News from Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 9:33 AM In this fifth post in our ongoing series on Creating DLa 23, we discuss the planning, layout and design of the 23rd edition of Dead Letter Art. In the past, layout consisted of cracking open a ready-made InDesign template, dropping in the processed images, and embellishing the design with a few text gradients, background fills, and decorative graphics. This time, however, the layout dimensions were completely different, there were nearly five times as many pages, and the entire issue was going to be printed in color.
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News from Wednesday, October 01, 2008 @ 4:26 PM In this fourth post in our ongoing series on Creating DLa 23, we examine the process of preparing our content for layout in Photoshop. This is the step where all of the images and graphics that will be used in the magazine are sized, cropped, color-corrected, and/or digitally enhanced. How the various graphical elements of the production were processed in Photoshop depends on several factors: original formatting and condition, intended implementation, and presentational and/or functional purpose within the finished project.
Once the images had been …
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News from Saturday, September 20, 2008 @ 2:00 PM Underground Art Madness! This issue of Dead Letter Art features more incredible content than any of our previous efforts. We have eight members in our core collective showcasing myriad selections from their most recent werkz, plus a few precious relics resurrected once again for your viewing pleasures. Within this core collection of multimedia content, you will find everything from inspirational paintings and surreal illustrations to mixed-media collage and digital photography. Additionally, this issue of DLa features a plethora of special guest content, including hyper-realistic illustrations from Graham Smith, a multimedia creative artist from East Sussex, England. Guest content also includes the intriguing imagery of Chicago-Illinois photographer Seonaid Valiant; the impeccable oil …
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News from Wednesday, September 10, 2008 @ 1:00 PM All night i slumbered without thinking and awoke with a blank, vast void within my skull. my mind being more like a well-used dishrag than a sponge, containing stains and residues of past acquired knowledge, was in such a state to refresh itself from the artesian springs of finger-dirtied pages read again and again. while soaking in a passage from Concepts of Modern Art (Richardson & Stangos, Eds.), i was struck by a passage describing Dadaist exhibitions which described the abhorrent, yet appealing, reaction of the throngs who flocked to see their work and the manner in which the non-art was displayed. it was nearly identical to my …
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News from Sunday, August 31, 2008 @ 8:19 AM In this third post in our ongoing series on Creating DLa 23, we explore how the copious quantity of contributor content was organized and prepared for the project. Out of all the various steps involved with the production process, organizing and preparing content was perhaps the most time-intensive, tedious, and challenging task of them all.
After receiving a majority of the content for DLa 23, we found ourselves with well over 500 image, text, and multimedia files from no less than thirteen different contributors. Initially, submitted files were delivered via email, …
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News from Sunday, August 17, 2008 @ 9:35 AM In this second post in our series, Creating DLa 23, we discuss the process whereby submissions and other issue content were collected for the project. This may seem like an insignificant part of the process, but with copious content from each of the eight core artists, this was one of the most challenging aspects of the entire affair.
Once the call went out that Ron was orchestrating a new, full-size issue of Dead Letter Art, there was an enthusiastic response from nearly all of the core members. There were also five “guest contributors” interested in submitting content. Thus, within days of Ron’s …
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News from Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 4:36 PM 24 issues and counting.. Kicking off this series of micro-posts on the creation of DLa 23, we see the mechanism by weech DLa 23 first began. It had been several years since the last issue of Dead Letter Art was released. The last issue, of course, was the ultra low-key Halloween issue[1], which was produced in October of 2004. After that, circumstance continued to separate the DLa members, leaving only occasional email and random telephone conversation to keep the group together. Soon, a couple of years had passed with nary a peep from that …
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News from Sunday, March 02, 2008 @ 3:06 PM So absorbed in the moment, time had quickly vanished, leaving us to conclude the event with a surreal gathering of battling warriors, clashing weapons, and friendly conversation…
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News from Monday, August 13, 2007 @ 9:44 AM DLa Tuf in Portland, 2007 What a blast! Dead Letter Art rolls tough to Portland, Oregon for the 2007 PDX Zine Symposium. The trip began Friday as BHBW professionally navigated the mighty Suburban across the desert plains of the Basin and along the rolling banks of the Columbia. The journey was filled with casual conversation, fascinating philosophical discussion and heated political debate. After arriving in the early evening, BHBW and Perishable rendezvoused with ThaneC for coffee and a delightful tour of his recently acquired homestead. Later that night, we found ourselves downtown, enjoying a round (or …
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News from Wednesday, April 04, 2007 @ 9:54 AM DLa Grand Meeting 2007 Incredible! The 2007 DLa Grand Meeting in Moses Lake was a resounding success. DLa heads from Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and Moses Lake gathered for a day of business and pleasure in the heart of the Desert Oasis. After tackling a few hours of official DLa business at Papa’s Lounge, the caravan ventured to the refreshing chambers of The Hang Out to continue the festivities with a few beverages and some deep-fried fun. Chilling long into the evening, shooting pool, drawing collabz, and guzzling a few cold ones, the DLa entourage casually dwindled to a comfortable core of professional chillers. …
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News from Wednesday, April 04, 2007 @ 8:38 AM DLa #20 – The Texture Issue Over three years in development, the infamous Texture Issue (TI) — DLa #20 — finally has been released to the public. The issue underwent final preparations and was enthusiastically packaged and delivered to a select audience of loyal DLa subscribers and fans. With its custom embossed cover, specialty linens, threaded binding, and lush embellishments, the long-awaited Texture Issue unfolds clearly as one of the collective’s finest publications. This hand-crafted, limited-edition issue of Dead Letter Art features art, comix, and literature from Osseus, SuiLan, ThaneC, Nimbus, BHBW, and Perishable. Each copy of the Texture Issue is …
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News from Tuesday, April 03, 2007 @ 3:03 AM just regurgitating some amusing anatomical highlights from the web. there’s an “anatomy of …” for just about anything you can think of, i’m starting to wonder if the theme is too broad…. i know most of us think of skeletonz and spilled intestines, so maybe we’re on the same page anyhow.
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