The New RIghteous Blog Sticker
This graphic below is the new design for our wheat-pasting - it's roughly A2 in width and I'll be sticking about 30 up in town this weekend. It's in effort for publicity, hopefully catching people's eyes more than our previous A4 sized ones (A2 is pretty much poster size)...
Now on the blogroll of KidCity Blog
By celebrating this we have knicked their post on the hottest tune to hit Europe atm, which is currently being championed by Brodinski, Jesse Rose etc...
Nightslugs' GIRL UNIT are the driving force of the UK zeitgeist. END OF.
Nightslugs are a newly formed label from Bok Bok AKA Alex Sushon (co-director of SMD's Synthesise music video) and L-Vis 1990 AKA James Connoly. Their repertoire is creating a new phase in music and art culture, with Connoly and Sushon constantly churning out amazing undiscovered DJs, VJs and Bloggers - right now, I'd say their the most switched on practitioners out there - they're plugged into the UK zeitgeist like no one I've encountered before and seem to be propelling the spirit of the times so ruthlessly that within the space of a few months they've impacted the audial and visual aesthetics of most underground artists out there.
As mentioned before about the formula of trends reviving things from a 15 year window - Nightslugs are the epitome of that procedure and it's really interesting (for geeky me) to see that formula in play - an example would be GIRL UNIT and their newly released 2010 mix.
The samples, synths and drums are a huge nostalgia trip - reminding me of the most trivial days of my 90's childhood, but there's a modern twist, it's all ironic - this is a new aesthetic we're coming into and much like a fashion catwalk, it's showing off all it's key features at once, ready to be diluted throughout future productions, until this "new sound" get's labelled and sells-out. Love it while it's still underground!
Mmmmmm like Goldeney 64 on acid.
As mentioned before about the formula of trends reviving things from a 15 year window - Nightslugs are the epitome of that procedure and it's really interesting (for geeky me) to see that formula in play - an example would be GIRL UNIT and their newly released 2010 mix.
The samples, synths and drums are a huge nostalgia trip - reminding me of the most trivial days of my 90's childhood, but there's a modern twist, it's all ironic - this is a new aesthetic we're coming into and much like a fashion catwalk, it's showing off all it's key features at once, ready to be diluted throughout future productions, until this "new sound" get's labelled and sells-out. Love it while it's still underground!
Mmmmmm like Goldeney 64 on acid.
Wheat-paste City
To publicise the blog, me and some friends have been hitting up town with wheat-paste logos.
Wheat-pasting is basically a form of sticker bombing, whereby an individual uses the speed of adhesives instead of spray paint to publicise their name - it can prove very successful.
Wheat-pasting is basically a form of sticker bombing, whereby an individual uses the speed of adhesives instead of spray paint to publicise their name - it can prove very successful.
The main difference between wheat-pasting and sticker bombing is in the way they're put up - stickers are simply printed on and then removed from their backing ready to be stuck, wheat-pasting on the other hand requires far more work. First you need to cook up the wheat mixture with flour and water - this creates a viscous sticky substance that's just as good as PVA when dry. I tend to put this mixture straight into sport style drinking bottles with the squirty nozzle thing, as it allows for quick application to the wall just by squeezing it rather than carrying it round in tupperware. After this you print off as many sheets of the graphics as you need - when I first went out to publicise the blog I was using half A4 sized squares:
To apply you simply squirt the mixture onto the wall, spread it with a paintbrush and then gently place the paper image on top. Finally you give it a coating of the mixture on top of the paper image with the excess still remaining on the brush - this sticks the edges right down, making it very tricky to remove...
Next time we go out (this week at some stage) I'll be using A3/A2 sized graphics - the library charged £7.50 for 15 colour A4s which is pathetic. Luckily however, my friend's dad has an colour printer for his work that I can use - I'll create an image of A2 scale, split it in half and put each halve on an A3, that way I'll just need to put two sheets together to make a massive image. Think of it as putting up wallpaper patterns.
Look out for our artwork. If you want to help us, print off our graphic and stick it about yourself. It's super fun number wan!
This Beats Chris Cunningham
This intense video was for Takkyu Ishino's track "Polynasia" (1998) - I liked it so much I've been doing a little research into it's director.
It turns out (after much research) that the director is a dude called, Hideyuki Tanaka - I translated over 10 Japanese pages to find that darn name.
Beginning his career with a stint at network NHK, he then set up his own company, Frame Graphics, which worked extensively on titles for TV as well as gaming software and design. He began directing in 1998 with the explosive "Polynesia" promo for Takkyu Ishino and won many awards for the East Japan Railway Company's "JRSKI" campaign (featuring an extremely photo-real skiing ostrich), and directed the truly nutty anime comedy OH! Super-Milk Chan - to be honest though I'm no fan of anime... It gets pretty lame, just like Japanese "comedy", which really has zero effect on me.
The Polynasia vid really was something new for me though - it was the PS1 standard graphics towards the end that bought on the nostalgia, bringing back memories of the days when all CGI was done in dimly lit/rainy environments to hide the imperfections - see Jurassic Park (1993)
Notice the animation jitter at the end?
The concept was amazing too. It must've been something about the helplessness or obliviousness as to whats going on from the characters. Combined with the voyeuristic role the audience takes on too, it makes for the best use of tension I've seen in a long time...
This next video is for Ishino's track, "Anna" (1999)
Again directed by, Hideyuki Tanaka, this hypnotic vid instead goes for a more vid-art feel rather than the story-like one prior.
I simply love it for the simplicity. It's almost mathematical in it's approach - zombie bites man > man becomes zombie > repeat.
It's classic, and the ironic makeup and mini set used over and over makes it even cooler to watch, especially with the unrelated ballet scenes just thrown in for some variation. Note the mini changes in the window silhouettes and the increasion of speed - coming from such a talented director, this amateur feel is spot on.
If you wanna see more of Tanaka's wack vids check out his Youtube page full of his daft work...
I'll leave you with this:
You can get to OUR Youtube page here. (click "see all" if all our favourite videos don't appear).
It turns out (after much research) that the director is a dude called, Hideyuki Tanaka - I translated over 10 Japanese pages to find that darn name.
Beginning his career with a stint at network NHK, he then set up his own company, Frame Graphics, which worked extensively on titles for TV as well as gaming software and design. He began directing in 1998 with the explosive "Polynesia" promo for Takkyu Ishino and won many awards for the East Japan Railway Company's "JRSKI" campaign (featuring an extremely photo-real skiing ostrich), and directed the truly nutty anime comedy OH! Super-Milk Chan - to be honest though I'm no fan of anime... It gets pretty lame, just like Japanese "comedy", which really has zero effect on me.
The Polynasia vid really was something new for me though - it was the PS1 standard graphics towards the end that bought on the nostalgia, bringing back memories of the days when all CGI was done in dimly lit/rainy environments to hide the imperfections - see Jurassic Park (1993)
Notice the animation jitter at the end?
The concept was amazing too. It must've been something about the helplessness or obliviousness as to whats going on from the characters. Combined with the voyeuristic role the audience takes on too, it makes for the best use of tension I've seen in a long time...
This next video is for Ishino's track, "Anna" (1999)
Again directed by, Hideyuki Tanaka, this hypnotic vid instead goes for a more vid-art feel rather than the story-like one prior.
I simply love it for the simplicity. It's almost mathematical in it's approach - zombie bites man > man becomes zombie > repeat.
It's classic, and the ironic makeup and mini set used over and over makes it even cooler to watch, especially with the unrelated ballet scenes just thrown in for some variation. Note the mini changes in the window silhouettes and the increasion of speed - coming from such a talented director, this amateur feel is spot on.
If you wanna see more of Tanaka's wack vids check out his Youtube page full of his daft work...
I'll leave you with this:
You can get to OUR Youtube page here. (click "see all" if all our favourite videos don't appear).
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