I still have bird seed crumbs in my scanner from this project.  Bain Mattox is the husband of Amanda Kapousouz (Tin Cup Prophette), he’s an accomplished musician with a heart of gold.  All of the handwriting on this packaging was done by me.  I had to lay out the writings and the bird/flower cutouts upside down on the scanner and then pour bird seed over that.  Needless to say, it took many tries before it was all lined up and layed out to fit perfectly in a 5″x5″ or so square.  It was well worth the efforts.  

This was a ton of fun.  First of all, let me say that i think Amanda Kapasouz (Tin Cup Prophette) is amazing. Her first full length is a stunning record and i was thrilled to be able to do this project with her.  It’s an album of traditional Irish songs and it rules.  We had a super low budget and decided to do a one-color screen print. I printed all of these in my kitchen at the time, with no registration marks and no printing press.  The sleeves are printed on an extremely cool packaging from a company in Oregon that i can’t remember the name of.  The inserts are screen printed as well, on vellum.

We created a record label for Amanda with this release called Subway Grime Recordings.  The Subway Grime logo was designed by yours truly.

Here we have the official release of “Steamy Scandals & Love Handles”, the greatest recording ever recorded. The photographs were taken by the Wal-Mart photo team.  I had a little bit more time to get this artwork together and make sure that everything was perfect.  This was released in 2005.  I was greatly honored to be able to work with the legendary Die Slaughterhaus Records on this package.  If you don’t know Die Slaughterhaus, you should.  I hope i get to work with them again.  If you don’t have this… contact me and i can make one available to you…

If you have this tape or have had the honor of hearing it, then you know of Rump Posse’s supremacy.  I think we made about 90 of these tapes.  I stayed up all night one very long (but exciting) night in 2004 at Kinko’s. The cover watercolor was done by Brandon Betts (better known as “Ace”).  This is quite possibly the greatest tape ever made.  This is one of the first times that my nickname “Joystick” was used with or instead of my real name.