The 2nd Annual HLH Holiday Party

We should set a date, and begin planning, for the 2008 Annual HLH Holiday Party.

Should we use an ATM again this year? Or, should we find another place? What would that be? A mall? Parking garage? Movie theatre?

New Photos on Wood

I've been working in the studio on some panel pieces based on the Civil War photo montages we were doing last year. The plan is to stain and paint the wood with oils, seal them and then paint over with enamel and spray paint. On top of it all will be photo emulsion, exposing the final black part of the image.

Below are three digital sketches of what I have in mind:




Here are some shots from the studio of the panels in progress. For the most part, all that's left is the photo emulsion and exposure... the hard parts.

These are for the first concept, of the dead soldier:




These are for the diptychs:



This was just a scrap piece of wood I was using for testing processes, and it came out so cool I'm going to use it for a final exposure:


A detail:



We need to shoot some new images for future ones, but I think these 4 or 5 are shaping up really cool.

Lyrics for the instrumentals

Listening to the new Don cab and my shock at the lyric tracks and then add Corey archangel's glockenspiel addendum it made me think why can't we write lyrics for explosions or pelican or older don cab tracks and perform them karaoke style and record them.

Harvey 7"

I'm still working on our official music release in the 7" format, but I had an idea for the next one:

1 - We write 2 songs about writing 2 songs for a 7"

or

2 - Both sides are ideas for new work from this blog, most likely work that we hope to do. We sing/write about the ideas, concepts, and construction of the work, maybe abstract, but funnier if it's really direct I think.

Police sketch artist

We should both find a police sketch artist and have them do a portrait of the other person.
We would sit down with the sketch artist and describe each other to this person and show the drawings somewhere.
Or we can hire this guy to do age progressions of each other for a show. We might be able to get him to do sketches as well.
http://www.forartist.com/forensic/modification/prest/boyaging.htm

After Sherman's March

Director Ross McElwee


Some stills from Sherman's March: A Mediation to the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

Some new ideas

I realized that if the piece is about the option to start a war, the person who starts it should "fire the first shot". So what if we wired a switch into one of the plastic muskets, so that when you fire it the program is triggered?

Also, I have some great ideas for photos we should take on our road-trip. Hopefully we'll have an extra day to go to Antietam, because the best ones I have in mind need to be taken there.

Click the image below to see some new footage. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet...