Yep, its that time again, our first gig of the year,
Basement Bar, City Screen, York, supported by Monster killed by Laser.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
THEPLAYDOEBAND GIG FRIDAY 27TH FEB 2009
Yep, its that time again, our first gig of the year,
Basement Bar, City Screen, York, supported by Monster killed by Laser.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Monday, 19 January 2009
Animusic - Pipe Dream
From the first "Animusic DVD". Pipe Dream has been voted one of the 50 greatest animation projects ever (by 3D World magazine).
A group of percussion instruments perform music by way of metal balls that fly out from pipes.
This video is copyright of www.animusic.com
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Colour Diary
Here's a few pages from my colour diary and a few colour compositions from my Design and Emotion work:
Monday, 5 January 2009
9 - Directed by Shane Acker
Focus Features will back the Shane Acker-directed 9. Tim Burton will produce.
Based on Acker's short film of the same name, the surreal fantasy takes place in a parallel world where humanity is threatened. Acker describes the movie as having a "stylized quality" that makes footage look like stop-motion animation.
Saturday, 3 January 2009
trip to the urbis, dec 08
Late last year a few of us travelled to the Urbis to see the exhibitions that were showing,
here's what was on:
Emory Douglas, First and only Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party exhibits his work in our UK premiere exhibition.
40 years on from the 1968 Mexican Olympic Games, when John Carlos and Tommy Smith controversially raised their fists in a Black Power salute, this exhibition looks at the meaning and history behind this gesture, as told through the graphic artwork of Emory Douglas, the official artist of the Black Panther Party and its first and only Minister of Culture.
Douglas created a compelling, motivational graphic style. His art from this period, documents growing civil unrest and rapid change. Previously unseen in the UK, the exhibition shows Douglas’ work from this period, including posters, cartoons and campaign pamphlets.
Emory Douglas became an active member of the Black Panther Party in 1967. He quickly became responsible for the design of the Black Panther's, Black Community News Service, the official paper of the party, in which he used his strong graphic style to communicate recent news and events to the largely illiterate local black community.
His slogans, ‘All Power to the People’, ‘Revolution in our Lifetime’, and his use of pigs and rats for the first time, to represent police and politicians, have become part of everyday language.
Coinciding with Barak Obama’s historic White House challenge, the exhibition in Manchester is a timely reminder of just how much the political and social climate has changed since 1968.
The next one (and probably my favourite) which had just opened was:
reality hack : hidden manchester
CLICK THE PICS FOR FULL SIZE
Walking around any city it is not uncommon to catch glimpses of the world that exists beneath the polished surfaces of glass and steel. Snatched glances into an open grate, through a broken hoarding, behind a door ajar reveal, if only for a moment, the hidden world that serves to support our contemporary imaginings of the city.
For most of us these moments of revelation, though fascinating for a second, are written off as mere distractions from our purpose in the city, an aside to our ever‐growing list of destinations loaded with more immediacy and purpose. However, for some these entrances to the city’s back‐stage are part of their everyday, entrances to the places that for some mean work and for others mean play.
From 2nd December 2008 until May 2009 Urbis will be exhibiting a series of newly commissioned works from experimental photographer Andrew Paul Brooks documenting his journeys behind
the scenes with Manchester’s official and unofficial custodians of the hidden city. Joining the unsung characters who maintain the city’s landmark buildings, the security personnel who patrol the empty spaces and Manchester’s own community of Urban Explorers the exhibition promises to reveal concealed, restricted and sometimes forgotten spaces that hover in the peripheral vision of the day‐to‐day like never before.
here's what was on:
Emory Douglas, First and only Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party exhibits his work in our UK premiere exhibition.
40 years on from the 1968 Mexican Olympic Games, when John Carlos and Tommy Smith controversially raised their fists in a Black Power salute, this exhibition looks at the meaning and history behind this gesture, as told through the graphic artwork of Emory Douglas, the official artist of the Black Panther Party and its first and only Minister of Culture.
Douglas created a compelling, motivational graphic style. His art from this period, documents growing civil unrest and rapid change. Previously unseen in the UK, the exhibition shows Douglas’ work from this period, including posters, cartoons and campaign pamphlets.
Emory Douglas became an active member of the Black Panther Party in 1967. He quickly became responsible for the design of the Black Panther's, Black Community News Service, the official paper of the party, in which he used his strong graphic style to communicate recent news and events to the largely illiterate local black community.
His slogans, ‘All Power to the People’, ‘Revolution in our Lifetime’, and his use of pigs and rats for the first time, to represent police and politicians, have become part of everyday language.
Coinciding with Barak Obama’s historic White House challenge, the exhibition in Manchester is a timely reminder of just how much the political and social climate has changed since 1968.
The next one (and probably my favourite) which had just opened was:
reality hack : hidden manchester
CLICK THE PICS FOR FULL SIZE
Walking around any city it is not uncommon to catch glimpses of the world that exists beneath the polished surfaces of glass and steel. Snatched glances into an open grate, through a broken hoarding, behind a door ajar reveal, if only for a moment, the hidden world that serves to support our contemporary imaginings of the city.
For most of us these moments of revelation, though fascinating for a second, are written off as mere distractions from our purpose in the city, an aside to our ever‐growing list of destinations loaded with more immediacy and purpose. However, for some these entrances to the city’s back‐stage are part of their everyday, entrances to the places that for some mean work and for others mean play.
From 2nd December 2008 until May 2009 Urbis will be exhibiting a series of newly commissioned works from experimental photographer Andrew Paul Brooks documenting his journeys behind
the scenes with Manchester’s official and unofficial custodians of the hidden city. Joining the unsung characters who maintain the city’s landmark buildings, the security personnel who patrol the empty spaces and Manchester’s own community of Urban Explorers the exhibition promises to reveal concealed, restricted and sometimes forgotten spaces that hover in the peripheral vision of the day‐to‐day like never before.
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