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What are you working on now? Show us your scraps, crap and finished projects.
ESA T-Shirts
Industrial Act from England. He wants ominous and distorted, high contrast images of an abandoned asylum for his shirts. I'm using high quality, very light weight American Apparel (sweatshop free) shirts, with a discharge print. Discharge is neat because unlike standard plastisol, the image is essentially re-dyed into the garment, and there's no heavy layer of plastic on your shirt. I'm doing the photography, design, printing and marketing. Wheefun.
Ashce/Synapscape Flyer
Did a run of 1000 of these for a half-day festival featuring Germany's Asche and Synapscape (my two favorite bands) playing in my hometown. Awesome. The front is split be right side up either way, so when passing out flyers, people always get them right side up.
Kaos Corporation Apparel
The New England Bombing Arts is a collective developed to educate and encourage creative and intelligent street art. We're pro-graffiti and anti-vandalism. All proceeds from apparel sales go towards supplies and support for local artists.
Front:
Back:
Hood print:
Some other designs:
So post 'em if you got 'em.
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Dammit. I love the tshirt with the gun. Make me one.
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hey
you are talking my language
I do experimental silkscreen work ..sometimes with pigments but lately, with dyes and discharge
are you doing straight discharge or are you mixing in a binder and pigment to do a pigment discharge?
your work looks great
right now I am trying to combine my pigment experiments with my discharge dye experiments
I find the two mediums jar pleasantly against each other
I know, I need pics to show what I mean...soon
how the hell do you steam a read made garment though?
I steam bolts of cloth in the autoclave and upright steamer at school but I can't visualize wrapping a bulky hoody around a pole to steam
must...hear...more,,,,,details,,,,
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I'm eventually going to put my website up, but here's a screenshot....
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Posted by pirate3
hey
you are talking my language
I do experimental silkscreen work ..sometimes with pigments but lately, with dyes and discharge
are you doing straight discharge or are you mixing in a binder and pigment to do a pigment discharge?
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The vast majority of my apparel is printed with regular plastisol inks on an MHM brand automatic press. The "season two" stuff is going to be printed entirely on sweatshop free garments, which (ironically) work much better with organic, discharge, and water-based inks.
I'm doing a few shirts for artists I'm friends with. Some of them are on major overseas labels, so I'm excited about that.
As for curing them, we have a belt dryer that runs at 400F. You put shirts on the belt and at the other end they're cured. I've been screen printing for three years now, and I'm working at a really large company which does a lot of special effects printing for Roca Wear, Akademiks, Life is Good, Burton and companies like that. Every time there's a new special effects product on the market, our shop gets to experiment with it for free. My job owns.
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[center][b]New England Industrial Culture Online[/b]
Stencil/Graffiti, Street Art - Industrial/Exprimental Music - Urban Exploration
"[i]We are the ones you had to dehumanize.[/i]"[/center] | |
hmmm
sounds like your discharge chemical is different from mine
I steam mine and it reacts with the heat in the steamer and then I wash out to stiffening agent, heat alone does not activate this discharge
it is composed of thouriea dioxide, meyprogum and water and I mix it myself
it takes out the dye much like a bleach but with more controllable results
the pigment discharge has the thouriea as well as pigment and a binder
so it takes out the colour then replaces it with another
which I love
the pigments require a heat box to cure them and we have that at school
printing with dyes and pigments do not change the feel of the fabric noticeably the way plastisol does
and i would encourage you to explore that branch of printing if it ever presents itself to you
you can print on delicate chiffons, silks and wools to create the weirdest effects
recently I did a piece in chiffon and stippled on discharge over several open screens of dye and then silkscreened over an image of a torso and it created this crazy look of sparkles of light dancing on water
devore is cool too, it is an acid that eats right through the fabric to create holes
of course this gets very cool when you apply this to a silk/stainless steel mesh blend fabric.....it looks really decayed
put an oxidating agent on and suddenly you've got rusted, silkscreened metal...sooo cool
I find pigments are much nicer than plastisol mainly for the less plasticky feel and the fact that they are water based
I am intrigued by plastisols though
there seems to be alot of effects paints I'd like to try
the t-shirt industry seems very different from the yardage/print industry
we have long tables for printing repeat patterns and experimentation
our registration is done with an L shaped metal bar that runs the length of the 12 meter table and the screens are clamped on
most of our screens are about 5 by 7 feet
you seem to have a rotating machine that looks more for production work
I have always wanted to blend some of the techniques from the t-shirt industry into the craft realm
the two disciplines seem so stratified and unnecessarily so
even within out arts program the glass students and the textiles students rarely mix (but I fucked that up by insisting on taking a few glass blowing courses)
what I'm really into is the idea of stretching knit yardage and printing lines into it in really stiff latex, rubber or plastisol and when I unpin it it started warping because of the stiffened areas that were printed when it was stretched
there's a book by kate wells that mentions that technique
but theres a whole realm of "fabric distortion through printing" world out there
okay I am finished my novella
pirate
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It's not mine, but it sure is awesome:
http://www.bertmon.../fineart_damen.htm
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It's a work in progress. I don't have much time to work on it...
http://www.greydeath.net
Written in PHP and JavaScript using CSS and a MySQL database.
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Couple of projects:
T-shirt for local music act Myrzah, should be finished tomorrow:
Also rolled out a UE photography website awhile back: www.urbantrespass.com
Pirate.
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