Category — technology

I love this…

My talented friend and bandmate Lawrence (Log) Roper has just created this odd beauty.

Created for the Decked project by combining two of his passions skateboarding and music into a bespoke and playable Skuitar.

Bonkers brilliant!! I look forward to having a shred!

What a weekend! A proper post soon but in the meantime check this amazing movie made from 1200 of Pete Ashton’s awesome TTV photos taken over the weekend.

Well done Pete for a) your ace pictures and b) the speed at which you’re sharing them with the world.

Also another massive Hooray for those lovely Capsule ladies. You rock!!

Lots more pics will appear here too. Tis good this t’internet thingymejig…

Tomorrow night sees the opening of the new solo show by Birmingham based photographer Jonathan Shaw at New Art Gallery Walsall.

Exhibition Visualisation at Walsall, UK

Jonathan’s unique photographic images capture motion using hand modified cameras with amazing results.

By the looks of the info on his website, we can expect huge reproductions on the gallery walls.

I first met Jonathan when I started my degree in Bristol. Seeing his works (and cameras) develop over the years has been a real treat – from the early black and white shots of Will on his BMX at Bedminster skate park (moving so fast he ended up looking like a carrier bag floating in the wind) to these large scale colour images, some with obvious distortions and some very, very subtle.

Gallery 13, 10th August 2002, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 2003

It’s really great to see his hard (and brilliant) work now being rewarded with a solo show in such a prestigious venue as New Art Gallery Walsall.

The exhibition runs from 10th July – 6th September 2009 and a new publication will accompany the show.

The Destroyers release their debut single today.

‘Out of Babel’ and ‘Where has the money gone?’ are available to buy from iTunes and the push to sell as many as possible during the first week of release, could edge this crazy band of maestros towards chart success.

Anyone who’s seen them live knows that this band mean business – armed with virtuoso playing and solid infectious rhythms they can render even the most static of audiences helpless to the urge to dance.

Recorded at Magic Garden studios with Gavin Monaghan, the single comes from their forthcoming debut LP,  due for release later in the year.

So, go on… for less than two english pounds, grab yourself an mp3 now and help this band toward the wider recognition they deserve.

We were fortunate enough to have an early line up of the Destroyers play our wedding… you’ve never seen a conga like it!!

- so, here we go oh oohh… Out of Babel!

ps. the slightly unhinged looking chap with the white hair?…  yep, that’s my Pa!

Photographer and film maker Matt Murtagh has made this brilliant animated journey from Moseley to Birmingham City Centre using frames from the newly launched and rather brilliant (if spooky) Google Street View.

StreetViewBrum from Matt Murtagh on Vimeo.

Matt’s site is well worth a browse too – plenty of brilliant photography – and even includes a snap of my Dad with his cohorts The Destroyers rocking Moseley Folk Festival last summer.

– spotted on Created in Brimingham

Found via Swiss Miss, this is very funny clip of a rather ambitious piece of live art…

Using skilled shepherds and their dogs, sheep of different colour are herded to make huge images and even a live hillside version of the atari classic – pong…

I really like this. Spotted in Berlin, snapped and posted online at just.ekosystem.

We all know that celebs get the airbrush treatment courtesy of the industries favourite – Photoshop, well the FTW-Crew took the time to remind the commuters of Berlin… Brilliant!

Photoshop toolbars and controls are pasted onto the billboard to illustrate the point – I love the attention to detail (and sarcasm) in the layer names…

Good work Adbusters!!

I’ve been keen to post about this site since I saw the beta a few months back – Today sees the launch of www.davidrowan.org – lovingly built by the talented folks at Tak!

David Rowan takes pictures of places many people don’t either see or see like he does. From subterranean tunnels deep under the heart of the city to abandoned printworks. In his day job a photographer at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, his pin sharp image skills are honed on a daily basis, and the quality of his images reflect this.

The site works brilliantly in terms of showing his images large (and crsip), with optional immersive sountrack provided by Chris Herbert available through the inventive sound interface – move the coloured lines around…

Seeing this body of work in this great site confirms that Dave is a GREAT photographer. There’s loads of top work to browse, so go and check it out…

Poladroid

This is rather cool. Poladroid. Yep, that’s right, like Artoo and ‘3PO…

With Polaroid’s imminent demise as it’s production is stopped, this neat little desktop application allows you turn your JPGS into Polaroid style pics, with borders and strange colours as well. These ‘droids make the sounds, and their pics even take a little while to surface just like the real thing. A very nice touch I thought was the fact you can only do 10 images in any one go – like a polaroid film! Cool. The only downer is that is mac only at the moment… but the window’s version is on it’s way… apparently…

Björk’s right y’know.

Here she explains how your CRT TV works… kinda…

She really is ace. I think more informative TV show’s could do with Björk as presenter.