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Photshizzle

2006-02-20T22:38:00.000Z

Been playing on PS again! pearson set me off he wanted me to make a banner for his band retroscopic on their myspace www.myspace.com/retroscopic so having nothing better to do i agreed, this is the final one we decided on goto have abit of pink as they are a tad emo :P but its all good i really like the banner safe!

This gave me the bug again n started playing with my barca photos i recon im gonna get the best of my sticker photos for my graphics n have those as my final pieces printed in that kinda stlye on like A3 or something if i can sort it, they goto look good cus all the barca work from our sixth form is going into a exhibition at snibby for like 6weeks n i goto do 3 pieces!! fun fun fun! hope u like let me no!

Laters!

Long exposure

2006-02-16T22:54:00.000Z

After playing round with my new camera i found the slow shutter speed settings, which i new would let me create some really fun photos! these were all done in barcelona! let me no what u think and which is your favourite

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Home sweet Home

2006-02-16T20:05:00.000Z

Been back from Barcelona for a few days now so i thought id put up the photos of my stickers that hit barca over the time i was there, i really enjoyed the trip and Barcelona is a amazing place i wont ramble :) let me no what i think

this pic is on the plane window! we had to hide it from the air hostesses, was quite funny tho

This pic is on the thing that has your bags in the airport got bored waiting for our bags so i wacked one on there, wonder if its still going round..

this one was on the bus window on the way to barca had the mandatory sweets with me so uno got some decoration on

another angle

this pic was on the metro window i recon it looks cool with the yellow n green all blurred n focus on the sticker

this one was on a bin in the ramblas

this sticker was on the escalator down to the metro

this one is on a phonebox :) should of put a number on it

this one is on the back of a traffic light :)

this pic is on a tissue dispenser thingy in a restaurant

i love this pic, placed nicely on some slippy marble

im not sure which background i prefere...

this pic was on a fire exit sign at the top of casa batlo, gaudis building

the sticker in use!! safe!

on the metro

where better to have a pone sticker?

Marble metro wall

this pic was on some generator outside a flat, was abit rough!

on the metro map on the metro!

wilko on a sign to the dali museum

all of us on a tree near the miro museum was a mad view!

any skater should no this spot!! paral-lel lengendary!

some marble bench in the middle of no-where

ian has so much fun on this horse he even put money in it!

some little spanish kid, i did manage a tre flip on his haggard board tho, he was well stoked on the sticker.

that damn sign was everywhere

metro seats and jonny

i love this one gav in his rightful place, with the illustrations on some lampost in the market

bigger view

does it really need a introduction!

reppin xynthetic in europe!!

last nite last sticker, drunken moped moment, like the car in the background tho!!

i recon these would look wicked as a big montage thing i mite get round to it lol lots on but uno! let me no what u think!! laters all

woah!

2006-02-08T12:32:00.000Z

this is the best sticker ever!! been at skool got bord so uno decided to go on photo shop this is now my final sticker as iv still goto pack n buy sidewalk etc this will be the main pic!!

Sticker update!!

2006-02-07T22:10:00.000Z

Made some more stickers, got the photoshop bug, these are all the stickers im gonna take to Barcelona to wack on some random peice of gaudi architecture! goto print them now, ill come back with all the photos next week friday time :)

Barcelona

2006-02-06T22:39:00.000Z

As i mentioned in my previous post we are going to Barcelona on Thursday, after sitting through many many skatevids where skaters stick stickers in places in Barcelona (the metro etc etc) it hit me that id love to do something like that, so off i went back into photoshop mode and created alot of differant sticker designs that will hit Barcelona over the 5 days were there!!! i will take a photo of each sticker and its place!! its gonna make the coolest montage ever!!

Photoshop

2006-02-06T19:39:00.000Z

ino, ino, im late learning the wonders photoshop but better late than never! to be honest iv never had a reason to learn photoshop untill, i started graphics, art was all drawing and 3D was all just 3D, back when i did IT aswell was just wank all database bollox. anyway my latest Graphics unit is Barcelona (roll on Thursday!) we have to design a point of sale for a Gaudi museum so i wanted to start by designing a logo, this started my photoshop story, being a right noob to photoshop my logo's arn't the best but im still only doing A-Level and really eagre to learn more, iv become really obsorbed by photoshop, and finding it a infinately creative tool, here are some of my logos i created, Overall im happy with them and will help me fill my sketchbook!!!

This one is one of my favourites because of the pink writing and transparent gaudi chimney things

i really like this one 1 because its abit of fun and also its very simple

This one is cool using one of the windows of Gaudi's Casa Batlo as a 3d border

i did this one because Gaudi does alot of mosiac stuff, a clown fish was the only thing fish i could think of that was colourful and be regonisable under the mosiac effect, only because of nemo though

Stoke Plaza!!

2006-02-05T22:00:00.000Z

On Saturday 4th Febuary, Myself, Sam, Corrigan, Dave, Rea, Jay, Will, Jake and Bill got up at 10:30! thanks to Corrigan this was after quite a drunken friday night in the town of Ashby, well atleast Sam was out his face the phool! yeah anyway we started our adventure to the best outdoor plaza in the UK, packed into Corrigan's Nissan Sunny was Corrigan Bill Me and Will, in Jakes much nicer fiesta was Jake, Sam, Dave, Jay and Rea the usual followed, shit being throwed at each others cars at silly speeds on the A 50, mcdonalds fries, drinks and prawn cocktail sandwiches to name a few we eventually arrive at the park after driving through the biggest shit hole in Britian. Anyway we skate over this little path to be greated by by 1/2 a million pound concrete paradise!

Some wicked stuff went down, Sam managed a well nice full cab down the drop to bank, Rae was well close to a nollie flip into it! Jake had one of the biggest smoothes flips into it like only Jake can. Me Dave and Jake ollied the big three by the bowl! i tried for a flip but couldnt be arsed in the end. Dave was just cruising round with his super clean stylish way having some mad shit, i had a ollie to manual off this dodgy triangular kicker thing onto some big ledge, also had a pop at the 9 set handrail but on second attempt fucked my foot as it drives you into the floor at about 200 mph!! overall it was a wicked slightly cold (2 degrees) day really enjoyed it! feeling the pain today though pulled muscles n aches etc, hope we all get to goto stoke again! roll on Spain 06!!!

logo!

2006-01-30T23:17:00.000Z

i really need to start updating my blog more often! maybe i dont have much happening? i dunno really but uno ill carry on. This blog is just a little update on the Xynthetic story, Gav recently sent me my own logo! looks really good to! designed by steve, the other half of the graphic/design section of xynthetic so a big up to the geezer cus they look really good!!

I like the marbley effect looks cool! So now the balls starting to roll n its getting all exciting!

Laters all!

IRiver U10

2006-01-24T18:24:00.000Z

Iv decided to dedicate this blog to my lovlerrly mp3 player that I carry round with me everywhere, The IRiver U10 is the latest product to rival the all mighty Ipod, the U10 is very simple it has its own innovative features and unique look, basically the IRiver U10 has some great assets, the D-Click system which I will explain later, the awesome High-resolution screen with 320x240 little pixels on just a 2.2 inch screen!, the ability to play MPEG4 which I was always abit dubious of, thinking it would be too small and jumpy but I was very impressed! It took me a while to find a good converter seeing as they don't supply one, shocking!!, good radio quality sharp and clear, clear recording from the radio also. There are six Macromedia Flash games on the device and while there not exactly PSP quality, they are mildly diverting, including a Space Invaders clone, Sodoku and one where you have to keep a fat man from falling off a log which is always fun! it also supports JPEGs so you wack some pictures worthy of grandma's tele in there.

Here's the little beast itself! The first thing that hit me was there's no buttons!? It also just has that immediate modern clean look about it, basically the D-Click system (directional click) means the whole screen is just one big ass button! Pressing the right goes right and so on, this means no fingers about to drop off from going round in circles trying to scroll through 1000 artists to find ZZ Top! The Only buttons to be found are on the top and right hand side, 2 for volume, 1 for On/Off and the other to change from portrait to landscape! It really is a awesome product plus I still haven't got to the coolest bit!

All hail the coolest docking station in the world! This really was the piece than converted me, it just looks awesome and if your a gadget lover you wont be displeased, it even has a remote control! The speaker quality on the cradle is surprisingly good, good enough for me to take it into the bathroom and sing along to my favorite song while in the shower! That will do me! You can even play the little flash games using the remote! Fun for 5 minutes! The cradle also acts as a alarm clock, so I could set any mp3 to wake me up in the morning which can be very startling I can tell you!

Overall I love my U10 I will be watching Irivers future products with great interest, if anyone actually manages to read this blog and has a U10 let me know what you think to it or even if you don't have let me know what your views are! that's me done laters all!

Gorillaz!

2006-01-14T23:40:00.000Z

One of my all time favourite bands, The Gorillaz are one of the most different things compared to other groups is the fact that they're some kind of a "virtual" group, All released videos so far depicted them in a very unique comic-style this of course is the work of Jamie Hewlett. (www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hewlett_jamie.htm) One of their trademarks is surely the Geep, the superstar of the 19-2000 video.

Also they have Blurs front man Damon Albarn (2d) Jamie Hewlett (Murdoc) Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (Russel) Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori (Noodle) what more could you need for a awesome band! and thats what Gorillaz are! Anyway back to the point of this post, going back to my previous post about my stenciling work this really set me off on a little hobbie so in tribute to Jamie Hewlett and his awesome work i created these...

Russel...I really like this stencil it was the hardest one i had to do because it took about 4 goes to actually line up the colours right as this bad boy has 5 layers to it!

2d...This was my first attempt at the characters but this is one of my favourites the only bit i dont lke is the over-spray on his hair but i still think it looks awesome, his face looks wicked with those massive eyes!

Murdoc...This one is my favourites for a few reasons i was never quite sure when cutting the detail what the guitar would look like because of how delicate it had become, but once i did my practice spray i was well happy with the result, i really like to colours and the way he's standing! the one thing i would try to sort out would be the over-spray on his hand! cant be a perfectionist though can we!

Noodle...This one turned out best because of the pure crisp lines and perfect colour positioning i was super stoked when this bad boy was finished...

Heres how the all look together on my wall i really like them and i am very proud of them! So there we go another arty thing added to my blog! wicked!

Laters all hope u like them !

Art Work

2006-01-14T23:23:00.000Z

Another reason for me to make this site was for me to kinda document my Art and Design work so i can see what im doing etc instead of never seeing the pics on my pc. So basically this post is about my unit 5 for Art (thats my first A-level standard project) i got into stenciling really after checking out banksy's awesome work www.bansky.co.uk i also looked at Gav's work which also inspired me to work on some of my old decks!Basically the theme was City Environment, so i decided to base my project on skateboarding but make it much more urban than my other projects. So i took a magazine sequence of a és footwear advert of Justin Edlrige (switch flip switch salad!!) and basically started cutting the stencils of him for each sequence, all i did then was build up my layers and stencils from the background forwards, this is how they turned out...

These really took alot of patients, i managed to do them without much over spray so yeah i was happy with that i didnt have to strip a deck down and start again always a good start!

I like how they look on the wall, (they have a greater impact from a further distance) but the way they are separated into actual decks so u can see what they are individually i thought that was the best way to have them really!So yeah thats my first Alevel project done i got 54/60 overall for the final piece and sketchbook so i was well happy with that. My next Art project is Barcelona cant wait to go in Febuary its going to be amazing(im taking my board too! safe!)

Laters!

Xynthetic

2006-01-14T21:55:00.000Z

This post is really the reason why I am on this blogging site, I was talking to Gav bout making a site and he said y dont I make one of these? so here I am! neways back to the posting this blog is all about xynthetic, to cut a long story short I got really good mates with Gav over at www.jam-factory.com and one day he came to me with a place on his family at Xynthetic! www.xynthetic.co.uk I was well stoked on this as iv always been interested in what Gav does, I love all his work and I feel like his websites have a wicked style about them, I can always tell if a website is Gav's cus of his individual style! so yeah ofcourse I jumped at the chance to be part of the Xynthetic family along with SPT and Wilko www.pholow.cjb.net basically what it involves is like a sponsor we will film a dvd n get some decks designed by Gav n tee shirts and that's well exciting! so I just wanna say a great thanks to Gav for wanting me to be involved in the Xynthetic family its awesome :D

Spt Wilko n Me

Me Chillin'

Me Spinning the Spt! Safe!

First Post!

2006-01-09T22:05:00.000Z

So this is my first post, cool cool well I decided to do my little bit on Blogspot because I wanted to make a website where I could just have a little fun put up pics of stuff that's happening in my world, but with my limited knowledge of Dreamweaver it would be pointless really because it would look poo. So I opted for the easy way out which lead me here :) ill try to update when something cool happens to my life if anyone is interested suppose this site will be more for me that anyone but hey! why not :) peace out!