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Channel 12 roof on and on and

December 3rd, 2009 by Steve Powers

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ON. This roof is taking a looong time to finish. I’ve been chipping away at it 3-4 hours at a time 2 days a week over the last 8-10 weeks, and at this point its maybe 8 hours from completion. Getting permission from the non-profit business incubator that owns the building took 6 months and 7 sketches ( I  never did more sketches for a client- paid or otherwise), but for myself and others in ICY with a long enough memory of the totemic power of the roof when RAZZ held it down with BLINT, it had to happen. After the multiple  hoops and hurdles that we cleared , the last snag was that we couldnt paint on the building directly, as it was a historic site (American Bandstand was filmed here in the 50’s), so we covered the walls we wanted to paint with 1400 sq. feet of aluminum. Its really great to use one-shot paint on this scale, it looks real cool. And we’re using, for the first time on this project, the best materials for lettering available- paint and brush. I (obviously) love spray, but since its a propellant, its always going to look a little fuzzy when you letter with it, compared to one-shot. And spray paint is harder to work with than one-shot. I had several people helping me who only used spray paint their whole life pulling beautiful lines with a brush after only a few minutes. And finally, this huge expanse of  surface will only require 1.5 gallons of paint to finish. RADICAL. Theres a lot more to tell, but we gotta finish first. RESPECT to KENNY MEEZ, CEM-I, EL JOSH, JB JONES, D. ROW, MAN D, LEW BLUM, and JT who knows the drill.

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