Alright folks. The wait is just about over. We have printed the Photo-Poetic EP compact discs. A LOT of work has gone into this project. This week, I realized that one of the tracks on the album, Machine from Another Planet, was originally written all the way back in early 2003. Wow. Almost 5 years to finally get our music to the people. But it just might be worth the wait. If you haven’t heard the songs yet, they have a nice chill ambient funky & downtempo music vibe.

So back to the point. The CDs have been printed. We decided to not go with the high end printing that you see on a lot of CDs these days. Adam Blanchard, an artist in Madison, hooked us up with his screen printing studio and we’ve produced some great looking discs! It was such a fun process, that I thought it would be good to share. Images posted after the jump.

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Burning the image into the emulsion

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Gooping up the blue ink

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Gooping the goop onto the screen

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Spreading the ink through the screen

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Magic - this CD now has a little style

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Burning the emulsion

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Green is the color of Photo-Poetic

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Completed CDs

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Completed Photo-Poetic Debut EP Disc in action! Pop it in your CD player!

Now, because of the MANUAL process involved, a few of the CDs didn’t turn out perfect. As a matter of fact, every one of these discs is a bona fide snowflake. We did quite a few experiments too. But we are satisfied: These CDs look wonderful. And there are ONLY 100 of them. After that they are all gone, they’re gone for good. Many of these will be given out as Christmas gifts to our favorite family members, friends, radio stations, and record labels. However, there may be one left over for you. Please let us know if you would like to get your hands on one of these pieces of work.

And if you do get one of these CDs, don’t EVER throw it away! Actually, we would be ecstatic if you ripped this CD, copied it, handed it out to all of your friends, gave the original CD to one of your best friends, and then shared all of the Mp3 files on your favorite P2P network (soulseek, bittorrent, etc.)

But I digress. The CD isn’t QUITE ready to head out the door just yet. We still need to print the inserts for them and get them all packaged up. Be looking for an additional post here in the next week or so.

Peace

DrJonez
Photo-Poetic