#brucebuds

My typographical portrait of Bruce Springsteen.

The portrait is created from all his officially released songs and cover songs also. During the process I ran out of song titles so I had to add more songs that Bruce has covered or rearranged live on stage. I don’t have all his songs he has ever played. I just used as many as I needed. So you will miss out some lesser known songs.

The positions of the songs are placed randomly, except The River, The Promise and Backstreets. Those songs had to have more attention as those songs mean a lot to me personally.

Actually I started out using another picture for reference but about 1/3 into the project I had to cut it and start all over again. It’s just didn’t work.

For this piece of artwork I used the picture shot by Herb Ritts known to many as the image is used as cover of Peter Ames Carlin’s “Bruce”. To me this is the best book I have ever read about Bruce and I like Ritts’ close-up cropped cover – so it was an obvious choice for me to pick this photo.

Maybe you’re familiar with typo images of Barak Obama, Steve Jobs and Morgan Freeman? Well, that’s my inspiration. I love that kind of art and I had to try it out myself and of course it had to be Bruce :)

I’ll have this printed as a poster – so I can enjoy this and go searching for a specific song “hidden” in his face.

Quick SURVEY:

Many have ask me if they could buy the Outlaw Pete Mug.

Due to the low quantities and the custom art print, the costs of producing the mugs are expensive. The shipping is also expensive due to the weight of the mug.

No delivery by Xmas time is possible. Mugs are white, not black inside like mine as this is another supplier.

Orders must be prepaid via Paypal.

Mug: 18 US dollars

Shipping: 10 US Dollars in Europe 13 US Dollars (Rest of the world)

If you’re interested let me know. Keep in mind, you get something very limited and special that you can’t get anywhere else :)