I first had the idea for a flyer like this at least five years ago for a ███ ██ ████ record release flyer but that never happened so in my brain it sat. That was until my bud @nikescarkyle gave me the privilege of doing his band @out4bloodhardcore ’s tour kick off shows flyer. This old idea immediately came to the forefront of my mind and just came together. The top half of the flyer is injuries or issues that can come up from being at hardcore shows. Gathered from first hand experience and a pole I did a few years back. Look for yours before going to the show tonight! #physical #cutandpaste #hardcoreflyer
I started working on this when I heard @sabotdoom was calling it a day. Even though it was close to being done it was another one I had to wait to finish once my arm was healed. While Sabot was a band I saw a hell of a lot of their shows, I would have loved to see a lot more. #sabotdoom #castration
While this was completed in 2023 this is my first flyer for a show in 2024 and I have included the first version posted and the an unposted Fibber version. Inspired by something long forgotten that @onexstepahead had said something to me that put a lightbulb over my head and I stole his opportunity to make the flyer by asking my bud @marcxbluestone (who was booked the show) if I could do it. The background idea is what had come first and is a combination of a homage from a live Worlds Collide 7” cover and Powerman 5000 lyrics. After that, all the other pieces started to fall together. I dug through 10,000 or so screen shots on my phone of old flyers, zine covers and other art until I found what I felt like enough to try to bring into the flyer. Below is some of that stimulus and I’m adding a few pictures so the process those images can perhaps motivate you or someone else.
A few days prior to starting the flyer I was reading about the artist David Wojnarowicz who had himself incorporated of the poet Arthur Rimbaud’s face into his work by making a mask of it. I wanted to incorporated that mask somehow into this flyer. I combined it with an idea of sizing down (or is it up?) that I stole from a 1989 cover of Maximum Rock n roll that did so with Ray Cappo. Along with this some of the little figures on the flyer came from a Japanese phrase book I found on the ground while walking in to finish the flyer. Now the Ferris wheel, I remember seeing it, saving it but as of right now I can’t place it. #tangelabe #flyer #hardcoreshow #pastshow
Unsolicited @lackminneapolis design that I’ve been working on and off again to complete since February. I was mainly off of it when I broke my arm and making other flyers but was always playing around with this one. For the uninitiated, Lack is the definition of Twin Cities Style. A real deal hardcore punk band with some bounce and wild vocals. Their members are current or ex members of a lot of bands that begin with the letter G such as Giallo, Gnaw, Gadget, along with future legends of straight edge metalcore xAllofgodschildrenx and Marmalade (who were one of my favorite bands from the Twin Cities the second I saw them takes the stage the first time). I was sitting down when I interviewed their singer Noah earlier today. Noah also runs @futuresightrecords_612 and puts on a lot of shows as a member of the @snowandflurryfest team along with playing drums in at least 50 other bands. Check out the interview I talked about above bellow.
Me - Is it cool if I say that y’all recorded this past weekend for a future release in that post? I can even tag future sight? For the lack art I’m gonna post.
@rivercity.slumlord - Yea of course.
This is tomorrow. You better come to the show or at least share the flyer. The other colors included are… hashtag RARE. Stop posting the black and white one @x.suckerpunch.x , thanks.
“In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might beware my power… TWIN CITIES STYLE!”
Unsolicited art for Twin Cities hardcore punk band @buioomega69 . It was inspired by their most recent release Diva Moment that I still listen to weekly. This is one of a few pieces I will post in the new few days that I hand wrote the bands name. I don’t have the bet penmanship but I liked the way they looked and was trying to experiment with something new. I finished this before I broke my arm on February 9th, scanned it on February 10th and one hundred and one days later I’m finally posting it. Buio Omega recently were in an accident returning from a short tour with @gougeawayfl where luckily everyone was alright but sadly totaled their van. If they end up needing funds for that I will be auctioning or selling this piece, if not it’s all mine FOREVER!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Image one is a scan, two is a photo I took with my phone and third is a picture of the release available from the band and @extremenoisempls in person along with @nostrum_recordings online.
#tangible #buioomega #twincitieshardcorepunk #divamoment #hardcorewithpowertools
My friend Hunter from @nothin2lose_tchc asked me to hit up @braeden.donahue e about this show to make a flyer for this show and it ended up not happening. I wanted to wait until after the show to post it so no one was confused. Hopefully we will see @severedmke and @form_mke in the Twin Cities later in 2024.
I grew up on thee original three Star Wars films and was finishing up middle school when the Prequels began coming out, I’m OLD as FUCK. A show on May 4th would need a flyer that referenced the films and at first I was going to lean way into it. I put out a poll of peoples favorite characters on my main IG but it was the wrong question. I should have asked for their favorite character designs for more dynamic designs. Only one person (that I didn’t ask prior to the poll) directly messaged me and their choice was the only one who made the flyer, Jabba the Hutt.
The original photo that I added the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader’s helmet to was of Marlon Brando. It was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1948 when he was preforming Street Car Named Desire before the film adaptation. Van Vechten was a gay journalist and fiction writer who in his 50s shifted his focus to photography. His photographs were incredibly intimate and primarily were of people of color who were involved in the arts. For the most part he is remembered for the title of a book he had written in 1926, about the time he spent in Harlem in what many know as the Harlem Renaissance. Even at the time having a book with a racial slur in the title was controversial, and there were those who came to his defense and others who did not. I put this information here for subtext and to encourage others to do at least a bit of research from who they lift from or inspire them.
Unsolicited design for Twin Cities hardcore band Famine State. They play hardcore as real as it can get, fast, hard and pissed the fuck off. They have an eight song, six minute and ten second release streaming everywhere now to subjugate your ear drums with. I found myself again inspired late into the night and this was the outcome. #faminestate #practicedhatredfanzine #tchc
What began as a t-shirt design that ended up as a flag (that I think they lost), thee @meanmugsmpls mug art was made in MS Paint. I did not make the mugs, I stole them from somewhere online. I am not sorry for the profanity. #digital #meanmugs #tchc #tcoicore
I was told that my friend Frankie had not finished the flyer to this gig so I beat him to the punch. I wanted to pull in some mixed media elements for this one that would pop even as a flyer seen mainly online. I had stolen the roll of caution tape from a construction site (with my mom) about fifteen years ago and bought the labeler from The Devil. The show went off and I committed no acts of physical violence, anyone who says any different is a fucking liar. #tangible #valeskasuratt #primativerage #out4blood #lack #tchc
