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MACRO - OMNIBUS 2000-2014
2017 ✦ ink, marker, paint, collage, photography, CG ✦ album
box set packaging |
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I'd been meaning to give some of my music to my friend
Ethan, so when he
moved out of Nagasaki in 2017, I decided to make him a fancy boxed set as a
going-away present. It
contains six Macro albums, and a bonus disc with odd & ends (new tracks, cover
songs, remixes, and a brief live show.) I decided to redo all the packaging for
these albums, in the form of mini-LP sleeve style packaging. This involved
making new layouts for art I'd designed in the past, and finessing it all to
meet my current standards. I gave the 2000 album Deathscape Navigator all new
packaging and a new title, since the old one hadn't aged well. I was living in
Japan at the time, where CDs aren't dead yet, and was able to find really a nice
hard plastic thick case to fit all these albums into, and made outer packaging
for that, which you see here. I had so much fun making this all by hand, that I bought
more supplies and decided to make a limited batch to give to my close
friends and family. Over the last four years, I've given out ten more,
and have enough of those unique thick outer casings left to make maybe
six more, then that's it!
It's been way too long since I've made an album's worth
of music, since 2011 to be exact, and a few new random tracks in 2013 & 2014,
then some attempts at restarting in 2018, before my already busy life got
significantly more busy and stressful. It's not been a very conducive decade for
music making for me, so this box set acts as a good end of a chapter - whether
for good or just until later, I don't know. Whatever I make next, if the time
comes, will probably be pretty different, and that will be the start of
something new! I hope that day comes. |
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PUTTING THE PACKAGING TOGETHER
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