At a time where there is a ton of red tape involved in putting on this sort of event, Tony Anastasi’s gone and pulled a festival out of his ass. This whole thing went from idea to actually happening in about a week, and if that weren’t cool enough, it’s free. Yours truly made this hand-lettered gig poster in about a day.

If you want to get in on this, you can check out the details on their Facebook page and follow updates on Twitter @kerPUNKfestival.

This song keeps popping up on the blog (the one where I quit my job and the one for the word art project). It’s been the soundtrack to some of my more nerve-wracking life decisions.

You might notice that the Sound System print was pretty close to the original word art design. I didn’t really think the one that I did for Waiting would make a good lino print, plus I really wanted to take a serious stab at some hand-lettering. I got a few more process photos from this one than the last print. I must have written this out a thousand times – on paper scraps, envelopes, sketchbooks, bank slips. If anyone wandered in and saw my desk, they’d have probably thought I lost my marbles. But I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

If you want to pick one up, it’s in the shop.

She’s pretty partial to the log cabin blocks, and apparently this pattern in particular. Setting up rectangles in Illustrator for the pattern didn’t take all that long (thanks, snap to grid!), but making all of the “fabrics” was a little time-consuming. It’s 13 different patterns, that I set up and then saved as swatches in Illustrator. I’ve always been a lot better at fabric picking than I was at the actual construction part of quilting, anyway.

The other bands on their tour, I’d never seen live. Actually, I hadn’t even really heard any of their music before now, but they both have a really interesting sound.

Tesseract was on first:

Then Animals as Leaders. Honestly, I got so distracted watching these guys that I kind of forgot to shoot for a minute.

As always, there are more photos on Facebook and on mooreclick.com/live.

Four Year Strong did an acoustic set before the show for a handful of fans, and Alan got into the holiday spirit.

They also did a very much non-acoustic set.

Some of the other bands got in on the fun – I think this is the bassist from Sharks?

Gallows’ singer decided to hang out with the crowd, and I Hail Mary’d this shot.

It was a crowd surfing kind of night.

Also on the bill was Title Fight…

…The Swellers…

…and Sharks

More photos are up at www.mooreclick.com/live and on Facebook.

All the cool kids are doing it, so why not? Buy any print in the shop today, and get free shipping on it. Yes, that includes my friends in the UK. What kind of prints you ask?

Firefly stuff:

And the new lino print:

You can pick up any of these right here.

This one got a little dark. But hey, it’s a dark episode, folks.

I’m up to #3 out of 14 – this is gonna be a pretty long project. You can help fund it by buying a poster. Oh, did I mention if you buy one on Black Friday that the shipping is free? I didn’t? Well, it is.

If you want to see what I’ve got running on my own computer, there are more downloadable wallpapers here.

The design is based off of one that I did for the word art project, for Operation Ivy’s “Sound System.” And speaking of the shop, we’re down to one Train Job poster left, so maybe go check that bad boy out.