Earsplitting Sound Waves
by Anastasia Ivanova
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Duuuude, haven't you heard about DJ Blue Beard? Rumors are his setups are a BLAST. Sounds like your ears are just SPLITTING. Why, have a look sometime, he's just about to MAKE SOME NOISE on the following page...
Process
Among the possible characters to work with I've considered neighbors renovating at 10 a.m., a punk band in a garage, and the stereotypical "cool guy with his band" depicted in American media of the 1990s and 2000s. Somewhere along the way, the key phrase "dunno, man, sounds murky to me" was born to become a comical ending that also plays with the zine's theme.
DJ Blue Beard emerged by chance, largely inspired by our color palette, and became a necessary source of obnoxious noise, graphically depicted through layering, contrasting sizes and line thicknesses, "double vision" effect. An unstable, overloaded image, oppressive to the eyes, just like unpleasant noise to the ears.
I once screen-printed something similar placing color layers to be independent of each other's position — the more they were shifted, the better. I was even curious to see what a Risograph would do with it.
DJ Blue Beard emerged by chance, largely inspired by our color palette, and became a necessary source of obnoxious noise, graphically depicted through layering, contrasting sizes and line thicknesses, "double vision" effect. An unstable, overloaded image, oppressive to the eyes, just like unpleasant noise to the ears.
I once screen-printed something similar placing color layers to be independent of each other's position — the more they were shifted, the better. I was even curious to see what a Risograph would do with it.
First and foremost I was interested in exploring the theme of unpleasant "noise" in everyday life — things like music, sounds, and conversations — through comics and visuals.
Process
Among the possible characters to work with I've considered neighbors renovating at 10 a.m., a punk band in a garage, and the stereotypical "cool guy with his band" depicted in American media of the 1990s and 2000s. Somewhere along the way, the key phrase "dunno, man, sounds murky to me" was born to become a comical ending that also plays with the zine's theme.
DJ Blue Beard emerged by chance, largely inspired by our color palette, and became a necessary source of obnoxious noise, graphically depicted through layering, contrasting sizes and line thicknesses, "double vision" effect. An unstable, overloaded image, oppressive to the eyes, just like unpleasant noise to the ears.
I once screen-printed something similar placing color layers to be independent of each other's position — the more they were shifted, the better. I was even curious to see what a Risograph would do with it.
DJ Blue Beard emerged by chance, largely inspired by our color palette, and became a necessary source of obnoxious noise, graphically depicted through layering, contrasting sizes and line thicknesses, "double vision" effect. An unstable, overloaded image, oppressive to the eyes, just like unpleasant noise to the ears.
I once screen-printed something similar placing color layers to be independent of each other's position — the more they were shifted, the better. I was even curious to see what a Risograph would do with it.
First and foremost I was interested in exploring the theme of unpleasant "noise" in everyday life — things like music, sounds, and conversations — through comics and visuals.
Duuuude, haven't you heard about DJ Blue Beard? Rumors are his setups are a BLAST. Sounds like your ears are just SPLITTING. Why, have a look sometime, he's just about to MAKE SOME NOISE on the following page...
Find me on:
by Anastasia Ivanova
Earsplitting Sound Waves
