Show Poster of the Week - Animal Spirit's CD Release Show at Lola's

Once a week FWN features a show poster from the Fort.

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This week's featured show poster has me seeing stars! And for the record, let it be known that astral-themed show posters always have a home here at Fort Worth Noise.

The poster promotes Animal Spirit's CD Release Show, a celebration of their new album This Is Relevant.

The shindig starts at 9pm and it's all goin' down at Lola’s this Saturday, Feb. 18th. Trái Bơ and Dome Dwellers kick off the night. Full event details here.

So who designed this beauty? To find the droid we're looking for we need not look further than Saturday night's bill, as Dome Dweller's Michael J. Slack stands the guilty party. Btw, the constellation/DNA imagery doubles as the album artwork for This Is Relevant.

Besides the fetching conglomeration of somber blue hues, the concept behind the design warrants focused attention.

It's widely known and romanticized that humans are made from stars but how much so is less well-known. No worries, we got you: Capt. Google says stardust comprises 93% of human body mass.

NINETY-THREE PERCENT!!!

If anything, the romantic-types aren't romanticizing this fact enough. We are walking, talking stars ... every one of us.

Given this context, the brilliance in Slack's design becomes more discernible. In amalgamating stars with a DNA double helix, Slack expertly captures a visual representation of humanity's sidereal evolutionary process.

I'm probably reaching here, but stay with me -- what if this exploration we've conducted today answers the question all of us are asking ourselves?

You know the question. What exactly does the "This" in This Is Relevant refer to? Like, what is "This"? What is relevant? The album? The band?

I think it's more than that. I think this fact is relevant, this fact that we humans are made from stars.

Through this choice of artwork, Animal Spirit and Slack are implicitly sending a message of hope: that we are all relevant. That human life is relevant and by right, the music and art we create is relevant. It's a beautiful message, one that's been well-received by this lowly writer.

Congrats to Animal Spirit on the new album and to Slack for a design that inspires. FWN will be all up in Lola's Saturday, so hope to see you there!

BONUS CONTENT: To get ya hype for Saturday, here's music videos for two songs off This Is Relevant

"Revenge" the first single from the new album This Is Relevant by the band Animal Spirit - Directed by Rue Dwyer - Produced by Rue Dwyer & Animal Spirit

"Doom Surf" the Second single from the new album This Is Relevant by the band Animal Spirit - Directed by Brian Bailey - Produced by Brian Bailey

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”

Show Poster of the Week - Terminus (AR), Summit, Smokey Mirror, The Good Kind Of Mushroom, Acid Carousel at Lola's

Once a week FWN features a show poster from the Fort.

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This week's featured show poster summons the visage of Edward the Confessor to promote a delectable serving of stoner party-psych doom in the form of Terminus (AR), The Good Kind of Mushroom, Acid Carousel, Summit, & Smokey Mirror tomorrow night, Tuesday, Jan. 10th at Lola's Saloon. The show starts at 8:30pm, event details posted here.

Julian Cedillo, guitarist for The Good Kind of Mushroom, assembled this sublime scene of antiquity vs. modernity (looking back in our 'Show Poster' series, this is now a third time we have chosen a poster that plays in this space).

In Cedillo's image, this unceasing conflict jumps out at you: a portrayal of 11th century King of England Edward the Confessor waving his hand - as if to offer up the night's list of performances - amidst a backdrop of '70s paisley wallpaper and psychedelic hourglass sand stamped with vinyl record typeface instructing its patrons to "Bring Your Homies!"

Throw in the buccaneering 18th century vintage skull & crossbones and you have iconography from four different eras concurrently on display. Speaking of, every time I look upon it, my eyes sink like pirate ships in some Caribbean bay, struggling to make sense of the ravishing mayhem set before me.

Side bonus: Edward the Confessor, unlike most saints, did not achieve sainthood via martyrdom. We all know martyrdom makes for the best heroes but if you can manage sainthood without dying to do so?? Well shit, idk, seems like the ultimate life hack if you ask me.   

A life hack is exactly what this strong hallucinatory lineup provides on what is otherwise not considered a likely night for crazy good rock shows; it's Tuesday party time y'all!

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”

Show Poster of the Week - The Future: An Exhibition in Art, Sound, & Movement at Shipping & Receiving

Once a week FWN features a show poster from the Fort.

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This week we are happy to present Raef Payne's vision of a poster for this weekend's epic New Year's Eve event - The Future - taking place Saturday at Shipping & Receiving. 

ATN Productions has curated quite the slate of musicians and visual artists but Payne brings it with a surrealistic radiance of a design to match.

Prince Rama and Ronnie Heart and Wizardvizion! Oh my! Starbass Laboratories, Jason Faries (Neon Indian), Squanto, Frida Monet and Raef himself round up this galactic musical lineup. 

Many among us believe Aliens and their superior technology aided in constructing the ancient pyramids of Egypt around 2500 BCE. Whether intended or not, in Payne's design, I discern an Alien reconnaissance ship's spectral tractor beam.

The purple and blue-hued tractor beam emits upon an ancient pyramid producing a confluence of 'the sacred' and modernity, one similar to that of what we noted in our inaugural Show Poster of the Week by Jeffrey Chase.       

Upon reading the event's prospectus, this juxtaposition of human antiquity and future technologies seems to be what The Future exhibition is all about. Through this lens it's safe to state Payne did a masterful design job aligning with the aura of the event, achieving seamless synchronicity.

By the gods, I swear, I'm currently slacking at work as to research legal loopholes so I can formally marry this design ... I love it so.

Tickets for the event can be purchased here - doors open at 7PM. 

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”