Nosferatu the Vampyre Pajamas

As mentioned in my last post, I have the school's enormous screenprinting machine up and running! My first endeavor with the photo emulsion was a Nosferatu screen print. Nothing says Christmas like a Vampyre from Prague. Anyway, the image above is my T-shirt and, my favorite, my new Nosferatu pajama bottoms. More screens to come and you can be sure it will be worked into Revelation projects.

As you might have noticed, my ambitious attempt to illuminate / illustrate the entire book of Revelation has taken a vacation for a few months. With roughly 8 or 9 chapters to go, I got distracted with working on music videos (http://www.myspace.com/jymdavis). However, recently I have found some new inspiration. The first part of my inspiration was figuring out how to use the massive screenprinting machine at school. This will allow me to readily screenprint and duplicate images using a photo sensitive screen. The second part of my inspiration was discovering a blues song entitled "John the Revelator" by Blind Willie Johnson. Hearing this song was a jolt of ideas. A host of artists have covered this song including Beck Hanson and Marianne Faithfull. There is a particulary energetic version by Nick Cave from the Harry Smith tribute concert: