Went to see Frontiers (www.myspace.com/frontiersofficial) last night, supporting Official Secrets Act. They put on a good solid set, their new material's evolved since last time I saw them (at Rescue Rooms not so very long ago) and their frontman's falcetto really was top notch in the one section of a song that made prolonged use of it. I think their performance is currently too music orientated though - could do with more showiness, but there's a fine line between that and looking like arrogant something-or-others...
The headliners, Official Secrets Act (www.myspace.com/officialsecretsact) were more showy - fairly camp if they don't mind me saying, and fairly entertaining because of it. Their quirky dancing made me more inclined to hear out a set of synthy dance-rock falling somewhere in the Franz Ferdinand / We Are Scientists ball park. But sort of different. Haha don't listen to me, listen to them.
J-Malk.
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Glastonbury: Hopes and Predictions
Franz Ferdinand are already confirmed - should be good. All of the following are unashamedly tinged by bias and very little research or listening to rumours. It's pretty much a wishlist.
It's been announced that there'll be two US acts and two from the ol' U of K headlining Glastonbury this year. My bet for US is Green Day and Bruce Springsteen - both easily have the muscle for the headline slot; Bruce's album is sitting at #1 in the charts, and Green Day's is scheduled for release in the month before the festival; so they have stuff to promote. UK? Blur perhaps, and since that would make it three old established acts we'd need a surprise, so someone young and punky. Non-headliners I'm hoping for = The Subways, White Lies, Elbow (I think Elbow are as good as confirmed anyway). I'll add more as and when I feel like it.
It's been announced that there'll be two US acts and two from the ol' U of K headlining Glastonbury this year. My bet for US is Green Day and Bruce Springsteen - both easily have the muscle for the headline slot; Bruce's album is sitting at #1 in the charts, and Green Day's is scheduled for release in the month before the festival; so they have stuff to promote. UK? Blur perhaps, and since that would make it three old established acts we'd need a surprise, so someone young and punky. Non-headliners I'm hoping for = The Subways, White Lies, Elbow (I think Elbow are as good as confirmed anyway). I'll add more as and when I feel like it.
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Multitasking
Bottom left: "fear and panic in the air" a page of my typography sketchpad. Typornography cos I google it so much.Left: My pencil case, an All Saints box.
Top left through to bottom: Drawings for my current project, a character design of Y.T. from Snow Crash.
Top right: My printmaking sketchpad open on top of some other pads.
Bottom right: Letraset and a Muse biography. Two essential tools of the trade. (What trade? I have no idea... the Muse-obsessed typographer?)
J-Malk.
Thursday, 1 January 2009
Happy New Year
That one special day of the year we make promises to ourselves that we probably won't be able to keep instead of the far more common making of promises to other people that we probably won't be able to keep! It's a good job I don't work for a greetings card company with catchy phrases like that for the holiday.
My New Year's Resolution is pretty much always be better, work harder, get fitter... and so on all rolled into one Everest of a challenge. This year I feel it's best summed up by "Stop Procrastinating (you lazy ****)!" which incorporates all of those things for me. In that spirit; today was the first day of applying for uni accomodation, so I got right on the website and filled out the form. It's both scary and exciting. I'm also doing some college work on a mask made out of a pack of playing cards (cutting up playing cards is anathema to me,) so I'll post a picture when it's done.
J-Malk.
My New Year's Resolution is pretty much always be better, work harder, get fitter... and so on all rolled into one Everest of a challenge. This year I feel it's best summed up by "Stop Procrastinating (you lazy ****)!" which incorporates all of those things for me. In that spirit; today was the first day of applying for uni accomodation, so I got right on the website and filled out the form. It's both scary and exciting. I'm also doing some college work on a mask made out of a pack of playing cards (cutting up playing cards is anathema to me,) so I'll post a picture when it's done.
J-Malk.
Sunday, 28 December 2008
The Stereotype Bad Present
Christmas is all done and dusted, people are making plans for new year's eve. Did Santa bring you anything nice? I got what is generally the butt of jokes when it comes to presents - books. I LOVE them. Here they are:
That's 2548 pages of booky goodness!
J-Malk.
That's 2548 pages of booky goodness!J-Malk.
Sunday, 19 October 2008
The Coffee Table of an Art Student
My dad loves a tidy house. Me on the other hand; well, I've got projects to be doing. This was taken a week or two ago to show the first fraction of a large number of shapes that eventually became a larger piece.
Thursday, 2 October 2008
The Grid
Congratulations CERN. As if inventing the internet and making the biggest machine ever wasn't good enough, they've got more tricks up their sleeve, more candy in their pinata... You get the picture.
The grid was designed to meet the data processing needs of the Large Hadron Collider (which, it is estimated, will produce a staggering 15 petabytes - 20 million CDs worth of data-y goodness.) It is a network that makes use of the processing power of computers in 33 countries, and at the moment is reserved for CERN and similarly large projects. But, like all the best science, it will make our day to day lives better in the future when put to wider use. We'll be able to download more than we could ever watch/listen to/touch ourselves to, and we'll all be making video calls as cheaply and easily as "the 1950s" thought we would be by 2000.
So not only do we have a nifty (understatement!) piece of technology, they've given it a great name. Internet was pretty damn good; catchy and instant, yet suitably geeky sounding, and now they present us with "The Grid". It's a perfect example of sci-fi becoming reality.
The grid was designed to meet the data processing needs of the Large Hadron Collider (which, it is estimated, will produce a staggering 15 petabytes - 20 million CDs worth of data-y goodness.) It is a network that makes use of the processing power of computers in 33 countries, and at the moment is reserved for CERN and similarly large projects. But, like all the best science, it will make our day to day lives better in the future when put to wider use. We'll be able to download more than we could ever watch/listen to/touch ourselves to, and we'll all be making video calls as cheaply and easily as "the 1950s" thought we would be by 2000.
So not only do we have a nifty (understatement!) piece of technology, they've given it a great name. Internet was pretty damn good; catchy and instant, yet suitably geeky sounding, and now they present us with "The Grid". It's a perfect example of sci-fi becoming reality.
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