more from the t-shirt/print venture!



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i may just be using this as an opportunity to indulge my thoroughly shameless love of all things puny.

ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, i have some friends who do the music thing. they're in a band called kaiho. you can follow their antics OVER HERE.

this week they dropped a shiny new ep on their soundcloud and oh my stars and garters is it good. you should give it a listen.

i know i have.

quite possibly way, way, way too many times since downloading it today.


Everything Seems Worse At Night-time (Idiot Brain EP)

If Jesus Was My Swimming Instructor (Idiot Brain EP)

Charango Song (Idiot Brain EP)

Idiot Braine (Idiot Brain EP)

the crazy part is the you can snap this up for the low, low, low price of OH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL.

i also had the total honour of playing graphic designer for the ep's cover:




actually, this has been a pretty awesome couple of weeks for my, er… 'photography'. asides from this, a couple of snaps i took of the band gigging cropped up in 'miss robin'- a digital fashion magazine thing. they're part of an interview with sas and and freya and you can give that a butchers OVER THERE.






lastly, a photo i took at amanda palmer's recent koko gig (jesus christ. that was an amazing, intense roller-coaster of an evening) ended up making the rounds on a few blogs. someone even asked if they could buy a print of it which was pretty groovy indeed!





ugh. the stench of self satisfaction coming off this thing is unbearable. oh well. at least you actually have a legitimate excuse for cramming your blog full of photos for once!

sketchbook scraps!

not too long ago amanda palmer set up a kickstarter to fund her spanking new album. being a total sucker for both these things i prescribed to the philosophy of oh well, what the hell and threw a chunk of change at it.

asides from getting a ticket to the tour date in london, this also bagged you entry to a much smaller acoustic set a few days before. for some reason i thought this would be the PERFECT thing to bring my sketchbook to.

holy moly. despite having to run home and back halfway through to deal with the house alarm freaking out, this evening was SPEC-FUCKING-TACULAR.

here's jherek bischoff and his spontaneous string quartet for the night. they were performing instrumental versions of songs off his new record:





it was powerful.

check it out HERE






did have a go at doing some sketching during the main set but it was far too dark. it was also a gloriously theatrical affair involving fruit, megaphones and mass human drum machines that was pretty much impossible to tare your eyes from.

all in all, if one of your favourite musicians ever offers the chance to go to something like this, you really, really really, really, really, really must take them up on it.

here's something from the new album. stop motion kinetic typography? ohmyfuckyes.



aaaaaaaaaaand photos from the not so acoustic night:

belated happy halloween! i failed miserably at celebrating it this year. here's hoping you did a much better job of it.

today is crit day. pass the gravy boat because this thing is going to be a roast. oh well. once that lovely business is out the way, i'm going to do my darndest to update this thing with some slightly more recent/relevant nonsense.

aaaaaaaand before this thing gets to morose, here's a fun little ditty about the four stringed wonder that is the ukulele. i am ALL OVER the accompanying art by Shepard Fairey.

for the group blog, DOODLE CABOODLE. the topic this time round was 'dream', which seemed like the perfect excuse to draw semi-submerged-bald-statue-men andOH HAI I THINK I SEE A MOTIF APPEARING. LOL WUT A HACK.

aaaaand in the spirit of blogging about things waaaaaaaaaaaay past the fresh news expiry date, this happened:



so a while back ben folds, amanda palmer, neil gaiman, and damian kulash (of ok go) got together and decided to collaborate on album as part of the ReThink music conference. they gave themselves eight hours to put it together from scratch. and all the tracks were going to be based on suggestions from twitter.
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HOLY MOLY, THAT'S BALLSY. but in the end, they got a totally fun package out of it. check it!

submissions for our department's zine-y thing, meow. topic for this issue was idols which was as good an opportunity as any to go all gushy over folk who blow my mind.

steven tobolowsky's podcast can be found here -> http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the-tobolowsky-files/ . man, i go through these things like they're paper walls.

more character designing. hopefully going to get another two designs nailed today but that might be wildly optimistic thinking there...

completely unrelated topic time with surprisingly appropriate visual aids!



so this week amanda palmer brought out out an album of ukulele covers of radiohead songs. that sentence there contains three of my favourite things and needless to say, i snapped that bitch up the second it came out. you can download this delightfully named record over at http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-performs-the-popular-hits-of-radiohead-on-her-magical-ukulele for less than a dollar. in the words of arnie, DO IT. DO IT NOW.

old, cold leftovers from the christmas project. we had to come up with the perfect gift for a famous person picked at random from the festive fez. i got orson welles (who was a total DUDE!) so i gave him a snow globe featuring a scene from his glory days in theatre.

also, i may have just figured out how to embed videos into posts. to celebrate, here's a wonderful song on the subject of that most polarising of toast toppings; vegemite.

scrapings from the mole skin.

carrying on the spirit of the t in the park doodles, i went to see amanda palmer when she played at union chapel.

my god. it was electric. couldn't quite believe that the keyboard was still standing by the end of it. if she's playing near you, you'd better be there.

i also may have ended up dropping a stupid amount of money on a painting by the totally bitching daniel van nes (http://www.nessed.nl/biography.html) that was auctioned off at the end of the show when the original winning bidder flaked out.

huzzar for impulse buying?