Joshua Frankel
Bicycle Messenger Prints at the Starving Artists Ball 2006

Bicycle Messenger Prints #1-4
Silkscreen prints of 3D computer renderings on paper
Edition: 5
2005

These prints are constructed from images extracted from frames of my animated film Bicycle Messengers. For the film I wrote customized mental ray contour shaders in C++ (ie mini computer programs) that allowed the computer to mimic the way that I draw. To create these prints I returned my computer renderings to the physical world via the mechanical medium of silkscreen printing. The final prints, like bicycle messengers themselves, weave together human, digital and mechanical processes.

The photo above shows the prints on display at the Starving Artists Ball at the Angel Orensanz Center in 2005. Below is each image individually.

Bicycle Messenger Print #1
Bicycle Messenger Print #2
Bicycle Messenger Print #3
Bicycle Messenger Print #4