rah collective

day one

moffit.moffit:

used ^MM as quotation marks, amazing little detail I couldn’t go past
lots of awesome black and white work
print and publications
some papercraft
- raleigh paper, colourful three dee paper structure
demo mag
- large format with pinups of the artists
- feel like a film clip on paper
boys and girls mag
- failed
- dumb name from the start
- made fun of their failure, but evidently learned from it
they wanted to be responsible for what they wrre producing
self funded projects can have large rewards down the track
selfless promotion
- promoting someone else can often endup promoting yourself

kelly thompson:

corey arnold:

commercial fisherman
photographer
owns a salmon boat where he works for a couple of months every year
does msotly artistic photography
also gets commisioned for commercial work, but doesn’t chase it down
he was just shooting what he wanted to shoot, and putting it up on his website
never marketed or promoted himself, just did what he wanted
put out a books of his photos
work with discovery channel on the deadliest catch (but was working the boats first)
super nice dude

annie sperling:

supervixen:

supervixen.net
multi disciplinary duo
they both fell into it, lied about their skills and learnt on the job with youtube or googling tutorials
model yourselves on the people who succeed
techincal ability should not dictate execution
- find the right people for the job
- give credit where credit is due
one third of your work shold be fun shit that you want to do
lots of skate decks designed for élan
- even when the director of élan said no, they just sent them anyway

reg mombassa:

wanted to be a landscape artist
shows lots of early paintings, of hosues and landscapes
his graphic art came from album art and gig posters
- was in mental as anything and did gig art for them
lots of tshirts, yardage designs and posters for mambo
artists ae pathetic
he went through a new history of the universe and everything

day two

we buy your kids:

sonny and biddy
based in newtown
sonny
- illo
- was director at firstdraft gallery
- loves the handmade
- does most of the sketches
- in charge of the screenprinting
biddy
- illo
- from comics and posters
- did lots of album art
- studied design
- works on most of the computer stuff
there are other things to do with your art
screenprinting – the third kind of heat
they make digital café posters to advertise, sell screenprints at the shows
msotly digital now, the screenprinted posters are a luxury
they work with bands that they love
few stories abour screenprints fucking up, screens blowing out – loved it
try to replicate the handmade look on the computer
they work on animations for music videos
as most of the works are posters, when hung in a gallery they don’t get framed, instead they paint murals to frame the works in groups

alt group:

creativity is a sport with no umpire
your ideas don’t need to be great, they just need to change the world
was working in sculpture at art school
super into brooms, and showed lots of work with them
start alt group with four friends from art school
- sculpture, jewellery, painting and design aspects
name comes from the alt key on the keyboard
work in three main areas
- cmyk
- rgb
- stuff you can bump into
lots of promo work for different brands
rebranding
super simple ideas with clean as fuck execution

kayt jones:

fashion photographer from london
was born into it
- dad was art director at vogue britain, then start i-d magazine
loads of crew to set most shots up, then she just comes and snaps
made super self indulgent short film

gemma o’brien:

sydney based type and illo
didn’t do anything with type, or even like it till about five years ago
twenty first was typeface themed
loves type out in the world
fell in love with real type – wood cut, letter press typefaces
studied at cofa
for the love of type – blog
got famous through blog for a video of drawing write here right now all over her skin
invited to speak at a german type conference about australian type
she draws type, does not make fonts
custom type and illustrative type
linotype from the melbourne museum of printing

michael leon:

runs stacks skate company
- recent tour of the west coast, with one night shows in major cities on the trip
los angeles based
has a strong artistic practice too
loads of skate deck graphics
worked on new deal skate company
did a fine art degree, not a graphic deisgn degree
worked for girl skateboards for six years
made stuntwood – a doco about the science behind skateboarding
radical deck – three dee type in a grid – amazing
lots of skulls
- cards for marc jacobs
- gipsum skulls for his own art practice
- painted them, then paintballed them
five years as design director for nike sb
make videos they work (at getting points/pitches across)
books, scarves or other random shit shrinkwrapped with decks
new dc skate flag was done by him

fuel vfx:

lots of movies and tvc’s
thor, v, iron man, captain america, that wrigleys add with the little dudes
boring, technical presentation that gave little insight to the industry
just showed their eyecandy in between lots of text slides fail
be persistent
- pitched for thor, they said no
- repitched for thor titles, no one had pitched for
- got titles, and then some of the movie, and then captain america

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(all writing by qwux)

(all images property of blue murder studios)