Because we wanted our lives to be more cinematic...

For an upcoming show at the Jackpot in Lawrence, I tried to incorporate imagery for each band into one awesome movie poster. Karma Vision once played a show under the name Actor John Goodman. The rest are a bit easier to interpret. 

Architect Music

One night, three bands featuring alumni, dropouts, and current students of the University of Kansas School of Architecture.

Dressed Right for a Beach Fight

After a line by The Who.

Another poster for South Sea Island Magic, featuring an assortment of seashells found on a trip to Sanibel Island. We'd wake up at four in the morning to catch the low tide, search for shells with flashlights, then sit and watch the sun rise.

A wedding gift for two good friends, two years in the making. The band onstage is Horse Feathers, a band from Portland that plays quiet, beautiful folk music. The setting is the Bottleneck in Lawrence, although it's not always this picturesque.

Cowboy Indian Bear at the Bottleneck

Inspired by two summer afternoons drawing at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City.

Waves Will Crash

The fifty foot tall woman makes an amphibious attack.

KJHK Grand Opening Week

The final poster for the semester for KJHK, commemorating an epic week of events in celebration of the station move. I used the concrete structure from the t-shirt and the programming poster one last time. This one will be screenprinted by Blue Collar Press.

It's True! Album Artwork

It's True! is a remarkable band from Omaha, Nebraska. For the artwork on their debut album, I started with a lyric from my favorite It's True! song:

I'm not asking you for a miracle.
I'm not asking you to part the sea.
I'm not asking you to move the sun or the stars.
They can all stay as they are.

The animal skeletons on the cover are a hesperornis (a large aquatic bird that could only swim, not fly or walk) and a mosasaur. Both lived in the shallow inland sea that covered what is now Nebraska and Kansas, and their fossils can be found here today. The map on the inside of the album shows the geography of North America during the Late Cretaceous, including the location of that inland sea.

An anatomically correct Hesperornis Regalis.