This doesn’t look much different from the last (terrible) Transformers film except the lead actors have been replaced by identikit ones. This time we get invasions and Dinobots though, sad thing is that I will still go to see this knowing how terrible it will probably be.
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Very sad to hear that the great Swiss surrealist painter and designer HR Giger has passed away. Few people have a unique vision but I think it’s safe to say that he was one of those few and has influenced generations with his mechanic/organic images.
His work is not easily forgotten once seen and he created one of the great movie monsters of our time in the Alien. The album cover was also a natural canvas for his work with the public exposed to him via Emerson, Lake & Palmer‘s ‘Brain Salad Surgery’ LP well before Alien. His work for Debbie Harry and The Dead Kennedys saw much controversy with the latter being banned and famously brought to court with Jello Biafra defending the artist’s vision.
I remember seeing his large format Necronomicon and Biomechanics books in shops in the 80’s and wanting them so badly but they were way out of my price range at the time. I was lucky enough to visit the tiny town of Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland one time though to see many of his originals in the Giger Museum – highly recommended. Sadly missed but never forgotten. 
I’ve featured this before but now it seems that they’ve got a trailer together and it couldn’t be any better, they’ve nailed it. Find out more about the Akira Project here.
Akira + The Simpsons. Not an obvious combination but someone has had the idea to crowd source redrawing over 2000 pages of Akira with Simpsons characters and renaming it ‘Bartkira’. There is a tumblr full or images here and the full thing will be going online ‘soon’ apparently at www.bartkira.com.
Absolutely love this track from tUnE-yArDs‘ new album (out Monday May 5th) – nuts video too.
This just opened in London at the British Library, I’m going Monday, can’t wait!
Featuring such iconic names as Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe), this exhibition traces the British comics tradition back through classic 1970s titles including 2000AD, Action and Misty to 19th-century illustrated reports of Jack the Ripper and beyond.
“Can’t recommend British Library’s Comics Unmasked exhibition enough! Unexpected & rare exhibits, wonderfully presented.” – Dave Gibbons (Watchman and many more)
Parental guidance is advised for visitors under 16 years of age due to the explicit nature of some of the exhibits on display, the exhibition runs until August. For more info and updated content visit the Library’s Comics Unmasked page.
50 years of fashion and music woven together from The Woolmark Company on Vimeo.
There’s little to say about Cyriak‘s work except ‘WOW’ – he knocks it out the park again for this Woolmark 50th anniversary short.
Absolutely love this, both sound and vision. The Soundcarriers are a new signing to Ghost Box although they’ve released several albums before, some featuring the songs here but in different forms.
You can order the LP here and marvel at yet another Julian House created video for the track ‘Boiling Point’ above. More info here and more soundclips here too, sounds like they’re moving towards a pure 60’s/70’s West Coast Sunshine Pop mood, reminds me of The Free Design or The Hellers‘ records on Command with a bit more edge. Previous LPs ‘Harmonium’, ‘Celeste’ and ‘The Other World Of…’ are highly recommended. Check ‘This is Normal’ from their last LP, featuring the dulcet tones on none other than Elijah Wood!
Some incredible old titles sequences in this nearly half an hour long doc. by Jonny Trunk.
Found this online the other day, never heard of or seen the film but like the design and mood of it.
Love this record so much, one of the best of the year so far. Now there’s a video to go with it and you can get it on iTunes too.
I love these examples of early Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back posters with alternate logos and artwork. Even the finished film poster above has a rare shot of the heroes with Leia in Chewbacca‘s arms and the uneven red ‘crawl’ logo which is quite badly rendered when you look at it.
Below is an even earlier version with Ralph McQuarrie paintings plus an invite to one of the first public screenings.
Below are what look like poster prelims for Empire… with a totally different logo design that I’d never seen before.
Then another, more finished version of the logo with original SW poster art adapted. Love the way Leia is riding side saddle on the version above.
Actually, for all I know, these could be fan art but all the images are sourced from the Star Wars Archives page on Facebook which lends some sort of credibility to them.
Below we get yet another logo with a Luke on Tauntaun image.
Lastly, a preview poster for Empire with a big “BEWARE!” warning across it, this certainly looks real.
Black Channels, a new project featuring The Simonsound with not too much info other than that. Intriguing tumblr here. Soundcloud here. Main site here.
This is my good friend Jules aka Dobshizzle who is one of the biggest sellers of dance music on Discogs. If I have stuff to offload from my collection, he always gets first dibs.
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I’m very pleased to be able to feature a little exclusive clip for DJ Cheeba’s After School Special AV event which debuts on Friday in Bristol at the Cube Cinema. Even more exciting is that it features one of my own tracks interspersed with Tim Buckley and Luke Vibert. Nice company to be in. The whole concept is an educational look at drugs from both sides and is more of a sit down affair than a club gig.
One of my favourite tracks from the album – a lot of rap videos bore the pants off me but this is great.
2001: Space Odyssey (1968, r.: Stanley Kubrick) – Grafika: Gyárfás Gábor, 1979
Amazing film posters from Hungary via this website – plenty more there too, including the Star Wars ones I featured a while back.
Fahrenheit 451 (1969, r.: François Truffaut) – Grafika: Kemény György
Eolomea (1972, r.: Zschoche Hermann) – Grafika: ismeretlen
Phase IV (1974, r.: Saul Bass) – Grafika: András Andor, 1980
A New Hope (1977, r.: George Lucas) – Grafika: Felvidéki András, 1979
Alien (1979, r.: Ridley Scott) – Grafika: Helényi Tibor, 1981 és egy ismeretlen művész
RoboCop (1987, r.: Paul Verhoeven) – Grafika: Helényi Tibor, 1987
UGeorge has a video for his track, ‘Blowing Up’ from the new Soundsci ‘Expo 2014’ sampler 10″ up now.
The EP is released and available now HERE and features other forthcoming joints from the crew as well as an Ollie Teeba solo cut and an exclusive group track unavailable elsewhere.
Check the sampler video I edited for them last month.