Haline and I went to see John Mayer last week, supporting him was pint sized rocker Ben Kweller, who we also liked so two for the price of one. I got to go see the early sound check, which was cool, he sang two songs and played his guitar a bit. Some images here. View mytube video here
Wahh! Jim Lee Original art. When I was in year 5 I drew the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and sold them to my classmates for 20 cents each…
So I was driving home from Haline’s house at 1.30am in the morning when this song came on 2WS fm. Its sung beautifully by Matt Weddle from the group Obadiah Parker. Uh! Uuhh!
Two different crowds, two different shows. CA3 and Refill 7 launch.
Sophie Howarth, missed her talk. Toko, great work and sense of humour. Si Scott, great work, but the public speaking skills needs improving or just relax a little. Tiffany Bozic, awesome work and speaker. James Jean, didn’t realise he was Taiwanese and young! wow! Motion Theory, they were boring and kept waffling on and on, the work was awesome though.
Jonathan Zawada, came across as being an honest and down to earth designer, cool work. Mike O’Meally, ripped the audience into a frenzid mob hungry for free gear, didn’t stick around for his talk though. Headed down to the Mori Gallery to check out Audrey Kawasaki do a live painting session, but found Fafi there instead, I wasn’t sure whether I was more dissapointed of happily supprised, Fafi was good anyway. Dave Kinsey, lots of great work, but he skimmed over almost all of them, like, yeh we did this for Apple, it was cool. Nash Edgerton, I like him, first saw his work at Tropfest, He’s come a long way, he showed his recent short “Lucky” and went through how everything was done! “Tony the car seat driver” was genius! One thing he said struck me, “do something creative once a year for yourself”. I will go finish off those two paintings I’ve been meaning to do since last year for myself before 2007 is over. Marmalade, not since 1970 has a D&AD been giving to a magazine for art direcition, thats saying a lot about how good it apparently is. They started much the same way I did, with issue zero and a 1000 copy print run and the aim to showcase upcoming talent. Thats where the similarity ends and they’ve gone over mountains in terms of success whereas KLEFT is still trying to clear that crest. Left before Method Studio came on to go buy some Marmalade mags but the line was long, other people the same idea.
My favourites this year were Tiffany Bozic, James Jean and Nash Edgerton. One thing about all the speakers was that how low fi their presentations were, Powerpoint, Preview, Quicktime, and simple browsing their hard drives for content.
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