Limn - Second Night

Our second night wasn't as busy as our first so it didn't go down as well with our clients at Nation of Shopkeepers, but we got a chance to speak to the people who came to our night and got some really positive feedback. See the illustrations and photos of the night.

Limn Promo Video

Me and a friend filmed a little bit of footage at the Limn launch night night, and I've put together what usable parts there are to the 40 minute shoe-filming marathon. The point was to make it look like a bit of a party as well as a night of live art. So I didn't want to drag out any illustrations, I wanted to keep it short and stabby, and hopefully look like such a good time that it will convince more people to come to our next one. The soundtrack is 'Home' by Mike Slott. I put it together on Final Cut Pro and the wobbly text was added on after effects by Jack Scales who I run the night with, who is also responsible for building our website. The videos is going to be plugged on social networking sites and forums, the Nation of Shopkeepers site, and Jack's embedded it on our site.

Washed Out Visuals

In consideration of the kind of hazy summer vibe Washed Out has with his usual visual work, Joe Torr has let us use his amazing shots from a holiday in the Canary Islands, taken with a cheap underwater camera he bought from oxfam.

We printed the scanned photos onto acetate, in A4 and some in 35mm so we put them in slide frames and see how they looked on the slide projector. The whole idea was to layer up projections and hopefully either use a photograph for the flyer and add text afterwards or use text as part of the photo...

I liked how alot of the shots came out, but I don't think they really fulfill the purpose of what the posters for, the info needs to be clear and obvious. So using any of these would be kind of pointless, for the sake of clarity, we tried photoshopping the text we drew onto acetate with one of Joe's photos...

The black text was more legible than the white - and we wanted to keep the hand-drawn font to reference our night - but the white just felt more in-keeping with the bright summer feel. For the sake of legibility we added a shape to the lighter central part of the photograph which produces a clearer outcome, and will hopefully be readable by any potential gig attendees.

Limn - Second Night

Confirmed our illustrators for the second night, came together really easy as I think there was a bit of a buzz about what we do after our first night...

Illustrators this month are DR.ME, Kate Prior, COUK, Iona Ascherson and Thomas Key

Also we got an email from one of the Nous Vous guys...

Hey Dudes,

Nice speaking to you guys the other night, I was slightly inebriated, rambling & exhausted, but just wanted to say well done on all your recent efforts + you guys really know what you’re talking about compared to most. Really great to have other people about being pro-active and putting on genuinely interesting events I’d like to go to. Sorry I missed the last event, been swamped in a big pile of shit recently that I’ve eventually managed to emerge from – probably going to sink right back into it again soon.

Take care and keep going!

Jay-bones

Jay Cover
Nous Vous

Washed Out Visuals

Unofficial video for Washed Out's single Feel It All Around, it's got that hazy memories of a joy filled summer-holiday vibe to it, like that overwhelming feeling of sun drenched happiness you remember from those holidays. And it totally clicks with his general art work, holga style shots etc. see some of them on his myspace.

FEEL IT ALL AROUND from Northern Lights on Vimeo.

Pitchfork interview here

Washed Out Visuals

Because our night is hosting the official after party to this gig we wanted to have an element of our style in the poster design, we took two potential tools for the live visuals, an OHP and recently bought slide projector from ebay and I took a few shots of us messing about with them, if I'm honest the only ones that kind of work are the top two, most of the rest were just the third shot from different angles, and I'm not sure we'd use any of them except maybe the top one...

Hud Mo Visuals

Apparently my work isn't going to be used for the Hudson Mohawk gig, it was nice of the organiser to tell me in advance, so it means I amen't doing work for nothing. They've decided they're just going to film the live act and have a projection of him playing displayed behind him rather than use my work.

LORN : NOTHING ELSE from StrangeLoop on Vimeo.

Limn - Launch Night

We filmed footage, had some photos taken (Flickr set here) and collected/scanned all the illustration work done on the night (Flickr set here).

Limn T-Shirts - Photoshoot

So I shot/edited photos for the Limn website, as well as co-art directing it. We got a couple of illustrators in who had drawn at our previous night. We asked them to draw on acetate on the overheads - as they would with the night - and we would use the projections as background/part of the photos. The shoot needed to look fun and not too serious, in order to reflect the fun/party vibe of our night - which I think is reflected quite successfully in some of the photographs. A couple of people that helped out with the shoot thought that the best photos were ones with projections covering the models ie. the illustrations projected onto the models and the t-shirts. But I made the point that this would not fulfill the primary purpose of the shoot,to clearly show the t-shirts and help sell them.

See the t-shirts on the online store here.

Washed Out Visuals

Proposal

Design gig poster and Supply live visuals for gig at Nation of Shopkeepers.

Rationale:
(Why are you doing it? How does it fit with your own sense of development? What is your particular interest in this area?)

Working with live music, developing skills as VJ/creating live visual compositions

Context:
(Where does the project fit in the real world?)

As part of live show, in front of audience at Nation of Shopkeepers. Iron Wagon events manager will use posters to promote gig

Brief:
(What exactly are you/is somebody else expecting you to do?)

Create visuals and means of displaying visuals at live gig. Design legible poster with appropriate (band-referencing) artwork.

Audience
(Who is the work for)

Gig attendees at Nation of Shopkeepers, fans of Washed Out and potential Nation of Shopkeepers customers.

Outcomes:
(What exactly will you have, or will have happened, at the end of your project?)

Projected live visuals whilst musician is playing, documented by film/photography, poster advertising gig.

Measures of success/evaluation strategy:
(How will you know how successful you have been? You can’t evaluate effectively unless you know what your aims were.)

Feedback from gig, hopefully more work for venue/promoters to follow, connection with feel/usual branding of musicians. And in some ways the amount of attendees at the gig.

Research:
(What do you need to find out to help you deliver the project?)

Usual length of musicians show, optimum place for projection in venue, general branding / artwork of musician.

Why is it live?
(How does it meet the live requirement of the brief?)

Live visuals, in front of audience. Design work for client.

Resources:
(What will you need at every step of the project? Physical space/people/hardware/software/money/transport are all resources to plan for.)

Projector - (considering carousel slide projector and/or OHP as well as digital), will be working with two other artists to provide visuals. Photoshop, Illustrator, Camera (SLR/ HD video camera)

Hud Mo Visuals

Cinema 4D - I've been working through tutorials on Cinema 4D, by the looks of how much time I've got left it's going to have to be some pretty simple. I've just been messing with lighting, adding various materials, using the polygon tool etc. All the tutorials I've been using are from lynda.com, and they've been really useful, I'm kind of going through seeing how everything works before I start creating some animations...

T-Shirt Prints - Tri-Dye Tee

As much as Limn allows us to act as facilitators for other artists, we decided that rather than relying on our illustrators to do work for us, we would set about doing something a little different for our second t-shirt design. We decided to do a bit of a bleach/tie dye experiment, and try out a fountain-print on top. The whole idea was that it would look so bad it would look good, with a mixture of crazy colours, patterns and tie dye. We used a simple wobbly type face for it, hand-drawn and in reference to our normal branding. It took several prints before it worked properly, but by the second or third run over, the prints looked really bold.