kill a pig for a camera: July 2008

22 July 2008

Black Kids and Bon Iver

Black Kids - Im not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you {mp3}

Bon Iver - Skinny love {mp3}

Ok I am going to show you the progression of making a stencil/screen print.....in this particular print, I am making 2 stencils and then for the "never mind the Daleks" and the picture of the daleks, they will be screened on using silk screen... When making the design, you want to think BLACK and WHITE ONLY!! (like in the picture below)

Once, you get your black and white design, you will then in a different layer, and put the colours you want to use...for the "exterminate" I will put pink and for the Daleks, I will make another layer and use gold. It will look like this...

Now you will make the screen. This will take a bit to make, but you will get all of the detail. And it will look awesome!!!

You will need to get a screen, squeegee, photo emulsion and sensitizer, screen filler fluid, printing ink, 150w light bulb w/ reflector or pie pan and cord, push pins, plastic spoon, small paint brush, clear tape, blue tape, newspaper, 1 piece of black paper, card board, dish scrub brush, iron, ruler, a piece of glass from a picture frame, and transparency film that works w/ your printer.

You will print the design onto 2 sheets of transparency film, so that it will make it darker when you expose the screen. Then you need to tape the top and bottom of your screen to fit your picture. Put a push pin into each of the corners of the bottom of your screen. Then you will mix up the photo emulsion.
You need to do this in a darkened room because the chemicals are light sensitive. Then pour a line of the chemicals onto the top of the screen and use your squeegee to spread a thin layer across the whole screen.

You will need somewhere dark to put this while it dries. You can use the cabinet in your bathroom with a fan so it will dry faster, but you can use a box and let it dry over night. Remember to put the push pins down because the bottom needs to dry smooth and evenly since this is the part that will come into contact with your t-shirt.
Basically, you are going to turn your screen into photo paper. In the olden days, people used to print pictures from film, just like this. You are going to use your transparency film and light to make a contact print!

Now get a 150w bulb and the light will need to be 12 inches above the screen. With the light off, you will take the push pins off and place the screen onto the black paper and turn on the light for 45min.

Once the 45mins are done you will put the screen in the sink and wash off the unexposed screen where your design is. Let it dry and now you are ready to print!!!

Now that your screen and stencils are ready, you will get your shirt and put a piece of cardboard in where you want the design and put pins to hold it in place. Then get the gold dalek stencil and place it where you want; spray some addheasive onto the stencil so when you paint, the stencil wont move. Get your paint and paint it!
After you are finished with painting that part, lift the stencil off the shirt and get your blow dryer and dry the paint. Then get the pink exterminate stencil and spray some adhesive onto it and place it. Then do the same again; spray adhesive, place it on the shirt, paint it, take the stencil off and dry it.

Now you are ready to screen print it!!

You will line up the screen to where you put the stencils on your shirt and then press down on the screen. Then you will get ink and put it on the screen and get your squeegee and spread the ink across the whole screen, until the design kind of lifts off. Remove the screen and get your blow dryer and dry it then get your iron and a thin dish towel and set the iron to the setting it says to depending on the material of your shirt. Iron it for about 3 minutes. Then turn off the iron and take the towel off and....

NOW YOU JUST MADE YOU OWN SHIRT!!!!!!

In the end it will look like this:

My First Order!!!!!!

Here is my first order to make a stencil!!!!!

Maps

Maps is one person, James Chapman. He is AMAZING! He writes awesome songs...and he is a total sweetheart! When he tours he has a group play with him....All of the boys are grand... I love them all. <3 Here is a stencil I made of their cases at their gig.

Pete and Drew

Pete Doherty and Drew McConnell from Babyshambles... another stencil I made.

Rosary

This is a Pete Doherty stencil of his rosary...I was trying out using 2 stencils....

They are watching you....

Hey my dears!
This is my t-shirt design.....right now they are being flown all over the world :)
If you want to buy one, email me!!

This design is a anti CCTV rant ... about the cameras watching our every move... Also its based on the book by Cory Doctorow, Little Brother. The books about a tech savy teen who has to save San Francisco from Home Land security...

Suicide Note

Suicide Note - By Kid Harpoon

If I were to commit suicide, this is how it would be. To begin, I would walk through the High Street from the lower Rochester road and head towards the Bridge, full of conviction and without stopping once. At the foot of the bridge I look at the lions and the battle ahead, and then slowly begin my ascent up the girders. Balance for this will be essential, as falling and hurting oneself this far in would be a tragic failure. I would make my way up to a peak and stare out over the river Medway. As I imagine it now I face the new Cinema complex with the Castle on my left hand side. I have no true justification for this except that it feels most natural.

It is dark, and little orange lights are popping up all around the town and all around me. Moving cars are crossing the river, speeding their way home to family meals, arguments and TV. The wind in my face and its current underneath are unbalancing, but exciting. From up here I can see the stars and the shore reflecting and rippling, reversed onto the water. Everything is upside down.

I stand up straight and tall with my back and shoulders in a neat posture. As I breathe, the cold wind shoots down my throat and robs me of my breath. I’m in awe of the elements for the very last time.

My jump from the bridge will be a swan dive. I’ll arch my back out after I leap, and fall into a perfect vertical descent straight down into the river. My arms will be outstretched, my legs will be straight and tight, and my fingertips and eyes will both stay focussed upon breaking the surface.

So I dive, into the immense rushing wind and numbing cold, and the river comes up hard to meet me. She soaks me and rings me and wrestles me over, and shows me all of the treasures she hides; maybe octopuses or sharks, or pianos and suits. Then she spits me out, somewhere near Sheerness, or she sweeps me round to Gravesend, with tin cans on my feet and a Tesco’s bag in my mouth.

THE END!