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page 7 BY RACHAEL OEHRING art, but they all agree on the one thread * nrtists COnff ® _ STAFF writer that binds them all through their post- Area ''** * 5 Rain splatters on the windshield of my car as it ers: the music. no&ters tO O VlDlw '’'''cfPPflßL crunches its way down a gravel driveway toward a All three designers are either cur- P'*** in or the front yard. before, and all of them cite the necessity An amiable Ron I jberti sits in the living room of for advertising for their own bands as the the house in ink-splattered jeans, smoking a ciga- reason they started creating posters, rette. glad to be dry and comfortable. “1 think definitely they feed off of each I “The Philadelphia Story" plays silently on a other," Hart said, "especially in the little ~ v / | r ■ ■ TV in the background. surrounded by used silk- poster-making community. • \ |BHe screens and old books filled with typefaces, as the “Its mostly comprised of people who 1 ' artist pulls out chairs and we begin to chat play music or who have played music. Most Rag* \ | \ • “I try to surround myself and my art with of the people I know who do posters are in f} , a quality people and quality music and, luckily, bands." - ' i I we’ve got a lot around here, so it's inspiring Norkus adds. "Playing in a band means and it s cool." he says. making and putting up your own flyers It’s ■ a In Libcrti's kitchen, between fridge important to me. it goes hand in hand with 1 b 1 RRHBB9P m 1 I I * covered in big pieces of construction paper Liberti also got his start making posters for BB jk. 1 that soon will bear the image ol a horse and his own bands but soon realized, as the others 't 1 ' BpR |1 B *P4 * information about Bella tea’s upcoming CD did. that other people were interested in his art V££ -A. B •B4|\ release show. as well. R& R B Bj'> \&i This is Liberti’s studio, where he hand- “I’ve been in bands the whole time, so that's P \ B £ prints show posters for bands, primarily certainly kind of how I started printing," Liberti ng l 1 ’ around the Triangle the ones hanging says as he drags dark brown ink across the screen ***' üß|n on the telephone poles in Carrboro or the again to create another perfectly imperfect horse lL 7 % ; % wooden kiosks lining Franklin Street. on a piece of pink construction paper. _ Ni B-JbBB Maybe you've even taken one. Just make "And other people started digging them, and I had B\ PBI sure it’s the day after the show before you more ideas than I had shows for my own band." ——n, JPgB*B -ii BB unceremoniously rip your fingernail off try- Though all the artists agree on the importance • * *'M IjHf ing to pry the industrial-strength staples of the music scene in their art. their opinions dif "l think it’s lame if (people) rip them off tising is. the poles Ix-fore the show." Liberti says. "It’s "The posters are advertising first." Liberti says. and everything, but they’re there for a "When you're walking up the street, and you see ■ reason. They're an ad first." a kiosk ... and there's one that’s a little bigger that's #~‘ l W After going to art school in New Jersey screenpnnted and handmade, they're gonna look at IgScJjggr " and studs mg printnukiiu in Kngland. Liberti that, hopefully, am! think AVow. somebody spent tliat *JL'* s Pk nu,i ' hi- way t> * C': i.iio ; !1:■ 1 i ie. loo] alter \oit meet 'mi- doing this poster, tliei that show ini'got , "It was very beautiful iiere.' Liberti says. "And "1 think it does work because it kicks it up a notch." HL . I looked at the Cats Cradle schedule, and 1 was Hart and Norkus. on the other hand, say the posters BBBBA*jk to sec ... and they're playing here.'" "I'd like to think it's effective as advertising .’Norkus s " 1 As'> V Tltmigh Liberti is one of tlie subjects of an e\ln- says, "but the act of making it is more like doing'ome bition at Wilson Library along w ith fellow poster thing with my hands. e M JyV- < 'ig, ’ ' Rums i' la! tile only poste: '.\d\ertising i- important •!ia: W ® T Y° n There ari many local artists who creat. -how post Hart eciuH‘s the sentiment. "I really like the idea tna’ ’ g’Yßitftt 1 ers all around the Triangle. They all have very different it's something 1 can put out there and spend a lot of oOS |ers and distinctive styles, as well as very different ways of time on. and if someone really likes it they can take it P creating their art. home for free. f|p m i lw® n ' A U( J\o n Matt Hart, of ThisPosterWillSelfDestruct. whose art “I meet people all the time that when they find out tUflUlftOW’ . U|j VlOfn© 5 depicts the monsters and goblins that lurk underneath beds what I do. and find out who I am. thev have some if uUo sVfO'* 10 and in closets, makes his posters completely by hand, using story to tell me about how they stole a poster," he - "tiBBBBB| little more than an \-Acto knife to craft his creatures. -*• ' "I barely know how to use a aimputer." Hart says. "That's Whether or not art tmmps advertising, there kind of something that makes stuff stand out. All the will alway sbe the one thing that brings all of techniques 1 use I learned in high school. It's all technology the artists together, whether visual or other- 0 B fr° m , I'° 705." wise in the Triangle, and the whole reason Joe Norkus. a poster designer for the Trekky Records the poster-making community exists. Printing Company, does many of his prints digitally. In Liberti’s own precisely succinct Twit Bks Also a Web designer. Norkus uses new technology words: "Music is the fuel." \ A tIW but understands the importance of keeping it old school. Contact the Diversions Editor 'jhWH 'Screenprinting kind of adds another at dive (a unc.edu * 1 n ’ _ layer of chance," Norkus says, “because BK . / RB * Rkc you're working with an imperfect medi- m gm \j, / / aajtJgßk t um and sometimes the iness-ups are g|£|B ■ ■KBBI B I really cool." Trail: The Poster Art of Casey Burns and Ron Liberti will be at Wilson Library until IP II *‘*B Moy3l. A reviews MUSIC Reviews of new releases from R.E.M., BeUafea, The Smugglers. Shakermaker, Nine Inch Nate, Cloud Cult and more! See pages 9 and 11, MOVIES Reviews of ‘The Forbidden King dom,* "Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and other recent cinema offerings on page 8. diversions dive.dailytarheel.com concerts RAINBOWS IN THE DARK Between the Buried and Me, along with their tour support, showed a Cat's Cradle audience the many hues of heavy music PAGES 8,9 goings on GREEN GRASS(ROOTS) The twice-yearly Shakori Hills Grassroots Music Festival kicks off today —with anew focus on environmental sustainability. PAGE 11 profile LIFE STORIES Figure 8 FHms, a production com pany based in Carrboro, explores what it means to tell a story when the characters are real people. PAGE 12 thursday, april 17,2008 Q&A HOW TO MAKE A HIT Local songwriters Randy Bickford (The Struggles) and Heather McEntire (BeUafea) explain the intricacies of their craft PAGE 10
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