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New workblog... Naked Lunch Designs.

Now that the Naked Lunch guys have played their first set after reforming, the artwork I did for their stage set has been officially unveiled, so I am fine to post it up here on my blog.

"Bondage comic book people in space" was essentially the brief. Click to see in more detail.

The finished prints are really quite big, and they are actually 2 separate panels. One either side of the stage. they also contain text in the blank grey area at the bottom.

If you, your band or organisation would like me to do some illustrations or designs for you, please contact me at: Patrickc@hotmail.co.uk

So someone has ripped Banbury State of Mind off of Facebook and uploaded it to Youtube! haha!

Which is just hilarious. It's got nearly 2000 views on their page. Sneaky gits! haha!

I don't mind really at all, but I took that as a message to upload it to my own Youtube page, so it can be shared off there.

So here it is followed by the link:



http://youtu.be/4636ozB_TLw

In other news, Luke and I have been asked to do an interview with local radio, and we've been organising potentially finishing the track and working on a new parody.

Big love people.

Another birthday gift drawing... Dog holiday.

Many of my friends and family know that I often prefer to make presents and cards rather than buy them.

Here is a drawing I did for my friend Ian on Saturday for his birthday. He has a lovely dog called Gabby and an affinity for VW camper vans.

Be nice to me and you might get one someday. ;)

This is brilliant... For those interested in Creativity:

Banbury State Of Mind (unfinished) - THE VIDEO!

So about 2 years back a friend and I started a shitty parody of Jay Z & Alicia Keys's "New York State of Mind" about our town Banbury.

We had these huge plans of remaking the video shot for shot in various locations around the town, (I was even going to dress as Alicia Keys and set up a piano on the Banbury Cross.) Truthfully, we never got past laying down the guide vocals so we haven't even really got a full song. Haha.

In any case... we've now sat on this jam for far too long, and I thought I'd post it up now before it is completely irrelevant.

So here's the first 2 verses and a chorus to give you an idea of what we were on about. I've cut together a shockingly beautiful lyrics video to accompany the noises.

Retrospectivism - Talib Kweli

It's been a while since I've done one of these Retrospectivism Blogs. but I've got good reason to bring it back today... Tomorrow... after nearly 15 years of following his work and his words... I am seeing Talib Kweli in concert.

First up, the first track I ever heard of Kweli's "The Manifesto"

I heard this track on the Rawkus records 'Lyricist Lounge' compilation back in... at a guess, 1998? I had just landed a job in an indie record store, and I was allowed to listen to whatever music I wanted to ALL DAY. It was, Yes, my dream job and I used the time to really explore music and find out everything it had to offer me.

During this time I became enamoured with conscious (and experimental) Hip Hop. Blackalicious, Talib, Mos Def were at the forefront of the thinking man's Hip-Hop and they had something to teach us all.... plus they really fucking made your head nod. Here's a track from Mos & Kweli's side project Black Star - The track is "Definition":

This next track is another example of Talib challenging the ideas of his listeners. It looks at the way America, and humans look at the media, and morality. The start of the track specifically deals with something relevant to myself, the bombing in Oklahoma City which happening in the 90's, (For which US native terrorist Timothy McVeigh was convicted and executed.).

Well I was IN Oklahoma at the time of that bombing in a town called Yukon, a suburb on the Western edge of Oklahoma city. I remember the morning the bombing happened, because while we sat in our school meeting area for assembly, we felt the ground shudder ripples from the blast. I was there and saw the way it affected people as they searched for the culprit, eager to have someone to blame... and someone to pay. Tragedy can bring out the best and the worst in humans, and it's important to remember that.

The next track was Talib's first real "hit' song. the beat was made by Kanye West, a huge supporter of Kweli, and was originally intended to be a Kanye West song. But after hearing the beat Kweli convinced Kanye to donate it to him. Obviously this was a very good move on Talib's part. The track bangs like a motherfucker whilst always keeping true to Kweli's message:

This next video is from Def Poetry Jam, and is a short but worthwhile listen. It's a spoken word piece by Talib about Religion and Spirituality:

To close out this Retrospectivism I'll leave you with 2 of his tracks from his new record "Gutter Rainbows". His first album which is released TOTALLY INDEPENDENTLY. The first track features one of my favourite rappers, a female emcee called Jean Grae, the second track is just a sick album track.

Actually fuck that, here's another track. This one is off of a Jean Grae mixtape. Talib rocks the hook and verse 3. Slams like a tree trunk swung by the Hulk.