Sound Of The Clock
I am feeling on the shittier side of things, so this will have to be one of my patented Stream-o-Conciousness posts™.
Went to my record company's Christmas Holiday party on Monday at a swanky Hollywood nightspot called "Falcon": Listened to English accents, ate cute little crab cakes, smoked free cigarettes by the roaring fireplace, and drank hot earl grey tea. Heard they like the finished version of "Why Cry". After the festivities, I went back to my apartment, where the power had been shut off earlier in the day.
Five things you probably didn't notice in "The Shining".
The Art of David Choe.
Had a good conversation with the woman who will be representing the label for all our art/cover needs and inspirations. Still am at about 60% on my current cover design, and want to start getting back into painting mode to get it finished so I can run it by everyone. Have no idea if it will be the finished cover or not, but I want to make sure I finish it before showing it to anyone. If it doesn't end up on the cover, it would be really good for a number of band things: shirts, site, etc.
Also am debating a few alternate logo designs of our current logo. Feel free to chime in.
Went back to work last week and I am designing right next to an interesting guy named Frankie. He is a talented songwriter and you can check out his music here. It's really good, mellow acoustic stuff with a touch of 70's and country. We might be doing an acoustic show in the first week in January together. I'll keep you posted.
I can tend to slip from one obsession to another, don't really know why. Maybe my mind always is comforted by the notion that there is something to look forward to. I just always seem to need something just over the next horizon to fixate on. This is a pretty flowery explanation that is concealing my true admission that...
I am super into getting a new Xbox 360. Yeah. There it is, it's out. Like I've mentioned before, I don't really spend a ton of time actually gaming, but I get really fascinated when there is a generation switch with game consoles. I'll go into the whole philosophy of why another time, but for now, lets just talk facts...
I hate my friend Sean. He got a 360 a couple days after they came out last month. I've been over to his place a few times to play it and I like it alot. I envy Sean his Xbox. So far none of the games are mind-numbingly advanced, but launch titles seldom pack the whole punch of what a new console can do. The textures are alot better and overall the graphics are definitely a leap forward, but the real fireworks wont show up 'til next year. We spend our time doing Perfect Dark co-op missions or playing online deathmatch. The best thing about the new xbox is the intergration with the online service. It's really smooth. Hooking a game console up to the Internet has the same impact hooking a computer up to it does: you wonder what you did all along without it. So Sean is sitting pretty with the new toy, and I, like everyone else being manipulated by Microsoft's planned "lack of ability to meet demand" stock shortage, has none.
I have been brainwashed since I was just a sapling to want the latest, shiniest game machine possible. It's a defect, I know. But I know it's a defect, -so fuck it. If there is anyone out there who is following this orgy of capitalism, here are some links:
Xbox inventory locator - you can see how many 360's come into stock at online retailers and at US Best Buy's this Sunday.
XBox Fanboy - good blog
Gamespot 360 - news and reviews
Once I have one and get it all set up, we can meet online and kill each other.
The sound of the clock ticking next to me is driving me insane.
OM.
and yes, the picture above is CG.
Comments
RE: Alt Logos
i like the very bottom one of the three. i think the vertical "the" keeps it from looking like one massive run-on word.
And having the C's both facing the correct direction prevents it looking like it says "the Paniohannel"
If you really want to get fancy you could even have one C fade out of the other one. Not sure how that would look though. Still trying to picture it in my own head actually.
So, yeah, the third one. That's my vote.
Posted by: Six7Six7 | December 15, 2005 03:41 AM
Interesting facts about the Shining, now I'm going to go rent it and closely pay attention. Thanks for that.. and I agree with six7six7, the bottom of the three is better.
Posted by: Junebug | December 15, 2005 08:47 AM
Nobody ever tells me nuthin'!
Glad you're back Steve...and that everthing's cool.
As far as the logo, I like the small "the" also...
I'm guessing you may have messed with trying to extend the "c&c" a bit to fit the other logo into the oval in the middle...but I'm thinking it would look pretty cool!
Love
RP
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Posted by: RecklessPrincess | December 15, 2005 09:52 AM
What I meant was I like the backwards C! because of what I just said...
...ignore me, as intelligable as ever!
RP
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Posted by: RecklessPrincess | December 15, 2005 09:54 AM
oooh, RP, you might be on to something there, I was going to say I like the third one becuase I wasn't feelin' the double c..but if the previous logo was incorporated in the middle...that would be cool
Posted by: jez | December 15, 2005 11:03 AM
Steve-The first one would be cool if you are going in the Sanskrit kinda of lettering thing, but alot more letters would have to be inverted maybe in a different font, not sure how that would fly. The third would be great like Rp stated if the old logo could somehow be transposed or incorporated into the middle some how? Just a thought....could you take the old logo-symbol and put the new lettering on the old logo...exp. "The" would go where it looks like a T, Panic would wrap around on the left and Channel would wrap around the right side? Damn I wish I had photoshop. Ok, nevermind.....
Posted by: Brett | December 15, 2005 11:42 AM
Hi Steve! I prefer the 3rd alt logo too. I agree with what Joe said. Though, there's still something 'problematic' about the c's. The attention is on the c's because of the repeat motif there. It's almost like 2 eyes, I suppose. Maybe there's a way to make it flow there..the c in channel being a bit larger, and then the p in panic would probably have to be too. Or Joe's suggestion of them fading into each other. Or whatever you come up with!
Love and hugs
Lisa
xxxx
Posted by: ylais | December 15, 2005 02:54 PM
The alt. logos are nice but, naturally, I'm partial to the original, since I had it painted on my car and all ;)
Posted by: Cori | December 17, 2005 03:36 PM
I'm with Cori. I don't like that lettering style, at all, not one bit. It's just not warm, inviting, or even badass. It's just, bleh. Oh, btw, I did notice numbers 2,3, and 4 on the Shining, all on the first viewing. Being a semi Kubrick freak, I knew to watch intensely.
Posted by: Lyn | December 17, 2005 06:41 PM
Chiming in late, but I like the middle logo best.
Posted by: Mike | December 19, 2005 05:26 AM