Miscellaneous, Happy New Year!

A logo for knitted blankets.

                                                                                   
                                                         Spaceships from an I. M. Banks novel.

Soylent kebab.

Ray Barbee Eye See and a Park Hill sunset.

Park Hill daybreak.

Oh George.

The Julie Ruin - I'm Done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqR0w9ohN8

Skateboards!

Mommy / Black Friday

Day / Night

Peak / Sci - fi (Rodney Mullen)

Giacinto Scelsi - Uaxuctum

It is subtitled: The legend of the Maya city, destroyed by themselves for religious reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__4F3t4IxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA


A friend used to run a nightclub in Wales, and I remember a drunken afternoon with students in the empty club and him asking me my choice of music to play really loud through the system. So I gave them a cd of my favourite- Scelsi's Uaxuctum.  I walked around the dancefloor in the dark and it was unforgettable! I also remember playing Prenderecki's Threnody, though I think they were choosing Roni Size!

The Soft Machine - A Certain Kind

Is this the perfect song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEiqcOVHUZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BOlqKQ8Nuw

Peter Bellamy - Both Sides Then

Peter Bellamy was a cruelly unappreciated artist who had a wonderful output of English folk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6msU4XWmI

Harrison Birtwistle - The Triumph of Time

How to draw an image for these sounds by Harrison?

It creeps on you, there is a great tension. A lot of classical music lures me to the freedom of abstracted landscapes.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0RXP0YioM

Lana Del Rey - Sad Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAfk6vRLXdg

Arvo Part - Collage and Andrew WK - Mother Of Mankind

Just sublime!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH8oLn5Avp8

There is so much more to Andrew WK than the fast party songs.

This man has range, these are tracks from Mother Of Mankind, a very strange collection of sounds where Andrew seems to use a different musical genre for every track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZ_ndQeHPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5yAapASYho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elYVi-tSgv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgMCL1yjJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls_h3K_8WVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLDpYN8gZTA

Genesis - The Return Of The Giant Hogweed

Hogweed was a highlight of a Steve Hackett show I saw a few years back. I never thought I'd ever hear this live as it is a 'dads' sort of thing prog rock I suppose! Or is that grandad?

Here marked in the latin heracleum mantegazzianum  'For Kew'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P3YyIv7dJ0

A scary live version, my dad really used to scare me with this song belting out.

Air - Talkie Walkie and Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR19IHWUS4o

...from the album Talkie Walkie. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nTp_cdGfKI

...from the album 10,000 Hz Legend.

Magical videos, It makes me want to search all of Air's songs for more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1Yewr6Z5s

...from the album Oh Yeah.

PJ Harvey - River Anacostia

This song from the latest album is so inspiring! It is the first time since the last Portishead album years ago that a track made me feel a bit sick it was so fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D535uaG6LDA

Tupac Shakur - Violent, ODB Big Baby decks

Van Gogh styled, for this Tupac track from my favourite of his albums 1991's 2Pacalypse Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFXo8e1RrIM

There is little denying the prophetic and prescient message 25 years on. I get the same anger as from a lot of Bob Marley tracks like Looting and Burning. 

A little evidence marker...

A few decks this time for big favourite ODB. I always loved this track, so rebellious with a thick slice of the ODB slang! Great skate track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ItoVPAlHHU

Allan Pettersson Symphonies, Stockhausen - Momente, The Czars, MGMT - Metanoia and The Notwist - Your Signs

It's great to make time for some images for favourite music.

Here are some for (numbered) Pettersson symphonies. His 16th is so amazing and jazzy I have it on a loop sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5oAtpJt9Co

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Momente          I do not understand it but that is why I love it. Spaceships are in order for Stockhausen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wkA_XFus78

The Czars - (Best of) and jadewashed interior art. I'm new to the Czars, John Grant's voice cuts through you! This nautical artwork came to me while listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDSO3IVrFsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEPTYGl_KU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Szhd5UVEfs

It would be useless not to include Grant's famous Sigourney Weaver song-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iWtIFJ-og

                         
MGMT - Metanoia (Jadewashed)  MGMT know how to keep me interested. The transformed chords of the synth at the end of Metanoia bring happy smiles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1BnEdnzLEA

 The Notwist - Your Signs from the album Shrink.  ....So jazzy, so good with a few ciders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv-ZT91dG8E

No art for this one, but one of the most sublime things I have heard from a trumpet! I remember watching this on telly on the night and being awestruck. Qigang was a pupil of Messiaen and it shines through here, the master would have been so proud! Bravo Alison Balsom!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFJZKSExPU

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - Ruta Skadi attacked by a Spectre (2008)

One of my drawings from 2008, scanned for the first time. This was the best drawing from the books I made. I saw the spectres as these almost transparent abstract points, there are more images in an earlier post ( just type spectres in the search box).

And here inverted.

More studies for a Brutalist structure

These are the remaining sketchbook drawings. I have an idea now for the final piece. 

Elevator entrance/exit.

The highway.

Ideas for foundations.

Residents.

An art studio.

Balcony with hexagonal feature.