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.

French beat box site (Paul Malburet)

Found this on FWA (great for finding some of the best websites around), definetly worth a look.

http://www.incredibox.fr/

ARrrrrrrrrrr... (get it?)

So heres a funny little example of augmented reality for those who haven't had the pleasure of experiencing it yet (its pretty old news, get with the times my dears, luckily your old pal Josh is here to bring you stragglers up to speed).

http://www.livingsasquatch.com/

Apparently Rayban do a good one where you can try on virtual sunglasses.

would like to see more examples send them to me - jjdentoncreative@hotmail.com

Webuyanycar-.com

So the recession has hit us hard and now the, more money baron, companies have resorted to these radio jingle style ads, they are the bane of my life and even more annoyingly they actually pretty are very effective. If this is what I have to look forward to for my future i'm becoming a graphic designer.



and don't forget the infamous,

"GO COMPAAAAAARE, GO COMPAAAAAAARE"

He's killing me softly with his words.

Eating habits...

For my dear friend Kirstys birthday we wanted to go for some food with friends. We decided upon INAMO



... so a glowing report for INAMO, though I dont think they would be quite so happy about us, as we proceeded to drape ourselves all over the tables trying to get bamboo/flowers/squirels etc projected on our bodies for 'good profile pics', ordered food/taxis/service without realising (or needing) and spending the majority of the night just changing the table cloths and having battleship tournaments, pics of all this on the way. sorry INAMO.

A great restaurant with great food and a great concept, have a butchers.

INAMO

I'm now famous, bow down and accept my royalty...

So, quite narcissistically, I googled myself today and was delighted to find that someone at the D&AD New Blood had actually picked up one of my cards, and even taken the time to take pictures and post them online. fame.

not that anyone will actually want to, but...

http://blog.artoos.be/

and its in dutch so unless you are, you might have some trouble reading it... adds to the excitement though...