Brutally Triumphant.

A couple posts down I talked and showed the poster that I designed for Brandon and the band Carnivale. It was for their final show as well as the final show for Dead To Fall and Devils Pie. Cleveland's Above This Fire and Veil Of Maya were also on the bill for this show.

About 2.5 years ago, I saw Carnivale open up for Mouth of The Architect in Arlington Heights and was blown away. I just don't feel like I am a good enough writer to verbally capture how amazing this band was/is. Honestly, words cannot describe how heartfelt and emotional their performance was and I am not going to try. If you were fortunate enough to see them, you know what I am talking about. Brutal, epic, triumphant and passionate are the first words that come to mind.

This leads me to the point of this post, Sunday May 24th was their final show at The Metro here in Chicago and it did not disappoint. Truly amazing to watch this band perform, giving each other high-fives prior to starting, knowing that this will be the last time that they ever grace the stage of The Metro as Carnivale. Brandon mentioned the show being bittersweet in between one of his many "mic-less" screams and it truly was. A few of the members are doing new musically projects: Altars and Color Theory but for me, Carnivale was one of the best and most passionate bands I have seen/heard live. I have been going to shows since 1995 and climbing on top of people and screaming at the top of my lungs to the final lines of 12.23.06 will truly be a memorable moment for me. Travel safe...home.

Thanks for everything fellas it was a good time and you will be terribly missed by myself and many others.

If you want to hear what I am talking about, hit up these spots:
www.myspace.com/carnivale
www.myspace.com/altarsrock
www.myspace.com/colortheoryrock

New things and thoughts.

Alright, so the above image is a sneak at a project that I am working on. I am pretty stoked on it and I can't wait until I get to unveil more about it...pretty cool stuff...at least I think so.

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I hate technology. Unless it is a vector based program, I generally hate it. I am directing this post at Twitter and Facebook and all these other pages and sources that allow total strangers to know what you are doing at every waking moment of you life. I don't have a Facebook, I signed up for Twitter a year ago and never use it just because I don't think that many people are interested in my daily meetings, thoughts or what I ate for dinner. Eventually, I will have to use these because so many galleries that I am interested in use them and are deleting their Myspace page. For the time being, I am prolonging the inevitable. I would still write letters if it was socially acceptable.

"There is no God, there is no Heaven, only time on earth, who we meet and what we accomplish."

Listen to Gallows.

End of an Era.

I was asked to do a poster for the final show for these bands here in Chicago.
May 24th
The Metro
3730 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60613