Rock Art Wednesday-Todd Slater III

Posted by T Rex on February 19, 2008

The timing for this week’s Rock Art Wednesday is perfect. Todd Slater has created a bunch of great new posters for Ween, Foo Fighters, Mars Volta and Wu-Tang Clan. This Friday he is selling both the Mars Volta and Wu-Tang Clan. He is also giving a cool option to buy a year subscription where you will get one of every print he does in 2008. I saw his most recent Neil Young poster going for $275.00 on eBay last week. So to say the subscription plan is an incredible deal is an understatement. I wish I had the extra dough…..

Here is Todd’s email with the details for Friday and the inspiration behind the new posters.

Check out his new prints at his site here.

“Alright, so first things first, the subscriptions for 2008 go on sale this Friday, February 22 at 2 PM CST. The subscriptions are $800 plus $100 for shipping so $900 in all. On Friday there will be a tab on my site that will allow you to pay $300 of the $900 and the $900 will need to be paid off by the end of April when the first tube goes out. If you feel that you might not be able to make all the payments you should not get one.

The subscription includes one of everything I do this year and usually ends up being around 40 prints. If you buy my prints regularly this is the deal for you. My subs in the past retail for more than double what I’m selling them for, and you won’t find a better investment out there. I can’t be sure how long the subs will be available, but they will go fast. The subs will be shipped in a large tube three times a year (April, August and January).

If you were a subscriber this past year (2007) you will have the chance to re-up this week before they go on sale. You can paypal either $300 or the whole $900 to slater.todd@gmail.com this week before that Friday sale date. If you have any questions or concerns give Kristie an email.

Also, this Friday at 2PM CST my Wu-Tang Clan and Mars Volta posters will go on sale. You can check out the details on those prints on my site: www.toddslater.net and on gigposters:http://www.gigposters.com/designer/20217_Todd_Slater.html

The image in the Wu-Tang poster of the Bird/Dr. J fight has been a favorite NBA moment of mine for a long time and I thought attaching Wu-Tang’s name to the print added a level racial tension that wasn’t there before. The poster is printed with three metallic inks plus black on white paper.

The Mars Volta poster was inspired by David Lynch’s tv show, Twin Peaks. I had read that the band was influenced by the show in the making of their new album and by coincidence I had just bought and watched the Twin Peaks with my wife for the first time about a month before the poster. The images in the show were fresh and my mind and I realized it would probably be the only time I got to make a Twin Peaks poster.”-Todd