PRISM index teaser trailer

Here is the website.

http://prismindex.com

thanks,

Jeffrey Bowers

Intro – Some-things

Menu – Steve Emmons

Asshole – Chadd Harbold

Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 – Chema Garcia

Dog – Hermann Karlsson

Experiments 1-5 – Michael Langan

I Just Wanted To Be Somebody – Jay Rosenblatt

Infomercial Aesthetics – Daniel Martinico

Message Machine – Azazel Jacobs

Shortwave Stall – Michael Hurley

Travelogues – Dustin Thompson

Who’s On First – Zellner Brothers

The Widow’s Web – Mike Kuchar

Zewesawam – Carson Mell / Grant Falardeau

CD and DVD

Each designer will function as an artist in both pulling together the different threads running through the comp and also adding flair and 6 unique perspectives on the contributing artists.

Designers linked below:

Sarah Warda

Jeff Brush

Julia Marino

Zach Vieira

In other productive news, the silkscreen for the cover is being worked up, the DVD is full, and the CD is following closely behind.

Here’s to hoping there are no more hiccups and Some-things is out by summer 09.

p.s. I had applied for a grant to hopefully subsidize the cost, however, it was not awarded. If anyone out there knows of grants that fit this project please project.

much love on this quiet night in Oh.Hi.Oh.

I’m excited for this year as two bands in the inaugural issue of Some-things: Michael Hurley and the Sad Bastards.

Nelsonville Music Festival from Jeffrey Bowers on Vimeo.

I recently purchased a CD/DVD Duplicator of ebay! I will be duplicating master copies of my own CD’s and DVD’s. I highly recommend this to other people for short runs of these things as you get ripped off doing it through a company.  I’m getting a linoblock in order to print onto the discs and sleeves which are 100% recycled cardboard.  I’m still searching for the right printer, but once that happens all sails are go.  As everything continues to come together Some-things #1 looks more and more beautiful. Thanks everyone for your patience.

(Minor Alterations May Occur)

Print

• Arrington De Dionyso – Old Time Relijun (Series of Paintings)

• Bill Plympton – Artist and Animator (Drawing)

• Brett Eugene Ralph – Poet and Musician (Poems)

• Brian McMullen – McSweeney’s and Believer Magazine (Short Story)

• Brent Hoff – Creator of Wholphin DVD (Writing on Kuchar’s and UFO’s)

• Castanets - Musician and Writer (Poem)

• Chris Schlarb – Musician of I Heart Lung and Create! (Interviews)

• Colin McDonald - Artist and Filmmaker (Photo)

• Dan Kennedy - Writer (Photos of Feet)

• Dan Reeder – Artist and Musician (Picture)

• David Heumann – Musician of Arbouretum (Photo Series)

• Diane Cluck – Artist and Musician (Paintings)

• Fantastic Magic – Artist and Musicians (Comics)

• Golden Ghost – Artist and Musician (Drawings)

• Hermann Karlsson – Animator and Filmmaker (Pictures)

• James Jackson Toth - Writer and Musician of Wooden Wand (Poems)

• Jay Duplass – Filmmaker of Puffy Chair and Baghead (Writing)

• Jeffrey Brown -Artist (Comics)

• Josh Cotter – Artist (Comics)

• Justin Taylor – Writer (Short Story)

• Lisa Hanawalt – Artist (Drawings)

• Luke Ramsey – Artist (Drawings)

• Michael Hurley – Musician and Artist (Comic)

• Michael Kimball – Writer (Short Story)

• Phil McMullen – Creator of Terrascope and Terrastock Festivals (Writing)

• Phil Roth – All Around Awesome Dude and Writer (Poetry)

• Prince and Pearl – Musician of Castanets, Meadows and more and Artist (Drawing)

• Shawn Wanner – Artist (Drawings)

• Theo Ellsworth – Artist (Drawings)

• Trent Harris – Filmmaker and Artist (Letter to Bruce Connor and Art)

• Virgil Widrich -Filmmaker and Artist (Pictures of many, many Breakfast Tables)

• Women and Children – Artist and Musicians (Series of Drawings based off Police Sketches)

• Woods - Artist and Musician (Drawings)

Music

• Annelies Monsere – Droney Songstress (B-Side Song)

• Arrington De Dionyso – Old Time Relijun (Unreleased Live Song)

• Belly Boat – Two Cool Chicks! (Unreleased Song)

• Castanets - Musician and Writer (Live Cover of “I Can Get Off On You”)

• Chriss Sutherland – Musician of Fire on Fire and Cerberus Shoal (Song)

• David Heumann – Musician of Arbouretum (Unreleased Song)

• Fantastic Magic – Artist and Musicians (Unreleased Song)

• Golden Ghost – Artist and Musician (Unreleased Cover Song of “Always Be My Baby”)

• Louis Monroe - Musician (Unreleased Song)

• Mi and L’au – Musicians (Unreleased Song)

• Michael Hurley – Musician and Artist (Unreleased Cover Song of “Girl On The Billboard”)

• Prince and Pearl – Musician of Castanets, Meadows and more and Artist (Unreleased Song)

• Robbie Lee – Musician of Howling Hex and Love As Laughter (Unreleased Song)

• Sad Bastards – Band (Unreleased Song)

• Thee More Shallows – Band (Unreleased Cover Song of “On Returning”)

• William Fowler Collins – Musician (Song)

• Women and Children – Artist and Musicians (Unreleased Song)

Film

• Azazel Jacobs – Filmmaker of Momma’s Man (Short Experimental Film “Message Machine”)

• Carson Mell - Filmmaker and Writer (Short Narrative Film “Zewesawam”)

• Chadd Harbold – Filmmaker (Short Narrative Film “Asshole”)

• Daniel Martinico -Filmmaker (Short Experimental Film)

• Dustin Thompson – Filmmaker (Short Experimental Film)

• Hermann Karlsson – Animator and Filmmaker (Short Animated Film “Dog”)

• Jay Rosenblatt Filmmaker (Short Experimental Film “I Just Wanted To Be Somebody”)

• Mike Kuchar – Filmmaker (Short Film)

• Michael Langan – Artist and Filmmaker (Film Animation Excerpt)

• Nathan Cozzolino – Filmmaker and Comedian! (Short Narrative Film)

• Steve Emmons – Animator (Short Animated Film)

• Zellner Brothers – Filmmaker’s (Short Film “Who’s On First”)

New York became one of those whirlwind tours. My friend calls me and an afternoon conversation becomes a trip to the big city. We made it in late around 6 am with tensions rising. GPS is truly misleading. Like cheating on a test. You are fairly confident in your ability to cheat/listen to the screen, but not so confident in the other person’s ability to take their own test/or the GPS have correct coordinates.

The next night we made our way out to Brooklyn to the Vanishing Point where we witnessed the alive and well DIY culture in the Eye and Ear Festival. It served as a benefit show for the Brooklyn based “Show Paper.”

“NY Eye & Ear is a 2 day record fair and all-ages music festival celebrating NYC homegrown DIY recording labels and bands. This is NYC’s only record fair devoted exclusively to NY record labels.”

There I met the wonderful Sto who co-runs Cinders Gallery, a beautiful gallery in Williamsburg, where they sell all sorts of handmade and independent goodies. Along with excellent up for the current show. Other highlights at the festival was discovering The Journal of Popular Noise, an extremely interesting series of 7″ in a fold-out magazine form. It’s simple, mathematical, and precise, the music might be anything but.  A few highlights of the show on Saturday were: La Otracina, Necking, AAAPE, and Spectre Folk.

One of the days? I went to meet with Amy Mees and Mark Wagner at X-ing Design/Books.

“X-ing Design is a little design house with innovative solutions for any budget. In addition to our work-for-hire X-ing Design put it’s talents to task as X-ing Books, publishing literature in exciting and nifty formats”

Doesn’t that sound nice. It was! They were really wonderful and helped quote me a bunch of different prices on printing. We discussed layout and book design and came up with a stitch that I am 90% sure will be the design for “Some-things #1.”  The stitch is dubbed the “Double Pamphlet Stitch.”  It gives the book the illusion of a spine, two full bleed 11 x 17′s, and an odd tab through the middle of the book which can be used when attaching the CD and DVD. It gives the book a unique style, but placing the electronic media smack dab in the middle, as opposed to the front or back. I’m particularly interested in this because my intention with “Some-things” was not to make complimentary or companion pieces of the CD and DVD, but place them on an equal level. (Hopefully, I’ll get to a small tutorial on how to make this stitch later on.)

Here are some wonderful resources for bookmaking I’d like to share:

1. Booklyn - Booklyn’s mission is to promote artist books as an art form and an educational resource, to provide the general public and educational institutions with services and programming involving contemporary artist books, and to assist artists in exhibiting, distributing and publishing artist books.

2. Gaylord – Library supplies. They have everything. Order a free catalog and just browsing will give you dozens of cool ideas.

3. Talas – Professional Archival, Bookbinding, Conservation and Restoration supplies.

4. Staples – A big superstore. You know it.

Ok, that’s good for now. Until I feel like doing this again.

and

progress

Started a blogy blog to start documenting some of the work I’ve been doing for Some-things.  This is my first outing into a fairly large-scale business project, so much of it is a learning process for me.  Through this blog and the forthcoming website I will lay out what will most likely be a very unreasonable process for making a book from scratch. I’ve taken so many turns in the development stage of “Some-things,” but it is still at its heart a showcase for vehemently independent art and fun.

It’s a mixed-media compilation serial focusing on lost and found art. By that, I mean no new things need to be produced exclusively for the magazine. Instead, it can be an outlet for things that haven’t been seen elsewhere or that demand to be seen again. I’m not saying unreleased art per se, but more the freedom to put out anything one’s ever done.

A update will come soon with details on all the contributors and specs for issue #1.

Rocket to the moon folks.