Top marks to Penguin for not only publishing a set of books celebrating the 150th anniversary of the London Underground (twelve, one for each Tube line), but for going beyond the predictable in selecting writers for each line. Music writer Paul Morley (Bakerloo), kids campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh (Victoria) and naturalist Richard Mabey (Metropolitan) all figure. And who better to deal with the East London Line, which snakes through Whitechapel, Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston, than Jop and Gert from Fantastic Man?
MOTHER S∆GUN
Mothergun Revival
After the creation of Dorothy, I started to look back at my earliest work where all this imagery started from, even before I started to glitch, cut copy and use rhythm and repetition.
This was created from a combination of fashion editorial and interviews of people starting their own vintage stores. This was probably from either i-D or Dazed and Confused.
I have been thinking of creating my own fanzine and gathering a few of my recent illustrations, including this first piece I created to see how my work has changed and how certain influences has either enhanced my style or pushed my ideas further.
LOUD AND QUIET
View full article here:
http://www.loudandquiet.com/2013/02/loud-and-quiet-digital-issue-46/
To add to this, here is my rant…
‘What have you been listening to recently?’……
‘Some guy on soundlcoud from L.A. but I cant pronounce his name, somthing like ∞‰ÂÏÌı˜ØÇ. I think thats how you say it’.
This has been my search for music over the past 6 months.
If your serious about making music, please stop saying typing’ WE MAKE MUSIC’ in your info section. Or worse when you type ’ Somewhere in (Enter area here) in a tiny bedroom’
I know not everyone gives a crap about your info and go straight to your music list. But it’s off putting when you have a name we can’t even read, shit images and even worse your info has been typed by a 12 year old.
Also….
its amazing how over the past month I have spent money on nothing I can Physically hold.
GOLD
Vegas - Disneyland for adults
Been to Caesars palace? This was all I could see -
Statues, gold, paisley rugs, monuments, MONEY WHORES, vanilla room freshener that reeked the entire hotel. Well actually they reeked in every hotel I went in. This wasn’t the inspiration behing these illustrations. But this has been the idea of the past few illustrations that I have been doing.
This was the only work I have been doing in Vegas and is probably the hardest thing I had to finish off.
I need to move on to other interests, even though I am still very much into etching illustrations of women. I have to move on. Like being in Vegas there is only a certain amount on days you can stay there. Only a certain amont of times you can go to a steak house. This will be my final illustrations on these, maybe not completely but after a while you have to leave something and just let the experience add on to your next creative project.
M/M Paris
It’s amazing how I always read something and the week after it’s featured in Magculture, this featured a book by designers M/M Paris, french duo Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag. Known for their work on Purple fashion, Arena Homme French vogue and what i read recently in their last interview, was their design for Kanye West album cover ’ my sweet dark twisted fantasy’
The idea behind the cover was power without money, cars, women and social status. It was to represent your wealth through buying art and wisdom.
It also came out around the time when free downloading and buying music online began to push physical copies of music, so image was everything.
In the magazine world they are known for there bizarre typography and hand drawn illustration on and off photographic images.
Notion Magazine - HURTS
Cover and Art Direction by HIDDEN Agency.
Saw a few versions before they picked this cover which I loved.
’But that’s what the bloody world is coming to, I don’t want to be part of that. I don’t want to be in some sort of cyberspace, hyper virtual bloody reality. I don’t want that…. exchanging e-mails with some old age bloody hippies… I mean what sort of reality is that, you know… bloody 13 amp plug at the end of it!’
New Pop magazine cover feat Taylor Swift
I like that it’s different, but i’m not sure if I like it or not…..
In some ways I like that it got my attention, but then after a few more seconds of looking at it, i’m not if I don’t like it because its Taylor with the glitch or glitch with the Swift.
Would be good if she had antennas or a space helmet for this cyber print.
