The Future is a Machine...

This one is a homage to one of my favorite bands, Filth. Filth was a hardcore punk band from the East Bay in late eighties and early nineties, initially featuring members of Crimpshrine, Isocracy and the Vagrants. They were highly influencial in many subgenres of punk such as crust, thrash and streetpunk. Filth put out three records in their career, the Live the Chaos 7 inch, the Shit Split LP with Blatz and the This is Why We Drink split 7 inch with Submachine. Life is Abuse Records has reissued both the Shit Split and Live the Chaos.
The title of this collage and the message on it make up the chorus their song "You Are Shit" from the Shit Split, which goes: The future is a machine... You are shit!
I hope you enjoy the chaotic images of destruction along with the bodies, used condoms and needles spread across the ground. Eventually, I plan on making another which I will call "You Are Shit". I hope you can guess what it will say on the collage.

Here's a sample of Filth's brilliance. This song is called Today's Lesson (not You Are Shit) and is off of their split with Blatz, which was originally released on Lookout Records and has since been reissued by Life is Abuse.

Filth-Today's Lesson

Brutal Death

This one is supposed to be the insert/fold out poster for the upcoming LP by Brutal Death, a grind band from Concord, Ca, whose guitarist frequently crashes on the couch of my apartment. Unfortunately, the album won't be coming out for a while, since they haven't even started recording it yet, but it could be out by the time you read this. Brutal Death is a key part of the Bay Area hardcore scene and features members of Warkrime, Migraine, Short Circuit and more. They do not have a website or Myspace, however I think you may be able to find footage of them on Youtube. They have so far put out one 7 inch and have been featured on the Short Fast & Loud #17: Teen Beat Comp and the California Thrash Demolition Comp.
As for the collage itself, on the left side you can disgruntled workers sorting through piles bodies and garbage, which one assumes is somehow connected to the conveyer belt dispensing hotdogs and the enthusiastic kid enjoying one of the hotdogs. In the background there is mess of intimidating industrial machinery. Most of the images were taken out of a Child Craft book from the 1970's, except for a few, which I think I got out of a book on the Holocaust. Since almost the entire image is black and white, it was initially hard to tell the background from the forground. To solve this problem, I took some of my friend's nail polish and painted it around the edges of the forground.
Friends have compared my collage style to the album artwork of bands such as Napalm Death, Dystopia, Discharge and Crass. I think those influences are most apparent in this collage.