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Rapid Nostalgia № 003: Empty Restaurants
This last one is an attempt to break the mold from the first two, opening up new ideas and avenues this framework can take. Instead of a specific neighborhood, I focused on the subject of empty restaurants I’ve seen. //
I overlaid images of these spaces with found copy, again. //
I treated the types of sources differently: reviews are italic, articles have columns.//
Trying something new within this framework opens up opportunities: a whole zine about one location, or a story about people who have lived and seen that change, or even just images of weird shit I’ve seen on Google Streetview. I can see this expanding into more ways to differentiate them from one another: different papers, different printing methods, different stories; continuing to change and adapt with new ideas and new collections, and to me, this is exciting. The idea of flexibility within a framework is a metaphor of what I’d like my practice to be— a practice that is able to adapt and change and grow and impact its audience.
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❸ After graduating Otis College of Art and Design, Rapid Nostalgia lives on. This image is a design rendered to look like a risograph print, a series of postcards depicting the various cold war era emergency sirens that still stand around Los Angeles today.
❹ The first edition of How to Give Your Work Away for Free, by Matthew Manos, featured a book sleeve that folded out into a small poster.