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Everybody 12

Newly produced is the winter edition of my just-for-fun biannual Mix CD: Everybody 12.

Cover Art

Track List!

I encourage all who did not receive a physical copy to check out the songs on iTunes or Soundcloud, cause these are these are like, some choice cuts, man.

GIGI x CLICHE x KID JERF

 Gigi Z. and I had a joint effort that took place at Cliche Minneapolis. I had the pleasure of displaying some of my artwork; six screenprints including three new ones.

Six models were chosen to showcase clothes that were not only from Cliche but also were interpretations of the six prints I had on display. Gigi did an amazing job styling:

Eleza | Chasm

Yasmin | Coven

Tasha | Lust

Gigi | Deckay

DJ Jim Frick (of WAKLYF) was also nice enough to spin for the show.

All photographs by the visionary SERENESUPREME.

Thanks to everyone who came out & was involved!
My pieces will be up through November so if you missed the opening night feel free to stop into Cliche anytime in the next month or so!

SERENESUPREME x KidJerf

Moshi moshi (^o^) ! 

This week I am flattered to be featured by lovely and prestigious SereneSupreme. 

Serene Supreme Herself: Fastest Instax in the Midwest

These are some outtakes from the shoot:

w/ Gigi Z

w/ Gigi Z

Uh huh, uh huh BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: Check out these new prints of my Hipster Trash series for sale on my BigCartel:

kidjerf.bigcartel.com : sure to be a hit with children

Until next time; See you around ;) !

Everybody 10

Oh yeah, I made a new mix CD for everybody. Except for only 25 of everybody, since it is a limited edition out of 25.

The front cover.

Contact me if interested.

Redlands Reprise

Quite a while ago I created a quick composition of a photo I had taken for use as a Facebook profile picture.

ugh is he talking about fb? lame

 It got lost in the shuffle and I rediscovered it, deciding I'd like to prepare it for screen printing posters.  
They haven't been printed yet, but if you're interested keep your eyes on the blog, they'll show up sooner or later.

REMIIIIX

Variant

For a Friend

Made this one for kicks, for a friend.

Youth Culture

This personal project comments on the sustainability of the ideals of youth culture. I used popular imagery associated with a certain sect of our generation that is consistently undefinable thus far by anything other than common material objects such as clothes and brands of products. It is a topic that, amongst my peers, has been beat into the ground without eradicating much of the mythos surrounding the definition of the movement that is: Hipsters.

Without going into too much detail on that subject (politics...) I thought I'd show you just some of the pieces that comprise this project:

 

Everybody 9

 

The time has arrived for another one of my bi-annual mix cds: Summer Time.

Citation of references for inspiration of cover design: Summer time, warmth, frisbees.

Limited, hand-numbered run of 30.

Get one for yourself to see the TOTALLY KILLER tracklist!

Sophia

I took this photo of my friend, Sophia, a long time ago in a friend's studio complex. I decided to use it as design exercise today. I love portrait style photos.

Better Early Than Late

As stated in my previous post, a lot of the images I make go through a long process of changes before the final product. Sometimes they are minor changes. Sometimes they are major. This is an example of the latter.

For Maggie, from Jeff.

Update:

How fitting that I'd come up with yet another iteration. I'll stop after this, I promise;

Taste

This is just a post out of boredom. 

A lot of the time, when creating something, I make dozens of iterations of a piece just to more easily visualize the possibilities of an end product. Here are two early (read: far cry from final product) iterations of a piece I'm currently working on.

I'll be sure to come back eventually with the final product. These are essentially just proverbial thumbnail sketches of digital imaging. A byproduct of processing my way to a final composition.

Burial

I made this just for kicks while listening to this and other songs from that album. Minimal and dark. As with most things though, I put an even darker touch to it.

I couldn't choose which one I liked better. So I'll post them both.

Solitary Winter

Hello, I'm back. This winter has been weird. 

My roommate, Tim Hohn, is an awesome photographer. He and I were picking and choosing some of his photos that I could use for a collaboration. We chose a lot of rock formations and I started playing around with them.

It evolved from this compilation of four photos:

Into this:

If someone were to release an album called "Solitude", it would be great if they contacted me. I know just the cover to use.

A. Leo Collab 1

I recently had the proposition to collaborate with a photographer I know in Chicago. She was open to any interpretation that I could think of involving of her photos, so it has been a very open-ended & as-of-yet ongoing project.

This is a simple illustration I did of one of the photos she lent me:

I am playing around with creating a more photo-manipulation oriented piece using her photos as well, which I'll post at a later date.

Girl from the North Country

Beautiful things oft make interesting subjects for art. Overdone? Maybe. But I'm not complaining.

"Something About Beauty"

Revision

Job Search

Looking for a job can be tough. Especially with all these fun distractions!