…walk among us
The Halloween Alleycat Friday night was super fun. Starting and finishing at Pony Bikes, lots of people dressed up, and the race was set up in a pentagram across the city, nice one.
There were plently of people toting cameras so more images will get uploaded up here in the next couple of days, check back soon.
Thanks to Lane and Brian for organising the race, thanks to Sasha putting up with all of us.
This isn’t really a new edit from the Mash dudes, but it’s getting me really keen to get the fuck out of this town for a few days on the bike once the semester has finished.
Check it.
Coops is one of those guys that always stuck in my mind as someone incredibly passionate about BMX who always seems to be doing something proactive within the scene. Always shooting film, filming for videos, producing his free magazine ‘FocalpointBMX’ or just straight up shredding, he has definately immersed himself within BMX and all of its mediums.
Check out his website www.focalpointbmx.com and be sure to pick up the print magazine when you can. He’s come a long way from the black and white hand photocopied issues years ago and has managed to step it up to full colour comprehensive issues containing some epic photography and great features.
Check the trailer from the last FocalPoint DVD ‘The Waiting List’
And a web edit of Coops from his bike sponsor ‘WeThePeople’
New Melbourne band… Check them out if you like sludgy convergy neurosis sounding stuff.
Keen to see them live.
No tracks, but a couple of vid clips up, worth a look.
Cale is in this band too… click his link over on the right
Cecil Walker Columbus SLX ‘Professional’
Been riding this around a bit of late… It’s pretty fun and refreshing.
Another uni assignment… Had a scenario for my Promotional Design class which was to design an Image Based and a Text Based advertising solution for the new Mitsubishi iMiev electric car.
Image Based Solution -
Made a mock wall and fitted an electrical outlet socket to it, got loose with some crayons, set it up in my room with some fake skirting board and some matchbox cars and extra crayons, stole every lamp in the house to light it and then shot it. Took it to PhotoShop and tweaked it for submission.
Wish I could have shot it better, but i suck at cameras.
The Setup:
The Final Image:
was pretty happy with how it came up and I even got to purchase some crayons and matchbox cars…
Text Based Solution -
Wasn’t quite as fun or hands on as the Image based concept, but a cheesy play on words and some of the ol’ Helvetica treatment got this one over the line.
Had to do the standard personal identity ‘identikit’ project for the ‘contextual design’ class of my new uni course…
A3 was the format so I drew up a bunch of things that i guess have meshed together over the years to make me, me.
Scanned it in and had the good ol’ chap Mr Tooth help me screen a few down at Easey St…
Was really great to get hands on and finally have some fun with the screenprinting process in the flesh, thanks Cal.
Original Drawing
Assorted prints where we played with some different colour inks on different stock
This is the red on cream… there were better ones where we mixed inks but my lecturer still has them
