Good times this past weekend in AC. Phish played a 3 night run ending on the 31st with their 6th Musical Halloween costume! This years album was “Waiting for Columbus” by the Southern rock band Little Feat. It was okay, not my personal fave. Though the opportunity to hear Time Loves a Hero live was a personal moment for me. I used to listen to the bootleg of the time they played it at Hamilton College in 88. I was living up on Mt. Hood at the time and had a cassette tape (old school or just old?..lol) of the show. That song will forever remind me of that mountain.
Another highlight of the show was the Spooky in the first set and the whole third set was pretty good. The rest I thought was a bit of a snooze fest. Now Saturday night’s show on the other hand …FIRE!! That was the show to see for sure.
Me and some friends enter the Phish halloween costume contest.
In art news I was asked to do the poster for the Mockingbird Foundations Poker Tournament. Phamily Poker Classic took place on Saturday afternoon at the Tropicana. It was organized by Kevin Young and Mike Golan along with Jamey Brill of Cardboard Spaceship. Jamey made it the final table playing for Feed South Africa . I was on hand to sign some of the posters given out to players. The top 10 players received a nicer copy of the poster on 100lb felt cover signed and numbered. The only copies available for sale come from my personal stock artist edition, also on the nicer paper and there are only 13. I’ll be releasing these later this week to my mailing list. To get onboard sign up here
photo by Dave Van © 2010 www.phish.com/from-the-road
Lastly I had an awesome time creating my personal poster to commemorate the weekend. Both the drawing and the printing was done by me in my new basement studio. I was told by a number of people it is my best to date (though I secretly think last years blacklight print is). The poster was printed on Midnight Blue Royal Complements 100lb cover stock at size 23.5″x10″. It was an edition of 50 printed in silver swirl and black. The image is of a Day of the Dead mermaid laying in the sand spreading out cards of the past 5 albums Phish played, in her right hand she holds the 2010 card that only she can see. On her forehead is the fish, lizards and mockingbird. The Atlantic City is hand drawn type reminiscent of HBOs Boardwalk Empire but instead of lights there’s skulls inside. The 4 card symbols watch from the corner and the tag at the bottom of the rope frame reads Happy Halloween. These things FLEW out of my hands and I can’t thank you all enough for the purchases and support. There maybe a couple remaining in the store. I also had a great time matching my costume to my poster, a tradition I started last year with my black zombie unicorn.
mermaids posing in front of stage
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