Clockwork Yellow

The creation with yellow continues, this time in clock form. I’ve always thought there was something so beautifully intricate yet classic in clocks and had the idea to make one for my room to add yet another splash of yellow against my gray walls.

Using an art clay board, paint, stencil, and a clock set, I pieced it together and Ta-da! Yellow clock. It was actually a really fun and easy project and the combination of colors and patterns could be endless! However, I’m going to have to get used to the constant, although subtle, tick tocking at night.

74th Annual Hunger Games

A quick poster I did for fun in honor of the midnight premiere of The Hunger Games tomorrow! May the odds be ever in your favor. You can bet I’ll be rocking the Katniss braid tomorrow.

Bloodbuzz Ohio

New song poster for The National’s “Bloodbuzz Ohio.” Again yellow and gray. This one might make the print cut for my walls =)

Hummingbird: Update

I finally got around to posting my updated version of Wilco’s “Hummingbird” song poster. The previous yellow was temporary until I settled on something else. And I think I finally did. Ta da!

PS: new poster for The National coming real soon =)

Black

This song poster is more inspired from a combination of the song title, “Black,” and the album cover from which it’s on, Rome by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi. Now if you’re not familiar with Danger Mouse, you probably are, you just don’t know it. For the last 5 years there has been a string of seemingly unrelated music that quickly became favorites in my library.  Starting with The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, The Shins, Beck, The Black Keys, and most recently, Broken Bells. Well, Danger Mouse has offered his producing and/or songwriting skills to all of these acts and there is something about it that simply draws you in. It’s mysterious yet catchy in that slightly pop-psychedelic sort of way. Rome certainly carries those qualities, but thanks to Italian composer and arranger, Daniele Luppi, Rome is so much more. It’s the soundtrack without a movie. Literally. That was the concept. So while this is largely an instrumental album, there are just a few songs that strategically feature the voices of Norah Jones and Jack White (on separate tracks).

And that’s where “Black” comes in. It has Norah Jones’ smoky vocals painted throughout the beats and strings to create a melodramatic track that is as dark as it is lovely. So as I mentioned, this was first inspired by the album cover (see left). And when Norah Jones sings of everything turning black, black paint sliding down the canvas seemed a good choice. Although now thinking about and looking at it, maybe I got  a little carried away with the paint idea and this would have been a better poster for “Paint it Black” by The Rolling Stones. Ha oh well.

Oh and perhaps desktop wallpapers will be coming along with these to make them somewhat purposeful. I had a friend mention that idea to me this weekend and I like it. I experimented with turning this one into a wallpaper, but it’s easier said than done. Sooo next time =)