2006

LEVEL 2 = Christ Killer

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This photoshoot was done for the rock opera of mine, "Coyote In A Graveyard." Yep, that's the one. I got my Coyote name performing that show with Michael J. Fox.

I was goofing around, as I am prone to do, and tortured this 35mm photo into the wild pink you see here. It probably won't print as brightly as I'd like.

The solarization technique creates weird artifacts so I touched up the image to look better in this psychedelic reality of mine.

There are more bugs in Quark than Tom's pot plants. What a hastle! Anytime I used many of the new cool features in Quark I had to remove them when I discovered the text box outlines and so I had to make my text shadows using duplicated fonts stacked and staggered.

It took 6 weeks again to make this happen. My friend Jeff, advised me to use Adobe Illustrator to create FONT OUTLINES so that I wouldn't have to use any fonts at all.

On one of the versions I attempted this but the results still had problems... and in the end, the "ripper" the guy who takes the digtal art and creates the film or digital file whatever it is nowadays, but this is the last step before the ink hits the paper or the CD label.

The "ripper" kept having problems with my fonts and the screen fonts for them working correctly even though we could print PDFs and digital proofs... so he took my fonts into Macintosh Classic OS9 and stuck the screen fonts and font outlines into one folder then used this new font folder file... which worked fine.

Unfortunately, I got hit with a $50 fee for this -- even though it should have worked fine without these extra steps...

Oh well. Printing seems to be a nightmare. All the people who do printing on a daily basis seem to expect everything to always go wrong.

Warning: Do not use the text shadow features in Quark. Don't use the...

2001

LEVEL 1 = Peace Of Mind

Photography by Ed Animal:   
Animal and I were both photographers for the Los Angeles newspapers before I left for Utah. He shot two concerts of my band and a solo gig. The other was at Club Lingerie in Hollywood with Ian Astbury of The Cult cheering me on, "COY-O-TE!"

Prepress by The Hippy Coyote:
The inside shot is from the same concert. I love Black and White photography. I borrowed the negatives from Ed Animal and used his darkroom to print up these photos on 8x10 cloth paper stock. I got into cloth photography paper when I started hand coloring my photos. The cloth paper is like a painter's canvas.

I use Marshall's oil paints. I made my own brushes with Q-tips and applied layers to create tones and shadow. I'd have Alan's Custom Photo Lab print my cloth prints light so that the picture was more like a color-by-numbers project.

These Black and White photos were retouched by me, long before I ever had a computer. I did it these B/W prints the old-fashioned way with traditional black retouching watercolors.

With my computer, I could have easily removed the hair from my face and the sweat in my armpit -- but I do enjoy the reality of reality.

I spent more than 6 weeks bouncing graphics back and forth to the printer before I figured this program out.