Brighton-based dabbler in all things visual and interactive
I haven’t posted in a while but thought I would share my collection of desert landscapes taken on my recent stint in the west coast of the U.S. of A.
Taken with my 7D and either an EF f/2.8 L 24-70mm or an EFS f/3.5 10-22mm. Also, 16:9 is the new 3:2.
Stefan ‘Damnation’ Pearson - Cowman
I am excited.
Went to an old mates house last night for dinner, drinks, music and a good catch up. It was so cool to hang out again, as we haven’t really done it properly since starting uni.
We all used to play music together, and so decided to have a jam, which went really well. We started with a couple of soul / Motown numbers and went from there, it was so good to actually play with musicians again.
Anyway, the evening went on, conversations happened and we ended up completely inspiring each other to start this project.
So this project is basically an ‘open band’ type thing called ‘Desert Music’ with myself, Stefan and our friend Jack as the core members. Then we’ll find singers, drummers, percussionists, horns and everyone else through friends and online. It’ll be like a massive collaboration with no permanent members apart from Stefan, Jack and myself. We could have a track featuring a male American singer with French backing vocalists, or a track with a Russian trombone player and a Greek bouzouki player.
We will record songs that I write and each add our own segments. Then we’ll produce these songs and send them to people to add their own vocals on. It’s going to be interesting, and it’s something a bit different but I reckon it’s going to be fun, plus we’ll get to meet lots of new and interesting people.
We don’t expect nor want anything major to come out of it. It’s just going to be a great creative outlet as well as being a nice thing to have done.
At the moment we’ve got around 6 songs that we can lay down within the next couple of weeks. Stefan will design us a website and we’ll post them up there once we’ve recorded them. Then it will be down to the people to get in touch with us.
I’m excited.
I am involved in this. Playing the songs Nick wrote, apparently.
I’M QUITTING THE BAND
“Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid object in a real environment. Once the simulation is calculated, the corresponding animation is recreated in After Effects as keyframes.”
This is going to improve the world of motion graphics tenfold. I may even purchase it. Nah, I probably won’t.
Wizards are neither late nor early, they arrive precisely when they mean to.
— Me (when I miss a train)
So unfortunately my iMac died (again… after I had edited 150+ photos). However, I managed to salvage a few from Yosemite National Park in California.
Oh and I climbed a mountain on this day. Just saying.
Mad chops from Dr House - Mancrush.
I feel I should give these more of an introduction. Last year Nick and I spent some years of our life (3 weeks) soul searching in Singapore and Malaysia. In our jungle fever / chinese food madness, Nick decided to buy a £1k video camera from Kuala Lumpur, from a young man named Brian at the Sony store. In retrospect, we could have got some discount as he was outrageously flirtatious towards us. He also had a spectacular running style, so much so that we began to purposely ask him to get something from the storage room so we could watch it.
Anyway, we’re not professional documentary makers, neither are we charismatic presenters, but here is Part II, ‘highlighting’ our travels to the Cameron Highlands.
Starring Stefan ‘Damnation’ Pearson and Nick ‘Dusty’ Stuart-Miller.
You will all agree my cowboy name is better.
Climbing a mountain. Chillin’.
