The Viz-Usual Spin in the media for upcoming events…
We did this event last year and TBH, I thought I was somewhat of an oddity there amongst the robot makers and scientific wonderment arousers.
Now look us! Here we are heading the Brighton Digital Festival BMMF event page! One can never know what affect your art has upon people or where that effect will go!
Hi All.
After a busy two weeks of tearing my hair out, I produced a submission for Kickstarter that was accepted by the site to run for ten days.
Yes, ten days is a very short time to run a campaign, yet as the time is running short, I had to do so in allowing for the 14 day payment period of the project’s administration process.
I have sent around 90 emails, posted on my wall on Fb and witness double figure shares on the Facebook site, yet sadly – to date we are only at around single-figure percent of our way to achieving our goal. I am very grateful for the experienced and humbled by the support I have received yet at the same time, I also can taste the bitterness of disappointment of the unfulfilled dream. Never mind, I have many more beats of my heart and breaths in my lungs before my game is over.
The Kickstarter proposal for this project can be found at;
Spin on… the world still does.
Zz
I was once told by a professional car boot seller that hot and cold days are both disasterous for sales, and here the same holds true for beachside busking, it appears.
Today’s weather was perhaps the most agreeable I have ever known. The beach was so tightly packed I think there would have been better trade in shoehorns than in records.
Yet… I did get a suntan. 😀 😀
Btw, the kickstarter video was completed yesterday and compiled today. This old and cranky computer of mine handled the job admirably and in it’s own sweet time. @1004Mb, the upload is gonna take a very, very long time.
Life goes on. I trust yours is a great week!
It is hard to argue that a vinyl LP is definitely up there in being one of our culture’s most classic pieces of plastic.
‘Classic Plastic’ is also the name of a Britpop style band who are just completing their debut EP, ‘Classic Plastic’. The guys approached me about doing an album cover for them early last year, yet time being time and artists being artists, the recording and cover are only in their finalization stages right now.
I was picking through my recent images when I found the first concept for the cover. It is not approved by the rest of the band, so don’t go falling in love with it just yet. I’m just posting to show a little bit of scope in what I do, have done and can do!
Enjoy!
Not bad, eh?
I did play around with surface textures too, allowing the text to be the surface of the record, yet despite the concept being wonderful, the manifestation was a little disappointing.
Well, let’s see how the band likes it! To hear their music, see http://classicplastic.bandcamp.com/
🙂 🙂 🙂
Last Sunday (30 June) the sun was out and the winds were light so we went to Brighton beach to hone our street performance skills and to (hopefully) gain some video footage of crowd reactions to the record spinning process for addition in to our urgent Kickstarter application; the bigger the better!
My team and I arrived at the rocky beach at around one, just by the pier. The previously sunny skies had been swallowed by a ground level cloud and an unpleasant chill was in the wind. Without unpacking fully, I keenly grabbed some paint from the top of my box, put my head down and spun a disc in anticipation of an audience reaction. My crowd formed instantly! Tho’ I can never tell how many people are watching whilst my head’s down, they were, at a guess, 3 and 4 deep, murmuring ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’, with candidly appreciative remarks to make the icing on the cake.
Among the first visiting artists of my day were a group of four, Izzy, Teddy, Holly and fourth whose name I don’t quite remember (phone a friend?) whom reminded me a little of myself in the shoes of a numerological #8 artist… life is not all about bread and butter!
Rounding off the day, I met Bobby, an electrician from Kent who was at first reluctant to have a spin, yet when he did… it was pure magic! His face changed completely and, when he returned to collect his completed work, he presented me with some Chinese takeaway, as a tip! Thank you Bobby! May you see Australia soon!
While packing up at around 5.30, the wind had grown even colder. The big win of the day was film footage. Next weekend looks like a touch of summer is arrived – stay tuned!
The Viz-Usual Spin 