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Archive for May 2005

Teesside music…

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 8 May 2005 tagged Music, Teesside with 3 comments

Around 5-10 years ago, there was something of a fledgling music scene in Teesside, England. There were several reasonable venues, and quite a few bands writing good songs and producing exciting performances. There weren't many bands who could have held it together at a national level though.

I'm glad to say that recently the scene up there has really matured, with several bands already hitting the road and a couple of high profile signings. It's partly due to increased attention and new sources of inspiration like The Futureheads from nearby Sunderland and Maximo Park from Newcastle, I'm sure, but Teesside is its own place with its own strong identity and the bands there reflect that background.

The latest addition to the roster of bands that could compete nationally is Just About Done. They're also noteworthy as another example of a band using myspace to get a demo out to their friends as soon as they get home from the studio. I'm looking forward to the proper release on Concrete Atlas records soon.

Disclosure: my brother runs Concrete Atlas. I still like the new Just About Done song though.

Metropop Denim

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized on 6 May 2005 tagged Fashion, Generative, Metropop, Photography, Processing with 4 comments

Clayton James Cubitt is "one of a new breed of photographers no longer content to draw a distinction between the worlds of fashion, art, and porn" apparently. He also has an eye for generative artwork, and my Processing experiments with attractors and particles were enticing enough for him to get in touch and ask for more. A weekend of hacking and a flurry of emails produced user-unfriendly software which would produce images at print resolution, and then I left the rest to Clayton. Witness the fruits of our collaboration in the denim issue of Metropop magazine. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out, and you should definitely check out the rest of his work if you like what you see there.

Cross-posted to Random Etc.

Clayton James Cubitt meets Processing, Jim meets Flickr

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized, Weblog on 6 May 2005 tagged Flickr, Generative, Metropop, Photography, Processing with 2 comments

Clayton James Cubitt is "one of a new breed of photographers no longer content to draw a distinction between the worlds of fashion, art, and porn" apparently. He also has an eye for generative artwork, and my Processing experiments with attractors and particles were enticing enough for him to get in touch and ask for more. A weekend of hacking and a flurry of emails produced user-unfriendly software which would produce images at print resolution, and then I left the rest to Clayton. Witness the fruits of our collaboration in the denim issue of Metropop magazine. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out, and you should definitely check out the rest of his work if you like what you see there.

Staying with photography, (but not at the professional/fashion end of the spectrum) Jim, my most well-travelled of friends, is posting a series of great and varied photos at Flickr, with especially flowery captions. I like! Plus, today he grabbed chocolate as his URL, which must be something of a coup as Flickr hits the mainstream.