“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster.” – Late Great Carl Sagan Exciting times lay ahead for technology and it’s going to be equally interesting to see some of the products that will be spawned from the likes of nano … Continue reading Accessible Technology
Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), the man behind the amazing designs and ideas of social and environmental change at the Venus Project has been uploading lectures in the form of Youtube videos for some time now. Many would like to believe his ideas, philosophy and visions of a future based on a Resource-Based Economy is too ambitious. At his current age of 95 he … Continue reading Bridges between Nations
Patterns. Our lives are full of them, from patterns in our food to the music that we hear to the most intricate uses of it in nature and even further beyond are planet still in the configuration of our Solar System. Patterns are what hold us together, it’s the combination of something that can give us power or even make our food taste better and … Continue reading The Day We Stood Still
Thought I’d upload some artwork from Marco V’s Comic from his Propaganda V2 album. Found some sketches and unfinished artwork too that I didn’t use for the two part comic which I am thinking off uploading at some point. Album is also available digitally through the itunes store so check that or pick up the album from HMV or similar. Remember those days of buying … Continue reading Sketch to Final from Marco V Comic
A recommended watch this month is a interesting interview of the founder of the controversial website WikiLeaks. If you ain’t heard it’s the source for classified documents minus the conspiracies. Unfortunetly, Julian Assange is being sought for questioning by the US Authorities..check the vid (contains some scenes viewers may find disturbing). Continue reading Julian ‘WikiLeaks’ Assange Interview on Ted
London Underground workers recently uncovered an old lift passageway at Notting Hill Gate Station with some cool 1950s posters. The actual dates of the posters are c1956-1959 and London Underground are looking to keep the 50 year old posters intact. Images officially belong to London Underground and more images can be found on mikeyashworth’s flikr page. Continue reading Underground Posters Discovered
After weeks and months on the grind, I’ve finally had the opportunity to update and completly re-do my website. I was hoping to get this done earlier last year but didn’t want to give this to somebody else to do and waited till I had the time to implement it on my own, especially when I have the capability of doing this to my own … Continue reading V2 is finally here!
Stumbled across these Mcfly concepts for the 1989 film, Back to the Future II. Some of these didn’t make it into the cult film, however some, as above, most rightly did! I’ve never gotten quite tired of this film, great thing is that it’s still such a conceptually, creatively and a damn right fun film to watch and for me this was one of the … Continue reading Great Scott! Concepts from 2015
The ever popular king of US acid house music, the legendary DJ Dan has been around since the late Eighties and carved out a massive name for himself in the North Atlantic Dance music scene. This year see’s the legend release Future Retro later on in the year in July – more details to follow on this, and Operator will be released as part of The Evolution … Continue reading DJ Dan – Future Retro
The Roots, Eminem and DJ Jazzy Jeff? Seriously rocking the bells for this LL Cool J tribute! Real refreshing to see Eminem on that old school flow! A good performance from the recent Hip Hop Honors Awards. Continue reading ROCK THE BELLS
Here’s a quick upload of some art work I done for my friends facebook flyer. Welcome to club 30 Sam, Happy Birthday mate. Continue reading Club 30
Picked these up just before Christmas from a supercool shop in Glasgow called The Fat Buddha Store. I haven’t seen many 6.0’s in these colours and again there’s some nice detail on the Air Max 1 Premium. The shop sell’s a whole range of urban gear from Vinyl Toys to Pens and Inks! The blog is also a good read, they’ve had Dj Jazzy Jeff … Continue reading Fat Buddha Store
The Puma Striscia, part of the ’96 Hours’ line and are by far the most comfortable kicks I’ve had and very well made, there’s so much great detail all over it from the sole to the heel. Love the puma on the sole and the back just looks like another shoe. Designed well from good ol’ Puma. For those special occasions. Continue reading Cool Kicks
Doodling is my hangup cure! Here’s one I scribbled at my cousin’s house just after New Year’s Eve featuring a mix of characters. I faintly remember starting off with batman first then the joker was formed accidently, wasn’t too happy about his jaw, spidey just creeps into focus so I was happy with that. Wasn’t too happy with Venom…but ahhhhh was hungover! Will upload a … Continue reading Hangover Sketch
Hope everyone had a fantastic New Years and Christmas! New Years Eve for me is always a crazy one, sometimes helps that my Birthday falls on this day but is always difficult getting people together in one place, but luckily a party is never too far, so I wouldn’t have it any other way! Spent some of the night djing at a bar in West … Continue reading Holy Vinyl Batman!
Slightly delayed but here it is! The images from the CD and inlay artwork I did for Marco V’s, Propaganda V2 album, which was released in November. Darker and more detailed then the 1st comic I produced for Propaganda Part One. I was really happy with the overall feel of this one, would love to do more stories! For your copy of one of the … Continue reading Propaganda V2
I was invited to a pre-release of a new digital and interactive design and art exhibition at the V&A yesterday afternoon, Decode: Digital Design Sensations. I didn’t really know what to expect, which was great, as I was blown away by the art pieces on display…and YES it’s definitely art! Maybe not what you’d usually expect but there’s a lot here for the everyone really, … Continue reading Decode Exhibition
Another interesting video from the TED Talks shows. Pranav Mistry talks about his amazing, inspirational and intuitive invention of the sixth sense device. What’s cheaper to manufacture than a mobile or computer, allows you to take your digital world with you and seemlessly amalgamates our digital and real world together? Well, that would be Pranav Mistry’s most amazing invention, The Sixth Sense device. Sit back … Continue reading Sixth Sense is tingling!
No more boring data! If data was displayed like this back at school, geography would’ve been great! Hans Rosling provides a fantastic way of displaying a wide array of data about the world and it’s progresses through the years. An intuitive approach to looking at statistical data in a completly refreshing way. Mr E.Tufte would be over joyed. Continue reading No more boring data!
Catch PARANOIA digging in the crates and playing all the good stuff this Friday at The Avenue Wine Bar in West Ealing. We (my bro & I) DJ there every 1st Friday of the month (see flyer above for details!). Expect a good night of diverse uplifting music with real mixes from the DJ’s!! Just don’t trip over all the vinyl! Yeah baby we keep … Continue reading
Hi all, check out the video below that samples some of the hugely anticipated tunes from Marco V’s new album and some of the pages I created for the comic, released on the 14th November! Continue reading V2 Teaser Trailer
Had an amazing night on Friday at The Gallery for Marco’s Launch for Propaganda V2. Had a great time and I’m sure everyone else in there was buzzing of the vibes! Amazing costumes, though not as many as I expected, beautiful ladies, banging tunes and just a real good vibe, no attitude, just good vibes! Rolling around in the VIP was an obvious bonus, still … Continue reading V Day
Only treats! Get your Thriller on this Friday at The Gallery with Marco V headlining his Album Launch Party for Propaganda V2! Continue reading Tricks & Treats?
The artwork for the second album from Marco V has now been finished and sent over. Another monotone adventure featuring that dj hero Marco V punishing his adversaries with his old vinyl collection! There’s also a lot more pages this time, which gave me more space to play around with. Had a lot of fun working on this, have to give a big thanks and … Continue reading 2nd Coming
DJMag have started their voting season for the Top100DJs. I was commisioned to do the image above for DJ Marco V, wish him all the best and goodluck! Vote now at http://www.votev.nl Continue reading Your DJ needs you!
Here’s a few pics taken from my recent work featured in the international music magazine MIXMAG. Closer images of the work can be viewed on my website. Wasn’t expecting the images to be so big on the page, but glad it was as the details came out really nice. The images were created in line with the interview of Marco V. The first image depicts … Continue reading In da Mix…mag.
Being a trainer freak, it’s been a long time waiting to see Nike produce those Nike trainers with the power laces in Back to the Future II. This is probably the closest we’ll get to them for now, but seriously, Nike step up the game guys! I love the design of the originals from the movie which are still a long way away from the … Continue reading Nike gets Mcfly
Welcome all to my blog! If this were 3 weeks ago then my first blog post (ever!) would be of a more uplifting and happier nature but unfortunately situations have drastically changed since. My mother suddenly woke me from deep sleep on Sunday 21st June 2009 (Father day and the Longest Day of the year) with words I had always dreamt I would never hear. … Continue reading Captains Log…
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