"Procrastination" and Mike Shinoda Art

Hey all!

Here's the promised blog post that I said I'd do last Wednesday:

The reason for the double-barreled title is that I have two things to talk about today. Nothing unusual there - maybe I should blog more often, then I could give each post a separate theme. Wish I had more time to do that. Anyway, I want to talk a bit about what got me interested in music and street art, if that's okay with you. And that all comes down to one thing: Linkin Park.

Hahaha, you probably think I've gone crazy. "How could you like Linkin Park?" I hear some of you asking. Well, to you lot, I shall say this: I was young...that, and what's wrong with LP? Their music is amazing! Okay, so they may not have been the ones to start the whole Nu-Metal phenomena, but when it was in its' prime, the term "Nu-Wave" was pretty much synominous with Linkin Park. Okay? Okay.

Linkin Park was probably my favourite band from the ages of 11-18. I loved pretty much every song they put out ("Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora" are still tied for my favourite LP albums)- from "Papercut", the first LP song I ever heard, to "Breaking the Habit", the one before I started to go off and redefine my musical tastes. I owe my love of rock/nu-metal/hardcore music to them and for that I am very grateful. I know there's something to growing up and changing your tastes etc, but I have to admit, I went back and visited their site lately after about a year's hiatus and found that I still liked them, even after the gap. One of their latest videos, "Leave Out All The Rest" is nicely done - good lyrics, an interesting and well executed video.

Couple that with some very neat artwork, and you're flyin'. Mike Shinoda, the band's main MC (and assistant sample-guy/guitarist, whatever), is actually an accomplished artist, having his own shows put on in big galleries all over LA - he even runs a sponsorship course at (I think, but I forget the proper name) Art College, CA. And he designs shoes for DC. How much kooler can you get? Lol :P jk.

Here's one of his pieces that I really like:


I used to try to emulate this and a lot of other Linkin Park stuff when I was doing my GCSE's, trying to create my own style out of it. I've since learned you can't copy someone else's style to find your own, but it does help to give you a formative background and somewhere to start. Mike's an amazing artist (as are a lot of the Linkin Park guys - you can see it in the insert for "Meteora", all the guys collaborated on this huge group of boards, using stencils, spray cans, paint, stickers - you name it - and it turned out really, really well; Joe Hahn is also a director and used to be a digital special effects supervisor).

So yeah, I guess I can put down two of the most important creative outlets in my life to Linkin Park...I know, it sounds sad, but without their music and their artwork, I probably wouldn't have liked what I was into as a teenager, and therefore what I love now.

Let me leave you with a little video I found on my viral travels this week. It's made by/for Adobe (y'know, those software guys? They created a bunch of arty programmes?...:P) and the theme is something I've been doing a lot lately (okay, well not so much as usual, which I guess is good as I need to get a good grade on this); we all do it. The execution of the video is very clean and creative too:

Hi and Bye

Just a little post to say I'm still alive - I will be doing a post in the next few days, because it's been a while and I want to blog! But right now I have to get on with my module assignments. So I expect to post tomorrow, but I won't set that in stone, just in case.

Anyway, look forward to a couple of videos, links, pics and mentions etc - I'm going to be taking a peek at some Mr Jago and Richt activity as well as doing a profile on the Mike Shinoda :D (of Linkin Park fame - his artwork is what got me into street art, so that'll be pretty neat). Yeah...speak to you tomorrow.

Enjoy the evening!

Bearded Ladyboarding - Rock on!

Ever wanted to dress up in a dress (of all things), put on a beard and helmet and go film yourself doing some "Bearded Ladyboarding" ? Think I'm talking crazy talk? Well, you'd be surprised! Oregon Scientific got together with the lovely peeps at Team Rubber and created this little number:



Go play the game and you'd be in with a chance to win one of Oregon Scientific's ATC 3K action sport cameras, which is pretty neat if you ask me.



The style of film-making you could do with that baby kinda reminds me of a screening I went to at the Watershed earlier in the year. It was for "Paranoid Park", a feature length film shot in Super8. Was nicely done, but the story wasn't exactly down my alley (I'm all for skateboarding, but the rest of it, well...didn't float my boat anyway). And besides, doesn't skateboarding go with the whole culture of graffiti? Eh?

Too much of a stretch maybe? Well it's fun all the same. Check it!

Oh yeah - the other reason for my post. I've been listening to Bonobo a bit today on the company choons. These guys are amazing :D you may have heard "Ketto" before on TV (well, if you're in the UK and not living under a rock, maybe) but their other stuff is pretty decent too. I first heard "Ketto" in Gav Strange's Droplet launch video (which I am actually in, for all of 2 seconds :P):


Jam & Custard - The launch of the Vinyl Toy 'Droplet' from JamFactory on Vimeo.

Gotta love those little guys ^_^ check out my drops' ("Campino") getting his chef on ;)



Ciao for now!

Just a quickie: Booty Juggler AND! Secret WarsxReebokxDaydream

No apologies this time about not posting for a while - I've decided rather than feeling guilty about not posting at least every week, I'm just gonna do it when I have time and when I have something I want to say/share.

I was looking at Bobsmade's devJournal the other day and she'd put up this link:


Watch Secret Wars x Reebok x Daydream in Entertainment Videos  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

It's a video of the 2007 Secret Wars x Reebok x Daydream event in Barcelona. Basically, graff artists from all over the world (or may have just been Europe, I can't rightly remember) go head to head with a white board - or equivalent drawing surface - and a big marker, and draw their little hearts out. There was some amazing stuff produced, so watch the vid and take a look.

Another little thing I've got to put up here today is a very neat 2D game called "Booty Juggler" - it's being seeded by Rubber Republic (great people, ne?) and it's part of the 4Mations campaign, which I'll put up a bit more about later. Designed by illustrator Robin Davey , it's about Patch the Pirate Octopus, and you have to help him protect his pirates booty:


Ttfn,

Jaye ;p

EDIT: Here's the embedded code for the game -



Free Online Games

Flyzzz - Featuring Callum the Chameleon

Okay, so it's been a few - it's also been really busy for me lately. I've started back at uni and am looking forward to getting on with some great new projects; also been workin' some. And to top it off, I am the very ungrateful receiver of (yet another) chest infection - okay, so it's the second one this year, but that's still a lot for me, especially considering I don't smoke o_O.

Well, you know how I said in the first post I might put up some viral type stuff every now and then? I am about to post the first ever viral game on this blog :D and it's a good un':



Go play it here: http://www.4mations.tv/clipgame.aspx?key=8258AB217BD32BEA&ctx=medialist&type=image

It's made by Aardman, with the campaign by MCM and the lovely people at Rubber Republic are sending it out to people, which is nice of them. And it's all for a good cause, so go have a play around and send it to your mates.

I have another gamey game that I may post about later, so watch out for that one too.

Bobsmade

Hey there peeps.

Thought I'd just big-up another favourite artist of mine - her name is Bobsmade and she rocks. Here's a link to her deviantArt page: http://bobsmade.deviantart.com/
Bobsmade does these amazing doodle-like sketches and pieces; they look like they take forever. Wish I could have the patience to do stuff that detailed :). I have had a go - check it out:

She also customises shoes (ballerinas, Chucks, old 80's style sneakers) and bags, designs t-shirts, and does these really neat pieces using coffee as a stain/watercolour-like paint.

Take a look at this:


Anyways, that's all for today. I do have a big ranty post that I'm planning on doing, but I've misplaced the link. Will shove it up here once I find it again.

Bah for now! God bless,

Jaye ;p

"911 Emergency..."

Okay, so I've been away for a little while - not away as in 'away', but like away from blogging. I've been kind of busy with work and stuff lately, getting ready to start back at uni etc, so things have been pretty crazy around here.

No new graff vids or shots I'm afraid (I'm going to have to go on a photohunt pretty soon to get some more pics up), but I have updated my previous posts from having just links to actual embeded videos! I only recently remembered that you could do that...yeah, yeah, I know. You guys are probably all saying: "Yes, duncehead. Of course you can do that" o_O. But I'm a blogging n00b, so forgive me.

The reason for the name of this post is twofold: one is for a trip I took to the E.R./Casualty/whatever you want to call it today. I had a bit of an accident on Friday evening; I was walking down the stairs (reading at the same time - which although it's pretty kool to be able to multi-task, is not a good idea whilst descending from...well, anywhere) and hadn't seen a bag that had been left on one of the bottom steps, and when I put my arm out to stop myself from falling, I hit my arm really hard on the bannister. Couple that with a fall UP the stairs at work on Thursday, and my arm was smarting a bit. I can be a bit of a hypercondriac (sp?) sometimes, so I decided not to head on down to casualty right away to get it checked out or anything; gradually over the weekend it started to hurt more and more to the point of it throbbing even when I wasn't doing anything. I decided to go to the doctors and let them take a look at it and he sent me down to get it X-Rayed today. Thankfully the wait wasn't particularly long and it was over quickly. But way to go for their "care and support" .¬¬ ! Which was like none, in case you didn't get my sarcasm. It was more like a "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" visit - the woman yanked my arm around (which hurt :( ) and when she'd taken a look was like "okay, go visit your doctor in a week" and then stalked off. So I take it it isn't broken then? I'm guessing not - although a cast may have been kool, especially to draw on, I'm kind of glad I dont' have the faff of all that. But I hurt! Could you not have told me what WAS wrong with it? A soft tissue injury or bruise to the bone perhaps? I guess not...

Anyway, the other reason for the name was I meant to do this post last Thursday, in memory of 9/11, but I went out and forgot *_* (whoops!). I found this video from Ryan Adams whilst I was doing my job as a seeder monkey and thought it was pretty topical - and also a good song - so it's now part of this post. Sorry for this one just being a link, but they've taken down the embed code. What can ya do?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IhDW18rxyY

I took this shot down in NYC in '05. My family took me there for my 18th and it was absolutely amazing. It was very weird around Ground Zero though. Very eerie and silent, despite the fact that it's in New York City! I did a little redux on the photo after watching the "World Trade Centre" movie by Oliver Stone. Now there's a film that makes you think it could go either way, but I think they were pretty respectful of it. Here's a link to my devArt page where I posted this up: http://wildfire198.deviantart.com/art/In-Loving-Memory-40598016

So yeah, that's all for now. I'll try and get some good shots or find a new video to post up soon.

Check y'all later! God bless,

Jaye ;p