Hit & Red.

Great tune + video. The joys of working with music you actually like (all produced on After Effects CS3).

STOPMOO

Ive never really considered doing any stop-motion animation before for some reason but i was blown away by this. It's the music video for Wave Machine's track "The Greatest Escape We Ever Made", directed by Stuart Lanceley and produced by Token Films.

LUNAR

Promo looks v nice

WORK PLACEMENT BLOG.

Can be found in the LINKS. After today's interview assessment thingymajigy i decided to make a blog to organise my way through it over the summer months.

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WHO'S DOING WHAT TO WHO?

This is the edit of the video i handed in last week, its pretty shit. there's a variety of improvements to be made, the animation and transitions in particular, and i want to composite footage onto the TV screens as the video progresses (the same as the TEST footage from the seminar room shoot). As well as the stationary shots, i could try to mask moving shots from the dolly, however as there are no distinguishing areas to track on the tv's, motion tracking will be difficult, and it would be the case of editing frame by frame. Time consuming, but may be worth the hours. Also the audio is horribly out of synch in a number of areas. It synchs fine in final cut, but lags when i export it out? need to address this asap

BOOT CAM.

Body and soul on the line for toms fixed gear doc.

BRIGHTAAN.

Had a really good time down in brighton the other day when i went to visit mates from home, proper surreal little place with all the lanes and stuff - v quadrophenia. The little flyer they did for chris's birthday bash -

OBLONG.

For the last 6 weeks or so i've been working down at Oblong for my Send & Receive project, a community resource centre based in Woodhouse, who essentially provide advice, support, and facilities for locals who want to make a difference through volunteering and community projects. I've been with the design collective throughout, and more recently the moving image sub-group which has just begun to take shape. Here are some photographs of filming from the latest project - a graffiti documentary within Hyde Park and surrounding areas.

WEBSITE.

I read about Dan Kitchener coming back to Leeds on a megabus at half 6 in the morning, so his stuff can't be too bad eh. He's worked with shit loads of people, from Ian Brown to Kylie to Disney to Channel 4 sex education shows. Below is his showreel from 2009 which i pinched off his site.

SHUNT

Also i feel i must commemorate the visit by archiving our evening entertainment at SHUNT underneath london bridge. wierd. They played really obscure electronica and showcased lots of experimental film throughout, with the main attraction being a live set from Adelbert Strasse & Morshul Dull - who apparently were original members of cult 70's German electronics band POWERPACK. They were also after bums. Yes.


Strange one but a great trip nonetheless. Bedtime now, lots of sleep for an epic days critical studies tomorrow. Lord lord

L Town

London was good times indeed, i hate going because as soon as i arrive it makes leeds and everywhere else seem so bad. Me and tom met up in shoreditch after abit of a walk from bethnal green and managed to find that Goldie exhibition i was talking about before. It was mint, i got some photographs off my phone too-

LUNAR

Brand new night of all things good starting next month at wire, bank holiday monday. THREE pounds, and a wicked flyer by Jack Scott - whos putting the night on incidentally. Havent played out for ages, better put some hours in eh

FAUNA

GOLDIE!

I dug out two of my favourite reads when cleaning out my room back home over easter - spraycan art and subway art - probably two of the most iconic graffiti books published. I havent painted for ages and never really got too daring with it, but some of the stuff in these books is still pretty inspiring for me now. id love to dig out my sketchbooks from years back and see what they look like, pure cringeworthy no doubt.

Theres some youthful photographs of goldie in there too with some of his paintings which i should really have scanned in, fucking legend.



As im going to london on thursday i will try and have a look in his latest exhibition. 'the kids are all riot' is at the maverik showroom in shoreditch from the 10th til the 26th of april.

Bathtub fire

Two nice music videos, both time lapsed and masked with a tilt-shift lens filter to create a small scale 'model' effect.

27/3

Havent been here in TIME, too much comm tech. which ended like this incidentally..



I think the last few months have been really worthwhile. I learnt alot of new things and for once have found some sort of long-term thinking, you can immerse yourself with my inner speil via the link on the reeeet hannd siiiide --> haha

So i hear danny boyle wants to make a film with i am kloot? Keep a look out for that

Liz Ainge is the busiest person i've ever met. She recently gave me some VJ software to play about with which was very kind. Her most recent clubnight HUNTING & GATHERING is at milo this sunday, free entry so, cheers.

Exciting times at the moment. I've been in touch with Luke Moseley, a Leeds based song-writer, to produce a music video for one of his tunes. It will coincide with a national promotions campaign of the new album in the summer, apparently being pushed to all major channels and also online. The music isn't my cup of tea, but it could be a great chance to get some exposure. Im gona make another blog for that soon which i'll link to this one, and try and keep it updated.

I'm collabarating with suzie, dom and ben in our elective to produce a video for two of bens close mates - Manchester based hip-hop duo Simple Samples. Still early days with ideas, 'tales of the riverbank part 2' is the tune. BAD

One last thing, - hoping to make a documentary film within my design collective at Oblong, which is the volunteer organisation ive been involved with for send & receive. I think this will be looking at graffiti within Hyde Park and some surrounding areas, although im not sure of any concrete plans yet. Will find out next thursday hopefully.

GREEN SCREEN

LCPU Worldwide

Created in 2004, LCP United consists of 3 art directors based between Paris and Tokyo - using various influences and talent associations to develop exclusive visual experiences through print, motion design and broadcasting. Charles Munka, aka Ques Da IllLord, has been illustrating for U.S labels such as Stones Throw and Warp, and his past artwork for the Brainfeeder collective has taken me some time to follow up

boook fair like!

Went over to the International book fair today briefly today to see our stall, - there was some nice stuff at a glance. Will return tomorrow with more time to have a proper browse..