Posts filed under 'Graphic Design'
My spot in the Gonerfest program this year
Check out my ad for the gonerfest program this year (above) then if you want, check out my gonerfest photos after I take them later this month. The photo I used for the ad is of Thee Oh Sees and was taken at gonerfest 6 last year at the Hi Tone |[thee oh sees at gonerfest 6 photos on kandicook.com]|. This seemed to be a well-liked photo (I may be tooting my own horn here, but I was very proud to see this photo elsewhere on the internet: Their Bated Breath, Lemon Ice Forever, Maximum Rocknroll) plus Trip seemed to really like it… so… in it went.
(above: me at gonerfest last year. photo by Julie Remensperger)
I’m very excited about Gonerfest this year (it’s Sept 22-26, 2010) and am honored (and feeling much more confident) to be photographing the insanity once again. With the lack of sleep and huge crowds it may be inevitable, but I swear I’m going to try really hard not to end up with the worst debilitating flu I’ve ever had like last year and end up blogging about how PTI makes me anxious. I might even nerd out and take vitamins. Maybe I should start now to build up my immune system. Would that work?
#Germaphobe #IreallyWasDiagnosedWithOCD
4 comments September 6, 2010
New photo series: Half Mile Cigarette
This series was a spontaneous one. You see, there’s this park not too far from my house, and one day I decided I wanted to walk over there. To get there, I have to cross a very high-trafficked street. Once I started getting close to the park, I noticed some strange things laying on the side of said street. A single glove, a very much abandoned “KEEP THIS COUPON” ticket, and discarded cigarette packaging. The closer I got to the park, the cigarette paraphernalia seemed to begin to repeat itself . Then I started noticing cigarette butts and packaging everywhere, and thus this series was born. I walked for about half a mile down the busy street and came across about a dozen or so packages and probably hundreds of little cigarette butts.
It was exciting to take a short walk on a mission (looking for butts & a variety of packaging) and sort-of refreshing to give notice to things someone else just wanted to get rid of. Eventually I just walked home, never visiting the park but having thirty or so new pictures and a new series on my mind. When I was prepping the images for upload, it made me angry to think about people littering and I wondered if I should glorify a bad habit by turning it into art. I did, and here it is:
4 comments August 30, 2010
The most unusual business card I’ve ever designed to date
Apparently, I really like making myself new business cards even if I haven’t run out of the old ones quite yet. Here’s my latest:: my name heat embossed onto a strip of processed 35mm film. Kind of nerdy, kind of really awesome.
4 comments August 25, 2010
Not new but sort of improved
I was trying to make it a little easier to find photos by band name on my website… and ended up alphabetizing them in their own cute little section:
Add comment June 2, 2010
It really does.
I got the coolest message hand-delivered to me yesterday that originated in Daejeon, South Korea, was written in ink in Wynne, Arkansas, traveled about 45 miles by car then up six flights of stairs to my office door. Best hand-delivered note I’ve ever received (not to be confused by the coolest letter I’ve ever received).
9 comments April 29, 2010
New look
The SUPERKANTASTIC WEBLOG has a new look. Stripes! Houses! Cursive! You love it.
4 comments March 27, 2010
Just some stuff I made
Some stationery I made for Westside Cakes. I hand-carved their logo (which was also designed by: me!) and stamped and embossed small white tags and blank note cards. Super!
2 comments February 26, 2010
YAY New cards!
So- I have been wanting to make my own business cards for a while now. (Make as opposed to designing and have printed). I had thought about having a custom rubber stamp made then stamping blank cards, but that wasn’t handmade enough to satisfy me – so last weekend I did a little brainstorming, broke out my tiny rubber type and two-and-a-half hours later (with ink-stained fingertips) this is what I ended up with:
Each card is stamped one at a time and every one is unique! “KANDI COOK LOVES PHOTOGRAPHY!” Yep… that pretty much sums it up. BIG thanks to Little T Jane (blog) who is my stamp carving hero and made the adorable little cloud! If you dig stamps, especially hand carved ones, check out her Etsy shop- SO CUTE!
2 comments December 10, 2009
