A macbookair! A modern woman you are. I'll tack on a writing request. Radio
silence thus far. I do recall when we both lived in the bay area him
speaking of a poetry list on some usenet site and how the critiques were
critical. Nope, I'm pretty sure no chi-town academia occurred for him. Odd,
he was from simi valley and moved to the bay area and I was all "simi
what?". Later on in life I was Iiving in simi and we did lunch. It was neat
to drive around the town and see where the chicken coop was where he drank
schnapps and the movie theatre he worked at and met his wife. Your instinct
serves you correct, his writing was awesome as well as his oil painting. I
had the devil woman pose for us once when he was teaching me, my gift to
him! I did hold onto this response he wrote when I inquired about 'consumer
packaging' asking for the other friend I mentioned:
Being mindful that my ego is being so crudely stroked as to suggest mockery,
I offer up this: The best pizza always come in boxes that use two spot
colors. Red and black is the premier combo, followed by red and green. If
the registration is well aligned, you have to actually taste the pizza to
judge its quality. Whether it's a horribly rendered drawing of a slice, a
whole pie, or a Mario-like chef in front of an oven, it is important that
the two colors are misaligned. Think about it. Would you really want to eat
something out of a pizza boxthat had a slick 4 color photoshop logo? No, of
course not. Figure out why that is.
And then, to extend what I'm saying, and to build on passion for printing
even more, take a look at Kinkos.com <http://kinkos.com/>, then log in to
Staples.com <http://staples.com/>. See how staples looks utilitarian and
ugly? That's no accident. They want to look functional and economical. They
have enough money to build the same flash based web portal as stinkos, but
that would be counter productive for their target audience. They want you to
think...this place is cheaper, more business like.
And that is what's interesting about consumer packaging. To me. It's being
intentional ugly for psychological effect. Thanks for asking.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Judy Prince
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Ya gotta love an egoless nerd. I tune into his 'unfinished priest', tho
> love all of his drawings. I think I taught him ages ago in the City
> Colleges of Chicago, a Polish dude [ no, a Polish 'guy']. He's got some
> serious beauty and outrageous talent goin' on. Ask him to send me
> something
> he's written; my bet is he's as Bad at that as his awesome artwerk.
> Talk talk talk it up! Fer sher. Meantime I'll write a matchup with my
> unfinished priest, see what happens.
>
> joodles who loves macbookair
>
> 2009/6/18 Angel Marquez <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > His artwork. I'm sub par. I wouldn't want to ruin your work. I see a
> > parallel in what you two have going on though.
> > Here's his stuff:
> > http://angel.ranchoweb.com/
> > <http://angel.ranchoweb.com/surprise.zip><
> > http://angel.ranchoweb.com/surprise.zip>
> > surprise <http://angel.ranchoweb.com/surprise.zip>.<
> > http://angel.ranchoweb.com/surprise.zip>
> > zip <http://angel.ranchoweb.com/surprise.zip>
> >
> > He is totally the guy that sold me my first mac. Says his art is just
> > sketches. No ego kinda guy. I remember some carpool ideation sessions
> about
> > stories we had, good times. He'll like the obscure time period with a
> > distinct history context.
> >
> > Me and another friend would be the marketing force behind the core.
> >
> > Ha. this is all cloud talk; but, I like talking about it.
> >
> > I'll take a look at the link, thanks. I like japanese art...looks
> > hokusaiesque
> >
>
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