[ART] standing on the edge of nothing | fanart for spn_j2_bigbang
This is that placeholder paragraph where I tell the world all about how absolutely boggled and besmacked I was to work on this story, and how I wanted to give it all the art in the world, ever and how no matter what I made it would never have been enough, and how tryfanstone is the best kind of author to work with - responsive and so fantastically supportive - and so cool (imagine that in Patricia Arquette's voice, yeah?[/unrelated aside]). It's a fantastic story, too, and you should read it soonest.
See, I was going to be classy and replace the above with proper wording, but it's not like my opinion has changed, so I'm letting it stand. The truth is, before I got to work on this story, I had spent a lot of time reading and reviewing and reccing and otherwise flailing feverishly about tryfanstone's fiction and how it does things to me. She's one of my favorite authors. I was in the mood for historical AU's when the artist claims post went up for this Big Bang, but I wasn't actively limiting myself to period pieces, it was just a thought. The artists' summary for this one really got to me though, and when I found out whose it was (and then read this story) I was just floored. Some of you got to witness my glee in various posts. I apologize for going on and on about it, and I thank you for your patience one more time :)
This is a story of a different Sam and Dean (and Castiel) - and a different place and time - than you might expect, but one which felt immediately familiar nonetheless, utterly right in so many ways. It's... vivid, and fascinating, and dramatic, and bigger than life, and dark, and rainy, and muddy, and frustrating, and beautiful, and so, so filled with love. I really hope you get to read it.
Title: Standing on the Edge of Nothing
Author:tryfanstone
Artist:mementis
Pairing:Sam/Dean AU
Summary: San Francisco, 1924. Five years after the worst day of his life, Sam Winchester’s still hustling for a living, still searching for his missing brother, and on the track of a story so big it might just break him.
Please visit the story post for additional information and warnings.
all the images
Full-size poster:
Chapter headers:
The Community of Believers flyers:
Icons:
FEEL FREE TO USE BUT PLEASE CREDIT.
Fanmix cover:
( download the fanmix )
the outtakes
We had two outtake headers for Part One that didn't make it into the story. We both loved them to bits but they just didn't fit with the mood at the beginning of the fic - both of them are busy, and distracting, and I felt that they would take away from the text, right up front. That doesn't mean we didn't love them, however, and we wanted to make sure they saw the light of day, so here they are.
The first is, in fact, the same intersection at Market and 3rd as the header that did win, camera pointed in the same direction on a slightly higher perspective, but more importantly on a far warmer and busier day. The second is from the streetcar turnaround by the Embarcadero further up Market, a San Francisco spot that both tryfanstone and I turn out to love to pieces.
I tried valiantly to include them both somewhere, anywhere, but while they're individually striking, they just didn't go with the rest of the collection. Still, I love them.
resources and credits
Archival images of San Francisco, Modesto, Sacramento and Yosemite used to build some of the composite work above were obtained from several archives and were verified to be firmly within the public domain. I highly recommend these archives for general browsing as well, as they offer a tremendously moving portrait of everyday life over a century ago now. The sources: the Online Archive of California, and the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. One source I didn't use - but which I got lost in for hours unintentionally once - was the Google-hosted image archive of LIFE Magazine.
The 1910's and 1920's in the US saw a huge upswing in the use of mass-produced print products - posters, flyers, banners, advertisements and the like - which I sought to use for some inspiration. Setting aside the professionally designed posters of the era - which are absolutely gorgeous but far too polished - I instead found fascinating the artwork on covers of seed & farm catalogs of the era, of all things. Two such catalog covers I found are linked below, along with a flyer I found hilarious and can't seem to stop myself from showing you. For the curious:
Fonts used were sourced from dafont.com; additional graphic elements, because I don't usually stock up on embelishments, via PixelScrapper. All remaining materials, including photos of Yosemite and environs, abandoned homesteads and farms, as well as aged paper and fabric textures, are my own. Musical resources are listed in the fanmix post.
much gratitude
First of all, to tryfanstone for writing this beautiful, engrossing tale to begin with. I became obsessed with its atmosphere and the pictures that it painted from the very first pages, and whatever graphic sputterings came out of this experience from my end are all down to her, and the fantastic inspiration this story provided.
And thanks, always, to wendy and thehighwaywoman for running the most amazing big bang anywhere, and doing it with such patience, and fairness, and class, for yet another crazy summer.
That's it! Woo! ♥
« download the fanmix :: read the story »
See, I was going to be classy and replace the above with proper wording, but it's not like my opinion has changed, so I'm letting it stand. The truth is, before I got to work on this story, I had spent a lot of time reading and reviewing and reccing and otherwise flailing feverishly about tryfanstone's fiction and how it does things to me. She's one of my favorite authors. I was in the mood for historical AU's when the artist claims post went up for this Big Bang, but I wasn't actively limiting myself to period pieces, it was just a thought. The artists' summary for this one really got to me though, and when I found out whose it was (and then read this story) I was just floored. Some of you got to witness my glee in various posts. I apologize for going on and on about it, and I thank you for your patience one more time :)
This is a story of a different Sam and Dean (and Castiel) - and a different place and time - than you might expect, but one which felt immediately familiar nonetheless, utterly right in so many ways. It's... vivid, and fascinating, and dramatic, and bigger than life, and dark, and rainy, and muddy, and frustrating, and beautiful, and so, so filled with love. I really hope you get to read it.
Title: Standing on the Edge of Nothing
Author:tryfanstone
Artist:mementis
Pairing:Sam/Dean AU
Summary: San Francisco, 1924. Five years after the worst day of his life, Sam Winchester’s still hustling for a living, still searching for his missing brother, and on the track of a story so big it might just break him.
Please visit the story post for additional information and warnings.
all the images
Full-size poster:
Chapter headers:
The Community of Believers flyers:
Icons:
FEEL FREE TO USE BUT PLEASE CREDIT.
Fanmix cover:
( download the fanmix )
the outtakes
We had two outtake headers for Part One that didn't make it into the story. We both loved them to bits but they just didn't fit with the mood at the beginning of the fic - both of them are busy, and distracting, and I felt that they would take away from the text, right up front. That doesn't mean we didn't love them, however, and we wanted to make sure they saw the light of day, so here they are.
The first is, in fact, the same intersection at Market and 3rd as the header that did win, camera pointed in the same direction on a slightly higher perspective, but more importantly on a far warmer and busier day. The second is from the streetcar turnaround by the Embarcadero further up Market, a San Francisco spot that both tryfanstone and I turn out to love to pieces.
I tried valiantly to include them both somewhere, anywhere, but while they're individually striking, they just didn't go with the rest of the collection. Still, I love them.
resources and credits
Archival images of San Francisco, Modesto, Sacramento and Yosemite used to build some of the composite work above were obtained from several archives and were verified to be firmly within the public domain. I highly recommend these archives for general browsing as well, as they offer a tremendously moving portrait of everyday life over a century ago now. The sources: the Online Archive of California, and the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. One source I didn't use - but which I got lost in for hours unintentionally once - was the Google-hosted image archive of LIFE Magazine.
The 1910's and 1920's in the US saw a huge upswing in the use of mass-produced print products - posters, flyers, banners, advertisements and the like - which I sought to use for some inspiration. Setting aside the professionally designed posters of the era - which are absolutely gorgeous but far too polished - I instead found fascinating the artwork on covers of seed & farm catalogs of the era, of all things. Two such catalog covers I found are linked below, along with a flyer I found hilarious and can't seem to stop myself from showing you. For the curious:
Fonts used were sourced from dafont.com; additional graphic elements, because I don't usually stock up on embelishments, via PixelScrapper. All remaining materials, including photos of Yosemite and environs, abandoned homesteads and farms, as well as aged paper and fabric textures, are my own. Musical resources are listed in the fanmix post.
much gratitude
First of all, to tryfanstone for writing this beautiful, engrossing tale to begin with. I became obsessed with its atmosphere and the pictures that it painted from the very first pages, and whatever graphic sputterings came out of this experience from my end are all down to her, and the fantastic inspiration this story provided.
And thanks, always, to wendy and thehighwaywoman for running the most amazing big bang anywhere, and doing it with such patience, and fairness, and class, for yet another crazy summer.
That's it! Woo! ♥
« download the fanmix :: read the story »