Just found 'shreds ' on youtube.

People are rerecording the audio for music videos, with comic effect:

This is the way to do it:

 

Stand at the back, twiddle knobs and hire musicians to do all the hard work...

After last year's mud hell, I was tentative about going back to Glastonbury. However a free ticket in exchange for 4 hours of puppetry a day seemed like a fair deal.

I made 3 children cry and scared 2 people who were ‘happy’.

Some of the more popular routines:

• ‘Spoon of doom’ - a mexican ladle who shouted ’spoon of doom’ repetitively.
• The sponge who blew along to the music of My Way.
• The evil chameleon who threatened to follow you around Glastonbury, sneak into your tent whilst you are sleeping and ‘wear you like a puppet’.
• The bare hand - the most advanced puppet in the world with another hand inside it.
• The giant bear who stares into your soul, vacuum cleans all the evil out and makes it into biscuits.
• The chameleon discussion with a child about the Wurzels song ‘I’ve got a brand new combine harvester, and I want to give you a key’, however it would be bad to give a child a combine harvester as they would drive through the local village and chop everyone up, resulting in Weetabix with chunks of flesh in it..

My musical Glastonbury highlight had to be Seasick Steve , the 21st century blues man. 3 people back from the front and you could still smell the roadkill.

Thanks to Martin Coyne for the photo.

It's all happening down at Alum Chine:

 

Hubworld is almost upon us and I thought I'd squeeze in an update to my portfolio, something I'm getting less opportunity to do recently...

The design for this project developed quite a lot after the promo image back in January:

Taking the photos on the beach helped focus the concept:

Click the image below for a larger view:

Resulting in the final brochure and supporting flyers:

 

 

General flyer:

 

 

Child's Flyer:

 

 

Teenager's Flyer:

 

Click here to see PDF's of this project.

 

... but not when they result in complete failure and 3 trips to Maplins.

 

 

The hub map I produced last year (or as some call it 'the hub brain') has been published in The Journal Of Arts Marketing.

Always nice to see your work published. Hubalicious (the youth web design group I work with) are also mentioned.

Click the image below to see the article.

Yesterday I worked at The Study Gallery with their young curators group.

They are putting on an exhibition titled 'Messages' that displays many exciting and different ways of communication... some of which can be seen here . (If you haven't taken part in Futureself , do it!)

We're going to produce a flyer, poster, invite and several magazine adverts.

Anyway during the workshop, I was talking about the principles of design and how a simple idea can be the most effective, yet a simple idea doesn't mean it's any less complex.

They coined the phrase 'Complex, Simple'.

We came up with the idea of wrapping up a messenger pigeon to represent 'Messages'...

Complex, Simple?

Or it means you've got lots of deadlines.

I spent yesterday on the beach building sandcastles and taking photos for the hubworld project. Only 2 people asked me what I was doing this time... I must be slipping.

Whilst walking back to my car two young boys were kicking over the sandcastles.

Radiohead are running a competition to see who can make the best remix of their latest single here .

Of course you have to download (and pay) for the separate parts of the track via Itunes, but I suppose as it’s Radiohead it’s kind of like your favourite uncle tapping you for 5 quid.

Anyway Rob (trubb) has submitted this, listen and vote now!

 

I've just been updating my portfolio with recent work. A large chunk of what I've been doing recently is for a project called Growbags.

Growbags are performance scratch nights taking place all over Dorset.

Back in October I created a promo image for Growbags by driving to the top of a multi-storey car park, standing in a growbag and taking photos.

Continuing the public insanity theme for the flyer - I took photos of myself dressed in a suit, in the January rain, wearing sunglasses, with my bare feet in a growbag. For each shot I had to run around the camera, set the self timer and run back...

For this project we also created a beer mat using the original promo image. I like to think my feet are supporting glasses and mugs all over Dorset.

I suppose it's not a 'normal' day job, but it beats reading the FT on a packed tube.

See here for the complete picture.

I've also been working on this brochure... It's been a busy month.

See here for more.