Genuine Photo (Grid view)

Just done a quick update to my Genuine Photo website. The full screen photos, some folk have said are a little cumbersome... So to make the whole process a lot simpler I've created a new section where all 100 photos are available to view as thumbnails. It's a typical gallery really, select a thumbnail, click on it, see a larger expanded version, click the larger version to go back to the thumbs. Easy.

Check out Genuine Photo (Grid view) website.

The full screen version of the site is still available at Genuine Photo.

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'.

And there's more...

Thought I'd add another round-up of the latest projects going on here, gives me a chance to use another delightful old postcard of Bristol. Check out the glitter on this one, what a beauty.... anyway



The Kills campaign is now all live, there's the microsites for U.R.A. Fever and Cheap and Cheerful, the new blog at their official website The Kills and now there's the all singing and dancing 'add-you-own-postcard-for-the-album- site! at Midnight Boom. You register, log-in and then post your own interpretation of one of the tracks as a postcard, then you can send this on to a friend. The site uses some very clever php and mySQL which handles all of the resizing and the database.

Also The Last Shadow Puppets website has been changing here and there at The Age Of The Understatement. Now with more video...

I've just done a sleeve for an excellent new record coming out on SVC Records, it's for a chap called Seb Roberts and the album is called Exit Strategy. He's a Canadian who lives in Hamburg/Tokyo and his biog says that "He's well-liked by those who know him, and is otherwise regarded with some suspicion." So there you go.

Finally there are some exciting developments afoot for Genuine Photo but that's all I'm going to say on the matter for now, so watch this space.

Greetings..

It's very nearly March already and time is just whizzing by... There's some rather interesting and quite substantial projects underway which are very exciting, more to be revealed soon enough. For now here's a quick roundup of what's just been...



The ongoing Kills website and it's many mutations is live at Midnight Boom. The site plays a track off the new album and shows exclusive artwork everyday leading up to the album release on the 10th, then soon after that we've got something else which is a secret for now.

Here are the other Kills sites from the last two single releases. U.R.A. Fever and Cheap and Cheerful, the remix parts are still available at both. Oh yes and let's not forget the new blog site built so Alison and Jamie can post from their Blackberries in whichever country they're currently touring at The Kills

Then there was the full screen video site for the Mountain Goats with complete album sampler.

What else? Oh yes Nick Cave, well the site is ongoing here, slowly new videos are being leaked on there of Nick and the band conducting seances. If you've not yet seen Nick in a turban then do pop along.

Finally there's a teaser site for a band generating a lot of interest called The Last Shadow Puppets. Featuring Alex from the Arctic Monkeys and Miles from The Rascals, this is The Age Of The Understatement.

Sleeveface!

Tonight Matthew we're going to be... Thom as Barr', Danny as Mo' and me as Robin.

Sleeveface at Flickr.

Rambles!

What a good idea...

A Press of Suspects No.2

New poster for Bristol promoter A Press of Suspects, which as you may have guessed following on from the post below uses a wonderful old image from the Library of Congress collection.

Rijks!

Just made a poster for the next Press of Suspects night in Jan, which is going to have Meg Baird from Espers play amongst other varied acts.

All of the images are 'borrowed' from the very excellent Rijks Museum website. I wanted the poster to have a classical feel and be quite detached from your typical band night as The Press of Suspects plan to create evenings that are far from usual.

It's a megablast...

Poster design for a New Years Eve party in Bristol curated by 'A Press Of Suspects'. I bought a pamphlet called 'Bristol and the Bomb' from St. Nicholas' Market which was printed at the height of the cold-war. Great, terrifying diagrams of the damage Bristol would incur if a bomb were to be dropped on the centre. So I replicated one for the poster.

Should be a good evening also, Principal Participant is playing live!

New studio

Moving into a new studio from the 1st of Nov. It's near the top of Christmas Steps and has great views over the city.

Two large windows and enough room for three desks just need to get some stuff on the walls and the plants in...