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Rooftop Recordings Update

Only a few days left until the Rooftop Recording's Release Party at Nick's Worcester! Getting pretty excited for it already, as people's interest seems to be gaining. Nothing outrageous, but something good seems to be happening. There will be an article about the Rooftops out in the upcoming issue of WoMag, and next month there will be a feature in Pulse Magazine. WCHC 88.1 should have a few tracks in their rotation at this point, and there might even be a radio interview in our future. Just wanted to post some photos of the CD case itself, and assure readers that they WILL be able to buy a CD through this blog if they can't make it to the release party! Come back to McNemesis.com for that page on the morning of Monday, the 25th of October. Anyway, here are some images from the CD case itself:






So again that's Nick's Restaurant & Bar, 124 Millbury St., Worcester, October 24th, at 7pm. The line-up should be pretty impressive, featuring the following performers: Scott Ricciuti, Nicole Langlois, Roger Lavallee, Niki Luparelli, Dan Burke, Todd Rawley, Israel Saldana, Ari Charbonneau, Bryan Bedard and Julius Jones. Still hopeful, but not confirmed are Andy Cummings and Stu Pynn. How could it be a bad night?

-Mike

Rooftop Recordings pt. 2 : Flyers

Here are a few promos I'm working on for the Rooftop Recordings release. Ahh, alliteration... Here ya go:



So far, so good? I thought this one was nice as a digital fake of what appears to be a double-exposure. While it's kind of interesting, I still have issues with it. It somewhat gives the impression that multiple recordings for this project might have been going on at the same time on separate rooftops... which was clearly not the case. That or Dan Burke's gigantic apparition is somehow haunting another musician...


And here are two in color, planning to do them in larger format and posting them up around Worcester. Still not at %100 but I think I like them. At this point I'm beginning to lose perspective and need to take a break! The subtlest of changes start to seem important, and I'm just nudging blocks of text around an image anyway. First one is of Stu:

And then there's this one of Scott and Nicole, not really different in layout:

Keeping info on the project to a minimum for the moment, thinking of adding information to promos as the date gets closer. All photos courtesy of Jonathan K. Sun. That's it for now!

-Mike

Rooftop Recordings pt. 1

A lot of people are probably still unaware of the existence of this project. Not posting any sound files yet, just wanted to show off a couple of behind-the-scenes photos taken during recording and contributed by my good friend, Jon Sun. (click on the title of this post to jump to Jon's flickr page)



This one was ultimately cropped and turned into the disc cover. I like how it almost appears as though you can see the curvature of the earth in it. Seems like it was a combination of a fish eye lens or just the shape of the hill that gave it that effect, Jon?


Well, for some reason Blogger's not cooperating this morning. At all. I plan to do more posts about this subject, soon, so I'll just have to leave it as this for now.

-Mike

Alien sketches

Finally working on the comic I did these preliminary sketches for, things are moving right along for a change and I just wanted to put these up. It was necessary to me that this time around I don't wind up designing background characters while drawing the page. It's easier to just grab a few ideas from a sketchbook and drop them in rather than making myself come up with them on the spot. I suppose these guys have more of a star wars / men-in-black feel than I was going for, and even though the main characters are all human (pretty much) I just wanted to be sure that crowd shots in the book have an otherworldly feel.



You may notice that occasionally my sketches talk to me. Don't be alarmed.


Hey now, weird tentacle-headed-flip-flop-and-sundress-wearing-blob-lady! Settle down!

-Mike

What's this?? Two posts in one day?

Still looking at some design stuff! Here are some logos from my time at Pagio Inc.:

(also that top one is for Image Production Services, Worcester, MA)

It's sort of funny to see how my penchant for comic art forces its way into my design process. Rather than attempting to collage things together, it tends to make more sense to me to just lay them out like panels:



Not very funny. Just sorta.

Worcester Movies Weekly

Well, it's been a while since I posted something on McNemesis... Going through my back-up drive and a few old graphic design projects, I realized how much fun I had working on Worcester Movies, an ill-fated 8-pager put out by Pagio Inc. (publishers of the Pulse Magazine) which, after six or so months, just didn't garner enough advertising sales to support it.








Not sure if that really gives the full effect of it, but there it is! Head writer and driving force behind the project was Rob Newton, whose knack for movie-title puns rivals my own.