OSAKA: SUMI

Osaka. Tattooed for several days. Today waiting for Mr. Dolberg's flight to arrive. Free time for to visit the shoga nihon ga ten (sumi shop) and re-up.

Treviño scribbled down rough directions to this place nine years ago. Been returning once a year since. Could likely find this sumi for purchase within the online morass but the process is more fulfilling to wait until I'm in country and again revisit the same connoisseur shop. The proprietor always recognizes me but seems a bit perplexed as to why I show up every 12 months to acquire an identical block of sumi. This time I forgot to bring the wooden box label for memory reference however he knew which one I required. Is good.

BLOODWORK: 48 SHOTS: TREVINO

This is the process leading to something down the road. If it works its going to be wondrously preternatural.

BLOODWORK: BODIES: TREVINO

Regarding my comment yesterday, " Where do we go from here?"....

I suppose the answer would be go with Mr. Burd's nine dragon bodysuit by Treviño.

BLOODWORK: LENTICULAR SCIENCE

Posted book stat info on the website and got a pile of emails asking what a "lenticular cover image" was. Hard to explain but essentially its an extremely dangerous (dont try this at home) science tech that captures the soul a human being and then prints out an image of the person but you can see them moving around inside the paper. For real, check out the image on the cover of the mockup copy. Treviño's client Ed is trapped in there. He didnt even know we were gonna do that... he signed the model release.



For real real. So a lenticular image is just a fancy "industry' name for 3D printing. You've seen it. We're bingin' it back. And if ya dont know, now ya know. General Zod knows all about it.

BLOODWORK: 12 LB BABY

Weighed the BloodWork book... inside its mailing case the beast came in at 12 lbs even. That'd be about 5.4 Kilos. The copy I weighed was the complete dummy mockup. The final book will probably weigh a little more. So, not only will it not fit on your bookshelf, it will also crush any small children you have roaming around.

BLOODWORK: MOTION GRAPHICS

During the BloodWork exhibition this Okt we plan to run several large projections in addition to all the prints. Mark and Dan have been assigned the task of creating the motion graphics for the event. Here's a short promo video Mark threw together based off an early motion rough. Going to be exciting to see the images ten feet tall and morphing.

BLOODWORK: TREVIÑO

Double sleeves (aka wingspan) by Mr. Treviño... nuff said.