I have left my home town of Richmond Hill, Queens to live in Greenpoint, a hip, up and coming neighborhood in Brooklyn.
I live right by the East River and can wave hello to Manhattan from my apartment. Never thought that would happen! Honestly, I've always thought that I would stay in Queens.
Some of my friends now think my hipster metamorphosis is complete. Once I get my bike from home and lock it up here I may have to agree. I will miss Queens, but something tells me I won't be away from it for too long.
I just hope I don't get too drunk one night and make my way all the way back home to Richmond Hill instead of my new apartment. That would suck!
I still need to get my art supplies over here, I'm just afraid of being overwhelmed with the lack of space I have here. My bed takes up about 80% of my room. I did bring my music recording gear, though, and that already takes up a lot of space.
This will just force me to work digitally to pump ideas out. Before leaving my childhood home for good, I made this poster for the band Big Figment. The inspiration of this piece came from a Wikipedia article about an Eel City that my friend Peter Longofono had posted up. The image I had in mind was far more involved, but for the poster's sake, I had to simplify it to make it readable.
I originally had the colors much brighter...which was okay, but the top one definitely matched the darker tone of the band best.
Once Jennae, the lead singer of Big Figment, approved of the design, I added the show info.
The font, for those who care about such things, it's called Bebas Neue.
