Sorry if it took so long to get back to the blog.
It’s a very full period here, drawing and drawing and drawing.
Then the printing and printing and printing period will come…
But I took some time for telling You that tomorrow the second print of the Dario Argento serie will be on sale.
Where?
Check here, on the Dark City Gallery website to know more.
The prints on sale will be the regular and the variant versions of “Profondo Rosso”, Deep red in english.
In the next days we’ll let You know when the AP version of “leather paper” will be on sale too.
Then, we’re almost done with the design of the third print.
It’s about a film full of little animals.
Well, not only little ones.
You’ll know more very soon!
In the meantime we’re doing lots of other things and we’ll tell You soon, too tired now to write a list.
Sorry.
Have a great new week!
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Watched WARRIOR.
Great great movie, totally amazing.
I must said I’m impressed.
There’s a lifting for prints too, but I must admit the results are way better then on humans… don’t know if it’s my impression, but there are a lot of “cat women” lately…
Anyway, we’ve just received an email from the guys of Poster Mountain showing the process to restore a Malleus poster that was damaged.
Check here on their blog.
It’s fantastic to see this “old” print coming back to life.
I still remember when we printed it.
It was one of the first experiment we did with water based colors.
It’s a poster for Acid Mother’s Temple and Cosmic Inferno, back in 2005
We did the screens at Egi studio (where we learnt all the tecniques, tricks and everything we know about silkscreening and where we printing our first posters for about 3/4 years) and then we worked on it on a table with jiffy clamps in my flat.
I remember it took a lot of color runs to make the brown.
We started thinking we never could make it and we ended totally happy cause the result popped out of the paper.
So, we feel so excited to see the restoring process You can’t even imagine.
Damn, it’s so strange when I think about about our posters.
Every poster has its own story, things we learnt and emotions.
Sometimes I feel like a father with our prints… when I see they’re finishing I got this strange emotions… obviously I’m happy but I feel in some way sad.
We never reprinted a poster and I think we’ll never do cause it’d be like cloning a child gone… I know, I guess You’re thinking I’m crazy… ahahah
Ok, enjoy the processthe process and have a good night
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Watched the Descendants.
Nice and a lot of the people were dressed exactly like our friend RON ;-)
Hawaii!
Posted in **News** with tags Weather on February 5, 2012 by malleus
It’s winter, we know.
And it got to be cold.
It’s been a strange seasoning lately, we’d got warm till 10 days ago, then we’ve sinked in a totally cold winter.
It’s not good when people talk about weather, isn’t it?
It usually happens when there’s nothing to say, no topics, no point of conversation.
Damn.
So, we should try to start again.
Hey there!
Hope everything is good.
It’s been a good weekend, full of ice and cold
…
Nope…
It’s been a while since the last post, isn’t it?
We had something like 5000 visits on monday, it’s been too much, so I felt a little shy and I stopped writing.
Please, give me some time to start again.
We’ve a lot of things coming, some new posters, some new Cover art (apart from the new Caracol we’ve just finished the new ICO one!), the visuals of Oro (the upcoming Ufomammut) and the third print in the Dario Argento serie.
By the way, Profondo Rosso should be arrived in UK at Dark City Gallery, so take an eye out!
About shipment, we’re preparing all the tubes (brand new ones, we have thicker ones – soon we’ll use brick tubes…) and we’ll start in sending out Your posters tomorrow.
We’ve a lot of prints to send out, we’re invading the World with tubes!
Ok, time to go now, tomorrow it’ll be an heavy day.
Gotta think about the limited edition of the new Ufomammut.
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Watched “Take Shelter” yesterday.
Very very cool!
Today we’ve finally revealed the cover art of the upcoming new Ufomammut’s album.
It’ll be out in April at different times (first in UK, then in the rest of Europe and finally in the USA) and it’ll be called ORO.
As You probably know, it’ll be out for Neurot Recordings.
This will be the first part of the album, it’ll be splitted in 2 records and the second one will be out in september.
We’ve worked around the idea of “ORO” that is the italian word for “gold” and it’s the latin for “I prey”.
In the round logo leading in the middle of the cover, we’ve closed the title ORO, as You can see there are 2 circles (the 2 “O”) and a specular “R”.
The word comes back at the bottom of the cover too, where You can see the specular R in the upside down triangle (the one above the little Ufomammut logo) and a couple of “O” represented by the alchemic symbols of gold (a circle in a circle).
Then You can see another ORO inscription at the top of the 3 eyed goddess (in white).
And 2 “ORO” logos are at the 2 upper sides of the cover.
The name of the band in into a Oroborous frame (the serpent eating itself, symbol of the perpetual cyclic renewal of life) and a lot of other things fit the cover. ORO explores the concept of knowledge and its power, the magical stream controlled by the human mind to gain control of every single particle of the World surrounding us. ORO is the alchemical process to transform the human fears into pure essence; into Gold.
And we are also working at a full video/visual version of Oro which will accompany the audio.
Stay tuned for more!
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Watched “BLACK MIRROR”.
First episode is quite disturbing! Cool!
It’s grey today.
it’s raining and it’s melt with snow, quite depressing weather to look out of the window.
It’s perfect to stay at home, with Your cat sleeping on a cardboard box close to where You are, reading a book and drink a coffee.
It’s perfect to draw too.
And to post some images on the net to testify we’re doing some new crap.
We started from gold and we finished with black.
And it’s been cool cause no problem at all with the last screen.
A run of about 150 posters for the Black Keys, playing this monday coming in Milano.
60 copies will go to the band, the other ones will be on sale on our webstore.
And this is how it looks like.
To far to see?
You need more details?
Ok, let’s go.
We like women with tattoos, I think You already noticed.
Personally I love when there are more tattoos then skin, I like to look at images of women with stories inked on their bodies, drawings running one behind the other.
So we thought about the idea of a woman with living tattoos, moving out of her body, jumping out of her nails to move all around her, mixing colors and creating shapes.
She’s looking at You like she’s waiting to capture You with her tattoos.
And there’s probably a secret behind the key lock tattooed on her belly.
We like to think about stories when we draw, we don’t like images that has nothing to say, beauty has something to tell, to go beyond what You see, open imagination.
It’s a secret, don’t tell it around;-)
And I’m happy about this print cause it’s totally in Italian, TBK requested to have it in the native language and we think it’s awesome.
And here’s a jpeg of the design
I think we did a pretty good job!
Have a great week end
And remember: the poster will be on sale on tuesday 31st of January on our webstore from 6:00 pm italian time!
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I Love this videoclip!
The ground is moving here in the North of Italy.
In the last 2 days there’ve been some little Earthquakes, getting worried even if I haven’t experienced any of them till now.
But I don’t like the idea of Earthquake, it makes me scared!
Anyway, while the ground was trembling, we moved on with the new poster for the Black Keys in Milano.
They’ll be here on monday and we’ve almost done the poster.
One color left!
Today we moved on other 3 colors, a metallic transparent silver ink and then another shade, from yellow to red (or from red to yellow depending on the way You look at things…)
Very happy about the underlay shadows and the hairs.
We have got more colors with less.
Very cool.
Damn, it’s really a monster!
And then a nice shade on top.
Very metallic!
There’s a keyhole, I know I know… but it should be a tattoo…
So, we’ve one color to go and tomorrow we’ll show You the final print.
Curious?
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Watching Long Way Down in these days.
Not liking it as much as Long Way Round for now.
Internet sucks today.
It’s all the day it sucks.
So I’m pretty nervous and I’m listening to something to relax, listening to Fister.
Bronsonic is very good, I like it, they seems a “clean” version of a great band called Nightstick.
Sorry if I don’t put links but as I said … internet is too slow to open other pages on my laptop.
Anyway, check for Fister.
Ok, hope You liked the prints we did for Dead Rockstars artshow.
“Crazy Diamond” has been numbered and signed.
Gosh… it took minutes to upload these pics!
Just to show You Poia is getting crazy too!
I must say we started this year going like greased lightning (don’t know if this has a meaning, but I liked it a lot…).
Lots of prints so far and a lot more to come.
By the way, we started the new poster for the Black Keys.
They’ll be in Milano, here in Italy, next monday.
Looking forward to their gig!
It’ll be a 7 colors print, there’ll be a lot of red, a lot of black, then gold, yellow and silver ink.
2 shades, lots of work for a run of about 150 prints.
And then we’ll do 7 variants and 152 AP different versions
…
C’mon! I’m joking!
No variant and no AP for this one.
150 copies are enough for us.
First color has been a gold, a light one.
As You can see there’s a frame and a woman.
Then we worked on the first shade, a black and red one.
Looks nice, I like the colors we decided for this!
Ok, more tomorrow.
Have a good night
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If You got a chance, check for the movie below.
Fantastico Mr. Caine.
101 posters are printed and done.
We added the last touch and now we’re totally happy with them.
This is one of those posters we prefer to look at once it’s printed.
It’s double what You see on a cold monitor.
Especially cause we added a sparkling glitter and we hand brushed the diamond.
Look below!
It’s quite difficult to capture the glitter… it seems sand…:-)
101 handbrushed diamonds.
It sounded quite silly to work on a 50 x 70 screen for it.
Then we wanted to give more warmth to this print.
We’re talking about Syd Barrett!
And here a nice jpeg to show You how the print looks like.
We’re shipping 30 copies to the USA tomorrow.
The opening reception is February 2nd in Eugene Oregon at Blunt Graffix studio, after which it will move to THE WAVE gallery and remain up until the end of march.
So, don’t miss it!
Today we’ve printed black color and now You can see that the Dead Rockstar we’ve worked on is Syd Barrett.
I guess the most of You already understood.
It was quite easy, we love Pink Floyd and Syd has been a great great inspiration for our music and art.
So, let’s go with some pics and details.
We’re happy of how it’s coming out.
What do You think?
And some details
One final color is missing (and it’ll be a sparkling glitter ink) and then we’ve decided to hand brush the diamond with another glitter ink, an iridescent one.
Tomorrow You’ll see how it’ll be, let’s cross fingers!
Tonight I’m pretty tired, so I’ll just post a few pics of the new poster we’re printing and I’ll go.
It’s for the artshow DEAD ROCKSTARS, in the USA.
Have You hit it? C’mon! It’s easy.
“It’s no good trying to place your hand where I can’t see because I understand that you’re different from me …”
Is it clear now?
Tomorrow You’ll see it 100%, 2 colors left.
There’s a diamond, there’s an octopus, there’s a cat…
And we’ve also finished the wall version of the upcoming Earth poster (the gig will be in March, so plenty of time for the silkscreen) and the new Caracol.
And we’re planning to start tomorrow the printing process of the new poster for the Black Keys in Milano.
And wait!
Tomorrow we’ll put on sale the Thomas Negovan prints and the “Angeli and Demoni”.
Stay tuned!
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Listening to Black Sabbath right now
