Monday, June 08, 2009

"Red Red Rose" #musicmonday Help make the video

The Track:

Red Red Rose by Hope And Social  
Download now or listen on posterous
08 Red Red Rose.mp3 (13904 KB)


Help make the Video:
 
http://www.hopeandsocial.com/redRedRose_video
 
 
The lyrics:
 
At ten past eight,
I'm leaving home,
We'll drive along the bypass 'til we find that road.
The coastal road,
To somewhere new,
Where they don't treat the drink they drink as something they should cling on to.
 
At ten past nine,
I'll take that flight,
And yes we're looking older now but you live this way you're bound to.
We'll wave goodbye,
To all that grey,
But at least a climate where the seasons mark out with distinctive change.
 
And tomorrow am,
We'll start anew,
In a village where the people there can talk about religious views,
Without the need,
Of laws in reams.
Or the worry that the words you use will light some all engulfing fuse.
 
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
 
And tomorrow am,
In somewhere new,
In a different place you feel the weight of everything you've been through.
So I've got to change,
I need to change,
Cos I don't talk to you no more without the need of fear or rage.
 
The speeches, the anthem, the law with no momentum; I cannot give myself to you.
We're so much older now we need a new home town, a place that we can call our own.
And doll you're proof enough that people are some good they just need space where they can grow.
With speeches and anthems the shape and size of this one, they just need space where they can grow.
 
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
The blue skies the green fields i keep them all in here...
The blue skies the green fields I'm tired of keeping them in here..

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Robots Save Lives


Robots Save Lives, originally uploaded by Kelvin Owers.

4 years on, and the T-shirt now fits!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

XCracer report : World Cup rd2 : Kate Potter


Begin forwarded message:

From: Kate Potter <kate@aquickrelease.com>
Date: 30 April 2009 16:01:54 BST
To: Cy Turner - Cotic <cy@cotic.co.uk>
Cc: Kelvin Owers <kelvin@spittingcat.com>, "Griffin, Andrew" <andrew_griffin@trekbikes.com>
Subject: media

Hi Guys,
 
Check me out on a world class drop http://www.xcracer.com/content.php?pid=2572   :)
 
Cheerios
KPxo

A Quick Release Holidays
Tel: 0845 1304824

http://www.aquickrelease.com

Friday, April 24, 2009

Cotic Soda World Cup


Begin forwarded message:

From: Kate Potter <kate@aquickrelease.com>
Date: 24 April 2009 17:57:49 BDT
To: Cy Turner - Cotic <cy@cotic.co.uk>
Cc: Kelvin Owers <kelvin@spittingcat.com>
Subject: photos of soda

Hi Guys,
 
Photos of new bike.......Let's call it AWESOME!!!!!!!
 
Neil has also changed my position big time, and there is more gap between seat height and bars, so I feel like I'm in more of a racier position.
 
There have been plenty of 'oohs and ahhhhs' as it looks very nice.
 
I have had loads of people already come up and take photos of it and look closely at it.
 
It is much quicker through the single track, and around the bends, and I lost control a few times, as I'm not used to how agile it is. I was tired yesterday and kept going off line because it was taking me by surprise. I rode it again today and had to do two laps at race pace.....I love it!!!!
 
Anyway will get more pics to you soon.
 
Cheerios
KPxo
 

A Quick Release Holidays
Tel: 0845 1304824

http://www.aquickrelease.com

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Little Boots : Stuck On Repeat

Little Boots

The radio length edit of this was a free iTunes track recently, and being late to the game I've only just discovered the fantastic 12" version posted on Pitchfork. Get it, and then, once you're hooked check out the new EP on the UK iTunes store. Don't start looking at her YouTube videos though, she makes it all look so easy.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

MyRail

The most used free application on my iPhone is probably (and sadly) "MyRail light", the commuters friend. A quick tap and it finds your nearest train station, another tap and it retrives live train times for that station. Train cancelled? Have another quick coffee before heading to the station a little later.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Cotic Hemlock in White


Cotic Hemlock White Rear 3/4, originally uploaded by Niall Flinn.

Looks good, doesn't it !?

Monday, November 17, 2008

Money for Nothing

(or designing a coin with free software)

the making of a queen

The designer tells how it's done, and all on free software...

the coin

There are some genius ideas rolled into this coin. The process is all in this case.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Saville on Richard Hamilton's Toaster

Peter Saville on Richard Hamilton

In a magazine I've long since misplaced Peter Saville revealed Richard Hamilton's 'Toaster' as influencing him, and Tate now have a video in a similar vein.


Toaster

What Hamilton did with this work for me was to reflect how Dieter Ramms, Otl Aicher, Hans Gugelot and others at BRAUN made the world we live in today (well at least influenced many of the better designed bits of it anyway). Of course there are all sorts of questions about the divisions between, and the co-adoptions of, fine-art, design and engineering at play here, but I'll leave it to others to talk that over.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Modernist Book Design Archive

Browse the index here, or check out these classics:

jan tschichold 1930


carl b. graf 1956
19561956

josef müller-brockmann 1960
19561960

konrad kessler 1960


karl gerstner 1972


otl aicher 1982
1982


Some of those I've highlighted above will seem strangely familiar to anyone who knows Peter Saville's cover for New Order's LOW LIFE album.