Point and shoot
January 18, 2008
Toshihiro Oshima
January 17, 2008
Hikaru Inoue
January 17, 2008
Hikaru Inoue is a ridiculously good photographer and a prolific source of inspiration.
3191 a year of evenings
January 14, 2008
we live 3191 miles apart as the car drives, not as the crow flies.
we take our photographs in the evening and do not discuss them beforehand.
It’s a wonderful concept. Two photographers. Stephanie lives in Portland, Oregon and Mav lives in Portland Maine. A photo every morning, sent to each other. It’s passionate and dedicated and the resulting diptych is beautiful and often quite remarkably similar. The book “3191 a year of mornings” will be available later in the year (an essential purchase I think).
Until then, today begins a year of evenings. Yay!
One Giant Step
January 14, 2008
The Giants have beaten the Dallas Cowboys 21-17. That’s 9 straight wins on the road. Next stop, Green Bay for the NFC Championships! Yeah, I’m English and I’m a Giants fan, so what you going to do about it?!
Tekkon Kinkreet
January 04, 2008
Let me start by saying that I don’t take anime too seriously. I enjoy it for what it is and, for me, Tekkon Kinkreet pushes all the right buttons.
Anime (and animation in general) is successful in my opinion when you can be convinced that what you’re seeing is ‘real’; when I say real by the way I mean in the physical, tangible sense not in a factual sense. The characters are very real. Great care has been taken to make things accurate and the environments are meticulous. Tekkon Kinkreet is visually stunning, the musical score by Plaid is astonishingly good and the story is genuinely profound. But let’s be honest, if you’re not at all interested in animation as a medium then it’s not going to matter how good a story or plot is, you’re probably not going to enjoy it. It would be a bit like going to see a Die Hard film because you’re really into poetry - yeah, “yippy ki ya” to you too.
They Might Be Giants
December 30, 2007
Eli Manning and the Giants came out swinging for the fences
Granted the Patriots went 16-0 but Tom Coughlin’s Giants played it like they could win it. With a final score of 38-35 they bloody well almost did. Go Giants!
Bladerunner
December 20, 2007
Music Round-up 2007
December 13, 2007
It’s almost the end of the year and before I look ahead to 2008 I thought I would have a retrospective look at what ‘floated my music boat’ in 2007.
Burial: Untrue
An utterly amazing album from the elusive Burial. Dark and evocative. For me, it’s a hyperdub rendition of the urban, grimy, often dirty, sometimes scary but always beautiful place that is London. Genius!
Battles: Mirrored
Experimental, electronic, ear-bleeding math-rock! Brilliant! Saw them at Koko’s in October. They’re even better live!
Holy Fuck: LP
Not dissimilar to Battles but a lot more edgy, dark and dirty (thinking Echo Sam here) is the lo-fi improvisational electronic band Holy fuck. One to watch in 2008 I think.
Grizzly Bear: Yellow House
Beautiful indie rock from Daniel Rossen, Ed Drost, Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear (what a great name!). Serious song-writing talent. Yellow House is also my favourite album cover of the year.
Thurston Moore: Trees Outside The Academy
Theatrical weirdo or song-writing genius, say what you like about the prolific Mr Moore, he makes great music. A diversion perhaps from his experimental noisecapades he delivers a classic pop album with really good ‘real songs’.
Screaming Tea Party: Death Egg
I stumbled across the Screaming Tea Party playing a set at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park earlier in the year. Sonic Youth-esque, hazy lo-fi, melodic underground indie rock. Bloody brilliant and supercool they are too!
The National: Boxer
Beautifully crafted, resonant, poetic. I’ll never tire of this album. If I had to order this list this would be very high up the top.
The Octopus Project: Hello, Avalanche
Disparate and exclectic, changing styles at the flick of a hat from disco-punk, laptop pop to drum and bass and fuck knows what really. They may very well require multiple listens to fully appreciate but appreciate I do!
Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
One to play loud in the office on a Friday afternoon. A great party album! “I’m a hustler baby, that’s what my daddy’s made me… if I had the money to go to a record store I would...”. Indeed.
The Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur
Good old sentimental, instrumental somewhat gentrified tunes to listen to on a Sunday morning under a duvet!
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Bombay Bicycle Club: How We Are [EP]
If, by some magical but unlikely accident, Marc Bolan found himself fronting Pavement, the outcome would very likely sound like Bombay Bicycle Club. I like everything about this band except for the unfortunate name.
The new Poke Website
December 12, 2007
I‘m a coder at Poke. We have a brand new website. It looks good, it’s easy to use, useful, honest and relevant. Proud to be a Poker!
Notting Still
December 10, 2007
During the busy, festive season in London two photographer friends and I have decided to put on an exhibition of brand new works. The show is entitled ‘Notting Still’ (clearly we’re not taking ourselves too seriously). So far, I’ve met lots of very interesting people, I’ve had some fantastic feedback and I can honestly say it’s been a great success. It’s bloody hard work and there were times when I didn’t think I was going to make it but it has been worth it.
Alex Schneideman
December 07, 2007
Pictures are more interesting if the way you envisage them is challenged
Quote & Photo { Alex Schneideman }
Cockney’s Pie & Mash Shop
December 05, 2007
On the corner of Portobello Road and Golborne Road. One of my favorite lunch spots in London. Two pies, one mash with lots of liquor. It really doesn’t get any better! The pies are baked on the premises, they aren’t loaded full of artificial flavours and you get all this for £2.50. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Thanks Ruth!
Photo { Paul & Jo’s }
Brian Ulrich: Mr. T
November 30, 2007
Work for the 5%
November 29, 2007
I‘m a realist and 95% of the work I do is tedious. You have to find ways to stay motivated and excited and the incentive is that 5% that isn’t. It’s a little cynical I know. I think I’m at about 82% today. Back to work then…
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