It’s been a while since I’ve been to a proper loud and sweaty gig – that, combined with what I’d been hearing about Kingdom had me really looking forward to their band launch at Mercury for a good while. And after the fact I can say the hype is well deserved, Kingdom put on a great show and Stoker and Feverstone were the perfect accompaniments.
This tiny little guy visited my windowsill marigold seedlings a little while back and had a little wash while I took some pics. I find it amazing how mantis eyes just follow you no matter which way their heads are facing…
Here’s a fun project I worked on at the end of last year: a custom animated invitation for a 21st birthday party. My client provided the idea, the script and voice-over as well as the photos of herself, her friends and family. I worked out the visual script, assigned costumes to the characters and brought it all to life through animation according to her specifications.
Back in September last year I took some shots for Arc Reactor’s debut album Postmodern Construct. Now that the album’s been put for a while, I can post the images: the band wanted to do something different with their portraits, something that would express their individual personalities and also tie in thematically with the album. We came up with this concept of a combination of double exposure portraiture and photomanipulation, expressing elements of each member’s personality through a visual metaphor.
Here are the resulting portraits.
Happy 2014! Today marks my 7th anniversary of joining last.fm and though I normally claim the listening data on there doesn’t necessarily reflect what I’d say my favourite music over the last 12 months has been, this time round I’d say my charts are all pretty accurate.
Here’s the music I’ve enjoyed the most in 2013 (looks like it was a rather desaturated year; interesting, these matching colour schemes).
