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almost done with the planar analysis. admittedly i've been kind of taking my sweet ass time on it.

adam franklin was AWESOME! that dude is like a closet guitar god. i was secretly hoping for a swervedriver song, as i heard he had been slipping them in his set occasionally. but no dice. shame i won't be in nashville next friday... he's doing an in-store at grimey's (man, all the record stores here so far suck compared to grimey's) where he has reportedly promised to play some swervedriver songs. anyway, i was quite pleased. probably one of the best performances i've seen all year. of course, i can probably count all the shows i've been to this year on one hand. seemed like a humble gent, too, when i spoke to him briefly.

bobcat and megan returned home safely yesterday. he's still got the bandages on his paws (they come off at 4pm today) and is slightly loopy from the pain meds. he's only just this morning purred and used the bathroom. i swear, i'm not a crazy pet owner... i just love my boy.

alright, my wife has even posted in this thing after almost a year of absence...

i have a lot on my mind, but i need to get my ass in gear and complete the following tasks: draw a planar analysis of 3 different views of a shoe, finish the math pre-test for chapter 6 and work more in my color theory journal.

but here's a shorthand version of the goings-on in my brain:

- school, while good, takes a lot out of me... and i'm not even sure i'm giving it everything i've got yet. my color theory class troubles me like no other class has.

- i'm struggling with being a good friend and speaking my mind or just letting things roll off my back, which in turn possibly makes thing worse.

- my little boy got his claws removed. which was necessary... but this reduces me to putty. still, hopefully, this will help some of the behavior issues we've been having with the little brat.

- i'm beginning to lose my faith in people in general. seriously, seems most people only care about themselves these days. been wanting to journal about this for some time now. perhaps later when i can best collect my thoughts. and yes... we should know that people will fail us and our faith should not be put in flesh... but honestly! people used to have more common courtesy, more common sense, more goodwill, more...

- still adjusting to atlanta, i recognize there are things here that already make this a better place than nashville. but in some ways, i miss nashville and i feel something beyond my geographical locations is... off?

- which leads to me feeling a little lost in general right now. yes, i'm in school and studying something that i think i was meant to study... yes, i have a wonderful wife who is pretty much fucking awesome. but i feel like i have no place and i feel like there are things in my life that i miss and i'm not sure they will ever return.

shit! it's past time that i said i would get started on things... so, gotta run.

i'm going to see adam franklin (ex-swervedriver frontman) at the earl tonight. however, at present, i am going alone. the wife is out of town, other friends doing other things, and i'm pretty sure that the majority of my classmates that i am possibly forming friendships with are most likely under 21 and i do not want to be the weird old guy sending out a mass email asking who wants to go out to a bar with the married guy. and... and... and...

the end.

my friends at the P is for Panda are selling a limited edition art print i did at Hatch Show Print! you can check it out here.

a third of the profits go to the atlanta printmaker's studio, a non-profit community arts education organization!

booyah!

in several ways.

the most obvious way that my life has changed today is that it was my last day of working at hatch show print. my life - my weekly routine no longer includes entering this shop for three days at a time and having the honor and privilege and joy of working with a historical archive of wooden and lead letterpress type. so ends a period of my life that has forever affected the way i design and will design. at least on a regular basis...

today my life has been changed by a man who has blessed me with his teaching, his influence, his friendship and his offer to allow me to come back to the shop at any time to work on any future projects.

this same friend has also affected my life by sharing with me the story and works of one of his own mentors/influences. i took interest in a certain print that i had often seen laying about jim's various piles of work. i asked to purchase this print today and instead had this particular poster gifted to me. jim proceeded to explain to me and megan that this particular print was his tribute to Hendrik Werkman. Werkman was a dutch printmaker who was executed by the nazi's just three days before holland's liberation for distributing jewish children's poems. he was a pioneer in many modern printmaking techniques, and what survived of his work is GORGEOUS! and therefor this will be the next book i purchase:



jim's print was modeled after an existing hatch print, but reads "print werkman" in a motif that is repeated 2 times horizontally but each time is handbrayered in a different color. the amazing thing is that jim was able to exhibit this print in Werkman's hometown.

just a quick skimming of the book floored me and i cannot wait to consume the entire thing over and over again.

damn. i'm going to miss this place. and the people that inhabit it. and the history that permeates it. and the lessons in life and art one can learn here.

and... and...

i have decided that today has served as confirmation that i MUST continue to pursue printmaking. no matter if my degree says graphic design or printmaking, prick me and i will bleed printer's ink.

ok... so i'm doing an art print for some good friends who have started this awesome business venture called P is for Panda. you can read what they are about right here. good stuff.

so here's where i need your help. as part of being the designer of the print, i get to decide which charity a portion of the profit from the sale of the print goes to. i'm having a bit of a time deciding exactly who i want to donate to. i've thought about donating to AIDS research/relief effort and charities like one.org or blood:water mission. but i've also thought it would be really awesome to donate to some kind of charity for arts education. my high school art education kinda burned me out... and i think in some ways it's because i had the same art teacher all four years and the curriculum wasn't anything to write home about... whatever... i'm sure some schools don't even have art programs. i came across a site for the georgia art education association, which might work... but i also want to make sure the money that Panda donates is actually going to go good use. does anybody have any suggestions?

also, i'm going to try and blog/document the whole process of making the print. check here or themiottis.tumblr.com if you interested in any of that.

( click here for the first installment )

the blue and gray zz top is going into a travelling smithsonian exhibit as well as a "hatch staff" show at the country music hall of fame. the interpol poster is going into the same show at the CMF and in addition the shop got an email that the band's management loved the poster and wants several copies for their offices.

less than three weeks left at hatch show print makes brett a dull boy.

got to see my good friend chad pearson wednesday night and thursday for some quality hang. he was in town with the band umbrellas, whom he manages, so i caught the end of their set at 12th & porter and hung out with chad for a bit on wednesday. then on thursday the band and chad met up with me for lunch and then i gave them all a quick tour of hatch. it's been way too long since i've seen chad and now i miss him more. luckily we will be living within 40 minutes of eachother in about a month and half.

in other hatch news, i'm super excited to be working on a poster for INTERPOL at the ryman real soon.

this is pretty much my online portfolio for the time being. i've got a number of posters up from Hatch Show Print as well as some of the projects i've done for school and such.



tumblr is something i joined after being convinced by some friends to do so. it's sort of a streamlined blog/online scrapbook thing. you can share videos, photos, websites, make text entries from the web or from your phone or email. so i decided to try and make this the new blog that megan and i would keep... only she hasn't posted yet. heh. so pretty much it's been serving as the place where i've been geeking out over various media and such.

next up at Hatch: poster for THE NUGE! (um... that's ted nugent, in case you didn't already know)

alright... so, some how i still managed a 4.0. go me.

now i'm just waiting to hear about the other thing. and it's taking longer than it should. bah.

that's all i got really.