Wakarusa Poster 2006

[cornboarder]

Sup everyone, I'm David Sockrider, I guess I'm the artist who won this year's poster design contest. Here's the final poster for 2006 for all to see.

http://www.sockrider.com/wakarusa2006-800.jpg

When I was thinking of concepts for this years poster I kept thinking of the great vibe and great time I had last year.

When I think of Wakarusa, I thought of the music, the water, the land, the night and the day, so I decided to combine those elements into an image. I decided to create a somewhat playful and magical image of the 'spirit of good vibes' levitating above the water. I wanted her to appear happy and content and 'good vibes' radiating from her head, reigning over the night and day. I've read that Wakarusa means, \"River of big weeds\" or \"waist deep\" so I included the cattails to represent the meaning of the word Wakarusa. The festival is all about fun and music in the day and night, so I included day on one side with the sun and night on the right with a full moon. June 11 is a full moon so I made the moon full. Last year, I was camped under the only tree in the VIP area. That tree is represented on the horizon in the poster.



Here's my poster from last year:
http://www.sockrider.com/posters/Wakarusa.jpg

I can barely wait for the festival. Have a great Wakarusa!!!

[CrispyChrisBCritter]

very nice art brah

but what do you mean you GUESS you're the artist who won?
:lol:

[Buckethead]

Vary nice art work for a vary nice festival :wink:

[PolyOntology]

good job! hopefully i'll acquire one of those posters and put it next to my Waka 1 and Waka 2 posters in my room.

[smokeythenug]

did you make last year's poster also?

[Incubabe]

Very nice, indeed!! Rock on, man!

[nflo47]

I need to get me one of them posters!

[Yeho]

puttin one up on my wall once my promo package comes in. very nice work indeed...

[JackDog]

I love your poster from last year! I've got a copy that I still haven't gotten around to getting framed, and I bought my little brother the t-shirt that was made from it...and I'm still kicking myself for not keeping it.

:D

[cornboarder]

Thanks! Yea, I want a poster of this, I just have 8 1/2 X 11s right now.

[chriso_227]

nice work

[rambler_17]

mad art man. do u do commercial art for a job too...or is it a hobby. u can get the posters at the fest right?

[cornboarder]

I'm a web designer full time.

I've been trying to do more show posters for quite a while. I just do posters on the side for fun. I like being able imagine something then have the abillity to place that on paper.

I create lots of visual design... draw, paint, illustrate, advertising, web sites, Flash, 3d, video/audio editing. I just really dig creating graphics for fun and work.

dunno about poster availability beyond what street teams get.

[Opo]

i love it !

[PhattyJ]

That poster is bad ass!!!!
can we buy them at the show?
does anybody have one of last years posters to sell or an idea where to get one?

[hometeamtx]

David what's up bro! Dennen here in Austin. Congrats on winning the poster contest FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW! I know you have been talking with Rick a bit, but shoot me an e-mail @ dkontour@sbcglobal.net or call me on my cell @ 512-557-3136.

Eric (from Phx), Jason (from Vegas), and myself are all doing VIP again this year (and yes...we will be the very 1st to arrive again!) so we want to hook up/camp with you again.

Hope you have had a very successful year and I look forward to hearing from you!

WAKA! WAKA! [/u]

[cornboarder]

Whats up man!!! Good to hear from ya! 2006 is gonna rock! this year is gonna be just as good of a time as last. I'm going to be there nice and early too. We'll have to make sure we have a proper campsite again :D More like tent city.