Moon Outside My Window

This image was take from the roof just outside of my bedroom in East London. I looked out and noticed this amazing range of tones and colours a couple of days ago. I haven't had much practice with low light shots on my new camera and I unfortunately didn't have much time to play with the settings and try out lots of things, but I do like this image it has a festive feel which is fitting around this time of year.

I messed about with it in photoshop but the top image is the "truest" image, the second from top is the suggested auto from photoshop, the third has a warming orange filter and the last is quiet a sharp black and white version.

If you could see a few more stars it might make a good Christmas card but you do not get to see many of those in London due to the light pollution which is beautiful in its own way.

First Song - Distant Frowns

Ok this is my first attempt at creating my own song. I created the cord progress and most of the lyrics with help from my friend Lee, who is also the vocalist for the track. Now although I came up with it this is not actually me playing it as Im still not really smooth enough to play through a whole five minute song.

This is a completely rough version as it is recorded all in one go with Lee playing and singing continuously a bit like a live lounge I guess. There are things that still need changing and improving but it should give you an idea of how the song will sound when finished.

Just click play below and have a listen.

First electric guitar and ITS A FENDER!!

My new Fender Stratocaster 50's Classic Player is da bomb shiznik. So after buying my new acoustic a little while back and progressively getting better at playing I thought it was time for an electric guitar. I always knew I was going to have one good acoustic and one good electric but I had never really thought about what electric I was going to get. I did a lot of looking around, talking to friends and looking at what some of the bands i listen to play and eventually came up with getting a stratocaster.

Fender has always been a company that I like the sound of and that have always made quality products so I am very happy to have one of my own. I had to wait a while to order in the two tone sunburst finish but it was well worth it as I think it looks gorgeous.

Im starting to come up with a lot of my own riffs and cord progressions now so hopefully some songs on the way soon.

Allied Pro Mo

http://www.humyo.com/F/6130567-759735169

For some reason I can not seem to upload the actual video to blogspot but here is a link to it. This is the video that I made as a promotion / portfolio piece for Allied site personnel, it is not the full finished article but it is a near finished rough edit.

Smudge

This is my cat that lovingly walks across the roof to stick its face through my window and meows at me until I wake up. He is called smudge and has huge green eyes which is why I wanted to get a picture of him close up, but he is scared of everything so kept running away.

ASP Head Shots pt2

Some of the Head Shots of the girls in the office. I have also posted up on here ones that will not be used on the web site but that I thought were quiet nice.

Also check out the difference make up can make in the top two photos of the same person, one with make up one with out.

ASP Head Shots Pt1

These are the boys head shots that I was hired to do for Allied Site Personnel Ltd website. I tried to keep a similar style and shape with each person getting to stand at a slight angle and the same distance. However I found the light levels quiet hard to control as I must admit I didn't have my own set up but a little photoshop goes a long way.

I have also created a video to go on their website too which I will post up on here soon.

New Camera - BBQ pt1

The first photos taken on my new "well second hand" Canon 350D. Most of the photos are from a BBQ in the glorious English summer weather, with a couple of my friends and some of Dre as my bag man on a small web video shoot day.

These photos are not anything to special but they are just the start of me getting used to the camera and finding out what works well and what doesn't. A lot of my shots had soft focus which is a shame but I did expect that and hope that I will be able to focus better with practice.

But anyway check these out and i hope you enjoy them.

New Camera - BBQ pt2

Handimals

These cool creations are part of a larger series produced by the Italian artist named Guido Daniele. They are pretty stunning and immediately seem to catch your eye, I really like the way you can see extreme detail in each one it obviously took a long time to paint them. 

I also like art around the subject of hands even though there is a lot of it around such as numerous adverts including Apple, Guinness and the EMA adverts. Its interesting to see how we as humans put more importance on certain parts of the bodies such as the amount of art work to do with eyes, hands and sexual organs. You never seem to see any elbow art work for instance.

here is a link to his website if you want to see more http://www.guidodaniele.com/

Moneygami

For many years I have been doing little tricks with folding money such as the shirt and the queens head pictures at the bottom of these images as well as the great happy queen sad queen trick, but some of these 'moneygami' pieces are amazing.

Its made even better when some of the animal folds actually use the notes pattern to create facial features such as eyes.

I have read that Moneygami is not a great name for this art form due to the fact that mixing the words money and origami to create moneygami does not quiet make sense. This is because in Japanese the word origami translates as ori ( to fold ) and gami ( paper ) so moneygami in a literal translation means moneypaper. There are other names for this such as money folding, note folding and banknote folding.

I want to find some tutorials on how to create these folds especial the gorilla one that is my favorite. 

Typography Tests

So after seeing the Grammy Awards posters I wanted to try and create something similar, plus I haven't tried to do to much around typography. 

The stuff that I made above are all just fairly simple test pieces just to show the basics of how to create an effective piece with just type. They work really quiet well and are defiantly very effective and eye-catching with a very simple style.

Because they are just test pieces the subject matter is just my name [because I am self obsessed I guess] :) with the exception of the dinosaur poster. That poster contains the definition of dinosaurs from the almighty wikipedia, I chose that topic just simply because I really like dinosaurs.

Not as good as the grammy's yet but I'll keep trying.

TBWA 51st Grammy Award Typography Art Work

I meant to publish these pieces a while ago but hey I'm doing it now. I really like these posters they look stunning. The Artists depicted gave 15 songs that influenced them to the ad agency TBWA who then created these images with them.

I am going to have to try and create similar images to these as they do look so good so hopefully I will post some up soon.