Birthday!
My birthday is coming up soon and I rarely ever ask for presents... but... I kind of really want the Indie Rock Poster book! Or to see some of my favorite bands play in concert this year.
I love the indie rock genre and am constantly listening to it when I'm working on anything. I also love the posters. Most of them give off a hand-drawn/mixed media quality that I really like to see/miss in art these days. The Yellow Bird Project is a collaboration between indie rock musicians and artists that creates shirts to raise money for the musician's choice in charities. Really awesome concept. Read their mission here.
The Band: Bon Iver
The Song: Skinny Love
The Artist: Jeremyville
He says: "Bon Iver founder Justin Vernon spent a winter in his father's cabin in Wisconsin, in the State's northwoods, recovering from an illness. Here he wrote and recorded most of this first album in a very lo fi way, and it was this ethic of independence, and his singular, evocative vision that first attracted me to his music. It is a way of working that resonates with me, as it's close to the way I like to work, alone with my sketchbook late at night, listening to music. If I could find a winter cabin to escape to, I think I would."
I wanted to draw a moment from those Wisconsin woods, and to try and evoke the feeling of that desolate winter alone in the cabin, trying to somehow find a way through.
The Band: Iron & Wine
The Song: The Trapeze Swinger
The Artist: Toby Triumph
He says: "I wanted this poster to represent different phases in a person's life, looking at how the people and places that surround us can change like chapters in a book, becoming a distant memory while a person can stay the same. I wanted the image to capture some of the still contemplation and reflection that speaks to me in this beautiful song."
...my favorite Learning to Fly version ever... with Stevie Nicks.
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