaller Christian version of Glastonbury (I know, a “Christian version” of anything is a great way to dispel hope, but this turned out to be an amazing weekend with great music). It was at this festival that I discovered Duke Special, Denison Witmer, Rosie Thomas, and Speed Dating*.
*This is sort of a longer story which involves a lot of embarassed justification, but basically Zach and I were being interviewed on a radio show and the hosts were looking for someone to try out speed dating and report back. We both (Zach and I) went, and were sort of simultaneously thrilled and horrified.
I wrote a song about it, which the speed dating company (company?!) edited (because it was a “Christian version” of speed dating) and then put on their website. I’m not sure if my original lyrics were funnier, but I’m pretty sure they rhymed.
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With I&A Slade, two of my best friends, and also two of my favorite patrons of my art.
My brother Zach’s huge painting of a nameless city. It’s quite a sight to behold, especially in real life.
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Katie Chastain was on The Tonight Show last night. That’s her in the lower left corner of the record Conan’s holding, next to the giant ‘F’.
Nice to see those months of work being shown so proudly by Conan :)
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The Fray (Self Titled) artwork shoot. Colorado Sand Dunes.
(This was definitely my favorite location from the shoot)
Where were you???
Smoking your last cigarette?
Blood was on the floor.
Where were you?
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From the tunnel shoot under Union Station, Denver, CO.
Marke (me) & Nathan. Art Directors Extraordinaire.
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Fabric shopping for the handmade covers that will be the Deluxe Edition of Katie’s new album.
