Local Musician V8 approached me with the idea of doing his album art, for his yet to be released collaboration with east coast’s musician Shortrock. “I want some Alejandro Jodorowsky type sh*t” was the way he described to me about what we were going for. I took on the job, playing off of the idea of bathrooms meets electro meets Jodorowsky.

They let me take off with my own direction behind the art, with only one stipulation; I have to use one panel of the digi-pack, for a piece of art he made. That was fair. I took over the direction and hired Anna Cali, a long time friend and special effects make-up artist to take care of making the model look bald and blue. The model is also a long time friend, Angie Vitzthum, who did a great job at holding those wires in her mouth, and going through the whole extensive painting process.

We shot this album art in about 15 minutes, and spent a good amount of time in the post edits. Once all the art work for the panels was all set and done, V8 sent me the copy and track-listing for the rest of the elements. Prior to the artwork and album, V8 and Shortrock never developed a moniker for them selves, so I went ahead and developed the logo that you see on the cover panel. As for the rest, I played around with the copy, and realized there is a whole lot of copy here for such a limited number of panels. I solved this, by basically going over the document with V8 and “trimming off the fat”. From there, we were able to easily go in and designate the back for the tracklisting and legal info and logos, and devote the inside left panel to show call-outs for collaborations on tracks.