Camelback Cinema

Happy new year y'all. Hope your festive holidays were warm and joyeux!

Due to the popularity of my '100 abandoned houses' post that I blogged about last year, I thought it would be worth contributing this little follow up. It's an article I stumbled across on the Guardian website and features stunning photography of a post-industrial Detroit city.

[Photograph of Michigan Central Station by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre]

It also reminds me of an incredible documentary (one of the best i've ever seen) 'Requiem for Detroit', which is all about the rise and fall of the motor city. Really fascinating and quite dark.

Anyway, on to some work. Here is a flyer / poster design I recently completed for a Leeds-based collective who show independent films at one of Britain's smallest cinemas.

I've yet to attend but will hopefully get along at some point this year. I mean tea, cake, intimate setting and independent cinema are a few of my favourite things. Here's a facebook link for more information.

More things to come soon including a screen-printed poster process (yes, another one) for I Like Trains and much, much more.

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'.