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It's been a while since I recorded a DJ mix (or written a blog post, for that matter), so I felt it high time do so. I got booked to play at the excellent <a href="http://www.noisilyfestival.com/" target="_blank">Noisily Festival</a> this Summer, so I made this particular mix in anticipation of my set there (Sunday on the Treehouse Stage, for anyone attending!). Dub and reggae of the highest order, as usual - listen <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/kokerboom/treehouse-dub/" target="_blank">here </a>if that tickles your fancy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I tried to post this on Ne<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">w Year's Eve but Blogger was sk<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">etching out and it wouldn't work - so much for my end of year list going up on the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very last day but hey-ho, it's all still rele<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vant. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twas a</span>nother cracking year for books and music with much eager devouring afoot. S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l</span>ightly less so for films,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> personally: only made it to the flicks <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wice</span></span>, to see Arrival (which was very good and refreshingly, if <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at times </span>disarmingly concise) and the slightly older, but utterly sublime Son<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g of the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sea - a magical, beautiful film</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. I <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">also</span> greatly enjoyed watching Mr.Turner, and I took far more pleas<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ure than I should have done in watching Percy Jacks<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the Lightning<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Thi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ef.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Tale of Tales <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was another good'n - flawed, but highly enjoyable and atmospheric.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an avid reader of fi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ction I'm well used to finshing books with a distinct <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>ir of frust<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ration, from either fizzling<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-out non-endings or otherwise <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unsati<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sfactory conclusions, but reading The Miniaturist followed by His Bloody Project proved a cruel double whammy. Both cracking books but somewhat ruined b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y expectations n<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ot being realised (in the latter case I was bloody cert<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ain the granny would have <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a piv<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">otal</span> part to play and change everything but she never</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span>got mentioned again<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd the book just plodded on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to its conclusion.</span></span></span> I'm not saying ev<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ery book needs a pivotal granny but i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n this case everything seemed to be building towards it - a missed trick if ever there was one.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still, you can't go wrong with with William <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boyd, and Sweet <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Caress was the best of the new books I read this year. H<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span> just maintains such a high standard, even with a distinst break from the n<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">orm such as thi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s </span>one - a thoroughly refreshing read (<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not to mention a brave conceit) from on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e of the finest novelists around.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other recent, if not new, books I read this year that I'd also recommend were the Lives of Others, A Brief History of<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Seven Killings (the Booker shortlist is always reassuringly reliable<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd the somewhat older, previously mentioned <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poisonwood B<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ible. I also got Prisoners of Geography for Christmas <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd so while <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nly just started it, it's turni<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ng out to be one of the most fascinat<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and insightf<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ul books I've read - my understanding of t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he world has reached a major new level in a short number of pages and I can't wait to find out more<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">! I can't recommend this book highly enough.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Music was excellent this year too. Cl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inton Fearon and Grouch are bang at the top of their game so a year with albums b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y both of them is a good year ind<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; This Morning doesn't quite scale the utterly ste<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ll</span>ar heights of Clinton's previous, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">G</span>oodness, but it's a grower so it <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">might get there event<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ually (the odd performance wobble notwithstanding - tunes and sound are superb), a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd Corpus Callosum is a very, very fine slice of gloriously inventive and solidly groov<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing psychedeli<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the wonderful world of metal I have to go with the general consensus and say the best album </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>of the</span> year was Gojira's Magma - they were pretty good before but they've <i>really </i>stepped up a few gears this time and Magma is incredible. You might even like it if metal's not your thing, such is the range of texture<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tmosphere and fear<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">less invention. And I think my other favourite album of 2016 is completely at the other end of the spectrum - Love Letter For Fire by Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop, whilst edging ever so slightly too <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">far</span> in the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>direction of twee at times, is just a lovely, lovely <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">record</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, POW - an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">other last-minute blinder: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">man</span>y it seems, I'd kinda lost inter<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">est somewhat in The Coral in recent years, but their new Distance <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inb</span>etween record is outstanding. Full of surprises, whilst doing everything that you might want it to in all the right places, it's driving but subtle, dark but warm<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> dynamic, atmos<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pheric and psyched<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">elic, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and just </span>full of downright cracking tunes - really really <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">top notch. All the more so for b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uying on a whim whilst C<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hristmas shopping (you've gotta treat your<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">self too, eh) - something I realised I (and<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, I'd wager, most people) don't do that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">much of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">any more in these days of easy, instant online previews. It's great to have one's curiosity piq<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ued and then ta<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ke a chance on something (anything really - not ju<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">st music) without <i>checking </i>before<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hand - <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just dive in! I should really add the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">caveat </span>that, barring Soundc<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loud (where I'll tend to buy the tunes I like anyw<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ay, i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f they're released</span>) I'm not a fan of streaming a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd I buy all the mu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sic that I listen to - old school, but preferable in every way<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Streaming, to me, just feels like one massive, never-ending preview. Other good albums that I enjoyed from this year came from Hedflux, Meshuggah, Resonators<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Squi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d Inc </span></span>and the cracking new reissue of Yabby You's Beware Dub. Splendid.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Just a quickie, this, to let you know about the wonderful <a href="http://www.nehopenstudios.co.uk/" target="_blank">New England House Christmas Open Studios</a> show, happening next week here in Brighton, and which I'm very proud to be a part of again this year. It's part of the Christmas <a href="http://aoh.org.uk/" target="_blank">Artists' Open Houses</a> festival, but quite different to the other venues in that it's way bigger and only open for three consecutive days as opposed to the weekends of the festival. There's so much going on this year - a huge range of fantastic artists, designers and makers selling all kinds of amazing, unique, creative wares, locally made by lovely people! There's free mulled wine, mince pies and even life drawing sessions going on across all three days. It's well worth a visit and probably the best one-stop shop for Christmas presents around.<br />
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And here's a brazen gaze (nowt sneaky or peeky about it, frankly) of a new print that I'll be selling there - one for the reggaeheads and soundsystem fans out there, perhaps (or just those who like the colour red and simple shapes). I hope you like it. I'll also be selling lots of other prints, greeting cards, notebooks and a few Christmas cards - do come along if you can!Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-31956993878351724652016-10-27T12:20:00.000+01:002016-10-27T12:20:48.880+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few sketchbook pages from my Italian voyage.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-39795215817930849352016-10-25T09:03:00.000+01:002016-10-25T10:56:19.837+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've just returned from a smashing holiday on the island of Elba and in Italy's Cinque Terre. The area is a revelation - a true delight for artists of any persuasion, botanists, mountain bikers, walkers, foragers, gourmands (if you ever catch me using the term 'foodie', shoot me), bird lovers, animal lovers, door lovers, lovers and friends. I came away with the fullest sketchbooks I've kept whilst travelling for a very long time (see subsequent post), and probably the most photos as well (mostly of doors). I also kept up my daily haikus, which more than ever acted as a handy kind of short, snappy diary - carefully concise descriptions of things I'm seeing or doing. Elba is beautifully tranquil, rugged yet densely vegetated (many of the steeply terraced wine vineyards that covered the island's hills were replaced with trees in the last century so I found it unexpectedly lush and verdant) with all manner of fascinating plants, many of which are wild herbs that fill the air with delicious fragrance. I had the most splendid time on a mountain bike, in the sea and on foot, and there was some pretty crazy weather as well as very welcome sunshine - all in all, a good bit of everything and I'd highly recommend visiting both places, but perhaps waiting a little while till the pound's calmed down a bit if you're a Brit!<br />
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Whilst away I read Barbara Kingsolver's fantastic epic The Poisonwood Bible - the third book about/set in Congo that I've read in the last few years (the others being Heart of Darkness and the interesting but somewhat distasteful Blood River) and an absolute cracker: characters, plot, history, description - rich and compelling in all aspects. Two passages about voting really struck a chord in these Brexit nonsensetimes, this one in particular: "To the Congolese, it seems odd that if one man gets fifty votes and the other gets forty-nine, the first one wins altogether and the second one plum loses. That means almost half the people will be unhappy and, according to Anatole, in a village that's halfway unhappy you haven't heard the end of it. There is sure to be trouble somewhere down the line". Another vote happens a little later in the book, where "some of them that voted for Leah were put out with [the village chief] and some were put out with [an unpopular outsider], so everybody ended up getting what they didn't want, and now had to go along with it".Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-31685986501780382252016-10-07T11:40:00.000+01:002016-10-07T11:40:25.345+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I overheard a fellow in the pub saying this. I don't know the context, but I thought to myself, is there a more concise, more solid indication of an excellent situation and all being well? I think not. Dancing is the best, and if <i>everyone</i> is doing it, that's clearly a very very good thing. Indeed, two activities beginning with the letter 'd' - dancing and drawing, are, I feel, the two number one ways to respond to and interact with your surroundings, to heighten your senses and awareness, to focus, meditate, relax and stay healthy, not to mention nourish the spirit. It has also recently been found that, out of a range of activities, drawing and dancing are the most effective at staving off the effects of ageing, both mental and physical. A good dancefloor is also a cracking example of human unity and positive energy, with everyone adding to the whole and everyone benefitting. With regard to drawing, it seems life drawing sessions these days are often sold on their therapeutic and meditative qualities as much as their creative ones, which can only be a good thing - the world would, without question, be a much much better place if everyone drew and danced as often as possible.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-4233998559062113682016-10-06T11:51:00.000+01:002016-10-07T10:15:52.137+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was planning on making this - a humorous, silly but also somewhat serious and pertinent little sign - for a wee while, just for fun, but then something happened a few weeks ago that sped up the process. I was having a ride up on the South Downs to pick blackberries, close to Devil's Dyke, and left my bike, complete with lights, water bottle and pannier, next to a path. As is the way of such things, I went further and further away from it as I delved further and further into the bushes, but always peered back to check on it. At one point I emerged from deep within a bramble to see across the field a fellow cyclist standing next to it, and assumed he was just checking it out to see what was going on; we stood looking at each other for a short while, I still in my helmet, sharing what I assumed was an understanding. However, when I returned to my trusty steed I found all my stuff scattered about it, my pencil case and smaller sketchbook bag opened and rifled-through and my water bottle and a light taken off the bike frame. The other light had been swiped. The bastard! And a fellow cyclist! I was seething - a light's easy to replace but I was so annoyed that some people see fit to do that kind of thing, and out on the downs in the middle of the countryside! Still, just goes to show that there are indeed cunts out there (and not just the robbing kind), even atop the Downs, and it's wise to be careful. However I am still firmly of the opinion that such care and caution should be subject to restraint, and that it's very important to be largely trusting of people and to stay relaxed: a world of suspicion and paranoia is not a world I want to live in. Anyway, it felt good to make this (I'm a big fan of swearing as well as catharsis) and I will no doubt do more with it in the near future, perhaps a sticker or a bookmark (book thieves are the <i>worst</i>, after all). My haul of blackberries was also underwhelming, but I made some reasonable jam from it and gathering them is always such a great pleasure, no matter what happens.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-8923361320417245542016-10-05T16:49:00.001+01:002016-10-07T10:16:53.993+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, once again a seasonal post. As everyone knows, Autumn is the best season, and indeed for many people and in many aspects it's the start of the yearly cycle. Hooray for Autumn. I produced this image a few years ago but was looking over some old work and decided it could do with improving, so I did so, and here it is.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-37996934398767420202016-06-22T11:27:00.001+01:002016-10-07T10:18:40.181+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a new piece of personal work I made to celebrate the changing
seasons and everything becoming more green as Spring arrives and
eventually becomes Summer. Having found <a href="http://www.awesomemerchandise.com/" target="_blank">a printer</a>
that not only makes square postcards but can print multiple designs in
the same run (yes mate) I also wanted to make a bespoke image for my next
postal campaign. It's also quite a good example of something that I
occasionally try and incorporate into my work - a dub influence. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music" target="_blank">Dub</a>
music is quite a big presence in my life - I make it, spin it and
listen and dance to quite a lot of it. It's a unique genre in many
ways; indeed, it originated not as an actual genre at all but more as a
mixing technique and for a while there was no purpose-built dub - the
only dub records were reworkings of existing (reggae) tunes. It's also
the only music style (alongside reggae) I can think of that encompasses
such a wide gamut of transmission or dispersal - you could go and hear a
dub DJ (whose set could comfortably span forty years of music), and an
MC or a singer or you could see a fully live dub band or an entirely
digital/electronic solo producer or band, or you could hear (and most
crucially, feel!) dub in its most natural and archetypal setting, the
soundsystem (if you've never gone to a proper, heavyweight dub/roots
soundsystem dance you really should! An experience like no other, but
not for everyone...!). And part of the beauty of dub is that, whilst
strongly established as a stylistic form in its own right, it is, in
essence, a process - something that is 'done' rather than something that
'is'. Therefore you can apply dub techniques to any style of music and
combine it with anything. And I thought, why not art? Why not dub
things up visually? So I often like to strip things back, cut things up
and add 'effects', chop and edit, whilst leaving traces, snatches,
echos and impressions alongside little pockets of detail. And the best
dub is always a little bit rough and unrefined - grit, gnarl and texture
always feature in my work, alongside pattern and repetition in the
manner of a spaced-out delay. One of the key aspects of dub is also
creating space (and thereby emphasising the underlying structure) - I'd
love to do this more but it doesn't always work out that way (especially
in commissioned work). And, in Jamaica, where it originated, there is a
strong culture of re-using, recycling and re-purposing, which is
something I also like to do (both in my work and life generally - waste
is a terrible thing and "if it's nice, do it twice"). As a wee aside on
repurposing, my friend Mairead once suggested doing a Google images
search for the term "gambiarra" - if you're unfamiliar with the term do <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=gambiarra&client=firefox-b-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4_Y_qqrvNAhXnIsAKHRAKDf0Q_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=635" target="_blank">check it out</a>.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-23276486406746666862016-06-20T14:47:00.004+01:002016-10-07T10:20:59.775+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, truly an excellent time of year. Best wishes to all of you on this most auspicious of days and may a wonderful Summer lie ahead for everyone. This was going to be a colourful image, but being England, today is cold, wet, windy and grey, therefore I've kept it monochrome (for now, it's trying to brighten up out there...).Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-45420988383772746452016-06-16T11:07:00.002+01:002016-10-07T10:19:55.490+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I suddenly found myself with a bit of bonus time on my hands after a big-ish project fell through earlier this year, which conveniently coincided with the timing of this year's Secret 7" competition. So I picked two songs (not my usual cup of tea at all but good songs) and did two routes for each (one I posted previously). Yet NONE got selected for the exhibition (bah)... clearly there was some kind of mix up at HQ or something. Still, it's a laugh eh. Always enjoyable getting a bit more experimental and responding to specific music, in this case Tame Impala's The Less I Know the Better and Clearest Blue by Chvrches (still not sure what that v's doing there). Trivia fans will no doubt be thrilled to learn that those windows are in Essaouira in Morocco and that's a finest South Cornwall sea.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-28127453271483472452016-03-31T12:32:00.001+01:002016-10-07T10:23:37.071+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of recent things, revisited. Roger as a square and a rescheduled, re-coloured event poster.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-30280555537802863142016-03-30T11:59:00.002+01:002016-03-30T11:59:52.604+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A little piece of green abstraction.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-57660427993389955502016-01-11T12:15:00.000+00:002016-10-07T11:45:04.307+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year! I hope a fine time was had over Christmas and that the year's got off to a fine start for you. Time to look back at what I enjoyed in 2015 - always great fun - and tell you my favourites, just in case you're interested. What a year it was, for music especially! So much great stuff being put out; people who moan that they don't make 'em like they used to are clearly not paying enough attention!<br />
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Great to see Paradise Lost, Koxbox and Kangaroo Moon return with stunning new albums (after years of nonsense/absense), and Vibronics and Sam Lee delivered the goods in their own unique style. However I was most impressed by the offerings from the Outsiders, Plasmotek, Dirty Saffi (great times for trance!), and the ferocious Cattle Decapitation. Cripes!<br />
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Two longhaul flights were the usual great excuse to catch up on recent films; Inherent Vice seemed really good but I couldn't hear it so gave up (shame), but I especially enjoyed Slow West (a real breath of fresh air with a pleasingly crooked yet humourous tone) and also Mad Max and Inside Out. I think all were just about pipped in the closing days of the year by Star Wars, though. <br />
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I didn't see enough exhibitions last year but my favourite was definitely the <a href="http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/whats-on/current-future-events/eh-shepard-an-illustrators-war" target="_blank">EH Shepard one at Illustration House</a> (it's on till the 24th of January so I urge you to visit if you've not been) - not big but one of those ones where you want to look closely at every last little bit and read all of every caption - great stuff.<br />
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As far as books go, looking back over the new ones I enjoyed last year, it seems I'm a year behind and they all came out in 2014. Still, it was a good crop so I may as well duly enthuse and recommend - balls to time! Fiction-wise I enjoyed We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler but I was blown away by Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North - an absolutely outstanding book that was great in just about every way a novel can be. A very deserving winner of the Booker and well worth the hype. Very much looking forward to getting stuck in to this year's winner, A Brief Hitory of Seven Killings, which I got for Christmas. I'd also recommend Show Your Work by Austin Kleon if you're anything like me, likewise Drawing Type by Alex Fowkes - best example of this kind of book that I've seen, whilst I'm still enjoying slowly making my way through The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts and The Ecologist Guide to Food for a good dose of knowledge!<br />
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2015 was also, sadly, the year that my favourite singer, for my
favourite band, died. It was out of the blue, after a show, and left me
and thousands of others very shocked and upset. Always quite hard to
deal with when someone who you don't know but has given so much and
enriched your life in a massive way for many years suddenly ceases to be
around any more! David Masondo, you will be seriously missed! Maximum respect for all the great works. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaipDD4Qvuw&list=PLG-hCGX8ume3p4pdD56oEnDGX2ZLtq0Cz&index=46" target="_blank">Here's the man in action</a> (he's the lead singer on the left).<br />
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Posted above are a few sketchbook pages from our recent trip to Thailand. <br />
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Been a little quiet on here of late, as I've just returned from a lovely month away in sunny Thailand. Here are a few snaps. For those interested, we stayed in Chiang Mai, Pai and Koh Chang, with not nearly enough time in Bangkok (flew in, flew out). Although we did go to a fine photography gallery there, which had <a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/21-haunting-pictures-cardiffs-homeless-9421137" target="_blank">this exhibition by Welsh photographer Andrew McNeil</a>. Powerful stuff. And the definite highlight of the trip was a day spent riding the mountain bike trails of the Doi Suthep National Park - absolutely superb. Will be returning to Thailand at the earliest opportunity - what a fantastic country.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-6293416675722207962015-10-24T11:13:00.000+01:002015-10-27T11:50:17.783+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My lovely Novation Nova - my favourite synthesizer. Thought it could do with being drawn, seeing as it's great n all. And it was a blustery autumnal sick day. Next up: my mountain bike! Maybe.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-79362361749653411372015-10-15T14:38:00.000+01:002015-10-15T14:38:52.214+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Made a little spot illo of some turtles, which I quite like. I'm going to make a rubber stamp out of this at some point...Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-81503416183673409662015-10-14T09:51:00.000+01:002015-10-15T09:25:50.046+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of recent event posters.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-61941797791445392062015-10-07T16:20:00.002+01:002015-10-07T16:21:36.847+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thought I'd have a go at something for <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/" target="_blank">Illustration Friday</a> for a change - my first time! The topic this week is 'ink'.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-33598199564650630772015-10-01T15:36:00.001+01:002015-10-01T15:41:42.794+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, my last post seems to have had the desired effect - been enjoying a lovely spell of dream jobs and fantastic clients of late, hurrah! I might start posting commissioned work on this blog too (check <a href="http://www.edtucker.biz/">www.edtucker.biz</a> for recent updates - plenty more to go up in the coming days and weeks too), but for now here's some personal work that I've been producing in amongst my recent jobs: tennis, typography, a nice house and some sharks, jolly good.</div>
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Had one or two of these in recent times so I decided to have a little fun and make myself feel better about it... it's amazing how cathartic it felt to make this! Was fun trying out some different Photoshop blending modes n' all. So, only fantastic clients and dream jobs from now on! Yes!Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-62465293131503428242015-04-28T13:21:00.000+01:002015-04-28T13:21:01.406+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My new range of limited edition prints is now available, and I'm selling the initial copies to raise funds for my friends' son's medical treatment - all the details are on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.825264494193498.1073741834.558971940822756&type=1" target="_blank">my Facebook page,</a> and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TreatmentForTed?fref=ts" target="_blank">Treatment For Ted page is here</a>. Hope you fancy brightening up both your walls and a young boy's future at the same time!<br />
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Another quick little music thing here - excellent tunes in store at the Bee's Mouth if you find yourself in Brighton at the end of May....Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-14861812456305323502015-04-16T12:19:00.001+01:002015-04-16T12:19:54.651+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made a little mix (and a picture to go with it). Listen <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/kokerboom/likkle-mega-dubwise/" target="_blank">here</a> if you like a bit of dub.Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040925215427838571.post-53231862683502177542015-03-24T13:06:00.000+00:002015-04-16T12:17:30.806+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A bit of fun here - I occasionally dabble in homebrewing and decided it was high time I had a natty badge to put on my pressure barrel. I'm <i>way off</i> coming up with my own recipes and thereby legitimately being able to describe the barrel's contents as one of "Tucker's ales" but stuff it, there's a flat circular space above the tap and I'll be damned if I'm not going to make it look nice with a wee bit of typography. Watch this space for the Porter, IPA & Best Bitter versions (or don't)....Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08728108095830158710noreply@blogger.com0