Whatever you views are on government, and not even getting into types of government, it has been made quite clear from the treatment of Julian Assange in the past few days that anybody who comes along and threatens from the outside will be have all the forces of judicial hell flung after them. Yes, the allegations are serious, and whether the honey trap theory is correct or the Mick Jagger of journalism who couldn't get enough satisfaction is correct, it makes no difference. In the eyes of most observers, the sexual allegations will of course go hand in hand with the release of the documents - from one angle, JA has been stung. From another, those damn liberals are all perverts! But I see this firstly as a mistake of wikileaks - how could they ever have expected not to be attacked for what they are doing. it is as plain and simple as that. Do you think that you could just hang out all the dirty washing and no one was going to complain. That is not to say that what they did was wrong - in my view, good government should be open government (best government would be no government, but that is a story and revolution for another day perhaps) - and should be held accountable for its mistakes - something that unfortunately has not happened enough in recent years (but should that be government of individuals?) - but come on wikileaks - the moment JA became the public face of the organization was the moment the duck began to fly and the hunter had something to aim for. If, on the other hand, wikileaks had of stayed somewhat faceless, it would not have garnered the respect that is bestowed upon it now - by supporter and foe alike. In fact, I would hazard a guess to say that it would have been attacked something along the lines of the faceless terror organizations dotted around the world today - faceless, cowardly, moral less etc etc - hide in the reeds and have the hunter gossip about you and let your credibility seep away - or fly and take the flak. ( will be interesting to see the circus surrounding the arrest of the 16yr old hacker in the Netherlands - the "evil face" of anonymous!). Must we fight from the shaddows at times? In some obscure way, I think it comes down to trust. Trust for your enemy, and in yourself, that you know the fight is on, and you know dirty tricks will be played, but at least we can look at each other in the same playground.

ramblin ramblin....

yellow and blue sad figure

two prints, again from the same screen but different presses. I did these a while ago and then saw in a shop window a similar style and figure selling for 1600dk or so - and that was for a proper machine print. I am selling my for around 850 and they are original - If you are looking at these and want to get, then get in contact. Price includes a frame but not shipping.







I don't know where these could hang (your house!) but enjoy the bright yellow contrasting with the eyes.
Printed on A3 with spray paint and felt tip pen.

Took the bull by the balls and approached a little coffee shop that has opened up around the corner from where I live - 35 years old and still not bold enough to take rejection on the chin - so I start with a little coffee shop...

Here is a collage of four prints - accidentally made as a series, I am still not sure whether I want to keep the four together or split it up. If I split it up, then only one, perhaps two, of the prints can stand on their own. Each print is made on an A3 sheet with spray paint, acrylic and felt tip pen. The candlestick reference has something to do with the shape in all of the prints, but seen predominately on the red print - this comes from the drawing exercise of drawing what can be seen as a candlestick or two faces looking at each other.

radio23.org Sunday 21st November

hi there, any requests, drop a line into the comments - I guess it is the best way to get in touch with me barring twitter

here is the playlist for tonight as it happens -

A very Cellular song - Incredible String Band
Stephanie Says - Lee Renaldo
Sun Spots - No Age
I hang suspended - The Boo Radleys
Jim Fear - the Dillinger Escape Plan
Burn My Shadow - Unkle feat Ian Astbury
Burkelbos - Sylvester Anfang II
Candy Says - The Telescopes
Sundial - Wolfmother
Everybody's gotta live - Love
These are all illusions - as In RebekkaMaria
Super Good - Boredoms
How is you sleep - Kirsten Ketsjer
Howl - Jónsi and Alex
War is Over - Speaker Bite Me
Dearest Darling - Half Japanese
The Soft Beating - Efterklang
Hypnopaedia - The Octopus project 
Kyklopes - Helena Espvall & Masaki Baton
Flying around the sun at remarkable speed - Giant Sand

I don't say a word on air about the mistakes that are made - it has been a while since I have done this live and am still getting to grips if all the different apps open etc etc - so will not be uploading any recordings until i have the techie side down to a tee.

See you next week - any requests, get in touch @spo3 or leave a comment here. Take care...

Confused about branding...

I have never been confused about branding. Like a good friend once said to me about computers many years ago, "Nothing about computers is difficult for me. There are problems, yes, but only problems that will be solved". I have the same attitude about branding. Nothing about branding comes unknown to me - only problems that need to be solved - I blame a childhood obsessed by TV, colour, Star Wars and punk music - oh, and throwing stones at an old disused tug boat moored across a river (that is my version and i am sticking to it!).
 But there is some inbuilt barometer in my head when it comes to branding - I can very quickly see what will work and what will not, i get a mental twitch. And now that I have a bit of schooling where there was lectures concerning branding (sometimes by teachers who I felt didn't see the depth of what a brand can mean) I feel that I can now describe the results, direction, strength etc of that twitch.

 But my own brand! (god on a bike putting hamsters out of business!! (That is an exclamation btw)). I have been trying to divide my workings into discernible brands that have a certain amount of continuity - the continuity being myself and what I do and explore/develop - but I just can't seem to organise them into anything that my head would twitch at - so here is a short list of what and where <i am and then where I want to take myself -
spo3 - here, and now with (thanks to the HKW) spo3.com and spo3.net - many people ask me about the spo3 moniker and where it comes from - at school I was known as Spook because of my pale skin, and one of my favorite bands when i was a teenager was Spacemen 3. Inside a cover of their Sounds of Confusion album was a handwritten graphic of the bands name and I always admired the way the "3" had been drawn more than written - I started to copy it onto text books and the like (a t-shirt if memory serves) and from somewhere the Spo3 moniker came into being - "sp" being present in both had a hand in there too. There is the back story to spo3.
theclearspots and theclearspots.com - comes from a Captain Beefheart album title and song - "I have to run so far to find a clear spot.." sings the captain. This "environment" is for collaborations i do with others under one umbrella - not controlled by me but in partnership with me. This is less developed than spo3.
burncats blog may have to be burnt itself - because of time issues perhaps of will - I don't want to dilute myself too much (though this sounds a touch melodramatic)

I need a branding visual - and logos! (or is that ethos)

Sunday 14th November radio23.org show

Playlist -
True happiness this way lies - The the
Only a Northern Song - Beatles
Common People - William Shatner
What's for dinner - King Khan and the BBQ
Woods - Bon Iver
Reason is Treason - Kasabian
Atlas - Battles
BOTE - Menomena
Soldier On - The Temper Trap
When Should we go - CallMeKat
Station Approach - Elbow
Sometimes the Wheels - Neil Halstead
No Kind Words - The Maccabees
Brassneck (Live) - The Wedding Present
Two Chairs - Murder
Forsyn - Lis er Stille
Skip Divided - Thom Yorke
Crystalized - The XX
Stay with Us - The Young Gods
Rocking Horse - Kelli Ali
Not A reasonable Man - I am Kloot
DLZ - TV on the Radio
Safety in Numbers - Strikes the Colours
Boat Behind - Kings of Convenience
I've been loving you too long - Booker T and the M.G's(with Boz Scaggs)
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Have to end on that note!
 If you want a copy drop me a line in the comments or get me @spo3 on twitter...
Listen directly to great shows on radio23.org - for an alternative listen

Podcast no. 15

Get the podcast here!

(Just thought I would switch it around and put the link up the top)

Yes yes - hard and heavy is the theme of the day - and as such, I have assembled quite a nasty piece of work here - from Star Trek cross Pulp, all the way through to a funked up saturday afternoon at the blue movie house, the middling ground comes over offensive and dark in equal measures with a subtle twist of a bad bad day - somebody somewhere asked for this - and well, if you are that person and you are reading this, then here you go... engoy.

Common People - William Shatner
Destro's Secret - The Dillinger Escape Plan
Better than Heaven (No Age mix) - Bloc Party
Police - Fucked Up
You know what you are? - Nine Inch Nails
C.I.D. - UK Subs
Glamorous - The Jesus Lizard
Angela - Jarvis Cocker
bad Day in Bodega land - The Untamed
Superconnected - Broken Social Scene
Hold My Hand - UNKLE
Mantaray - Kashmir
A New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip
Gum - Cornelius
Uprising - Muse
Silver Shoes - Puerto Muerto
Four Corners - Lee Dorsey.

(yeah, I know, could be harder, could be heavier - just don't want to scare off too many people.... yet.)
(Coming soon to www.radio23.org - internet radio  - for the alternative listen)

Number 14 and perhaps the last!

Has it really been 14 weeks since I started this - 3 and a half months ago! oh the memories, the good times bad times, the..... GET ON WITH IT!
 Yeah, number 14 goes something like this...

It's all too much - The Beatles
No fear of falling - I am Kloot
I've been lovin you too long - Booker T and the MG's with Boz Scaggs
Scars on land - Kings of Convenience
Dance of Death - Calexico
Lazy Bones - Grand Archives
Daisy (A bicycle made for two) - John Fahey
Turka - Oleg Ponomarev
Woman - The Zombies
Bedlam - Elvis Castello and the Imposters
Midnite and the Amorines - Marybell Katastrophy
Only waiting - The Aliens
Soft  the hard way - Death to Frank Ziyanak
David Watts - The Jam
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Dirty Projectors
What the Sun said - John Fahey

And that is your lot for now - thrown in a few John Fahey tracks - discovered him recently and can't get him of the decks (the Calexico track is a cover). Very mellow beginning, bit of a middle avalanche and then drift on into the horizon for an ending - not a walking playlist, perhaps a reader(?).
So I will be starting a new radio show on the 14th of November at radio23.org at 22.00 GMT (hoping to get an earlier slot in the future). More details will follow.

So here you go - Engoy!

(And the Booker T track....well...you'll just have to listen.)

Cruel and delicious in equal measures - I have taken the burncats blogger name and hope to get some material up there asap. (www.burncats.com also available but will wait a while to throw that money out the window) What I could write about over there which i can't here? - ah, always advisable to have other means of communication - though judging by the title, burncats would possibly be shut down before the more innocuous "spo3".
So what could a title like "burncats" connote? Of course it wouldn't be a site to promote the cruelty towards felines (unless......... joking joking! jesus, even my inside the brackets voice has some sort of self censorship PC filtration system!)
I was thinking about an advertising blog - just to follow what I think is good, bad and inbetween and then leave spo3 to my own production... hmmmm
On the other hand, the burning cats society (BCS) gets so little recognition at the moment. Since its heyday back during the Inquisition years, this much loved pass time just seems to have been left in the ashes of history. And have you seen the number of feral cats roaming our streets at the moment? Would make a great Daily Mail front story! They run the streets like immigrants - though I would never suggest burning people - unless.... why stop at cats? The Inquisition didn't, and in truth, are we any more morally evolved than our 15th century Spanish cousins? I too, dear reader, watch the news and see the phosphorous ordinance fall on rooftops in Falluja. Or account managers locking parked SUV´s in Times Square, and all in the name of ......well, I don't really know, but as long as i can have a go at cats - they invented darkness!

So, an advertising blog then...

OUNCE OUNCE OUNCE!!!

Again, no faffing around - the playlist is as follows;

Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Eric Clapton
Top Gear - The Who
Short Fat Fannie _ Larry Williams
Father Cannot Yell - CAN
Two Kittens don't make a Puppy - Lambchop
Dirty Knife - Neko Case
Catwoman - The Wedding Present
Lazarus - The Boo Radleys
The name of this Thing is Not Love - Elvis Costello and the Imposters
Sing No Evil - Half Japanese
Keys to the Kingdom - UNKLE feat. Gavin Clark
Wanna Smoke - Graham Day and the Gaolers
Strangest Dream - Utah
Gouge Away (Live) - The Pixies
Pnoom - CAN
Not Awake - Callmekat
7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene
Reason for Our Love - Ron Sexsmith
Green Onions (Live) - Booker T and the MG's

spo3podcast13 is willing and able!! Engoy!

The Pixies live track can be downloaded for free at pixiesmusic.com - they are giving away a four track live ep in celebration of their album Doolittle turning 20 years old - (I remember looking at it on cassette in "Jingles" record shop on Coleraine high street way back then - me in school uniform!!). All they ask for is your email address so they can add you to their mailing list. Also, thanks to the Wedding Present two Sundays ago for a fantastic night in Loppen - and this time I garnered the courage to go and speak to David Gedge himself - though we did end up talking about facebook vs twitter - I hope I kept my "You're My Hero!" feelings behind some sort of cooler exterior, but not completely, methinks.

Was getting a lift late last night after work. The guy driving still had to go to his sister's house to feed her cats - she is on holiday and it had been a long day and I asked why bother? cats can look after themselves supposedly... as it goes, it turns out they can't. Funny that.
To a cat hater like myself, the fact that the one main arguement owners try use to defend keeping domesticated felines ie their independence, is untrue. This made me once again ponder the deviousness of cats and hence come up with an apt T-shirt slogan -

"BURN CATS. NOT LEGAL BUT RIGHT", possible on a red background, or a small graphic of, yes, you guessed correctly, a burning cat.

In fact, a whole political party could be born out of such cruel sloganeering...

(pssssssst, that could be called the far right!)

I'm just going to cut to the chase and post the playlist -

Herzog - Clark
The yeah yeah yeah song - The Flaming Lips
Why don't you love me - Little Richard
The Wormwood Scrubs Tango - Spike Milligan
There's a change in the weather - The Kinks
To Pluto's moon - My Brightest Diamond
Atlas - Battles
Hey Bo - Eddie Bo
Sex in der Stadt - Chicks on Speed
Løbetid - Lis er Stille
Sinking Hands - Wovenhand
Delirium Tremolo - Whomadewho
Union Jack Car - Lord Sutch
The Very thing - Stars
Fluffy Little Clouds - The Orb

Engoy!

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here are the first images i have put up for a while - been neglected the blog in lieu of school and other commitments - poor poor me - and poor poor fellow students who I was watching give their presentations yesterday - not poor in the sense of what they were presenting, good work I thought all round, even when the Danske Spil rep. ripped into the projects on the basis of money only (which is understandable) - but poor in the sense that these drawings where done during the presentations when in fact I should have been watching and listening a touch more - but is poor the correct word here? who knows and who cares! really - the doodles are a continuation of something that began in a "get back to work" I was in a year or so ago - as you can tell, I didn't go back to work.

And again - another glorious, inspired music mix for your aural pleasure - though made in a mad rush - mad I tell you, as a box of frogs counting the shapes inside a box of corn flakes - that mad and i am very tired at the moment so on to the playlist - it just under 70 minutes so will fit onto a single cd for listening in the car for those of you without the music player adapter - oh the shame! and i exported it at medium quality (whats the difference in length of time on a burnt cd from different quality - anybody?)
yes yes the list -

Gng Bng - Floying Lotus
El hard Attack DCWYW - White Denim
BOTE - Menomena
Sometimes the Wheel - Neil Halstead
Who do you love - Bo Diddley
A Widows Toast - Neko
Studio - People press play
The howling - The Phantom Band
Hey! Babby - Bruce Channel
Do you believe in magic - The lovin Spoonful
Tinman - America
Goodness Gracious Me - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren
2-1 - Imogen Heap
Full moon on the highway - CAN
Lady Scarface - Lydia Lunch
These are all Illusions - As In RebekkaMaria
I dig everything - David Bowie
When every days a number - Tim Exile.

'Nough said - Engoy!

Ps I hope to get some more pictures up in the near future - still learning to draw but having been moving as fast as I would like with it (soon the girls will be better than me)

New week and a new podcast - been busy as hell in the past week, and the next promises much the same - but hey ho, what ya going to do. This weeks playlist starts in the depths of a near empty pint glass with no money to buy another - EVERYBODY ROW!!! - and ends sitting on a tartan rug, wind and pollen brushing your ears. Inbetween, desert roses, no need for a human race, pearly whites, young bodies and a load of Glitterhouse.

Misery is the River of the World - Tom Waits
Memories - P.I.L.
These things Happen - The Paper Chase
Inspired By Long Hours Of Continous Repetitive Deep Irritations And Uncontrollable Agony - Evil Madness
Von Wegen - Einstürzende Neubauten
Mack The Knife - Frank Sinatra
Down on Loving - The Soft Pack
War is Blind - Dead Moon
St. Christopher Street - The Great Crusades
Indian Summer - Friends Of Dean Martinez
Sonic Reducer - Rocket From The Tombs
Language City - Wolf Parade
A House is not a House - Field Music
If I should die tonight - Brakes
Woods - Bon Iver

(Evil Madness has to be one of the best names for a band I have heard in a good while)

Once again EVERYBODY ROW!!! Engoy!

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here is the tracklisting for the latest podcast - and might I say a damn fine mix it is too -

Like..... - Spectrum
Set the Hook - Tony Joe White
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (BBC session) - The Flaming Lips
He Lied about Death - Stars
Like Herod (Hood Remix) - Mogwai
Now's the only time I know - Fever Ray
Two Dancers - Wild Beasts
Crazy Worms - Puerto Muerto
Kung Fu Man - Lee Scratch Perry
Fire of Unknown Origin - Patti Smith Band
Mirrored and Reverse - White Denim
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey - My Brightest Diamond
Frenchy's - Holy Fuck
Big Big Love (fig 2.) - Foals
Simone - Bombenga et Vox Africa

Having a listen to the mix at the mo - since I am recording them in a different method than before, I don't get to listen to them as they are being made, so am having to take notes after the fact and then carry those notes over to the next podcast - (what are they, mix tapes, podcasts, playlists - I can't really tell - a little like when at secondary school I used to make mix tapes and give them away - yeah, cassettes, like some sad teenager in a trench coat - hey, that was me!)

Anyway, as always - ENGOY!

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This one gave me a giggle when i made it. As mentioned below, the photos were from our trip to Malmø yesterday to see the band of Horses. None of the photos themselves have been manipulated apart from orientation. Some of the words have been picked randomly from the books on the shelf beside me.

For this one I happened upon a Spike Milligan play called "The Bedsitting Room" - I can't remember if I have read it or not, but the line seemed apt somehow and gave me a laugh.

Perhaps something to do with SM's epitaph being "I told you I was sick."

Don't want to type too much in explanation - it is getting late, school in the morning and i would rather spend the time on uploaded and formatting.

But just to say that the images were all taken last night at a Band of Horses concert - good show - any opinions on the orange tracer shots and manipulations?

If anybody wants to use these images, please get in contact and we can sort something out.

As always, click on the images for a bigger view.

Was flicking through youtube at semi random. And a sign of the warholian predicted times - I typed "paul" into the youtube search function - now you would expect paul mccartney, who is number two and number one on wikipedia, or perhaps, at a far bet, Paul Simon - but no, it's, yes, you guessed it, Paul the Octopus - that creature of the deep who so aptly predicted the outcome of however many world cup footie games - gives me such faith in the future of the internet, and, for that matter, the species as a whole.

And since I have been up and playing tonight, I thought I had better leave my mark in the paint box, so to speak.

Had a lecture today explaining the method and need for play, not only in kids, but in adults too. Most inspiring. After dinner even, suggested that my eldest daughter be the teacher and the rest of us the pupils - she gave us homework!!!

flash vs html5

At school last semester there was a load of hoobaloo over the flash vs html5 conflict - I took note, thought Apple were a bunch of arrogant money grabbing sods (nothing new there then - so why do i still buy there products?) and wondered what the web would look like without flash driven content. Only now, and I am sure there are other experiments going on out there, I just aint' been looking, have I stumbled upon something that catches my attention concerning html5

http://hakim.se/experiments/

There seems to be the same fluidity, crispness, as a flash movie though the interaction has a long way to go before the same levels of complexion are achieved.

I particularly enjoyed Keylight

As I said a few days ago on another site, there is no talking during this mix - just tunes all the way - yes, I hear the general sigh of agreement - I have been extremely busy since the last podcast and as a result have had very little time finding and exploring new music, so this week's bag may seem a shade stale, but only because I have to get back into it. I have also had to find a new way of making the mixes, since I deleted the software that I used to use along with the license number - no real loss, just took me some time to find a workaround.

Feeling Good - My Brightest Diamond
Pumping on your stereo - Supergrass
North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
Gutty Guitar - Lord Sutch
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Shoot the runner - Kasibian
Quiet dog bite the runner - Mos Def
Rocket USA - Suicide
The last one - Au Revoir Simone
The curse of being a girl - Kashmir
Navajo Ace - Bitch Magnet
The first big weekend - Arab Strap
Dark was the night - Kronos Quartet
Cant help loving that man - Billie Holiday
Electronic Performers - Air

Engoy!

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And another - this one has been hanging in the living room for a while -

untitled 50cmx70cm.

again, painted what seems like an age ago. There are a few like this doing the rounds - same motifs, colour combo, technique, etc etc.

Starting back to school on Monday - I guess the holidays are now over, though with the amount of work I have been doing over the last few weeks... well, no sympathy, please.
Uploading a few pictures - this is a painting that I did, on board, a good few months ago. It is only now that I am uploading them because I am getting the hang of taking good photos here in the cellar in the "not so good light" (thanks Tom)

Untitled 100cmx100cm approx

Here is a video I have made of our trip to sweden. I know that some of the cuts are off with the music, and I am trying to figure out how to be more precise - perhaps bring the soundtrack into audiobooth, mark up in there and then export to prem. Anyone any ideas? Been a while since I used this software.
So thanks to Adeline the driver, Air the musicians and Sweden

I thought that by this stage I would have the new podcast up, but having software problems and am having to seek out an alternative - curse you, the gods of software backup!!!
Anyway, here I am going to post a bit of how my head works...

Before I headed off on work on holidays at the end of June, I had my first semester school exam. For those of you that don't know, exams in Denmark can be an interesting affair to say the least. They have, in my experience, taken many forms, compared with what I was used to many years ago in Ireland (I am sure that exam practices have also changed in Ireland since I was taking exams ohhh, how many years ago now...? lets not start this post in a negative mood, hmmmm...), but suffice to say that this last exam I had was aural - I presented for 5 mins, then there was a dialog between myself and two examiners, i then left the room and when I returned they gave me my grade (which was a ten). All very quick and easy...
A few weeks before, I handed in a synopsis of my presentation. This document was to act as a bridge between my work from the previous semester and the presentation itself. I had to cover certain 3 key areas of the education - these were, digital advertising, digital communication and E-commerce. I placed these areas in the context of three of the four projects I had taken part in and completed. To give a better idea of this, I have included my synopsis

Exam synopsis for Marc Wilson, June 2010.

Introduction

“The problem, not a theory nor a style, determines the solution”, Karl
Gerstner, Swiss designer. (1)

I will cover the three topic areas (Digital Communication, E-commerce and Digital Advertising) by connecting them each to a project that I have been involved with over the last semester. I will also attempt to show how I believe I have developed as a student on this course with appreciation of the above quote.

Chosen Projects.

1. Digital Communication. Module 1. Client - TBWA.
TBWA are a internationally renowned advertising agency. They came to us asking for ideas concerning their proposal for a drinking awareness campaign to the Danish Health Ministry (Sundhedsstyrelsen). We accommodated their wishes with our own proposal of a cross promotion/ reality concept that would allow the target audience of the campaign to be directly involved in the campaign.
“The belief that the media affect us lies behind many kinds of professional and organisational activities” (2)
TBWA wanted a concept that would break with traditional means and modes of communication. We decided to propose an idea that would challenge accepted notions of sender and receiver and inadvertently challenge the accepted norms surrounding the issue at hand. One would not directly follow the other, but the rise of consciousness and debate because of the “product” would hopefully encourage changes in habits and attitudes rather than a momentary focus on the problem itself.

2. E-commerce. Module 3. Client - GripGrab.
GripGrab are a Danish sportswear manufacturer, particularly of cycling gloves. They came to us asking to find solutions to enhance their online buying (B2C) and ordering (B2B) experiences. We proposed a solution based upon information gathered from relevant stakeholders that attempted to cross the barrier between the virtual and the physical environments.
“Electronic communications are disruptive technologies that have already caused major changes in industry structure... Traditionally (products have been sold) through a network of distributors. With the advent of ecommerce (there is now) the opportunity to bypass distributors and trade directly with customers via a web site..” (3)
GripGrab faced a serious marketing and strategic problem balancing promotion of sales via their website on the one hand, and continuance and maintenance of their dominant market position within Denmark on the other. In other words, they needed a solution where the promotion of online sales would not encroach upon sales through their distributors on the high street.

3. Digital Advertising. Module 4. Client - K3.
K3 is a nightclub based in central Copenhagen. They approached us wishing to develop their social media presence which would simultaneously integrate with a newly website. Through analysis of the target audience and competitors, we arrived at a solution recognisable through hermeneutics and geared towards increasing integration of
evolving technologies.
“...key points... the brain creates associations based on information and experiences that can be recognised and recalled when triggered.... Homepages should complement and enhance a brand´s value by associating themselves with as many of the brands characteristics as possible.... Layouts, colour schemes, images, and technology should be used appropriately and in keeping with the qualities of the brand in question”(4)
Website mockups and wireframes were developed that reflected the nightclub’s identity and social media strategies were put forward that would push and pull more visitors to the website and hence the nightclub. In conjunction with the web developers, ideas were also submitted concerning an online table booking application.

Motivation
My own personal motivation and learning goals have been to gain insight into the project process as a whole and it’s management. After the first project, I became aware that there is a certain chain of events that should be chronologically followed to produce favourable results. This chain was succinctly described by James Webb Young in his 1939 booklet, “A Technique for Producing Ideas”. The chain is made up of 5 interlinking steps;

1. Gather material.
2. Work on the particular area by combining different elements to the point of saturation.
3. Incubation period where the differing elements will unconsciously mingle and gestate.
4. Birth of the ideas.
5. Development of ideas into something tangible.

Expectantly, it has been difficult to maintain this sequence of events in each project while working with others in a group. This could be because of lack of appreciation of the method by others, general personality clashes between individual members of the group or simply because of time constraints.
Wanting to develop my own skills as a project leader and manager, I must learn how to encourage others in a positive manner while at the same time keeping group members working in a coherent and systematised pattern.

References
1. “The art of looking sideways”, Alan Fletcher, page 148. Phaidon Press Ltd,
2001.
2. “Understanding Media Culture”, Jostein Gripsrud, page 31. Arnold Press,
2002.
3. “E-Business and E-Commerce Management” Second Edition, Dave Chaffey,
page 32. Prentice Hall, 2004.
4. “The Art of Digital Branding”, Ian Cocoran, page 54. Allworth Press, 2007.

I was hoping to give myself enough leeway, since when I wrote this I was very pushed for time and hadn't quite arranged in my head what I would be doing for the presentation.
As the presentation date came closer, I returned to the synopsis and collected materials from the semesters projects and held a personal brainstorming late one night (with the help form a glass of wine). Here are some images from that session (in no particular order)







(You can click on the images to get a bigger view)

As I said, they are in no particular order and as I have a look at them now, 6 weeks after the exam, i am at a loss at which page does come first!

The motive for this was not to finalize any design on the presentation itself, but more to clear out any debris that might have been in my head - to focus, primarily.

I also wanted to show what I had learnt that encompasses all the required areas i.e. those things that I feel umbrella all areas of the education. The development of ideas, a natural progression that entails hard work to pull out good ideas.

have been away for what seems like an age - holidays and work - new material coming up in a little while...hold on to your pants.

had somebody complain that the last podcast was too long to burn onto a single cd for listening to in the car - you know who you are - and there was me thinking everyone had one of them adapter thingys. Suppose it´s will only be a matter of time before cars come with ipod players, if it hasn't already happened. (the apple/ford tie-in)
so here it is - and this willbe the last one for a while since i will be again leaving the relative comfort of myu abode and heading for more exotic lands - well, Roskilde festival for a while and then Sweden for a camping holiday with le famille.

Horse Head Fiddle - 16 Horsepower
Sweet Tooth - King Khan and the Shrines
Good morning Little Schoolgirl - The Yardbirds
Saturday Night - The Noisettes
Us vs Them - LCD Soundsystem
Skunk (Sonically Speaking) - MC5
Too drunk to dream - The Magnetic Fields
Perfume-V - Pavement
Styrke - Lis er Stille
Germs - Yeasayer
Fancy Claps - Wolf Parade
Autumn Sweater - Yo Le Tengo
Soldier on - The Temper Trap
Blue Valentine - Tom Waits


get it here and engoy!

Since I didn't make a playlist last week, this is a longer one - almost two hours but not quite - and a very mixed bag...

Aladdin 2 - Disney (på dansk)
Ooby Scooby Doomsday - Gong
Dynamite Mine - Murder by Death
We Know where you sleep - The Paper Chase
Unknown 2 - Kurt Vile
Final Day - Young Marble Giants
Hallelujah I love her so - The Animals
Modesty - Lou Barlow
Deadweight - Beck
Happy Misunderstanding - ASUNA
Sykkivä/Throbbing - Pan Sonic
Mika 1 - Mika Sasaki & Various Artists
Golf Girl - Caravan
Like it or not - Architecture in Helsinki
East Nashville Easter - Yonder Mountain String Band
Monuments - Minutemen
Bright Lights, Big City - Them
Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones
Pig will not - PJ Harvey and John Parish
Who can say - The Horrors
Solta O Frango - Bonde Do Role
The Horse you Ride - Department of Eagles
No end in Sight - Thomas Function
Hit - The Wannadies
Roosevelt Room - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Dancing Choose - TV on the Radio
Baba O'Riley - The Who
It's a man's man's man's world (live from the Apollo) - James Brown

engoy!

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And here is the other - though it must be weird reading this backwards. Though you are reading this at the start and confused by the professed weirdness. So when does pretension set in?

I will post two more images under the same stipulations given below. Heres one:

that time of the week again - here is the playlist - some classics, some new, some my kids would like and some to commemorate the passing of dead bassists.

Inner island - El perro del mar
Federal Dust - Silver Jews
Run Around - A place to bury strangers
Veni Vidi Vici (Diplo mix) - The Black Lips
Other Worlds - Screaming Trees
Leaving Trunk - Taj Mahal
Merge, a Vessel, A harbour - Great Lake Swinmmers
I need you - Helter Skelter
No Dice - Beirut
Ten Women - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Mirror's Image - The Horrors
A Guiding Light - Smog
Love, Reign O'er Me - The Who
Let It go man - Speaker Bite Me
Electric Bloom - Foals


If you are only looking at the playlist and haven't heard the mix, I talk after the first song for a few minutes, and then let the rest play - I hope this is better for folks.
Somebody asked how I get away with this - I don't, and I will take this opportunity to say I don't. I do not own any tracks that are referred to here. Neither does the hosting site that I upload the file to. That is why I will wrap this playlist with a picture of my own creation. You can use this image in any way you like. If you would like to use it for something else but want a better quality file, then get in contact.

And cheers Davey S!

Engoy!

what do you think
want to see how this load on to the net, and if you have any isms

going to try and set a precedent here in Copenhagen with location based social media or glsm or glbsm, and as soon as the peg is out of the traps, we have a few isms...

lesson number two on how to talk on a podcast - make sure that every third word is not articulated as if it is underlined!!!

(I will get it right one of these days!)

in the process of making the new podcast - will try and remember to say hello to everybody who got in contact with me through whatever means over the past week, whether to request tracks, give advice and encouragement or to just say plain hello. And here is the playlist -

I've just seen a face - The Beatles
Take a trip - King Khan and the Shrines
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Change of Heart - El Perro Del Mar
Europe has no heart - Decorate Decorate
Afraid - Nico
When Last I spoke to Carol - Morrissey
Me and the devil blues - Robert Johnson
Black Lung - 16 Horsepower
Can't be so bad - Moby Grape
Good Love - Bat for Lashes
Lukunzi - Master Musicians of Tanzania
#1 - Animal Collective
Girl with one eye - Florence and the Machine
Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork - The Paper Chase
Let's Roll - Supercharger

The last band,as I mention in the actual podcast (you should be listening rather than me repeating this - in fact, I'm not going to repeat it - listen to the bloody podcast! Oh, you don't have an ipod - then work harder!!!!! and buy one!)......
yes, alter ego "i live inside the brackets" man has a point - but just to say Supercharger.

And if you do appreciate these podcasts, please tell your friends, pass it on - the more the merrier! (I am looking into soundcloud and other playlist sharing sites but will let you know accordingly)

So, here you go - engoy!

We all love wookies - yes, the sort from Star Wars - Chewbacca being the star - but to be honest, we also liked to keep them at a distance. Remember Leia's words in episode IV - "somebody get this walking carpet out of my way". And with those words, the whole of wookiedom seemed to crumble. Yeah, I know, "Chewy" was in the next two films, significantly too, but as a kid, did you know anyone who ever saying "I bags bein' Chewbacca!" - no, we all wanted to be Luke, Han, some even Lando as a second to Han cause then you could still get to drive the "Falcon" (or is it "Falcan"?)(on another note, there must be a technique for writers of fantasy to come up withthe names they do - Tolkien, Lewis, Lucas, the lady who did Potter - Rawling? Pullman et al - do they sit with an encyclopedia and mishmash the names and words - should try some day!) and on the Dark side, Darth, and I remember the arguments over who would be Boba Fett. But Chewy, no - like an upright canine mongrel with excellent dexterity, he would be forever pushed down the collective consciousness as, pre-described, man's best friend.
With the making and release of the prequels, the Wookie race were given an extensive backstory (ok, all of the characters from episodes IV to VI were given extensive back stories, the goal of the prequels, (who whispered money? you there at the back...!) but i would like to focus on the Wookies) that showed their place in the "galaxy of Lucas" - and there they were, as always, reliable, loyal, trustworthy, gallant - and any other accolades you could give a beloved guard dog.

So here it is - the start of my ad campaign that will explode some semi-established brand - perhaps in the clothing industry (Diesel comes to mind but they rely more on sex than this) - what got me thinking about this was the third film, chronologically speaking of course, but the last film to be released - when in the final battle, there they were, standing by the side of good against evil (they could smell/sense it, don't you know, like the scent of the lost boy down the well shaft - which was the good side, they didn't need to rely on that "force" nonsense - GET ON WITH IT, WE GET THE METAPHOR!!!!) hmmm, yes -
so there they were, and as far as i can remember though it is not importanmt, the planet that they were on was their planet - the planet of the wookie - wookieland, wookieville - whatever - and it was a big planet with lands and comtinants and seas and eco systems - kind of like our own - but in some long gone distant battle of survival between the dogs and the monkeys, in this case the dogs had come out licking their lips - and here we are, in the future, upright dogs with crossbows and legislature and schools and dinner ladies and all the other mundane shit of planetary life (Eddie Izzards darth in the canteen bit has sprung to mind) - but surely on a planet, a whole planet of wookies - wookiedom - there must be differences between the tribes - there must have been bullying in the school yard because one wookie has red hair while the others have blonde - wookie racism! Hairism - and there must be gangs of wookies, and political parties, and wookie car dealerships, a middle America of wookie, school wookies rowing down the rural themes, wookie junkies and perverts, the wookie insane, wookie asylum - okokok, I know that all this is very humanoid orientated, even planet earth humanoid oriented, but please remember, because I feel, dear reader, you are becoming absorbed as much as I have, by the monumentally gigantic-ness of the wookie world now swooping and roaring around your imagination - and if you are not, then i am please to tell you that you do not have an imagination and you can give up all thoughts about starting that novel - it will be a waste of your time - or perhaps you have never heard of Wookies - and if the latter is the case, then let we proceed with the advertising pitch, Copyright permitting, to introduce Wookies to the "Wookie Ignorant Masses".

So as i said, there is wookie racism, and this got me thinking about a version of wookie love in a racist world - or a love story in a world were the lovers cross the social barriers that separate them physically and mentally - where could this story be set? - Italy perhaps, I know of a small city in the north of the country, their football team spent a season in Serie B but managed to make it back to A - the story could take place between the rival football teams, no no no, too contemporary, in the past, before computers and guns - in the time of swords and duals, monks and apothecaries, the Montagues and Capulets in the city of Verona!!!! Wow, what a setting!! And the first lines of this epic story of the triumph of love overall, including death - the first lines -
"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghrrrrrrrrhgrhrgrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh argargaraag....... "
For in wookiedom, they would only speak wookish (or wookic or wookarian) - but the story would be the same and would pull at the same strings -

So as a campaign - we could have moments of history done in wookie eg newton and the apple "Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh argh"
stories - romeo and juliet - the balcony scene, instantly recognizable, with tendancy towrds love, the positive. The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Graduate, Thelma and Louise, Macbeth (too dark)?! etc
sporting events - 3 minute mile, Jesse Owens at the Berlin 1936 olympics
viral videos that have been famous with the creation of youtube - charlie bit my finger, for example.

the list goes on

Skatist.
Boardist.
Skiist.

Cyclist.

Slogan about a bike brand. Don't know which but have some ideas about how it could be used. Tv spot or web video. Each sport is shown. For instance, guy on a skate board pulling off some trick and mid trick the motion freezes and the image becomes stylized, perhaps like a banksy stencil and then the word comes up. Skatist. Same for the next two. But the words don't quite compute with the reader. Something is not correct. Then the guy on a bike and whether this gets framed and stylized in the same manner is up for debate. Maybe if it didn't then the underlying pretext would be overplayed and thus cliched. and the catch is Cyclist is the proper term - as if i had to explain that!

thought this was brilliant - guy looking for a job in the ad industry spent time to make sure that when the top CD's in NYC googled their names, his job application would come up at the top of the results. I wonder how many people have now seen this idea ans are trying it out for themselves.
See a short clip here.

I don't know whether I read this somewhere or I heard it in conversation - that eventually adverts will (probably only some - this may become a genre in itself) return to their original function - ie purely and simply describing what the product is and does. I don't see this in the way of the ad industry all of a sudden growing a conscious about the manipulations they have been serving the unsuspecting masses for so many years, but more in the postmodern style sense. There is one ad i remember as growing up for a type of paint - ronsil or ronsons or such - the tag line was "does exactly what it says on the tin". All fair and well - and i was not at that stage in my life where i had the need to protective coat a fence or garage wall (though I wonder if i went to buy a can of paint, would i still be swung to buy said brand?) - but this is a side thought - what really got me in conjunction with the first idea was when I was cycling into town a few days ago - there is a part of one of the main arteries into the center of Copenhagen, coming from the north, that has a restricted traffic policy, that is no cars, private vehicles i believe, are allowed to use it. It is reserved for buses, commerce, bikes and the such. But there, a few days ago, as bold as the baldy head on his shoulders, a man, about the same age as myself, if not younger, was going down the road in his, for want of a better phrase, "pimped up mobile" - clean white, wide wheels - you know the type for I am sure that they exist throughout the planet. Normally I wouldn't give shit, but someone on a bike cut him off and he blasted his horn. Now you may think that the cyclist cut him off and he had the right to react as he did - but he shouldn't have been there in the first place - the point of all this, was i caught myself looking to see what brand/make of car he was driving - probably for reasons to reinforce my own prejudices about young men with baldy heads and gold chains - oh yes, dear reader, gold chains were of course involved, only to compound your own prejudice and to see that you, like me, know and despise (or for the more compassionate in the audience, feel sorry for) this kind of example of the species.
But, the car had no name, no markings of any kind - and by it's shape, I couldn't make out what it was - to put it simply, I was enthralled - not only by the nameless car, not only by the notion of how this could apply to other products, but how this bully of a human had broken some intellectual prejudice i unconsciously held about the buying power of money and how I saw people like him needing the ethos and pathos of a brand name to justify their ignorance.
Thank you for the surprise chain clad bully boy!

And so the idea for an ad - a car, seen from different angles on a white bg - and the tagline - "It´s a Car" - only one of the bigger manufacturers could get away with this and perhaps when there is a mass release of a hybrid, which I believe, are still being sold on the fringes.
This would work on many levels and could work for many products - though if it would be over used then it's potency would of course decrease - that why i believe it could be brilliant as a car ad.
What could it work for - here is a quick litmus test -
Beer - "It's a beer" - no
Computer - "It´s a computer" - perhaps, if the product being sold was a comp but somehow appeared differently eg a smart phone . but then you could say "It's a Smart phone" with emphasis on the "smart"
The Bible - "It´s a Book" - would annoy the FC's - could be used on a satirical level with any religious text. Harry Potter too - "It's a Story"
(here the thought come into my head of introducing the word "only" but then that would defeat the purpose of trying to set the product out. apart from the rest - yes, you would be setting it out from the rest, but in a negative fashion - It's only a book" then what is so special about it and why should you be wasting my time trying to advertise it to me - bring it to my notice"
This "It's a ....." whatever method is more a kick against the ad industry in itself - again, i think this is why this could only work on the more traditional campaigns - tv, billboards - and for already established brands.
I guess in a way, it is going back to the "Coke is it!" slogan - what more can be said by that - but that was said at a time when we had to be reassured and it was easy to reassure us - you will be alright, just rest your head her - and we would and drift off to the arms of our gingham wearing mothers or whoever...
and here - "it's a ..." - there is no pretension - only the pretension embodied in the postmodernism of it all - and that for a few folk would be all the pretension one needs.

More mood boards - going for some 60s psych nyc party thing i think - perhaps too warholian/calder even (saw a few of his sculptures last week and that might be the unconscious working on me) - will have to see what the other guys are doing and as a group get a better result - saying all this, all have seen of the night club is the old but still functional website, K3 is its name and it does nothing but exist. The owners have said the same - there is no direction pointing to it. They have a popular Facebook page which at present seems to be suffice.
So, for those of you who did care, millions, I know, did you guess a night club - free drinks to the winners - courtesy of....

But I was kind of thinking about a ripple effect over the geometrics - and the enter in the centre of the image - saying enter and when you clicked on the enter, an animation of the squares pulling apart, like a curtain and you visually entering into the page/site. The world behind the curtain would be much more rounded/feminine - like dorothy the moment she enters Oz and the screen turns to colour.
Then behind the curtain could be all the useful stuff about the club -happenings, info, pictures etc etc

Have been reading a book written by a copywriter called Luke Sullivan - the book, "hey Whipple, squeeze this"(amazon) or something along those lines, is a basic dos and don't s of writing copy and producing ads, well as far as I've gotten anyhow.
One part, and a technique that is gradually becoming habit, is to not rely upon your first idea - it may be good, but it ain't that good. Think about it, if every time you relied upon your first "good" idea, then copy writing would be easy and there would be a load more folk doing it, especially considering the wages commanded by some of the top copy writers. But the truth of the matter is it just takes plain and simple hard work, working through the creative pain barrier.
Somewhere close to the beginning (as I said, I´m still not that far) there is reference to a psychological habit that happens on a regular basis throughout many aspects of daily life - I don't know whether it comes from laziness of mind, lack of imagination, optimizing time or what - but it is the habit of wanting things there and now, like fast food - we know we could get a much healthier, tasty meal if we only wait a while longer (or spend that little bit more hard earned cash) and the satisfaction would be greater - so why do we always tend to jump right in without looking over the edge first?
What am i trying to articulate here? Ideas, I suppose, only come after deliberation, graft and the application of experience. This, I believe is the best thing I am learning from my teachers at school - patience before leaping, or shouting out from the rooftops that the ideas produced are "the best ever" and then getting shot down in an instant by your peers and professionals.
Saying all this, I have some "nice" ideas running around in my head at the moment - the one mentioned in a earlier post about "old people" is a case in point - the joke itself is funny, but the mixture of the correct image, font, layout, so forth - and then i think it would be worthwhile to make it part of a series so that i can say i am offending everybody and not just the elderly - put the joke into perspective. Who to pick on - the elderly, babys, teenagers, students, parents, women, men - basically an ad campaign against the general population of the planet - I have my starting point, just got to write out the taglines - at least 100 per target - thanks, luke. squeeze that (though what that is I am still hunting for).

For those of you who care - here is an image/moodboard - any ideas what it might be for?

Here is the track listing for the 3rd podcast -
Don't be a misery guts - Sexton Ming and Billy Childish
Saint John - Cold War Kids
Electric Bloom - Foals
Granny takes a trip - The Purple Gang
Love is a killing thing - Erland and the Carnival
Jules lost his Jewels - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Weapon of Choice - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Sawdust and Diamonds - Joanna Newsom
Son of a Gun - The La's
Roland - Interpol
So far from your weapon - The Dead Weather
Cacophony - Tilly and the Wall
Our Swords - Band of Horses
Glosoli - Sigur Ros
Way back in the 1960's - The Incredible String Band
Heart Attack - Kurt Vile
Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
Forsyn - Lis er Stille
Bored - Girls in Hawaii
Mu Nzila N'sona - K.P. Flammy
Mandala - Thievery Corporation Feat. Seu Jorge
The get out of the ghetto blues - Gil Scott Heron
Raum Im Ort - Schneider TM
Secret Door - Arctic Monkeys
Underwater - Architecture in Helsinki
Faith in your Heartbeat - Lou Barlow
Electric Mainline II - Spiritualized

Since I didn't do a podcast last week, this is a two hourer - and you can get it here. And does anyone have any good techniques on practicing not saying mmmm or errrr or ahhhhhh!! When I listen to the shows to check the levels, I sometimes cringe at the amateurishness of the delivery - David, perhaps you are correct! (you know which David you are!)

Making the new podcast as I type - here is the track listing -

Split me wide open - The Bravery
Victory at Monterey - Albert Hammond, Jr
Kiss with a fist - Florence and the machine
Excuse me Mister (live) - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
Blood on our Hands - Death from Above 1979
Fastball - Yonder Mountain String Band
Ships go down - Le Fiasko
Mayday(M'aidez) - People in Planes
Applejuice - Murder
I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs
Bruises - Chairlift
Salome - Pete Doherty
Saturated Beyond Repair - Giant Sand
Europe has no heart - Decorate Decorate
Rip this Joint - The Rolling Stones
Shades of Time - Girls in Hawaii
Bombastic Intro - Big Black

(have just listened to the end of the show and there is a technical screw up on the last 5 secs of the last song, bombastic intro - but believe me, you are not missing much)
and through the magic of the internet - here is the podcast - ahhh, no! here is the podcast,engoy!

Very guitar driven show this week but quite mellow too - mostly...

Almost midnight and have a presentation in the morning - but just want to mention a phrase I have in my head - don't know what it could be used for - satirical ad campaign. The slogan is "The Elderly - A Dying Breed" - I need an image - perhaps just of some happy old person - could be used on so many different levels - will, if I remember or get the time do a few mock-ups from google nicked images. Another slogan is "The Young - Can't Beat Them." and perhaps a shot of a riot (very preoccupied with riots at the moment - bizarre). I need a slogan for middle aged and babys - will let you know
("Babys - couldn't eat a whole one" - old one!)

Working on the new podcast at the moment which entails playing music and thinking - hey, that´s kinda good, i think i will add that to the list - tough process.
Couple of images I thought I might share - starting to get more results with this primitive printing technique. And, as I like, the results are almost immediate but look even better when scanned and digitized.
Bringing a folder to school tomorrow to do a load more scans since they have a larger scanning bed - will see what results I get from that.
THese images are a mix of printing from glass and direct spray with stencils (though the stencils are extremely basic). I should also mention that they are all scans from the same image - a pain in the ass, perhaps, but sometimes I like the ability to pick and choose which part of a produced image to use. Since many of my images develop in real time, that is, there is no preconceived idea of an end result, but more the image grows in a controlled environment, many times there are parts of an image that feel/seem unfulfilled - this is partly down to my own technical proficiency, but also since I as the creator have minimal idea of where the image is taking me - sometimes I finish satisfied, other times, not. Being able to crop in PS means that I can keep the image as a whole in paper format for further use. No, these will not be the prints going up in a gallery - I have higher standards than that - contrary to what you have heard :-)

Anyway, back to the images - There is also a touch of charcoal, just to emphasize some of the edges and some other materials which I cant remember. Will have a play with the these image in PS and see what comes out the binary treadmill.

By the way, the last post contains the link to the first personal podcast i have released - if you missed it, check it out here - spo3 first radio podcast
and the playlist is as follows -

jacket Hangs - The blue Aeroplanes
Roforofo Fight - Fela Kuti
Dog Days are over - Florence and the Machine
A forest (acoustic) - the Cure
Soul Desert - CAN
The loneliness of the tower crane driver - Elbow
Noam Chomsky spring break 2002 - Department of Eagles
S'vive - Bibio
Prospect Hummer - Animal Collective
In a Room - The House of Love

and a little bit of talking from me - engoy!

was thinking of doing a huge hammy "welcome" sign, it would be against my ethos but on the other hand, sooo for the desired character of this blog ( - yeah, remember kids, this blog has a life outside of the creator, so i have been told anyhows, by you, and the implied reader) which will rest entirely upon the facts of ignorance.
You can catch the drift by driving to the snow plough - boom boom.

From here on in I will try to dispel some myths being sown by a red headed, impotent sea bass - with a double (capital) S. A creature who never has tasted weed, whether from the garden of the sea or the blisters on the fingers (it Can grow anywhere you know) - so instead I am working on a new podcast, a personal show and none of that other bullshit polluting.

So instead of "Derrida was a Bastard!" here is a jacket hanging... - engoye!

Ps - I am against murder, if there is any clarification needed - Darryl Durr (could have been as guilty as a guilty thing, who will know now?)

want to go to bed soon...
earlier I was going to go out to the pub and then realised that I got stuff to do and so came down to the cellar and read the news about adobe/apple spate, the volcano, football fixtures, a bit of spraying and other mundane time wasting activities - oh, an argument between one of my musical heroes, billy bragg, and the local bnp candidate for his area in london - and bill, for crying out loud, why did you try to shout this prick down? you just turned into the leftist raving loony that gives disenfranchised and undecided voters the reasons to vote for the "racist fascists", or was it "fascist racist"? see for yourself - http://ow.ly/1AtG9 I mean, you don't have to dig the hole for these prunes, you got to just take them byu tthe hand and nod your head and walk in a direction that allows them themselves to fall into the holes they dug for themselves the moment they set off on their moral/political journey - Bill, within rhetoric terms, most of the leg work has been done for you - all you got to do is expose it for what it is... you're still one of my heroes, so don't worry on that front! (i can't see you losing sleep though)

a picture for today anyhow - sprays and felts - a detail from a bigger piece, but as ever, i can't fit the a3 sheets onto the scanner - who got a bigger scanner for me???

have never known many people to be followers of ash before, but it is surprising to see a healthy minority making comment upon and taking stock of the recent volcano eruption on Iceland - and that is outside of the Icelanders that i know. You would expect them to chat about it and their amusement at watching news readers trying to pronounce the name of the location of the eruption is amusing in itself.
But aside from the mild hilarity of the planet blowing a geothermal fuse, it still strokes me as awesome the way that the globe upon which we float has the never ending ability to put us in our respective place - there have already been the cancellations of thousands of flights from airports across northern europe, and the disruption that this has caused, and now the rumours of failing crops this year because of whatever photosynthesis knock-ons - what else will follow?
In no regard is this in anyway comparable to some of the major natural disasters that have happened in recent times where hundreds of thousands have perished. But I wasn't present at those locations and I always try to turn off my heart strings when watching stories like these unfold upon our televisions screens (not because I don't care, but because at some point I just thought that I couldn't take the pain any more) - are we seeing more of this because of our tv and technical infrastructure or is there more of it happening? I for one, am not use either way - but am just glad that there is something out there bigger than the lot of us... that, not in a theological way, gives me a sense of belonging and contentment - and as for the clouds of ash in the sky, weren't the eco liberals of our day saying we had to fly less anyhow?

would really like to blog something substantial and meaningful, but would also really like to crawl into bed with my wife - guess who wins MR INTERNET!!!!!?

Staying on a central theme about... no, fuck that, I want to rant about having to spend three hours in the middle of the night in cold, dark, cute Roskilde, and cute is used in that sickly sweet Japanese kind of way - not to go into details, but the conductor of the train closed the doors on me and wouldn't let me on - I was angry, to say the least - after a 14 hour shift, and there I was, stuck in Roskilde - cold, dark, closed apart from the 7/11 (and a big thanks to Ally, free coffee, though I needed no more, and a swap of manly lies that we males always rely upon when not wanting to give too much away but at the same time portray a sense of control and fulfillment - portray being the operative word) ...but a rant? no too tired, maybe tomorrow after I smash a little piece of something connected to the Danish rail system - thinking of a poster perhaps - nazi train conductors wanting to get home after a hard days graft not allowing any more "delinquents" onto the crammed train - "NO, we shall be back in the morning - I don't to transport you - not yet anyway"
Bed calls.

playing around after having done a radio show - but off to bed soon - here is a quicky poster where i distorted a scan of a paint cleaning rag - also included is the original scan - oh the power of photoshop - just trying to get and make ideas of what to do with all this shiote i have lying around - is there a way to sell orginal works over the web so that designers can use them for whatever they want? There must be - that deviantart site perhaps - but do i want to sell them or should i keep them and make stuff of them myself - both!!!!

the font is heiti medium - and if you want to get any of these things, you must PAY! You think i do this shit for love???? well...

whenever i click on the next blog thing at the top, i get a revolving selection of blogs about addiction and its treatment - has this something to do with my writing about quitting smokin?
If you search for a blog about addiction, do you get mine in with the others? Haha bloody ha - so kids, i strongly recommend a psychedelic experience - at least one, and if you get hooked on that shit, then blame your parents, or lack of them. As for smoking, you will be addicted by the first cigarette, your mouth will taste like shit and you will have to pay cash - but you will look so cool and it is a big fuck you to the grown ups - for the ones who smoke and the ones who don't, but especially for the ones who do, cause they know how stupid it is but will not admit it to themselves - to you, yes, but to themselves? - that is the addiction, subtle but persuasive...
alcohol? tough one - it can get you and it may not - the risk is yours.
smack - don't know, never been there, but any real smack head musician (and that doesn't include the skin pricker Richards) has always ended up in an early hole, whether by the needle itself or power hungry rock n' roll wives - mention no names.
Coke, never had the money nor the will to be a prick - i am a big enough prick not needing a prick enhancing stimulant. (prospective employers reading this, i am extremely self deprecating and not at all being serious - until the Christmas party comes around!!)
So there you have it kids - my quick run down to addiction of substances - but guess what, there are a load more addictions out there that can turn you depraved or despised - X Factor being one of them - I mean, 40 thousand people here in denmark went to see the finale live at the national stadium - the biggest finale show put on in the world - out of a country of 5 mil, and now many watched on TV - seriously, is there really that much baby sitting money doing the rounds?

have been playing with the look of the blog for the past hour or so and this is as good as it gets - bejebus.
Here is a little picture of what I am trying to accomplish with the tools at my disposal - ahhh bollocks to that!! upload failed - file too big or something and i couldn't be arsed at this precise moment (but am interested to see that "arsed" doesn't trigger the spell checker - yeah, point to be made - why are swear words not included on mobile feckin phone dictionaries? (though the word "feckin" does trigger said checker) I will, on average (shhhh this is a wild guess - no data has actually be collected) swear in one in every 2.3 sms's (sms's also triggers) so nokia et al, get it together and make my swearing life easier)...
so, where is we?
yeah, picture, now i am in the mood to try again... so that one you are looking at above - that is the picture i was trying to ..... i am sure dear reader, you get the order this has all happened as cpmpared to the layout of the post itself - so you have seen the picture before yoiu read the bullshit - and if you have any sense, you would ignore the bs and just go straight to amazon to buy my book - here is the link.... ahhh, got ya! all in good time - again, another mess of chronology.