Stress-doodles

    This may be shocking, but when in a state of high anxiety, I tend to grab my doodle pad and go nuts with the pen. This particular doodle, as you can see, suffered through some paper-strangling and Winston-nibbling (from leaving my pad on the floor, it's what I get). Why the high anxiety? Well, the GOP debates were last night....and we'll just leave it at that.

And as an aside, just to put it out there, I have a stack of Alice prints still for sale, as well as some originals kicking around, which are for sale, and if you're interested shoot me an email.

Cheers ~ Liz

Stage Craft

A look at the set I put up this weekend at Geno's here in Portland. I didn't manage to get a photo of the actual setting up, which I should have, because we had to actually put up staging on order to reach the ceiling. You should have seen the look on the owners face when he walked in to that; fortunately he was very gracious & seemed to like the end results as well.

mawwage

So I do, on occaision, venture into wedding photographer territory - a couple of weeks ago I shot good friends Jeff & Kathy doing the deed in Wells, Maine. Above is one of my favorite shots of the night.

well hello

I took a break this weekend from working on the Frog song and did this - it felt good to work in ink again. It took me about five hours in total - when I'm done with the book I'm definitely going to spend some serious time with my pens.

Soon! i swrz!

I will be posting new stuff soon; it's been a very busy few months with no end in sight, but I swore a blood oath I will soon update the blog, the site, and all of it very soon - there was chanting involved. Perhaps the pentagram carved into the wall was too much, but one can never be too sure, right?

Psylab cd release

Hee.

I tagged along last weekend with the rest of the Foo Crew for Psylab's cd release at the Asylum - these cats recorded an album last year at Alex Gray's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, they put out some very cool EDM. You can check them out at www.psylab.org

My friend DJ Lex Lucid was there to start things with some downtempo ambient and trip hop.

Blue Boy Productions was also there as well as friends of Foo Crew Dreamosaic providing the tunes for the crowd - look to my Flickr and facebooks sites as well for more photos, as usual.

Stagecrafty

I've recently completed 2 major stage design projects - last weekend was OUTBREAK at the Asylum here in Portland, a Foo Crew event, also held in conjunction with several other promoters here in town. It was a large undertaking - two floors, with the basement area being the blacklight room and deco with 3 screens on the main stage. We had a great turnout - it's a pleasure to be able to work with this crowd, and the work is a great challenge.

One view of the main stage - the Asylum has a really large, deep main stage, there's a lot that can be done. Our next event is the 14th of May and I'm hoping to do more.

Vitamin J on the main stage.

View of the basement.

This shot is from The Lucid's cd release party on the 4th of February, I assisted Heidi Green in designing a blacklight sensitive set. Basically I was in charge of the amp/piano covers, the "bubbles" you see in the shot. These guys are an awesomely talented group of guys, the show was a blast, and I hope to do more of this type of work - I love the electronica, but working with a rock band is also a special kind of challenge, from the artistic perspective. Designing deco for a techno stage is I think something more akin to a cubist painting, while this show was more like an impressionist piece - with a clear intention, but softer around the edges. I'd love to do a metal show sometime, see what that might be like.