Make Your Bed

After many hours syncing and tweaking frames in Final Cut I have just finished the video for the next single 'Make Your Bed' by the truly excellent band Babel. I filmed this late one night in a broken and quite filthy portacabin which was inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Bristol. The band wanted claustrophobia and realism and sweat by the bucketful. Nice. For lighting there was a set of four disco lights set on full orange/red and two broken strip lights which flickered on and off erratically.

You can watch the video in full on Babel's website Babel Music

btw. They have a new album called 'Crooked Timber' coming out immanently and it's brilliant'.

Balancing act.

It's been another crazy month and updates have been few and far between...

So... I've just finished the website for the Wild Beasts to promote their new single and album. I very much like this band, they're an interesting lot and they manage to balance the tightrope of abstraction and pop very skillfully. They're also from the Lake District so what's not to love.

There has also been a new website for N*E*R*D for their new album 'Seeing Sounds'. The site is based on the video for the new single 'Everyone Nose' which takes it's inspiration from the Last Night's Party website. I've edited a selection of short clips and they randomly appear in a sequence of nine blocks then randomly selected images of N*E*R*D appear also, this is the basis of the site and navigation... it's always different.

Also there have been updates to Tricky's site, Knowle West Boy, The Last Shadow Puppets site The Age Of The Understatement and the XX Teens.



By the way the image above is a sketch by Ellsworth Kelly. 93. Light Reflection on Water, 1950. Ink / Tusche (13.3 cm x 20.3 cm) I have this hanging on the wall of my studio.