sleepinginmyhead

it's incredible....

what a human being and a bit of technology can do..

spotify, and the joy of the old

I've recently been trialling spotify, which i believe is possibly the future for music. I won't explain it here, but the idea is simple, give it a go...

The best part is that i am able to type in almost any music genre and find something, which has been taking me on a few musical journeys to say the least. I've been re-living my youth (and that of my sister) and listening to some dreadful power ballads today. Which then led me to Queen, and then onto the youtube video of their set at Live Aid in the 80's. Freddy Mercury, best frontman ever?

not cool, but cool. you get me?

in the lab

Popped over to my good friend Dr. Mesut's last night, to take a peep at his ever expanding studio. His addiction to electronic music machines seems to show no signs of slowing. One new toy was particularly good though, the monome. If you are familiar with the tenori-on, well this is an opensource version of that, allowing third parties to create their own software. It's good, but seems a little glitchy (or that could easily be user error). Good evening though.

justice - a cross the universe

My lady bought me a superb gift this christmas, the new DVD / CD from Justice. I've been a back-burner fan for a while, but this pack has bumped the French pair way up my list. Their music is about as raw as electro gets, and it just pushes the right buttons. In the movie (which follows their 2008 tour of the U.S.), a member of the crowd announces them as 'the new rock and roll'. Whilst this might be going a bit far, watching their tour antics combined with such an uncompromising sound and their willingness to fuck around with their equipment, it's easy to see the comparison. The trailer is here: 

The DVD also comes with a CD of their live set, and it's a real treat. Before you begin, i recommend buying the best headphones you can, and turning your system way up. This is the first track of their set, Genesis, which i hope gives you an idea of just how powerful their sound is, and what an effect it has on the crowd.

Genesis - Justice (live) 

Go buy the double disc pack here

number twos

My mind is rambling. I may have this wrong, but as i understand it, when you eat something, your body takes out the good stuff, and the rest keeps going, and comes out as 'solids',

This got me thinking, is there any food which you can eat, which your body uses 100% of? And if you lived off that, would you never go to the loo? What would happen to your intestines?

sorry, gross.

new website

Hey team. It's been a long time coming, and i'm not massively happy with it, but i've finally managed to pull together a few of my illustrations into a single site. Go take a look here, and feel free to leave feedback in the comments section below, cheers.

marketing, day 1

The first lesson of marketing: know your customer. To mark the launch of the new Resident Evil DVD, play.com have a genius freebie, £300 worth of paintballing vouchers. Talk about getting your product and your promotion absolutely spot on.