Snow Under the Microscope

via www.sciencemusings.com

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The Haunt

I am very excited to announce. I will now be working in collaboration with new Brighton-based clubnight and live music venue, THE HAUNT.

Stay tuned for more info.

http://www.thehauntbrighton.co.uk/

Bbbbrrrrrraaaaappp!!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Here's my Christmas gift to all of you for 2010!

Have a wonderful holiday everyone!

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Dan Woodger

Dan Woodger, a third year student at the University of Brighton sent me this screen print the other day, after I met him when I visited the school on a recent lecture visit. It's bloody beautiful.

Thank you Dan!!!!!

To check out more of Dan's work check out his blog...

http://danwoodger.blogspot.com/

Hand Job

Brain Wash

Japanese Popstars "Let Go" promo will be given the big screen treatment this evening at BRAIN WASH; an evening of short films.

The night is being held at the Curzon cinema, Soho, one of the UK's busiest art-house cinemas.

Best of all, the night is FREE!

Check it out!

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Joseph Mann

Is working away on something special at Clapham Road Studios at the moment. He sent me this earlier today - a flashback to his awesome work on the strata-cut section of the Skream music video earlier this year (note the BIG bags under Joseph's eyes, and this was only about 10 days into his month-long work marathon on the project). A true talent and trooper...

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At One With The Music

.... and water

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BareBones

Here's a little taste of my contribution, and the contributions from all the other guys for the Barebones V showreel.

Massive thanks to Matt Lambert for coordinating the event. The exhibition is now going on tour to LA and Portland!

International!!!

Other filmmakers include:

AG Rojas

Champagne Valentine

Julia Pott

Radical Friend

Sam Mason

Hayley Morris

Ryan Rothermel

Matt Lambert

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RIP Leslie Neilson

Can't quite believe you've gone.

Your films filled my early adolescence with such joy, and they've continued to entertain me, and will continue to do so for years to come.

Also, that sketch in Naked Gun where you get into giant condoms... that was my first sex education lesson. Cheers!

Miss you!

NFTS Interview

Last week I went to the NFTS to be interviewed for their student magazine show "The Loft".

Here's the result.

NB - The "Exhibition" was the Barebones exhibition on Rivington street. It was in no way a solo show. I was a small part of a much bigger thing there.

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Camera Obscura Doorknob

(from spoon-tamago.com )

In conjunction with Design Tide Tokyo, architect Hideyuki Nakayama – a protégé of Toyo Ito –　has teamed up with UNION, a manufacturer of door handles and levers, to create a glass globe doorknob. As you approach the doorknob you catch a glimpse of what appears to be another world, waiting for you to enter and join, but in fact is a reflection of the room on the other side of the door.

Thanks to Toby Howell for this

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I'm Kinda Having a Craving

For Christmas Karaoke...

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Losing His Shit...

Chris Pell, thank you SO much for bringing this into my life...

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Knitted Porn

Completely bonkers...

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Japan's Got Talent Winners! (1904)

via Joe Dixon

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Motionographer

I am now a contributor to Motionographer!

With 50,000 reader per day I feel VERY honoured to have my opinions broadcast from such an influential blog. If you feel like it please feel like writing nice comments underneath, it'll make me feel better about my writing skills.

Cheers!

Here's my FIRST POST

Pictures from the Daily mail

I love this master stroke from Carl Burgess

http://picturesfromthedailymail.com/

Bare Bones

I'm exhibiting a new short film tomorrow night at the Bare Bones exhibition!

LOADS of lovely people will be there.

COME ALONG!

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Pop

Pop music would be regarded as a legitimate artform in its own right if it was all upto the standard of Robyn.

In a class of her own...

(sorry about the tinny quality)

Chills Of Excitement

I get REALLY excited when every so often I find things like this stored in cupboards around Blink (the production company I'm with).

Makes me feel like the most fortunate guy alive to be in this industry.

Requiem

Just found "Requiem" by Killing Joke on 12" vinyl for £1 in a bargain bin.

HEAVEN!!

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Marilene Oliver

I've just discovered this lady's work (unfortunately 1 day after her show's finished in London! Boooo!)

It's basically hand sewn Strata-cut!!!!!!

My mind's BLOWN

http://www.marileneoliver.com

Dudu Vision

Simon Willows and co (the same guys that brought us Cadbury Fingers, Volvic Volcano and Trainline Sheep) go Ugandan!

Heaven

Slice/Duplicate

Best album artwork I've seen in a while...

Work in Progress

Mmmm.... demonic

More later

Jimmy Patrick

Jimmy Patrick, a final year student at Camberwell College of Art, just asked me if I could help him with his dissertation.

However, instead of a blank email. He sent me this...

(all screen printed!)

HEAVEN!!!

http://jimmydontmindme.blogspot.com/

Baby Baby

Despite not hearing this Corona classic in years, it came to me in a dream last night.

Divine intervention? I think so...

Steak at Home

Print no.1/100 of my steak screen print run has arrived home.

Thank you to Bryony Bradford, Bart Yates, James Stevenson Bretton and Jordan Cross for making it all happen!

I'm very proud.

Halloween Homage

My friend Christa Holka (who's a very good photographer btw - check out her work here http://xtawasthere.tumblr.com/ ) sent me this image today. Her friend decided to dress up as my We Have Band video for Halloween!!!! AMAZING!

16 Months After Its Creation...

My STEAK posters have arrived back, all framed and lovely, and now lives and breathe as a limited run of 100 screen prints.

SEXY!

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Ex-Penguin

Literally the most horrific, but technically superb, wildlife photograph I think I've ever seen.

In Other News

Thanks to James Stevenson Bretton for this one...

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God Bless Ellen

Following up from my post last month about an essential change in social attitudes in order to improve mental health in the gay community, here's Ellen...

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Keaton Henson

Just incase you had any doubt as to how much I love the primary illustrator on my recent promo for The Japanese Popstars, I'm going to say it on my blog...

I LOVE YOU KEATON HENSON, AND I LOVE YOUR WORK!

http://www.keatonhenson.com/

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The Japanese Popstars Feat Green Velvet - Let Go

Here it is! New music video! Hope you like it

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Monkey+Pig=Jingle

In the meantime...

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HELLO!

Oh my god!

Hello!

I'm so sorry, I've literally been buried under a pile of paper for the past month, and the reason why will be coming in a few hours.

It's a NEW MUSIC VIDEO!

Here's a still. Brace yourself for the landing!

David x

Attitude's Article on the Mental Health Crisis Amongst Britain's Gay Men

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/aug/22/gay-attitude-depression-isolation

Hello everyone, please take 5 minutes to read this article by Tracy McVeigh that was put on the Guardian (UK broadsheet newspaper) website yesterday.

The gay lifestyle magazine "Attitude" is running its main feature this week on bridging a massive mental health issue within the gay community, and one that I have never seen discussed in the media with such sense and reality.

The gay community has higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide than among straight men, and far higher rates of self-destructive behaviour, substance abuse and sex addiction, and high levels of issues around intimacy and forming relationships.

It's an extremely complex issue, and not really anything that can be pin pointed to one particular thing. However, it really highlights how essential the continuing progress as a society into accepting people of any sexual orientation is for the mental health of those we know.

I still find it unsettling to read sentences such as "The current word for bad in British schools is 'gay', and children internalise this stuff very easily, they think in terms of good and bad. So by the age of 10 kids have understood that bad people are gay – then they discover they are one of them. They enter a dreadful stage of secrecy which can last 20 minutes or 50 years."

I urge you to read this, no matter what your orientation, as it concerns our whole society as a whole.

Thank you.

Go Pro HD

HOLY SHIT!

Une eclipse totale sur mon coeur!

I just can't get enough of this.

Thanks to Alun Davies for this gem...

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Guess Where I've Been This Weekend!

Thanks to Julian, Richard, Paul and Nikita for making Berlin so special.

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Daft Punk Helmet

Thanks to Alun Davies for this one.

Absolutely incredible.

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FAILE Ruins

When I was 20 I went to New York for a week.

When I was there I dropped by the FAILE studios and had a chat (it was part of a University trip).

Their work and work ethic was truely inspiring, and for their latest piece of work (creating church ruins in Lisbon) they've truely outdone themselves.

Incredible.

http://www.dflektor.com/blog/?p=4337

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Peaches Wheel Chair Documentary

A-MAZING

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I Be-Weave

OK-RRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

via Martin Collins - http://dinnersintheblog.blogspot.com/

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NME.com

Skream (and the Making Of) is on the Front Page!

Peaches Mini-Documentary

Considering this was one the of the best live shows I've ever seen (especially considering it was mid-afternoon at a festival). I'm VERY excited about the immanent arrival of this mini-documentary about the event....

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Andreas Hykade

So, I went to Lovebox on Sunday, and along with seeing...

(that would be Peaches' naked, transexual backing dancer - her show was actually one of the most life affirming and inspirational experiences I've had in ages)

AND...

(motherfuckin' GRACE JONES!)

This short film, entitled 'Love and Theft' was shown on the big screens just before Peaches.

It's amazing...

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Duck VS Scissor

New drawing. Called "White Feather"

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Jiggery Pokery and Jamie Brown

SICK set design from my art director friends Lauren Davies, Anna Lomax of Jiggery Pokery ( http://www.jiggerypokery.biz ) and from illustrator Jamie Brown ( http://www.jamie-brown.co.uk ).

Seriously sweeeeeeeeet!!!

Directed by Rollo Jackson

Good one guys!

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Don't Panic!

But I've been interviewed about the Skream promo....

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/film/a-video-of-biblical-proportions

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Listenin' To The Records On My Wall

My latest promo has finally launched today!

Thank you to everyone that made this come together. It's been insane!

Hope you like it!

Artist: Skream
Track: Listenin' To The Records On My Wall
Label: Tempa
Commissioner: Bart Yates & Sarah Lockhart

Director: David Wilson
Producer: Georgina Filmore
Executive Producer: Bart Yates
Production Manager: Tom Berendsen
Production Company: Blinkink www.blinkink.co.uk

Director of Photography: Toby Howell & Christophe Leignel
Camera Operator: Chris Nunn
VFX Motion Control: Malcolm Wooldridge & Digna Nigoumi
Runner: Tim Swaby
Camera/Lighting: Clapham Road Studios

Art Director: Theo White, David Curtis-Ring & Ceridwen Brown
Srata-Cut Artist & Animator: Joseph Mann
Strata-Cut Assistant: Lydia Smith & Lauren Brown
Material Effects: Niek Pulles
Art Department Assistant: Joshua Stocker, Joe Myers, Iona Davis, Yasameen Noorian, Daisy Roth, Jonathan Venga, Cornelia Temple-Richards & Helen Leworthy

Hair / Make up: Lucie Norris
Choreographer: Mark Battershall

Making of: Rob Leonard

Casting Director: Nana Klimek at Headnod Talent Agency
Adam: Benedict Smith
Eve: Harriet Shillito

Editor: Vanessa Wood at Speade
Post Production: The Mill
Producer: Paul Schleicher & Serena Noorani
Colourist: James Bamford
Lead Flame Artist: Gareth Brannan
Assistant Flame Artist: Gareth Parr & Ilia Mokhtareizadeh
Nuke Artist: Donal Nolan, Ben Smith, Georgina Ford, Pete Hodsman, Dave Lee & Maxime Chaix
Matte Painting: Dave Gibbons

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Chen Wenling

Is awesome!

MAKING OF

Here it is! The Making Of for my next Promo... Skream - "Listenin' to the Records On My Wall".

The actual promo will be launched on Monday 12th July.

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Daniel Scheinert's promo for "Underwear" by FM Belfast

So, I saw this promo about a month ago, and I fell in love, but then forgot about it, and couldn't find it anywhere (due to forgetting the name of the song, artist, and director) BUT now I've found it again, I'm posting it on my Blog so I don't loose it again.

For a geeky bonus - this was all shot on a Canon 7D. The grain and dust effects were added with After Effects - SWEEEEEEEET!

Kyle Bean Hits Selfridges

Kyle is now displaying 5 new sculptures on the West side of the world famous department store on Oxford Street.

It rocks my world.

Anthony Francisco Schepperd

Anthony's new music promo for "The Music Scene" by Blockheads is a physcadelic trip-out of mind blowing hand-drawn animation. Taking his animation skills from his promo for "Wail To God" 10x further to create an insane world of multi-colour decay.

I will be drooling over this for many more weeks to come

Copy Cats

My good friend, and fellow Colonel Blimp director, Tim Brown made this amazing promo (in collaboration with Christopher Hewit) back in October 2009...

AMAZING huh!!!??

However, these jokers have decided they'd pass off the originality of this promo as their own...

understandably the YouTube community are up in arms! I'm glad to see plagiarism like this doesn't pass the online community by quietly.

The mind boggles why they even bothered!

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Benga VS Kristofer Strom

Blinkink have started a groundbreaking collaboration with Tempa Records, and here's the first fruit of their labour.

Kristopher Strom (of Minilogue's "Hitchhicker's Choice" fame) has been placed with dubstep superstar Benga to create a visual accompaniment to "Baltimore Clap".

Behold their twisted love child!!!

As you may have guessed, I'm up next with Skream. We launch in a fortnight's time. Hold on!

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Christingle Skull

new drawing, and (hopefully) a future 5-colour screenprint.

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Website Update

I updated my website this weekend, with new illustration work (now newly titled under "Print") and a little sneak preview from my next music promo for Skream (below).

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Blast from the Past

This weekend I went home to Somerset for my Mum's birthday. We went through a whole load of stuff from my childhood, which made me reflect back on my work.
As a responce I've uploaded 2 films from my past up on Vimeo.
The first one was my exam project from University. Created in March 2007, over an intense 4 week period, this piece of work landed my first music video commission...




The second is my first commercial commission. This ident was created back in February 2008 with the supremely talented Hannah Jacobs for MTV...


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Rupert Sanders

Just rocked my world with his awesome music video for Trent Reznor's new band "How To Destroy Angels"...

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Give Us Today Our Daily Bread

After watching Eric Wareheim's new promo for Health (if you haven't seen it yet, click HERE and brace yourself), the super talented Ceridwen Brown put up a link to this extraordinary bakery in Bangkok.

Lush.....

(text and images from bangkokdaytours.com )

THE HUMAN BAKERY...

Ratchaburi is located 80 kilometres west of Bangkok on the bank of the Mae Klong River. The provincial area abounds in natural attractions and historical sites.

A long way off the beaten track and down a long metal driveway, you'll find yourself inside a dark room where realistic-looking "human body parts" are stacked on shelves and hanging on meat hooks. The place looks like a mortuary, but in fact, it's a family-run bakery with a difference.

What appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of 28-year-old art student Kittiwat Unarrom from Potharam, Thailand.

"Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy," said the fine arts masters degree student.

As an undergraduate art student, Kittiwat started painting portraits. He then moved to mixed media and finally dough - a natural medium for him since his family runs a bakery.

Along with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews, Kittiwat makes human torsos, arms and feet.

He uses anatomy books and his vivid memories of visiting a forensics museum to create the human parts.

He now is receiving regular orders from the curious and from pranksters who want to surprise their friends or colleagues. However, I'm not too sure how your beloved would feel opening the fridge to find one of these inside.

By the end of the year, Kittiwat's confectionary slaughterhouse will go on display at Bangkok's Silpakorn University. It's his final dissertation, and he hopes it will secure him a Master of Arts degree.

"When people see the bread, they don't want to eat it. But when they taste it, it's just normal bread," he said. "The lesson is 'don't judge just by outer appearances.

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Chris Duce

I found Chris' surreal and warped work online a bit earlier (thanks to the brilliant Promonews.tv ). It really made my day. Especially 'Fish Hands'!

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It's Nice That

I am GUEST POSTING on the super brilliant art/design blog It's Nice That all week!

So get over there and check it out!!

I'd love to hear what you think.

Click HERE for my interview

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Dougal Wilson

Has got me by the heartstrings and left me an emotional wreck after viewing his commercial for John Lewis.

Absolutely mind blowing...

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Saam does XX

ADORE the choreography....

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HELP!

Hello.

This is an urgent call.

I need help this weekend.

You know all that plastecine we got shifted into the production company yesterday, well, we desperately need extra hands to get moulding it.

If you're in London and free this weekend, and want to come hang out and mould plastecine this weekend PLEASE email me (contact details on website). No experience necessary.

Thank you SO much

David x

HOLYJESUSCHRISTLOOORDALMIGHTY!!!!!!

I'm in the CREATIVE REVIEW ANNUAL 2010!!!!!!

Literally a dream come true. I got a WHOLE PAGE!!!!

CRAZY excited.

PLASTECINE!

A whole shipment of plastecine arrived at Blink HQ today.

All with my name on... it's gonna be a busy few weeks

FINAL DAY!

Final day of the epic 15 studio-day stopframe animation commercial shoot today! PHEW!!!

I still can't reveal much about it, but here's a lovely crew photo for everyone to check out, and maybe even see a few familiar faces!...

IT'S BEEN A BLAST!