Top 10 things of 2007

I was just reading on Asi’s blog his top 10 things of 2007, thought I’d have a go too, so here is my Off the Top of My Mead, Favourite Things of 2007.

Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games music video

1. Music

Of Montreal, album: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? I first came across Of Montreal through their brilliant music video of the song Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games by Kangaroo Alliance. Really into their catchy bass lines & surreal lyrics.

film poster of Planet Terror

2. Film

Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. Non stop zombie blood bath – Girls, guns, guts, this movies got it all – loved every minute of it. Shame Tarantino’s Death Proof wasn’t as top notch (although the ending was genius).

Nad Shot, blog of cartoon characters getting whacked in the nuts

3. Blog

Nad Shot. I love blogs or sites that are obsessively devoted to one obscure thing, well Nad Shot tops the ranks for me. It’s a blog showcasing frames from comics where a character is getting whacked in the nuts. Genius.

Free love and less expensive beer protest sign

4. Party/Fancy dress

There’s been a few good do’s this year, but I think my favourite was back in the begining of the year for my 3oth birthday when we went on a protest pub crawl through london. More info here, and some pictures of the day here. It had everything, all day drinking, armed police trying to arrest us, fancy dress, all my friends and a banging warehouse party at the end to polish it off. Ah happy days :)

Nike vintage waffle racer

5. Stuff to buy

My top purchase this year was my Nike Vintage Waffle Racers in Classic Green. In my opinion, the perfect trainer and I love them the bits. More info on the Nike Vintage site.

Sorry T-Shirt

6. T-Shirt

I love t-shirts, but the one I love above all others is my sorry. t-shirt from Glarkware. It’s so simple, but always get comments from random people, and you can’t fault Cooper Black as the classic t-shirt font.

Poster by Scott Hansen

7. Designer

So hard to pick your favourite, but I think I’d have to go for Scott Hansen, portfolio | blog. I’ve been an admirer of his work for a while, it just so beautifully detailed and rich.

Alex Trochut BA numbers

8. Illustrator

Alex Trouchut, I suppose you could say his work is typography, but I’m in awe of his clean lines and precision work, all of it top notch. Check out his portfolio >

Sachiko Munakata

9. Person

Sachi. I was going to pick my girlfriend Nicky, but she doesn’t have a site yet that I can link to… So instead (and perhaps more rightly so) I’m going to pick Sachiko Munakata. I’ve only known Sachi for 3 years, but we’ve been house mates all that time and she really is a pleasure to live with. I’ve met a few people throughout my life who constantly amaze me and I never tire of, Sachi’s definitely one of them. (Sachi you need to start posting to your blog though!)

FFFFOUND website, tile view

10. Website

It’s got to be FFFFOUND. The site is just so crammed full of good things to look at, it’s hard to go a day without visiting it. Find some good looking things now > (if anyone has a spare invite, could you send it my way?)

Cranking

Crying + Wanking = Cranking

Someone at work came across the phrase Cranking the other day, a word to describe crying and wanking simultaneously. Obviously we loved it, and have been using it in conversation as much as possible, i.e:

“Where’s Kester today? He’s on holiday, probably in his shed cranking

So with much amusement I received this link today – Ready everyone? Get Cranking. Apparently there’s a song that’s spent seven weeks at the top of the US chart called Crank That. It’s got it’s own dance called crank that see YouTube clip. This quote just cracks me up:

“One of the most impressive YouTube mass Cranks is performed by hundreds of people in a packed Surrey nightclub.”

It’s officially released in Britain on December 17, making it a serious contender for Christmas No 1. If it does make it, I think I might have a little Crank myself.

Worried Noodles

David Shrigley's worried noodles

David Shrigley’s illustrations & animations are always amusing, now he’s gone and written a whole load of song lyrics and got loads of bands (David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand, Islands, Final Fantasy, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, Liars, Aidan Mofatt, Trans Am, TV On The Radio, Scout Niblett, and many more) to record them as songs. The video clips on the Worried Noodles site look and sound brilliant.

It’s a book plus 2 CD’s, 39 songs, buy it here.

Via cpluv.

Musical Stereotypes

Here’s some illustrations of various musical stereotypes I’ve just done for Orange. Made me realise how out of touch I was in the hairstle/fashion world, had to research all but the folk dude to work out what they should look like…

Cartoon musical stereotypes, folk, emo, goth, nu-rave etc...

Hush the Many – Song of a page

Lyrics from Song of a Page

Very exciting news from Unit 2 :) Our new house mate Nima and his band Hush the Many (heed the few) have their first single called Song of a Page out today, click here to download it from the itunes store. I was going to write out all the lyrics in the song as I think they’d look quite interesting, but I ran out of time on my lunch break… above is how the song starts though.

Going to see them play live tonight at Kings College London Students Union supporting ‘Fields’, you can find tickets here.