[youtube width=”640″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Judge for yourself and other terrible puns…
Can’t resist posting this, photo of a test sample I got sent today for part of the packaging for the vinyl of the forthcoming album by The Herbaliser.
By Matt Kaufenburg from www.illustrationaday.com
Late last year I wrote an extensive piece in response to an interview by Miguel Angel Rolland for Gilles Peterson‘s Worldwide Festival magazine about design for music in the digital age. It’s finally been published over on Issu and it’s 16 pages long (!) You can order a print copy or just download a digital version and physical copies should be available at the festival this summer. Not sure why they didn’t credit Miguel or photographer Steve Cook for the studio shot either but I’m very pleased to have been given the chance to air my views.
The uber-talented Felt Mistress has some of her creations on show at the NoBrow shop for a final week before they move to Foyles bookshop in the west end to accompany her partner Jonathan Edwards‘ exhibition as part of the sketching the city season. She will also be giving a monster-making workshop in Foyles on July 30th, details and tickets are here.
Now up for pre-order from Ashley Wood’s 3A company – a 1/12th scale Mongrol from the ABC Warriors, the 1/6th version was way too expensive for me but this clocks in at $55 plus postage.
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I have to listen to this several times a day at the moment, the video makes it even better.
Long time heroes of mine, graffiti legends, absolute masters from back in the day whose influence is still felt. They have a show opening tonight in Soho, London. Can’t make it myself but will definitely check this out. See examples of their work here.
Grabbed from the excellent Retrowave tumblr site, don’t know who did it.
Here’s the Nuclear Dawn mural in Brixton as it was when it was first painted. Anyone who has ever traveled into Brixton on Coldharbour Lane from the East will have seen this, it’s been there since the early 80’s apparently and was painted by Brian Barnes and Dale McCrea.
30 years of wear and tear have not been kind to the image, especially the lower half which is partly covered with bushes and graffiti not to mention the condition of the paint in general. But there is a movement underway to try and restore the mural to its former glory on Facebook – please have a look, ‘like’ the page and see if you can help.
I’m lucky enough to have heard most of this album and it’s excellent, another step on and up for Eric. Set for release on September 18th, a limited version will come with a DIY card turntable and flexi disc plus interior drawings and paintings of kid koala’s studio, of which I contributed one piece.
Very much looking forward to this, available August 6th from ZTT
CD1: Frankie Goes To Hollywood in The Pleasuredome, a Zang Tuum Tumb singlette in five parts: Happy Hi! (All in the Body), The Soundtrack from Bernard Rose’s Video of the Welcome to the Pleasuredome single, Get It On, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (How to Remake the World), Happy Hi! (All in the Mind); Relax (International); The Power of Love (I’ll Protect You From The Holocaust) can be read in various ways but, for the sake of CD indexing, has six distinct sections: The Power of Love (extended, singlette – as opposed to 12” – version), The World is My Oyster (Trapped), Holier Than Thou (FGTH’s Christmas message), The World is My Oyster (Scrapped), Holier Than Thou (further festive messaging), The Power of Love (instrumental, singlette version); The World is My Oyster (at its full length); Don’t Lose What’s Left, Rage Hard + ++ *.
CD2: Extracts from Relax, From Soft to Hard, Dry to Moist: Relax (Sex Mix), Later On (from One September Monday), Ferry Cross The Mersey (…and here I’ll stay); Music from and inspired by Two Tribes (Keep The Peace): Two Tribes (singlette extracts), One February Friday (singlette extracts), War (somewhere between Hidden and Hiding); Further elements from The Liverpool Look: Warriors of the Wasteland (Compacted), Do You Think I’m Sexy?, Watching the Wildlife (Voiceless).
This has been doing the rounds on the web, originating from SomethingAwful by the looks of it.
I so wanted it to be real but a quick search revealed it was a very good fake (see above). Shame, here are some more ‘wish these really existed’ comic covers from the Relaunched and Comics Covered websites.
…coming this Autumn
Seen on Megatrip‘s blog via the Heritage Auctions site: Jim Steranko Infinity One Paperback Cover Original Art (Lancer Books, 1970). This mixed-media piece has an overall size of 11″ x 17.5″, and the art is in Excellent condition. Sold for nearly $10,000 in Nov 2008. Stunning work.
The first in a series of vinyl postcards from Six Ton Armour, sadly now sold out but check their Psychcast mixes.
I didn’t know who did this for a while because I found it online, it’s the work of Mike Alacantara – check out more of his stuff here.
I’m totally in love with the design of the new Tron Uprising cartoon that just premiered on Disney’s XD channel. Starting with a 30 minute pilot last month to set the whole thing up they have eighteen 20 minute episodes in the first season with only Flynn, Tron and Clu remaining from the films and a host of new characters to flesh out the story. The design cues are taken from Tron Legacy and ramped up with Aeon Flux-like proportions on the characters and hyper neon designs.
Looks promising, on set photos released so far have been a mixed bag, an R rating and a thumbs up from creator John Wagner are a good start but a trailer will be more telling. Up against the 1996 Stallone travesty the odds are in its favour but the proof will be in the pudding.
Kid Koala previews his new 12bit Blues album (I’ve heard it, it’s another step up) and I provide support with support from another Ninja act who I can’t name yet. Tickets can be bought here