Carbon Dating

Hello my friends. Come in and get warm.

So its come to my attention that my blog posts of late have been on the minimal side in terms of content. Well, just to prove that I am in fact a real human being, here are a few things that I currently love:

Jon Stanley Austin

This is my friend from my Leeds College of Music days who has a little blog and has just created some amazing 3D photography, which I pretty much can't get enough of!

Jon Stanley Austin's Blogspot

100 Abandoned Houses

My next obsession is a fantastic website called 100 Abandoned Houses. Its pretty much what it says on the tin, as a chap called Kevin Bauman has gone around Detroit photographing derelict and dilapidated houses and the results are beautifully depressing / depressingly beautiful.

100 Abandoned Houses

Musically i've been enjoying plenty of things as of late but my cream of the crop award has to go to Rilo Kiley's album The Execution of All Things. This is something of a pop masterpiece but masked in a really cool indie fashion and yes, I am aware that i'm behind the times but better late than never, yeah?

So thanks for listening to my ramblings, I think I may try and do this more often... Oh and I suppose I should also show you this poster I just finished for my budsky Sam Isaac. If you are unaware, Sam Isaac (the man / the band) is breaking up! Well, he's taking some time off doing music, which is sad, sad news...

Over the past 3 years I've known Sam he has become a friend instead of a client. We hang out, play gigs together, chat on the phone, its lovely. If you haven't heard his music then you really should go and do that as he creates the most gorgeous, honest, warm pop music.

So it'll be sad to say ta ta but I hope to make it to one of these shows... and maybe you should too.

'So let's just say, so long'.

You Are Free

Hello. So things have been busy over at the twoducksdisco camp recently. Mainly my time has been taken up with the epic packaging for Sam Isaac's debut album. I don't think I can show all of it yet but I can tell... and its going to be awesome. 16 page booklet (all hand-written), moonpack packaging (whatever the heck that is) and lots of stars and constellations. Here is the front cover...

I also got a couple of t-shirt designs signed off last week for the awesome Mutiny on the Bounty. They're from Luxembourg and sound a bit like a proggy Cap'n Jazz... Anyways, they went with a natural disaster vibe.

New things to come soon including a new screen print for the mighty Gallows and a t-shirt version of this poster that I designed for an exhibition that i'm... well, exhibiting at.

History is made at Night

Sup. So, in a previous blog i'd mentioned that I was doing some recording with Sam Isaac and The Old Romantic Killer band plus others. It was for an exciting podcast and e-zine project thing that i'm doing with my chum Ash. Well, that went out today and I must say that i'm very impressed with it all. If you go here, then you can download it and that'd be nice. To co-incide with the podcast there is a downloadable PDF featuring original artwork by a bunch of artists including myself and here is my offering for the Old Romantics.

I also said that I was going to post another little somethin' somethin' for a new zine called Feral. My effort is a 2-page spread that features Ken, an unruly orangutan with an eye for mischief. Here he has just eaten a lemon. Like I said... unruly

Old Boot Wine

Oh, hello there. So, I have proved to be a bad-bloggist in the past (this I believe will be my first in about a year) but I intend to right some wrongs and keep the blogging world up to date on most of the happenings in the twoducksdisco camp. As one will have gathered, I have been busy (hence, bad-blogging) for ages... I've had odd jobs all over the place but now as unemployment looms it will be nice to return to doing artwork as my primary day filler. ------------------------------------ Here are a few things to keep your eyes happy for a while. This is part of an illustration for Futuresound, who commissioned me to design a 'club card' for local alternative club and venue; the Cockpit. Type-treatment/logo for Leeds based Indie-electro lovelies, April in Paris. Front cover of an A6 booklet for Uncle Albert's (Middlesborough venue) gig listings, featuring none other than, Uncle Albert. You plonker Rodney, etc...Also, completed some posters for The Durutti Column (Factory Records) , Earth (Doom legends) and will be screen-printing the Tunng and Tinariwen 'illuminati peacock' poster, which will be nice. Those can be viewed along with most of my other posters at GigPosters.com.

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Its also worth mentioning that a friend and I are putting together this little monthly subscriber podcast project, which is going to feature our most likened bands in the United Kingdom. Mainly on the underground tip of course, we have confirmed Sam Isaac and The Old Romantic Killer Band for the first show. Pretty excited about this...

You can subscribe here for that and go here for our occassional ramblings and rants... ------------------------------------

That just about brings you up to date with things, thanks for reading and go tell your friends how much fun you've had hanging out here...

This was updated whilst listening to 'Acid Tracks: The Dawn of Phychedelic Folk' by the Owl Service