The VIDEOfeet, Lamfrag and Disperse Records Blog
Well well – here’s the ultimately interesting post telling you that we have moved! Yes, welcome to our new office at Trestle Arts Base – complete with lady lamp and a coffee table.
MARVEL! at the baldness of Jim! GASP! at Al’s cold, dead html eyes! and WET YOURSELF! in Bob’s general direction! YES.
For more info on what is on at Trestle Arts Base check out trestle.org.uk
We’re past the first stage of applying for an Arts Council Escalator Grant! The idea of getting money to make art seems pretty incredible to us. But it is looking more and more like an actual reality!
Escalator have accepted our proposal so it looks like we’ll get it, but you can’t take anything for granted in the current (economic/political/social) climate. So wish us luck!
Massive thanks to the lovely people of Trestle for putting us forward for this and huge thanks to Kate at The Junction for accepting our initial proposal!
I can’t put in any more exclamation marks to show how great this is. Yes I can! (!!!!!!!)
After a lot of work Matt has finally finished the poster for Trestle Unmasked and Increpacion Danza’s theatre production of ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’. We’re really pleased with it and we think they are too.
Initial inspiration for the feel of the poster came from the work of the artist Mark Ryden (www.markryden.com) – the difficulty lay mainly in doing something with a similar feel, but within our own style and not derivative of his work. It took time to get there but we definitely feel we have achieved this goal.
Here are some of the production images from the poster design. This one is Matt’s compositional sketch for the poster:
This is the original pencil drawing of the central figure in the poster:
This is the original sketch that Matt did of the ‘ugly boy’ in the play. This was not used in the final poster but a variation on this has been used for the flipside of the flyer.
The next step on our work for ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’ is a series of promo films for the show. At the moment we’re working on a short (20 second) teaser promo, the next step will be some interviews with the director, Emily Gray, and this will be followed by a full promo before the tour commences in March.
We went to The Book Club in Shoreditch for our friend, the beautiful and brilliant artist/photographer/maker of enclosures for exotic creatures Chris Taylor’s birthday. Matt gave him this ink portrait. It’s not flattering, but it is Chris. I didn’t get him anything ‘cos I’m a cheap ass. Nonetheless, Happy Birthday Chris!
I’ve just got a new website finished for my (our?) net-label. You can check it out here: www.disperserecords.co.uk
So that’s one step closer to actually establishing Disperse Records as an actual functioning entity that people know about. The next step on the way is to finalize a couple more releases, then put together a press release to tell the world about it all this music/noise stuff!
On that tip we already have a new release up on the site. It’s called ‘The Yellow Emperor’ and it’s an album by ‘Arthur Winkler NOW!’. It’s a collage of a load of improvisations by myself and Matt and we’re really pleased with it. We reckon it’s a fairly unique listening experience, but please wander over to Disperse, download it from our Soundcloud and judge for yourself!
Here’s the cover, based on a pencil drawing that you can check out in an earlier blog post:
We were asked to Rebrand Trestle Unmasked recently and this is what we came up with. It’s a combination of 2 designs one by Matt and one by Al melded together, and seems to work really well. Part of the brief was to try and embody the feel of trestle in the logo and I think, in the end, we got there…
Anyway – hope you like it
Finally we’ve put these old Lamfrag films up online in preparation for the new Lamfrag website. If you like dark, surreal, humour & elaborate sound design then you’ll like these. Anyway here’s Box a film that was finished back in 2008 and showed in a few festivals including The Cambridge Film Festival & London Short Film Festival.
More Lamfrag films on our Vimeo Page.
Over the last couple of years I’ve been getting photos; full frame shots of close ups of various types of corruption – mould and algae growing on a board creating beautiful colours and textures, rotting and sagging tarmac on the side of a local carpark that is reminiscent of the skin of an elephant or the surface of the moon and most recently photos taken of the rust and corrosion on a burnt out car – of which these are a couple of examples…
We’ve been so busy at the moment, it’s been hard to find the time to put up bloggins posts. So this is the first in a while!
These two (as yet unnamed) pencil drawings are works in progress from a possible future series of art prints…
The intention is eventually to print them on a large scale as a series of pictures, using these pencil drawings as starting points in the process. However the rest of the method of printing, size etc. is still in flux. Time to experiment!
The Birthday of the Infanta design work is coming on… We’ve got something that is really going to work with the overall design in terms of poster work etc. Can’t wait to work on the illustrations.
