Last one off the list...

Right, now, in a party with no openers (a classic problem), I can actually open any bottle with my bare hands...

Tweeting Twankey is BOOMING!

http://twitter.com/search?q=%40tweetingtwankey

Really proud to have been part of this, all the best to all who joined in and a big pat on th eback to my fellow twankers...

Techno Jeep...

I love it when people pull this sort of thing off, It reminds me of when you come back from a big night out and you can hear a dance beat in everything (the shower rumble/the fridgefreezer hum etc). I can only inmaging how amazing this would be if I actually had a Jeep Cherokee and actually recognised the sounds. Love it, I'm gonna try and mix it into one of my sets.
Great Job guys...

I twanked in Primark... thanks Skive.

Well chaps, I did the deed. I was todays Tweeting Twankey and queened it up in Oxford Street from 1-2pm. Here's just one little pearl of the day (So sorry you are missing out on the Selfridges Karioke vid, watch this space)... Along the way to our winner I was thrown out of Primark (we were told to stop filming and after not stopping our hosts mood, although previously very chipper and enjoying a chip tickle, sharply changed to a 'ok now get the fuck out' sort of attitude...)

Act three, The Lankey Twankey, Twankey Gets Thrown Out of Primark from josh denton on Vimeo.

Head here to... TWEETING TWANKEY... to see s'more.

ok... one more...

Act three, The Lankey Twankey, Road Workers get Twanked from josh denton on Vimeo.

See you on the game...

Today I will be donning the widow twankey atire and strutting my frilly stuff up and down oxford street for act three of the great 'Tweeting Twankey', a christmas card to you all from my company Skive. Tweets on Twitter featuring the #tweetingtwankey will have £1 donated to Shelter (charity that helps the homeless amoung other things, very needed in these Balitic conditions).
Check out the site between 1pm-2pm, NOTE THE PASSWORD, then come say it to big mamma and you will be given a envelope containing 100 smackers. Simple.

heres the site...

http://tweetingtwankey.com/

of course pictures will be blogged... watch this space...

Theo Jansen and his magnificent machines...

I have been a huge admirer of Theos work for some time now. was just reminded of his work after holding a pack od postit notes and sliding them across the desk, flayed edge down, had a similar effect. This is just incredible. Check out his amazing Kinetic Sculptures...


http://www.strandbeest.com/theo_jansen.html

Anis Eyeballin'...

i asked for my friend here Anis to stare into the camera for an asset of a video project im doing at work and... well...

He has never done this before and had no idea he could preform such a task! Proud to know you Anis!

Hello Hugh...

written by Armando Iannucci, in this section of his show Armando eases out old stories from Hughs past...

My god is this just the best sort of comedy or what?
SEE ALSO: Hoffnung

no, a diet coke please... and more maccaroni cheese... with extra butter on... and some melted lard in a pint glass please, i'm parched.

Camelogurtle...

I am willing to bet good money/my own beating heart that this is in America...

more (equally if not better) dogs with torture behind the eyes... HERE.
Leonardoodle being a favorite of mine.

OK more have flooded across the room at me, from the metro... can't help but shrae this visual magic also... HERE.
I take back the turtle comment, the panda now must the cake...

I know it's old but I dares ya to not be entertained...

The Chewbacca Nightstand...


...and fret not, I have an odd new project on the way to tickle your fancies/fantasies...

Hairyitus...

Hairyitus is a psycological desiese that comes after Grow/Movember. The patient will often see facial hairstyles in the most abnormal of places.
"I was just cooking my bacon when this tasche formed before my very eyes",
josh Denton, 25.

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And can I just swing a lil message to this blogging platform... sort out this Youtube video overlapping/cropping thing.
If you own this site you will undoubtably feel very proud of yourself but please don't loose the drive to perfection...

Ian Stevenson...

Yes kids, it's that time again to be introduced to another illustrator that has caputrued my imagination (this one courtesy of Dan at www.thegraphical.com).
Ian Stevenson has a playful and child-like feel about his work that really brings out the best in the characters he draws.
This music video done for Grafitti 6 really cuts my mustard.

Having a hard day at the office?

I love this bit of film,would make a really great ad. Theres so much going on and so many peoples reactions to watch...

7am on Tuesday morning...

WUBWUB WUUUB WAAAHH WUBWUBWUB WAAAAAAHHHH (insert incredibly loud Dubstep bassline). My eyelids peel back faster than a mother of 5 with a tangerine.

"What the FUCK is that!?!?", I shout to myself.
Then I realise the song that is being pummeled through my (pretty thin) bedroom wall and notice the direction its coming from...

"NAIM!!!!!", I'm screaming as I bang on the wall and then finally see red and flip out of bed in a whirling fluster of rage, power out my room and virtualy take the hinges off his door...

"TURN THAT THE FUCK DOWN NOW!", I shout through the thick bass in the air.
"What? why?", says a rather shocked and confused Naim.
"BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING SEVEN'O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING!!"
"Oh, shit, sorry mate I thought it was 7Pm, I..."
"GET A FUCKING TIME SCHEDULE"
SLAM. door shut...

Naim is the only person that is not a submarine operator or an Alaskan who actually needs a 24 hour clock to know wether it's day or night...one christmas present down...

The Stinking Tube...

I have always kinda dreaded the summertime tube journeys. Hot, sweaty and clammy with a warm aroma of arid armpits, it's a classic conversation.. "just made it on the tube and ended up ear-deep in some fat guys sweatglands". Though there is one day that beats this...

It's days like today that carry the most impressive nasal pugency. The day when it's raining hard,everybody knows it will be and the old rain jackets come out. Thick ones, thin ones, padded ones, quilted ones the lot. they have all been festering in the deepest parts of your house for a good few months now, maturing ready for the great unveiling, all they need is a little sprinkle of water to be brought back to their stinking state once more. The summer sweatys are at least, in majority, clean. Jumping on the tube to meet the stench a carrage full of wet mouldering jackets and getting each of their personal residues wiped upon you as you wait at the door is definetly worse...

Talking heads...

So here I am once again writing to you, probably very badly, on the train. Just thought I'd share my love for great music with anyone out there trading this who also has a love for great music. Oh shit I'm here, will have to carry this on another tim

The Last Question...

Yeeeah I know what you're thinking it's all black and white and boring and really the only interesting thing about this post is the wonderfully crafted facial hair the speccy mad scientist has in the picture but please read on...
I read this short sci-fi masterpiece after on recommendation from a friend of mine (matty) who found it on Digg a while back (probably a good few years ago now) Its by a writer named Isaac Asimov who is widly regarded as the greatest Sci-fi writer of all time and reading this its not hard to see why!
Its a very short story and is great for a shortish trek to work on the train of something (will probably take little over half an hour to complete).
Make the effort... its got a great ending... BUT, you MUST obey this one single rule if you decide to read it... DO NOT SKIP TO THE END OR EVEN TRY TO READ THE NEXT FEW LINES FURTHER AT THE END... YOU MUST READ IT PROPERLY OR YOU WILL WASTE IT!!

enjoy, and errr without sounding too Matrixy... free your mind...

Isaac Asimov - The Last Question

It has been transferred to an great graphic novel which you can see HERE but I found the text too small to actually see so I'd suggest the 1st link...

What a music video...

This music video is the absolute shit, LOVING the Super Nintendo animations for the power-ups and the character designs are awesome. Pretty gnarly and not for the hating of the x-ratus but a really creative animation... and the actual track is receiving some serious love too, well done Flair... and thy animator...

So this little thought following the story of MJ's 3D scans being sold on Ebay for $1.5m...

Take from this what you will...

the Big Fat University...

"When I was introduced to the BFU I really thought I could give up my degree...

If anyone is frustrated using their digital applications and needs some home tutoring, there is no better place to go than the Big Fat University."

This is the most creativly enjoyable thing I've seen all week (outside of my own wonderous work of course).

Enjoy!

http://www.bigfatuniversity.org/

The Leica M7 Hermes edition is one sexy mammajamma...

This is the most beautiful creation in all of christiandom. Classic features but packed with all the mod cons you need to survive with the newest plastic chunks out there. Let me say it one last time before I go... she's a looker alright, the Leica M7 Hermes edition, WOOP d'ere it'is!

See her in all her optic glory... HERE.

Strange Anti-domestic violence ad from (I think) Denmark...

I like to use other parts of my body (head/broken bottle/golf club) to really get a feel for the reality of domestic violence.
Is this ad really effective? I think not...

http://www.hitthebitch.dk/

Chinese Spinning Top...

From my dear friend Yaggi, back from China.
Play with audio, the best bit is the fact that this wonderous oddity plays a local pop song loop which we have decided to be the catchiest tune ever created.
Listen... I dares you precious.

Package design with an extra attention to detail..

This is actually something I have been talking to one of my mates about for a while (Nibs was that you?), just think its great. Milking interest into every aspect of the package. Can see 'Innocent Smoothies' being all over that, mark my words...

See the article... HERE.

So Sticky...

Bus shell ads for new Coke bottle grip. Thats grandé.

(title homage to... THIS)

My Bloody Tuesday...

Decided to give blood today after seeing the van yesterday, got a free bottle of water and a small packet of Ritz. Who said money makes the world go round. Blood gets you all you need, lets not be greedy.



Notice (middle picture) the little piece of gauze Claudia put neatly over my needle when I said I wanted to take a picture, "its procedure, we aren't allowed to let people see the actual needle going in, it puts them off"... apparently a big bag of warm blood does not...

Head down the local for a quick pint, its for the best.

Vinnie Jones ain't got a touch on this bitch...

On a seperate note I cant help but notice that my humble blog is about to reach triple figures! very nice, thanks to all of you who return to see whats up every day. As a thanks, once the big 1000 has been reached I will give £1 to every homeless guy I pass for one day.

This blog is a way for me to let people take a little peek into my brain, just a little tippytoe over the wall glimpse but feel free to grab as much as you can and enjoy.

Joe Tallarico on Meathaus...

Found this site today after linking away from Andy Rementers site a few times, Love this guys vibration drawings, the colour-ways are quality.
c-HECK Meathaus (what an awesome name for anything).... here.

FLY-ering, sorry, cant believe I did that...

Man, i'm on a roll today, I missed a couple of days but am back on form I think you will agree...


I’m literaly fuming they beat me to this. Used to do this to bees and flies as a kid, once even got half an ice lolly stick off the ground with a row of flying pests (advertising).
Hats off to them for applying this classic to provide a pretty cheap medium which is impossible to ignore (ITIABTWC).

Surely that's it for today?...

If you ever needed a reason to start defacing things...

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (Digital Blackbook) - BLK River (Vienna) from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

London based artist Ben Turnbull, the anti-yanki...

Heres some of his AWESOME school desk carvings...



"Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal the shocking truths about war, death and guns in the world’s most powerful country. Above all they take a satirical look at the lengths that the country’s political elites go to in order to control and manipulate the way we think, from our first days of play to the last time we cast our vote. Turnbull is a passionate critic of the contemporary American political system, and explains why toys are central to his work: ‘Force fed on violence, abused by a controlling superpower and blackmailed through patriotism, the public are ultimately as disposable as the toys they once played with’."

Questions that hve been bothering me: PART 1

What is the meaning of the 'covered bridge'? they look quite nice but why do you need to be dry for the few seconds you are driving over the bridge?

...and another just popped into my head as i was pondering that... how long would a Slinky be if it was fully outstretched?

Riddle me that Smeegul.

The weekends big win...

Went to Herne Hill at the weekend (fast becomeing my favorite place it seems) and on Saturday we went for a walk. During our casual stroll round the park we were approached by an old chap dressed as, what can only be described as sergent pepper. He informed us that there was a treasure hunt going on today and, as it was free, we decided to play the community card and take part! very exciting. We were given a map of the area, there were around 20 spots marked on there and once you reached the marker there was a riddle and you were asked to find a particular area within that area which would give you a number eg. how many windows facing due south on a particular building. anyway after 3 hours and meeting the mayor or Lambeth here we are enjoying our winnings (£50 voucher) in Lombok the local Thai resaurant...

yep, bad picture.

Pork might fly...

Those of you lucky enough to travel to work on the beautifully air-conditioned and relaxing underground system may have seen this in todays Shortlist magazine, this post is for all you poor car/bike drivers out there. ‘Dinner in the Sky’ is pretty much a big table and chairs you are belted into and then drawn up 50m into the air, creating a ‘perfect eating enviroment’ (???). I went on their site (http://www.dinnerinthesky.com/) and found that they also do other ‘things in the sky’ (which I guess you would once you have shelled out for a massive crane and realise that your cold, wet and windy dining idea isn’t quite the masterplan you thought it might be). You can also ‘get married in the sky’, hold ‘meetings in the sky’, ‘showbizz in the sky’ (don’t ask) and by the looks of the pictures, and most ridiculously, play ‘POKER IN THE SKY’!?! If I have learned anything in my years out card playing its that cards wind are a no no, especially as if you drop one you would (all) have to travel at least 50m to get it back. I can’t help but think that Theo Pathitis would laugh this right out of the Den and if its not good enough for him, it certainly ain’t good enough for me.
Il do a bungee jump in the morning then have dinner later thanks...

HUNGRY??

http://www.cheeseandburger.com/

its old hat but for those of you who haven't yet had the pleasure...

...come stay a night in Hotel 626.


http://hotel626.com/

The most amazing treehouse in zee world...

The most amazing treehouse in the world. Constructed on top of about ten trees, constructed from of about a thousand. I can't help but think we have a lesson to learn here...

interesting fact of the day... (utterly debatable)

Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Max Payne, Three Kings etc) has a third nipple, which apparrently sometimes even lactates

http://health.howstuffworks.com/13-people-with-extra-body-parts3.htm

Its time for another great inspiring illustrator post...

Yuko Shimizu is a New york based illustrator, from Japanese heritage, who seems to have a hair fetish (see the 'sex' section of her site). Shes done alot of stuff in advertising, I actually found her after liking the illustrations for the Tiger beer print ads and sherlocking her down. There, not quite a biography but it'll do.

Litchenstien lady...

Love Litchenstien? heres a top halloween costume idea for ya...

here to help...

its just nice...

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

found it...

http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/
same people by the looks of it, love the audio in all Amanitas stuff, good good good.

a great, cosy game...

http://machinarium.net/demo/
Really similar ambient point and click style to another web game I played a few years ago where you are a little white elf character with a dog that crash lands on a little planet. the backgrounds are made from photos of moss and tree bark etc. Anyone remember that? would love to play it again...

Super Mario has sold out...

Saw Mario outside an italian restaurant in the Oxford circus area, says he cant pay the bills on just 90 billion YEN and has to hold this pizza shovel with a menu on to earn alittle extra cash... poor guy.

Cassetteboy strikes again...

Following the success of his Alan Sugar vid (along with a lot of other things) comes this Griffen re-edit.

nice.

My brush in with his holyness (s)...

So, saw Jesus on the cross this morning (some photoshoot amidst the crowds) in a bleary-eyed walk from Oxford Circus to work and in the very same scene/frame of my vision saw Brian Blessed... BLESSED! more than just a coincidence? Is Brain Blessed God?

Digital Grafffffffitttttttttti...

SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

I like all things with this vibrance and impact... apart from maybe Lilly Savage

A great screen saver, functional AND aesthetically pleasing... dont worry about it

http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

A nice morning greeting...

Walking to work and found this little masterpiece along the entire tunnel floor at Herne Hill station this morning. Good work, things like that make people smile and inspire creativity which i'm all for. Nice one Mr. Hill.

Another dream question...

So I woke this morning after having a nice dream about something which I instantly forgot but still had this song in my head, Josh Rouse - Sparrows Over Birmingham (ok ive just had a look for it on youtube but cant bloody find it but... try THIS), which begs the question... Do dreams have soundtracks? or even any noise at all? I was under the impression they were silent and in black and white (but that could very well be dogs vision). Either way I had this track ingrained into me from the second I woke up and, although I do have this song, strangly I haven't heard it for some time.

What does it mean!?

Answers on a SAE to jjdentoncreative@googlemail.com ...or comment

£400 a night if I remember rightly?

No wonder its not a purple anymore..

Clarence the killer...

So, following up my previous post regarding the spider in my room... here he is in all his aracnal glory...

nnnnnn..eed.......more......beeeeeeeeeeerrrr......

Here's what I was laughing at on Friday...

This poor chap just wants a few brews to slow the tempo, trouble is it looks as if he has just drunk his own weight in Absinthe and cant seem to make out which way up is...


EMBED-Drunkest Guy Ever Goes for More Beer - Watch more free videos

A musical genius posted for all the wrong reasons...

Just remembered seeing this gig/set/show on BBC 4 (what a channel) and just being absolutely blown away (pardon the pun) by not only Dizzy Gillespes top slinky brass magic and the bassists perfect rhythm but Dizzys enormous hypnotic cheeks! You could fit a couple of hamsters in those babys! They actually push his collar out about an inch when he parps his trumpet!



P.S. Muchos appologias for leaving you guys hanging on Friday but, hey, it aint easy writing such an incredibly well thought out and coherent blog for the masses. Well actually it is but i want the respect anyway...

The Great Pussy eating Matt Stafford...

A couple of guys from the company im working with (Skive) head to Stockholm to watch icehockey and eat pussy... octopussy.

Best ad of the year...

London Pride

I met this dummy collecting biker dude at the weekend while drunkenly bumbling through Camden on my way to the bus stop at about 2am. Iv’e actually only just realised i’ve got this pic on my phone…

He gave me an idea, I’m going to take a picture of all the crazy looking people I see (in a kinda Vice mag Do’s and Don’ts esque manner) and create a huge montage of Londons finest freaky folk… Londons Pride.

Help me out, if you get the chance, if you see a likely looking lumbering loon on the streets at any point take a pic and send him/her to jjdentoncreative@googlemail.com

Help the cause, lets do an art.

Muinto obrigado

Paper, pencil and dead things...

See the whole collection at 'one large prawn'... HERE.


I particularly like the moth-man and his son image, kinda sweet. will be trying this out myself soon.
So anyway, I have a garden spider (the camoflaged looking ones, now the black hairy ones that skittle around and cause hysteria) in my room to catch the flies, named Clarence. He has been staying with me for about a month now and he's growing like a weed. Does anyone know how long spiders live? comment me.

SEE THE LCROSS MISSION LIVE!

12:30pm today (yeah I know thats like 10 mins but better late than never right?) NASA are smashing a spacecraft into the moon at 6,000mph.

see it.... HERE... LIVE!!!

Fucking love this guy.

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/10/06


WHITE BASE-COAT!!!!!!!!

YOU THINK VISORS ARE COOOOOL!?!

nnnnnnnuhhh... GO DOGS!!!!!! AARRGH!

BLAP!

An instant office classic (thanks Dan,Dan and Matt for bringing this blappery to my attention)...
So... Urban Dictionary are now doing these wonderful definitions printed on mugs, and there's even a little bit of creativity involved!

check it out... (and my lovely girlfriend will probably hate me for this, sorry babe) HERE.

Dinosaurs come back into my life, 20 years on...

I fully thought the baby T-rex was CG when it scampered on at the start! Really believable (apart from the extra set of knees, which I guess in a propper show would be better hidden, black tights and background sort of affair). So it seems that kids of today arent all computer games and actually do have some cool things after all.... still not better than Bowoods death slide though.

Guru 'Osho' tells it how it is...

If you have never heard of this man, let me enlighten you (well Wikipiedia).


"If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me." – Osho

Growing pains...

So... It's my birthday next week.
Assuming I live to the ripe old age of 100 years (which I obviously will as I don't drink, don't smoke, don't take drugs and my diet is pretty much Gillian MK's wet dream), I will very soon be a quarter of a century old.
Bit nervous as in actual fact the last bracketed statement isn't necessarily all true. So Lets say I live to 75, I will be two thirds of the way though my life! Very scary.
What if I get disabled or go blind or get a physically disabling disorder of some type? I could only have 25 years of the good life left...
Chances are I could even get run over by a bus or a organ grinding monkey in the next few days...

I'd better have a good week I guess.

So much pressure...

PEANUT BUTTER HAS ITS DAY!!!!

Anyone who knows me will know that I love peanut butter and get through a hell of a lot of it. On toast/crumpets/bagels (best on muffins with butter), with cheese with marmite, with mayonaise, with olives and basicly with anything. I eat it on its own by the jar. I am peanut butter. Almost every week there is another shocker about the things that we eat e.g. milk gives you cancer and ALL the things that people love the most (ice cream, pizza, alcohol, cake etc etc) are the worst things for you. WELL... I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1195453/Peanut-butter-wards-heart-disease-say-scientist.html

stoked.

P.S. if you are considering giving me a peanut butter related gift (10/10/84.. ahem), please KEEP IT SAVOURY. chocolate and peanut butter? No thankyou very much.

The 'Jordan: History of Flight' site... a homage to the best 'MJ' left

I am a huge fan of the earlier Jordan shoes Nike have created for number 23. Check out this great site which showcases every years design from the mighty 'Jordan' series.

CHECK IT.

Bouncing here and there and everywhere...

Gummy bears. The foundation of the sweetie world. Until now we have been cramming our faces with as much haribo jelly as possible in a hope that we would reach 'that next level' in sugary highs. Only now can you achive the ultimate sugar rush... and have tranlucent poos.



"The World's Largest Gummy Bear is the lion of the candy world. There is no candy more magnificent or more powerful. This five-pound beast is the equivalent of 1,400 regular sized gummy bears and packs a whopping 12,600 calories.


Its monstrous size is only matched by its enormous taste. The World's Largest Gummy Bear tastes just as delicious as its pint-sized counterpart."


P.S. Pint-sized counterpart? Some rather confused copy there. A creative of my calibre would never make such a booboo.

Richard Whitehurst.... and i've never written this before but, WTF!?

If your housemate/friend/brother/sister/mum ask for a bit of culture and fancy delving into the world of modern art, try this. It might be throwing them in at the deep end a bit but just think how up to date they will feel after their trip to Ohio to see the follow up to the 'PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL'...

check it out... HERE.

Pantone Vs Swatch...

As a lover of good design and fine things I cannot let this lovely combo pass without a mention...

BE KIND, UNWIND... relax your mind...

Load this baby up on the Tube, slap it on HD and fullscreen and enjoy!



... and what a soundtrack.
Quick fact (TOTP2 style) - Barcalona's agent actually had this video taken down as it had illegaly used their track but it brought so many fans to the band he allowed it to be put back up.

Barcelona - 'Please Don't Go'. Please dont take this off my blog.

gonna say this before I lose it... (sadly its mostly lost already, next time I will be ready with my phone at 7:45am to give you the full story)

Had a dream last night about being chased by a grizzly bear. I was camping in a scary woods for a bet or something and a massive bear with huge claws came in the dead of night and chased me out of the woods and down a hill (think I was in Bath) and I had to run all the way home (which was really far) wearing no trousers and no shoes. I had to tell these kids who were smoking weed in a park on the way and they helped me out.

Gustavus Hindman Miller... my mind is a masterpiece, go nuts.

Mr Bingo.

Mr bingo is an illustrator from the north end of Landan. I just thought i'd drop this in here to let you lovely people into his prime style. Make sure you check out his hair portraits...

Ls & Gs of the jury... I bring you... Mr.Bingo

Spitalfields Jazz Festival?

At the weekend we went to Spitalfields for the Jazz Festival, which we completly missed (apart from seeing some boxes of drums being taken away... nnnnice) but we were lucky enough to have seen this big bastard...

He was called 'Tyson' and he had a head the size of a watermelon and his 'lead' was a chain which looked as if it should hold a playground swing. He was bigger than some humans (Kirsty), drooled like a mother f**ker (Kirsty) and his balls were bigger than kirstys balls.
Turner/Hooch (I forget which one Tom Hanks is, anyone?) aint got a touch on this protien guzzeling beast.

Nintendo inspired ... mmm... things!

mmmMMmmmm....

...ouse.

Other Nintendo controller inspired designs... HERE.

a well used tetris link...

Free Board, I want one! (hear that folks?) might need some big San Fran hills as well please.

Flash on the Beach '09 cont... (see: Blogging all over the South-East)

Right, so, Flash day 3! We began the day by heading to the dome for a session with Mario Klingeman titled 'connecting the dots' and for a man who claimed he was merely a maths groupie ("I can't play zee instrooments but like watching zee band" [heavy German accent]) GOD DAMN did this guy know his maths! He spent about 30 minutes talking about how he tried to find a solution for finding prime numbers (which i followed pretty well for about 16 and a half minutes and actually believed we might be the ones he unveiled his prime number lifes work to). This involved all sorts of amazingly technical mathmatics and patterns from all sorts of people throughout history. So a greatly talented chap but he did tend to ramble on slightly, bit like some sort of mad scientist, trying to tell his lifes work in one hour, too eager to even understand. His enthusiasm was quite something. At the end he gave out some badges... I was abit confused and with the oppertunity of a free item in mind battled my way down to the front to see what was going on. But it actually was just badges. I have a badge.

Our next meeting was with a guy who had his hand right in the flash pie and had a nice interactive session for us. We controlled a giant game of 3D (we were given glasses) Pong by shaking glowsticks as a team. I'm sure there was probably much more to this session but the majority of the Flash stuff sadly, once again, was slightly 'out of my league' (point taken!) and I was quite happy to play pong as Mario from the last session had burnt my brain with his gnarley theorems.

After a fine steak and ale pie we went to the 'Jam session' where 6 speakers had 10 minutes each to blab about something one of which BLEW MY MIND...

So.. this might seem like a pic of just another flash geek rambling code but my good golly gosh... he was DJing! Speed coding. he had all the code on the screen to prove everthing he was doing (to those who actually could understand it, not me but It was genuinely impressive). he was typing code to control every aspect of the music and the code just kept piling down the page, editing and creating, very cool. CODING IS COOL!? hmm.. not sure, but this is...

CODE DJ VIDEO ON THE WAY (just spent the whole night uploading it on our shabby internet connection and now its not even here!, argh).

Next, illustrator James Jarvis. I found his work very cool and he seemed to do heaps of things I think are cool, illustration/toy making/high skate life/involved with Nike etc etc. and on top of all this he was a really nice guy, very calm and humble. Went up at the end and he gave me one of the drawings he was doing as he spoke to us + signature, jobs a good'un.


And so... the last session... Joshua Davis. Fuck, this guy is just on another level to every other person there. A colourful punch of real life in a place full of square-eyed nerds. His approach to graphic design was just awesome. AWESOME! He showed us how he constructs his work and uses programmes and a kaleidoscope technique to make these great images with ease. I really can't explain fully how awesome and inspiring this guy was for me but if you ever get the chance to see him take a lecture, for the love of god get right on it. OK, so I liked his style but seriously check him out, top dolla...

Joshua Davis.

Until next time FOTB...

By the way..

Never seen so many iPhones in one place, Appletown.

Give you the DL on today on the way home..

Blogging all over the South East...

So here it is, my first mobile blog (misspellings aplenty due to my innability to write on a touch screen, call me a traditionalist but let's hear it for the humble button). Not going to correct any of this so you can get a real feel for the frustration.

So o am again on my way to Flash on th Beach '09, thanks Skive! I wad down there on Monday for some geeky flashery and one pound larger drinkery, thanks Audio. Saw some speeches that were so far over my head that my neck started aching, during most of these I just wanted to ask these important Flash people whether they pronounced it Ad-obe or, the more common Ad-obe-ee? A question that has been on my mind since breaking my Photoshop virginity at college. But I held back my stupidity, collected the free tshirts/bags/pens/rubiks cubes/memorysticks/adobe shaped chocolates etc and waited for the good stuff which came with such ferocity I nearly lost an eye. Dr.WooHoo gave a great talk on cybernetics, cyber interactive arts and wowed the crowd with his extensive knowledge of 60's cybernetics which was surprisingly modern looking! Then we saw Hillman Curtis who showed us a great performance of 'burning down the house' by the Talking Heads he had directed, bizzare but very cool and enveloping. The final speaker of the day however Joel Gethin Lewis however stole the show with his working life biography. On tour with Massive Attack, Regent Street Christmas lights and a 2.5mil floor install in japan, just parts of his increddible CV and all before the end of his 20's. Will try to get some pics up but I've just found out I can't while i'm on the move, shitty. Here again now, gotta go J

Got back home from work and this was on my fridge...

we had our suspicions... and it appears so does everyone else!

CANT GET MY PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OFF MY IPHONE AAAARRRGGHHHHHH!

someone please help me.

Had a wee looky on the nerd but just found software that costs 25 dolla!


Grrrr.... bloody.... Apple.

Street fighter... youtube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQ1XrllZmA&feature=fvw

never seen you tube used like this before (apart from the Ad agencys site that led me to it - 'BooneOakley') very creative! you've gotta have a pretty good connection speed but the concept is a cracker.