on now: the 31 days of #erasetober2022

“I HATE WHEN PEO­PLE TRY TO TALK FEAR INTO MY PLANS .… Move tf out­ta my way”
—twit­ter post

“YEAH stop it. Your fears be­long to you, keep them in you. Don’t put them in me.”
—my re­sponse
 

SO THE SE­CRET TO BE­ING AN ARTIST IS THIS: 

Your first piece will usu­al­ly suck,
so will your sec­ond piece,
prob­a­bly third and so on.

The only way to get past this is to NOT GIVE UP and just KEEP GO­ING. PLOW THROUGH. NO FEAR. Be­cause the GÜD stuff will nev­er hap­pen if you give up. NEVER.
 

“I ain’t fraid no art.”
—P. Venkman, pro­fes­sor of advertising
 

PRAC­TICE MAKES GOOD is one my my fa­vorite say­ings and frankly, us­ing the 31 Days in Oc­to­ber as prac­tice is as great as any­thing. AND THIS YEAR, we’ve de­cid­ed to AMP #ink­to­ber’s ap­proach up a notch. 

 

“It has al­ways been eas­i­er to de­stroy than to cre­ate. Not any­more; now we can do both at the same time!”
–Leonard Mc­Coy, DDS
 

It’s been a few years since I’ve taught my ex­per­i­men­tal de­sign course, which in­clud­ed ran­dom as­sign­ments pulled quite lit­er­al­ly out of a ran­dom in­dex in a ran­dom his­to­ry book se­lect­ed al­most ran­dom­ly from a ran­dom li­brary downstairs. 

And this in­clud­ed hav­ing stu­dents de­stroy their own work and the work of oth­ers. Like street artists spray­ing over oth­er street artists, or as sim­ple as scrib­bling over a pho­to in a magazine. 

I to­tal­ly blanked on Ink­to­ber un­til things start­ed show­ing up in feeds last week. I sim­ply asked RADíO FLOMM col­lab­o­ra­tor Milk Sur­face, you have any ideas for a FLOMM ver­sion of INKTOBER — ?

And #erase­to­ber was his response. 

He had a list in a few days, I grabbed some ran­dom his­to­ry ma­te­ri­als, we com­bined, added, erased, threw up a teas­er and had it post­ed The Fri­day Be­fore Oc­to­ber just as a flat tire put me out of com­mis­sion, sit­ting in a most­ly-emp­ty park­ing garage for 5 hours wait­ing for AAA help – a non-work­ing au­to­mat­ed phone ser­vice my only com­pa­ny. I could re­ceive, but not send. None of their ar­rival notes were ac­cu­rate. My wife sent me din­ner via Do­or­dash, the con­fused look on the Dasher’s face was worth the odd predicament.
 

 

“I can’t draw!”
—ra­tio­nale for many stu­dents afraid their first piece of art will suck

#erase­to­ber is just like #ink­to­ber but amped up a bit. With sev­er­al PROMPTS best solved via Google searches. 

And your tech can be as sim­ple as an eras­er or as com­plex as
fill in the blank: ______________________________.
 

ANY ME­DIA means just that. TRY ANY­THING, see wat you can re­al­ly do here!

The rest is up to you. Do one or do all –

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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